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Feedback / Re: Glacors.

« on: July 30, 2018, 07:13:05 am »

Plot twist: let's actually buff the other bosses that are weak and make them a challenge aswell.

The last thing this game needs is every boss changed into a concrete wall a.k.a. Chronozon.

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Guides / Re: Guide to the demon bosses, part 1 - Kal'ger

« on: July 29, 2018, 04:50:15 am »

level requirements
•   96 herblore - (to make overloads).
•   99 defense
•   99 hitpoints
•   99 attack level (optional if you use range).
•   99 strength (optional if you use range).
•   99 range (optional if you use melee).

atleast 70 prayer aswell, for piety + protection prayers etc. Other than that, great topic.

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Suggestions & Ideas / Skilling outfits

« on: July 28, 2018, 08:54:19 pm »

https://emps-world.net/forum/suggestions-ideas/the-gone-set-others/?~21180
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee im 15


This should totally be a thing if possible. Although the sets should be thought through better than the golden mining set, which is still garbo.

As for the suggestion itself. We don't need prospectors since we got the golden one (needs tweaking pls), neither do we need camo set since garbo. Could also leave out pyromancer and make the lumberjack boost both wc and fm. Anglers could boost both fishing and cooking. Farmers outfit would be neat, but not really needed xp wise imho. And finally the rouges outfit to boost thieving.

Basically all the skills that would get an xp boosting outfit would be the most zzzzzz ones. Obtaining methods could be rng or grind doesn't really matter. Shouldn't take more time than it takes to 99.

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Suggestions & Ideas / Re: Coal Bag.

« on: July 25, 2018, 08:45:37 am »

I honestly think that niche skilling equipment should not degrade at all. Way you get coal bag is also quite bad imho as it's skilling related item and should also be obtained through skilling (fallen star?).
There are coal rocks literally next to bank at Barbarian Village anyway and if the coal bag didn't degrade so quickly or at all people might use Falador mine a bit more if Barbarian Village is crowded.

Niche items are supposed to be "op" for the purpose they're meant to be used imho as they don't have any other use.

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Suggestions & Ideas / Armadyl Crossbow

« on: July 21, 2018, 09:50:43 am »

Pretty clear and simple. Would like to suggest adding a arma cbow to kree arra or zilyana drop table. Why is that, you may ask? I think theres not that much variety of crossbows in game that are high tier weapons. Id place it for tier 80 weapon, but hey, theres already a tier 80 cbow that is hunters cbow. That should be changed to tier 70-72 weapon, as it has exact same stats as chaotic cbow, which has requirement of level 72 ranged to be worn. The goal is to have a cbow of strength between a demon crossbow and hunters cbow, because the gap between obtaining chaotic/hunters cbow and demons cbow is pretty huge, and even bigger for ironmans. there should be a fine gap filler between those 2 type of cbows imo.

Would like to hear out on every single opinion about this suggestion.

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Introductions & Farewells / Re: Why I no longer play

« on: June 14, 2018, 09:59:30 am »

Honestly too many things are wrong to say anything without being hypocritical to something else.

When you don't have 400 players online like we used to be, you can't be very strict about everything, these things go in parallel. In fact, at any given moment, the punishments have never been as strict and enforced as you'd like them to be, the only strict person was George, who made a big deal out of everything which caused conflicts with everyone and everything. Even so, that doesn't mean everything is slipped past our minds and we don't deal with people to be punished in order to make the game as fair as possible.

You always try to change everything around you, but just remember what got you and everyone else playing, it was the way everything is, not how you see it should be. Your personal hate against me is brought out very well here, as i'm the only person whose name you mentioned in the Entire topic. FYI i never wanted you to dislike me, quite the opposite actually, i enjoyed being around you and wanted to get along with you, i even agreed to fulfill some of your demands/suggestions which i hoped would satisfy you but your personality and radical solutions made it impossible to work with you. Even if you believe and know that everything you suggested back then and now is right and best for everyone, that's not the way your going to get things changed.

Coming back to the rule enforcement, Emps was NEVER as strict as you want it to be, it may seem to you like everything was much stricter and more enforced, but just know that if you have 400 players online, it's much more likely that people will break more rules and do more RWT and get caught doing it. Due to high amount of rule breaks, a lot of cases stood out and it seemed like everything was under control, while in reality the same % of people get away with their against the rules activities that did throughout the whole game's existence.

You keep coming back to staff as one of the reasons why Emps has gone downhill, it's just not possible that someone would choose a game based on their staff team? You dare to say that Ameer, Ralphe, Zudikas and so on would play the game like they did 5 years ago if things were the way you want them to be? They're over this game, they will never play it like they did again. I mean i get it if mods and admins were rude and very unhelpful etc, then that would make someone leave, but that is not what we have.

