Hello Guys,

In an attempt to keep frequent updates, I'm releasing today some new cool features and fixes, Grand Exchange is still under development and will take a long time to test, so in the meantime I want to keep bringing new cool stuff for ya'll.

 

 

Summary:

1. Weapon Game

2. Dragonfire Protection

3. Quick Poll System

4. Hardcore XP grain improvement

5. Slayer Reward Shop - Price changes.

6. Key Binding - New feature.

7. Quick Drop - New donator feature.

8. Death Loot - Death loot timer improvements perks.

9. Grave Teleport - New Item.

10. Runecrafting - Item perk improvement.

11. Miscellaneous - Tons of adjustments and fixes.

 

 

 

Weapon Game

 

An improvement on the system to prevent WG items leaking was applied, now we are ready to finally reward items for Weapon Game.

 

Rewards

 

Players gain 1 Weapon Game point for each level gained.

Players gain 1 Weapon Game point each 10 kills.

Until player reach level 60, 20 participation points is rewarded per level gained.

 

Prestige 

 

Once player reach level 400 on any class, the command ::resetwg can be used to reset the levels and gain 1 Prestige point.

Prestige points will be used for more things in the future, but for now it increases by 20% the level up reward points for each prestige point that player has.

Meaning that 2 prestige points, players would gain 40% boost on the level up reward.

 

Store

 

Dragonbone melee and mage sets are now available at Weapon Game store;

Fighter torso can now be obtained from Weapon Game store, the rarity from drops were increased.

The metal gloves are all untradable.

 

 

Dragonbone Set

 

The Dragonbone set is a tradable item, the purpose of it in the shop is to reward the players who plays for months straight, and reward them accordingly.

The players who are not willing to grind for the full set, can purchase from the ones who played a lot.

 

 

 

 

Dragon Fire protection

 

Even thought our anti-fire protection system used to work like RS|OSRS, it was confuse to some players how the Dragonfire shield protects the same as anti-fire shield, so in order to give some extra value to Dragonfire Shield, it will absorb 80% of the Fire Breath damage rather than 50% like used to be.

 

Now when player doesn't have any antifire protection enabled, the mage protect prayer will absorb 30% of dragonfire damage, this will not stack with other anti-fire effects.

 

Here's the fire breath absorption table:

 

Antifire-Potion - 50% - Stackable

Antifire-shield - 50% - Stackable

Dragonfire Shield - 80% - Stackable

Super antifire potion - 100%

Mage Protection - 30% - Non - Stackable

 

 

 

 

Quick Poll System

 

Know what players want is really important to the progress of the game, so a system that allows us to quickly make polls and players to vote and see the results instantly was created.

 

You can open polls by using the command ::open-poll <id> there's no interface to check old polls yet, but once a poll is created it will pop on player's screen automatically.

 

We are able to reward participation points for contributing in the polls.

Players must have 24 hours of play-time in order to vote, each player can only vote once.

 

 

 

 

Hardcore XP gain improvement

 

The hardcore experience gain was improved according community poll input.

The current experience of all hardcores were increased according new rates.

 

 

 

Slayer Reward Shop

 

The Slayer Reward shop assignment features prices were adjusted to be more interesting.

 

The feature 'Teleport to current task location' price is now according player's rank:

Extreme Donators: 1 Point

Super Donators: 2 Points

Others: 3 Points

 

 

 

Key Binding

 

A new key binding option 'Interrupt combat' is available, it will interrupt current combat, you may notice this being useful at Frost Dragons.

It has no default key defined, so you must choose one if you wish to use this feature.

 

 

Quick Drop

 

A new feature available to Super Donators allow players to hold shift and click on an item to drop it.

It's an optional feature and can be toggled at Settings interface.

 

 

 

Death Loot

 

Death loot timer: Means the time that an item lost upon death remains INVISIBLE to others.

 

Those changes only affect death to monsters, as in the wild the timers remains the same.

 

Death Loot timer is now displayed upon death

 

 

A new feature to increase death loot timer is available.

The feature will increase the death loot timer by 5 minutes for every purchase, you can purchase it for 4 times only.

 

A New vote streak feature will permanently increase by 5 minutes the death loot timer!

 

In case player dies while disconnected, the loot timer will be set to 30 minutes.

Only applies when players has disconnected over 10 seconds before the death.

 

Grave Teleport

 

A new teleport tab allows players to teleport to their latest death location.

