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Update Notes / Updates September 19th 2017 - Overloads, Grand Exchange Tweaks, Water and more!

« on: September 07, 2017, 02:14:18 pm »

Hello everybody,

I've got a few balancing changes ready for today. Please read through them and let me know what you think!

Herblore Extension - Overloads
Overloads and extreme potions are here! You can find the recipes in the Herblore skill interface in the game. An overload potion is a combination of an extreme attack, strength, defence, magic and range potion. So all of your combat stats are boosted. Also, they won't decay for the duration of the potion effect. So your levels always stay at their maximum. With this update, I'm also nerfing normal and super potions. This is necessary, else our overloads will end up making you way too strong:

• Brew's stat reduction has been reduced. However, the reduction is now stacking.
• Normal potions: You now get 1 + 8% of your level as boost.
• Extreme potions: You now get 3 + 20% of your level as boost: This gets your level up to a maximum of 122.
• Overloads: Mix all extreme potions together to get an overload potion. This boosts all your combat stats to 122 and keeps them there until the potion effect runs out.

I am aware that this is a nerf to super potions, but it was impossible to add new potions with super potion's combat power. Extreme potions and overloads are untradeable. Also brews have received a nerf in their healing power and stat boosts. On the other side though, their stat reduction effect is no longer that strong. Some level requirements for potions have also been reduced. Please check the Herblore skill guide in-game for all the details.

The screenshot shows drinking an overload potion and new water, which has already gone live a few days ago.

Grand Exchange
It was sometimes not satisfying how the system worked and I've also identified that quite a few price calculations are just wrong. With this update I have taken randomness out of the market system and want to improve the fairness of transactions. I've changed the following:

• Price calculation updated. I'm no longer taking random values out of all transactions of the past 90 days for the average price. I'm now taking the most recent 200 transactions of an item to calculate its price. I remove a percentage of outliers and calculate the mean of the residual values. I'm also taking the amount of the transaction into consideration now. This ensures a better calculation of prices and people won't be able to manipulate an item's price anymore by selling or buying an item very cheap or very expensive (e.g. fishing bait).
• Offers (buy & sell) are no longer randomly being matched. Before the update it would just find any buy offer and any sell offer that match and would complete the transaction. This resulted in the system not really being able to detect increasing or decreasing prices quickly enough or even not at all. I've taken the randomness completely out of the transaction matching code. The best buy offer is now matched with the best sell offer. If your buy offer is the highest, the system makes sure that you have the highest priority in buying the item and thus will get it first. You will be matched with the best possible sell offer.
• The selling price is no longer the price that will be paid. You're now charged by the average of the buy and sell offer. This means that if I buy an abyssal whip for 2m and somebody sells it for 1m, it will cost me 1.5m and the seller will also get 1.5m ((2 + 1) / 2 = 1.5). This system ensures more fairness towards sellers and will no longer result in hesitations for sales.

Engine Updates

• Certain wall objects have had their orientations fixed (barbarian village shelves, shields in varrock castle, etc.). The configuration for wall configs has been wrong and they sometimes were wrongly rotated. This was barely even noticeable, because only small objects were affected. This also fixes a bug where clicking areas for such object were wrong (rub glory in POH). This patch also slightly increases loading times for lower-end computers.
• Holding down the CTRL button now allows you to instantly drop items from the inventory. If items cannot be dropped, it'll trigger the destroy dialogue.
• Scrollbars have visually been updated. They now have a gradient instead of being a single color block.
• Water shaders have completely been reworked. You'll find water being more realistic now with a ripple effect. Reflections are planned as final step for the water update. Though, only for high-end computers in order to be able to render the refractions fast enough.
• The kill logs interface has been updated. You should no longer crash or find buggy models when idle animations are disabled. I wasn't able to get any issues on my laptop anymore. However, please let me know if there's still issues if you find any!
• The way monsters are rotated to terrain has been changed. This will fix flickering issues with large monsters on small hills (frost dragons).
• I've started to work on a loading mechanism that completely gets rid of loading screens, which will allow me to set infinite rendering distances. Theoretically speaking of course, it'll still be limited to the maximum performance of your computer. Anyway, I can't say when I have this update ready,  but I've started to work on it as small side project. This will also boost performance even more once finished.

Changes and Fixes:

• Several elite clue item requirements have been changed. Certain items that were really difficult to obtain have been replaced with more common items. You can view the changes on the wiki in the coming days: https://emps-world.net/wiki/Clue_scrolls (please give us a few days to update that!)
• The chances for obtaining crushed nests from Woodcutting has been increased from 5% to 8% (10% with strung rabbit foot).
• New creature can be hunted: Grenwalls. You need 5 Grenwall spikes to create extreme Ranging potions.
• Ground mud runes can now be created by using 5 mud runes on a pestle and mortar. You need 1 ground mud rune to create extreme Magic potions.
• Quarrymaster aura now also works on gem rocks.
• The experience curve for Pest Control experience rewards has been adjusted. You now get more experience on lower levels than before. The maximum amount of experience to obtain remains unchanged.
• The defensive bonuses of glory (t) have been reduced. It shouldn't be straight up better than an amulet of fury.
• Amulet of ranging has received a +5 prayer bonus to be comparable to other top amulets.
• Third-age amulet now gives +2 health bonus.
• Alch value increased for following items: Dragon halberd, wands, infinity robes, dragonfire shields, barrow gloves, dragon boots
• Rare clue scroll rewards are now broadcast (< 1% dropchance).
• Nex armour drops are now broadcast.
• Giant pouches are no longer being broadcast.
• A bug was fixed where certain items wouldn't degrade.
• It's now possible to rest by right-clicking the run-orb on the minimap. Resting increases your health and hitpoints regeneration rate.
• Several stairs in Falador have been fixed.
• Corporeal beast can now be fought in instances.
• The Runecrafting experience multiplier for combination runes has been increased from 1.1 to 1.5.
• Buggy spots that could get you stuck around the Ice wyrm cave entrance area have been fixed.