Everyone has broken rules in this thread, i'm just shaking my head and wondering why is everyone so damn hypocritical? Who are you/we to judge whose mistakes have been bigger? Or should we judge each other at all and call out shit what everyone has done?


In the end it's opinion against opinion, you can't really prove that anything you suggest would bring a better change is correct or truthful, you're just assuming things based on where you see flaws.

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Update Notes / Updates August 2nd 2018 - Wilderness Revival, Ranks, Oldschool News and More!

« on: June 06, 2018, 06:33:13 am »

Hey guys,

I hope you are having a great summer time. It has taken some time, but I have finished a gigantic PvP and balancing update. I aim to find a long-term solution to revive and keep PvP active as well as making it attractive to participate in. I have also overhauled some older systems and fixed a ton of bugs. Last but not least, I have and am still working on an option to turn the current game into oldschool style with only a mouse click!

Wilderness Update - Rewards & ELO

It's been a while since the wilderness has received an update. This time I don't want to add more PvM into the area, but real PvP with new and unique rewards! Every kill gives you blood coins. The amount you get highly depends on the cardinality of your target, meaning that your opponent's ranking and equipment matter. Following ranks with icons (see icon system below) can be achieved:

• Bronze I - III
• Silver I - III
• Gold I - III
• Rune I - III

Each rank has a unique chat badge which can be enabled at any point through the Equipment Screen. What you are probably also (more?) interested in are the rewards for killing each other in the wilderness: Blood coins. You will find a new NPC walking around Edgeville called Emps Pker wearing Vesta armour. You can trade the person to buy rewards with blood coins:

• PvP crates: Food, potions, selected runes, edgeville teleports and PvP armours.
• Rune bag: Can store 3-5 (member benefit) runes and CAN be equipped in Arrow slot.
• Quiver: Can store 2-4 (member benefit) arrows / bolts and HAS TO be equipped in Arrow slot.
• PvP armour pieces: In case you are unlucky and have a lot of blood coins, you can also buy them directly here. Bear in mind that getting the armours through crates is much much cheaper though!

Icon System - Ranks
I have updated the way icons in front of names are managed and set. We also call these icons ranks, because they are achievements. You can change your icon by right-clicking your name on the Equipment Screen. Ranks can be obtained by certain achievements in-game:

• Donator Icons: Unlocked by having obtained a total amount of EC:
  • 1,800EC - Bronze Donator
  • 10,00EC - Silver Donator
  • 25,000EC - Gold Donator
  • 50,000EC - Rune Donator
  • 100,000EC - Dragon Donator
  • 200,000EC - Dark Donator
  • 300,000EC - Light Donator
  • 500,000EC - Demon Donator

Please bear in mind that the higher ranks are aimed at people who are supporting the game through many months and years!

• PvP ranks: see above
• Ironman: By default on every ironman
• Veteran: How many years you've been playing Emps-World. We cannot go back in time and copy the registration dates of the Emps-Scape, so no registrations longer than 4 years ago count.
• Staff Icons: You will find different mod / admin crowns.

Icons also appear when right-clicking players now. They can be changed at any given point to any image leaving us a lot of space for future changes and improvements!

Run Energy, Resting and its role in PvP
I know this change may be annoying, but the overall run energy system in its current state was just completely broken. You could run forever pretty much no matter what you were doing. While this is comfortable, it removes the point of even having a run energy system as well as the Agility skill. With this update I am changing the way run energy regenerates and the maximum is now at 100 and no longer 255. I have copied the regeneration function from OSRS, which can be found here: http://oldschoolrunescape.wikia.com/wiki/Energy

Energy restoring potions (if you knew they even existed!) were also changed:

• Super restore: +5 energy
• Energy potion: +10 energy
• Super energy: +15 energy

The aim of this change is to make running longer distances more complicated. Outrunning somebody in the wilderness is now possible, especially when having a lot of loot in your inventory or wearing heavy armour. Please don't worry though, this isn't going to affect skilling a lot! You get your run energy fully restored by talking to a Healer.

Claiming Voting Points
I've updated the system to support the usage of proxies and also configurations behind firewalls. The old system was doing an IP comparison of your game login and on the homepage. So voting on your smartphone and trying the claim the points in-game wouldn't work. You should be able to claim your points no matter where you vote now. It's based on your user OR ip address. If one of them match, you can claim your voting points.