It's available at Participation Points shop for 40 points each, they are trade-able.

 

The teleport will be available only when players get the grave timer displayed.

It will not work at minigames and wilderness or any death to other players.

 

 

Runecrafting

 

Now Greater Runic Staff can be used on noted talismans to unote it.

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

Castle Wars hybrid pieces prices were reduced from 30m each to 8m each on recovery store.

Hexcrest and Focus sight will now wear on the correct slot, their death-keep priorities were also adjusted.

Some problems related to Teleblock were fixed.

Star sprite npc is now available full time next to the Observatory.

Path:

 

 

Frost dragon will no longer max hit every time.

Slayer full helm will now protect from Slayer monster effects.

Ganodermic, Polypore, Korasi's death keep value were adjusted.

Ancient Book stats were adjusted to fit OSRS stats.

Chaos elemental teleport is available at 'Boss' tab. ~

 

All ground fire should work to cook foods.

All ranges should should work now to cook foods.

Now players will face the interacted objects properly. (i.e: Trees)

Edgeville Stalls are now properly clipped, players no longer will be able to get over it.

Players will not have to manually walk to Chief Thief Robin.

The gate next to edgeville shop is now working.

Pouch Infuse X option is now working.

Donator Totem names and examines were adjusted.

There's a second message explaining better how player should start using the stalls at Edgeville.

Now once player receive the Chief Thief Robin successful pickpocket message the player will be able to steal the stalls without need finish the whole dialogue.

More food types were added to 'Bakery Stall'.

Now edgeville stalls once stolen, will become empty for the duration that player would have to wait in order to steal again. ~

Logs sale prices were adjusted.

Players no longer will be able to bank from outside Camelot bank.

Bucket of Water causing disconnects was fixed.

A typo on the spellbook diamond enchant spell was fixed.

A typo on the trade interface tooltip was fixed.

Some spiritual magers not rewarding any slayer experience was fixed.

A problem related to item inventory stacking when switching equipment, was fixed.

A problem that supporters wouldn't be able able to attack any monster at wild even on Combat mode was fixed.

A problem with clan promotions saving was fixed.

 

 

 

Hey guys,

 

Today I've worked on the forums to fix the issue's we were experiencing.

Normally I don't deal with issue's on the forums, but since this issue has been around for so long and Lou hasn't had the time to fix it yet I did.

As you might have noticed we only have one theme, this has been done on purpose, I had to disable the other ones because they were giving issue's.

Due to a recent forum update, things changed in the code which made some themes not work anymore.

 

So I bought the newest version of Vilian and put it on here, I will keep it up to date so we won't run into issue's anymore.

We are probably getting a custom theme done by the same developers of this theme soon, but for now we'll have to stick with this one.

As for the updates, I've told Lou to look at the update logs more carefully or ask me to do the updates so we don't run into issue's like these anymore.

 

Oh, the shoutbox atm isn't working properly, I'm aware but I cannot fix this as someone else hosts our shoutbox.

I'm talking to lou atm to move the shoutbox hosting to either grinderscape itself, or my personal hosting so I can fix it whenever it breaks without having to talk to someone else.

 

@Saim told me that he really liked the vilian one, so I made a few tweaks to make it look more like that one, if you like that one better please choose the Less Transparancy theme at the botton of the page!

 

Sincerely,

Jordy

Hello guys,

 

We've had an issue with voting for quite some time, most people could vote just fine but some couldn't get all the points that they do deserve!

As I explained in my other thread, this was because of IPv4 and IPv6, because I couldn't find a proper solution for this I added different ways of vote checking.

All websites are now being checked based on a incentive callback, what happens is whenever you vote on their website, they send a node to our server that says, hey user with number x has voted.

I've monitored the votes and I can see that everything is working fine, thanks to the users that sent me a private message with some private information so I could investigate the issue!!

@Valar can you please verify if everything works for you as well? I'm 99% sure it will!

 

Somehow the forum feed wasn't working for the developer blog anymore, looks like the forums were updated without telling me so there were some API changes on the forums.

This small issue has been resolved.

 

And I've added some extra security to the forums, ALL our staff members that have ANY permissions on the forums are now required to have google authenticator set up.

Google Authenticator is a second authentication method just like SMS verification etc, regular users can also set this up for themselfs in the settings.

We've added this extra security measurement just to be safe, don't worry, nothing happened that made me do this!

 

Sincerely,
Jordy