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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: September 21, 2018, 04:50:30 pm »

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Showcase / Re: IRL pictures thread

« on: September 21, 2018, 04:12:26 pm »

throwback xd

Damn Mario is much more handsome than I'd give him credit for. Good for you. Absolute unit.

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Screenshots / Re: Happy Anniversary Emps-World!

« on: September 19, 2018, 12:10:59 am »

Thank you, Thomy, for giving us this great game, holding together this great community! We really appreciate it. 9 years for me =)

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Screenshots / Re: Happy Anniversary Emps-World!

« on: September 18, 2018, 07:10:21 pm »

i think i got lucky to see you guys celebrating the 4th anniversary of this amazing game, and i have took this screenshot, this will always be my favorite game and will always have the best community ever! always will be one family! <3

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Screenshots / Happy Anniversary Emps-World!

« on: September 18, 2018, 04:12:21 pm »

Thomy, we love you and appreciate all the hard work you put into this server, happy anniversary!

- Emps-World Community

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Off-Topic / Re: What song are you listening to now?

« on: September 17, 2018, 03:21:45 pm »

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Feedback / Re: Eating/brewing

« on: September 16, 2018, 03:35:26 pm »

If we increase powercreep and increase healing time then a new source of healing should be introduced. 23+16 is no way to tank if you get red bared. Should be like a ~10 hp third type of healing so you could basically eat the 3 types in 1 "tick" and don't die every time you fall under 5hp. And honestly I don't even think that the speed of healing is a problem. People just seem to enjoy sitting high hp and not risking their gear. So the change wouldn't really have an affect on PvP.

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Events / Emps-World: Battle Royale 3

« on: September 11, 2018, 01:39:10 am »

Description: Welcome to the third installment of the one and only Emps-World battle royale! Players will fight in a last man standing match, will you survive the onslaught?
Date: September 16th, 2018
Time: 1pm EST
Location: Obsidian Caves (Fight Pits)
How will this work?
Players will enter this event with absolutely nothing, JP will drop items in the playing field before you guys go in. Once all items are confirmed to be dropped, you guys will be given the green light to enter. Items will appear on the ground while you guys are fighting each other, try to pick them up to assist you on winning the event.
Rules:
1. Participants are not allowed to bring anything with them, you will be DQ'd if you use your own items. (Might do inventory check)
2. Please follow the instructions of the host/staff members, your cooperation will make this event that much fun!
3. Iron man accounts won't be able to participate due to the fact that they won't be able to see the dropped items/pick them up.
4. Protect prayers are not allowed to be used.
5. Go Hard or Go Home.
Rewards:
1st Place: Demon Saber + 5 event tickets
2nd Place: Battle Robe Set + 3 event tickets

All other participants will receive 1 event ticket for participating.

Please ask any question you may have and we will try our best to answer them for you, hope to see everyone there!
Items being dropped in the playing field
- 5 yew shortbow + 30x5 iron arrows (150 total)
- 5 magic shortbow + 30x5 rune arrows (150 total)
- 5 adamant scimitar
- 5 rune scimitar
- 5 red d'hide sets
- 5 black d'hide sets
- 5 adamant med helms
- 5 rune med helms
- 1 dark bow
- 1 dragon claws
- 1 dds
- 1 d mace
- 1 g maul
- 10 lobsters
- 10 monkfish
- 20 manta ray
- 2 sara brews (4)
- 5 prayer potions (random dose)
Time remaining for event kick off:

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Suggestions & Ideas / Wilderness mid level boss

« on: September 08, 2018, 08:47:54 pm »

Boss would be located at Wilderness. It's called Warped Gulega.



In my opinion it should be located at fairly safe'ish location at around 25 - 30 wilderness so you can escape because it's kind of frustrating for a boss to be at high risk and hard to escape area.
Warped Gulega could also share drops between 3 people like our current bosses do.
I suggest somewhere north of Corp cave and north of Green Dragons at around level 28 - 30 wilderness.


Warped Gulega wouldn't be hard to kill at all and instead should be made between Chaos Elemental and Wildywyrm strength wise. Only mechanic it would have is a tendril attack.
It will spawns tendrils from the ground attacking nearby players. This can be dodged by moving and if it hits maybe it could do some damage and bind the player for a brief moment.
As its main attacks it would use magic and melee.

Warped Gulega would have 2 main drops which are zaryte bow and tier 70 defender. (Miniscule version of Warped Gulega pet as an extra?)
Other drops would be something like fury sharks, higher level runes and other supplies, money, maybe ancient statue which is worth 10m right now I believe.

"Guiding light" drop table idea:


Tier 70 defender would be fairly straight forward. It's stronger than dragon defender offering higher offensive bonus while offering zero defensive bonus. It would not degrade when you use it.
Defenders are usually untradeable but maybe Warped Gulega would drop an item which you use to dragon defender to make it tier 70? This item would be tradeable but the defender would not.

Zaryte bow would be tier 75 bow that uses no ammo. It degrades but it can be fixed with coins. As its niche/special effect maybe it could fire 2 arrows? It'd be faster than dark bow.
If you have any other suggestions for its niche effect be sure to post your idea.

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Events / Duel Arena Tournament

« on: September 08, 2018, 07:51:51 pm »

Event Description
Inviting all players to test their skills against each other and prove that they're the very best! It will be intense one on one combat with players from all over the world, will you be able to survive the onslaught and claim the mighty throne? We shall await your arrival mighty warrior!