Game fixes / changes:

• Grand Exchange now correctly displays the correct amount of coins you get for selling items.
• Barrows slayer task amount is now dividable by 6. Meaning you never have a left-over round during a task.
• Rewards potential interface in Barrows now correctly resets when claiming the reward.
• Bolkoy dialogues have been updated.
• Redberry pies can now be eaten.
• Double agents can no longer be attacked by other players.
• Membership description update.
• Cure plants spell now has a timer and only gives experience when you successfully cured plants. You also gain some farming experience when successfully curing plants now.
• Chaos dwarves can no longer be assigned as Slayer task.
• A bug with Spectral equipment was fixed. When dying with a fully charged item (e.g. Zuriel robe top) you wouldn't get any Spectral energy.
• Skull timers have received second precision instead of minute precision. Your skull is now consistently 10 minutes long instead of something between 9 and 10 minutes. Moreover, there's now also an orb that shows your skull timer.
• The timings of Jad's animations have been improved.
• Items lost in the Kalphite Queen boss chamber are now dropped outside, before you use the rope to enter.
• Levelup messages now properly tell you new activities that you are able to do. This is a copy of the skill advancements tables.
• Slayer tasks can now be extended (doubled) for 50% of their Slayer point reward.
• A bug was fixed where resetting skills with xp lamps wasn't possible anymore.
• You can now properly complete puzzle clues on Farming patches.
• The experience reduction for multi hits (range & magic) has been changed to 50% from 20%. The previous experience gain nerf was just too much.
• Spectrals now hit more through protection prayers. They were never intended to be fully blockable.
• Skipping the tutorial now warns you about not being able to become an ironman account and gives you a starter set. The range starter set now also includes 100 bronze arrows that are equipped.
• The charges of coal bags have bee increased from 1,000 to 10,000. This doesn't apply to current bags but new ones!
• Weapon poison (p+) and Weapon poison (p++) can now be made with the Herblore skill.
• Ranging and Magic potion have been added to Herblore.
• A new Slayer master called Turael has been added to the Barbarian dungeon. Turael assigns solely monsters found in the dungeon and is for beginners.
• Void knight elite defence bonuses have been a bit too high. We found out when testing the defence bonuses of the PvP armour sets. I have reduced the defence bonuses of elite void knight top and bottom by 10%. You won't really feel this change, but it's now more balanced and aligned to existing content.
• The rendering distance for players and npcs inside minigames has been increased.
• Fish monger now sells Varrock, Lumbridge and Falador teletabs. It's still worth it to create those through Construction, because they can only be bought in low quantities.
• Snape grass can now be found around the river of Barbarian village.
• Barbarians, Mages and Goblins now drop Guams, Marrentills, Tarromins, Harralanders and Ranarrs. This allows new users to find and create low level potions with all resources found in and around the Barbarian village.
• Stepping stones in Emps-Wars can no longer be clipped by following. That counts for npcs and players.

Engine fixes / changes:

• A bug was fixed where certain tops would make your arms disappear when wearing dragonhide bodies.
• Sky is now reflected in water and the underwater color depends on the surrounding terrain. There's now also a depth calculation that determines the transparency of water. Basically giving you a better immersion of how low underwater terrain is.
• Items shown in the chatbox (skill advancements) are now more centered and larger.
• Images are now loaded on demand and no longer need to be downloaded before starting the game. This improves initial loading speeds by roughly a minute. It's annoying when joining the game for the very first time to wait for long downloads.
• Underwater terrain is now properly refracted. That means that underwater objects are now also having a ripple effect.
• Upgraded abyssal weapons have received animated textures. They were originally supposed to have such kind of a glow, but due to engine limitations it wasn't possible.
• Camera system has completely been overhauled. It felt very outdated compared to other games. Camera movements no longer have a delay / fade-out effect but is a direct representation of your mouse movements. To make sure nobody is displeased with the change you are now also able to select 5 different camera sensitivities.
• Scaled images now look smoother.
• You can now select fullscreen mode from the game settings.
• Skill interfaces no longer have empty buttons.

Oldschool Emps-World
I've cancelled this project a while ago and also won't revitalize it. However I have been and am currently working on an optional oldschool option, which will give the game an OSRS feeling. This replaces (wherever possible) player and npc data with their oldschool variants. This overwrites their look and animations. It's impossible to replace the map with OSRS data, because their positions differ. I can add new maps though, including Zeah, Zulrah, etc. I'm also able to use all oldschool items, such as the blowpipe, elder maul, twisted bow, etc. I want to finish the graphics option first though before adding such content!


I've attached a screenshot to show how it looks like. You can use all the HD graphic options and combine them oldschool models. I'm not quite sure when this will be finished, because I'm still fighting with serious graphical glitches that absolutely can't be in the release version. Biggest issue currently being boots that have no oldschool replacement model. Maybe I need to manually find some here? Idk... Will keep you updated with media whenever I have more to show! You can also directly follow the progress here: https://trello.com/c/K2rC6upc/60-oldschool-graphics-option

All the best,
Thomy

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General Discussion / Re: Good news

« on: May 16, 2018, 02:35:51 pm »

jagex and shutting down things name more iconic something something

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General Discussion / Good news

« on: May 16, 2018, 04:27:31 am »

Jagex done goofed again with 3rd party clients, so expect a little growth in the community.