Location
Duel Arena

Time/Date
Refer to countdown timer located on the bottom of the page/Sunday, September 9th

Rules
1. There will be no movement during the duels.
2. You will not start your fight until the host is there to spectate.
3. You will gear up exactly how you would for pking. (Weapons, Armor, Potions, Food, and prayer will also be used)
4. All combat styles allowed.
5.Give it your best!

Rewards:
1st Place: Armadyl godsword + 5 event tickets (10 ep tickets for iron account)
2nd place: 5 event tickets
3rd place: 3 event tickets

All participants will receive 1 event ticket.

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: September 02, 2018, 10:00:57 am »

Edit. Context: https://i.gyazo.com/f05ff6fb1dfb8df29b292407365834ca.png

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: August 28, 2018, 03:24:03 pm »

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: August 27, 2018, 06:35:47 pm »

Throwback to when ironman mode was released...

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Events / Wilderness War 26/08/18 (Updated date - correct date of the event)

« on: August 20, 2018, 12:26:07 pm »

Welcome to Emps-World's largest PvP event: Wilderness-Wars! 
In this event, there are two clans fighting to the death and the spoils of war are yours to keep, in addition to that, each participant will earn some extra blood coins, 50k to each winning team member and 25k blood coins to each losing team member!

To join, you must have a risk of at least 10mil.  There are no restrictions as to what level your account must be, but it is strongly recommended that you use a high-level account, as this will be hosted in the deep wilderness.  Your items are not safe.  This event will be hosted in a private setting that will be inaccessible to anyone who is not part of the event.

The event will take place on 26.08.2018 19.00 Pm +2

The staff team will ensure that it is a fair battle.

• Staff members will be closely monitoring the event
• Clans will be evenly balanced
• Betrayal is prohibited
• Hiding is prohibited
• Clan chats are locked so that only clan members can join them

To join Wilderness-Wars, reply to this topic.

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General Discussion / Re: it's time to make a change!

« on: August 18, 2018, 04:06:55 pm »

Hey everyone! Thanks for so many different responses and opinions on the matter. Usually I stay out of such discussions, because there is probably nothing I can say in such situations that is appreciated. It's a lose-lose situation for me anyway. However I will try to give my point of view as good as I can.

Hawkins, I appreciate your effort in writing this topic. I would like to start with pointing out the metric that we use to identify how many players visit the game on a daily base. Max player count was mentioned, but imho that doesn't tell a lot about the community and game since it's the target or pretty big fluctuations. I use the metric of unique visitors over the past 24 hours, which tells us a lot more about how many people visit the site daily. That's between 250 and 300 unique computers and over 400 accounts a day. This is less than what it was 5 years ago, but it's a large, active and big community! I also always compare emps to other large servers, which roughly have 400-500 players online during peak times. Back in the days emps was also about 1/10 of the largest RSPS out there. So honestly speaking the relative activity hasn't changed one bit. I'm not saying it's great, but definitely not something to worry about or be upset. I am constantly working on updates and advertisement strategies to attract new players. Though let me tell you... it is REALLY REALLY difficult! It's so much harder to attract new players than back in the good old RuneScape days with hundreds of thousands of potential players.

Now let's talk about oldschool, since that seems to be the magical solution to everything. I need to put some sarcasm out here, because I honestly feel this isn't going to change a single bit. Possibly a temporary increase in activity, because everybody is starting from scratch. I have considered this a few times and also thought of the effort required in offering an oldschool version. However, I honestly feel like this is not a solution to a problem that isn't even a problem from the beginning. We do have less activity than on release date and over the past 1-2 years it has pretty much been constant. I have started to work more on advertisement campaigns earlier this year to bring an improvement that way. Let's just say it's still difficult and constantly being worked on. I would also like to bring a very important point that just because more people played oldschool emps doesn't mean they will in the future. There is a very famous quote that says correlation does not imply causation. Applied to our player base it basically means just because people used to play the game and we had oldschool doesn't necessarily mean people will now play oldschool! A really good read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation (yes wikipedia... but they explain the quote)

I also don't want to but feel like it is necessary to respond to Eddie aka Junkz. We've had our disagreements over the past and also made it very clear we have a totally different view on things. I feel like what you are doing here is pretty unfair and I will also be putting a stop on it from now on. Censorship? Oh no, the site you are on decides what you are allowed to post on it. I hope you don't mind me not using an exquisite color code to get my statement clear. I really like your initial statement that no roasting is intended but your whole reply basically goes on doing so. Your entire reply is a rant about the game. I mean fine, it's your opinion and also nobody is going to take that away from you. However this is very far away from constructive criticism. In fact I find it very childish and also silly to keep attacking every single update that doesn't exactly represent your expectation. Heck why should anyone ever listen to you or develop something for you? There will never be any appreciation no matter what. And you made that very clear over the past years. I also don't deem it necessary but let me just say that your entire reply here is just nonsense. Based on your opinion and hatred for the game serving nothing but frustration and anger in the community. Using the player count to even bash more on updates rather than stepping back for a moment and considering what other facts could make a community smaller over a course of 5 to 10 years. Hint hint, people are sometimes finished with a game and grow up.

It's also a great idea to link to our development board here: https://trello.com/b/QGPVa5en/emps-world It's my personal flip chart where I keep track of upcoming changes and also create tickets for future updates. Basically my plan for the next update cycle. It doesn't contain everything and also is no promise, but you can have an insight on some of my personal notes. There's also Discord where you can easily ask us about game related things, chat or talk about updates and ideas: https://discordapp.com/invite/xUvVGkk