Since a lot of people kept asking me about oldschool: No, there's no progress yet. I'll be posting it when available. I hope you enjoy this update, it brings a little more usefulness to Herblore and solves a few issues with the Grand Exchange.

All the best,
Thomy




Changes of 20th:

• Due to a large disappointment of super potions, I've reverted them back to their old state. They now boost stats up to 118 again.
• Extreme potions and overloads now boost stats to 122.
• Brews are healing for 16 again.
• Zamorak brew acts like an extreme strength potion and boosts strength to 122.
• Saradomin brew acts like an extreme defence potion and boosts defence to 122.
• Hunter experience rates have been reduced by roughly 30%. This should've already been in the patch yesterday, but I forgot to update it. Hunter was being trained a little too fast. My bad, made a mistake in my calculations.
• Overload boost is now re-applied every 5 seconds instead of every 15 seconds.
• Corporeal beast instance fixes.

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Guides / Scams you should watch out for

« on: June 26, 2015, 03:41:16 pm »

I've seen a lot of people get scammed lately, so I wanted to raise awareness of certain scams. That's why I'm making this guide to show you scams you can easily avoid. Some of these scams are punishable, some are not. If a scam is punishable you can get a refund to your items by making a ticket to the helpdesk. Please report right after you got scammed.

Warning: This guide is to raise awareness of these scams, do not try to perform these or you will be punished.

Doubling Money

The oldest scam in the book. Someone will say they're doubling money or items, they'll accept your stuff and run off. Please don't fall for this. Report anyone you see doing this, as this is punishable. Just avoid trading these people at all cost.



Lending

Sometimes people will ask for gear or items to lend, they'll often promise to return more. It's very probable that they may not return your items. What's even worse is that people often stake lent items, resulting in recovery being impossible. Lend scamming is against the rules and is punishable, please report it. Never lend anything to strangers.

The Halberd Hasta Scam

This scam involves trading someone that is buying a dragon hasta a noted dragon halberd. The icons look very similar, however the halberd has a very low value compared to the hasta. This scam is punishable, so please report it. You can avoid this scam by checking your 2nd trade screen or right clicking the items.



The Mantas Scam

It's one of the oldest scams, yet people still fall for it sometimes. Someone will be saying something along the lines of "free mantas, show me your bag so I know how many to give" Sure, they'll give you mantas, but as soon as you have them you find that you forgot to take your bag out of your trade. This scam also happens with sea turtles, sharks and monkfish. This scam is punishable, please report it and you'll get your items refunded. You can avoid this scam by checking your trade before you accept.



The Member Ticket Scam

Someone will be selling member tickets, you really wanna get your membership back up fast so you buy one. What's this? You've got a gold ring and he has your money. Once again these item icons are very similar. This scam is also punishable, so please report it to get a refund. To avoid this scam always check your 2nd trade screen.



The Climbing Boots Scam

Someone will attempt to sell the grey boots for climbing boots. The gray boots are sold in a store in rimmington while the climbing boots are a drop from a high level slayer monster. Once again, this scam is punishable so please report it if it happens. You can avoid this scam by looking at the second screen of the trade.



The Hasta Spear Scam

This one may be a bit easier to spot, but still happens. Putting in an iron or steel hasta instead of a zamorakian spear. Once again icons look very similar, this one is also punishable so please report it if it happens. Can also be avoided by just checking the 2nd trade screen.



The Prayer Potion Scam

You're buying prayer potions, and someone puts attack potions or (unf) ranarr potions in the trade, you don't notice it and boom, there goes your money. The icons are very similar. This scam is punishable, please report it if you see it. You can avoid this scam by right clicking the item or looking at the 2nd trade screen.



The Enchanted Robe Scam

Again, fairly similar icons. Enchanted robes can be bought in a shop in rimmington however, and they also have way lower stats than battle robe. This scam is also punishable, so please report it to get a refund. To avoid this scam always check your 2nd trade screen.



Dragon santa scam

Again, fairly similar icons. 10 dragon santas were given out last christmas, making them a very rare item. They look very similar to normal santa hats though, which are obtainable from the burnt chest and christmas crackers. This scam is also punishable, so please report it to get a refund. To avoid this scam always check your 2nd trade screen.



White platelegs scam

Again, fairly similar icons. While they look similar to 3rd age, white platelegs don't have their stats nor their value. It may be sold to you in a set so it stands out less. This scam is also punishable, so please report it to get a refund. To avoid this scam always check your 2nd trade screen.



This is a list I will keep updated, if you have any to add please post them.

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Guides / [Moneymaking] Humidify

« on: June 16, 2015, 12:25:35 pm »

This is a moneymaking guide that doesn't have that many requirements to it. It's a great way to start rebuilding your bank if you lost it. This might be ever so slightly boring, I suggest you watch a movie or series while doing this. The money from this guide is in the vials, you'll need to sell them. This guide contains clickable links, feel free to use them to get to their wiki pages.

Requirements:

• 68 magic for the humidify spell
• Lunar spellbook
• A water or mud staff
• Some cash (around 10k should be enough)
• Astral and fire runes

Skills you'll get exp in:


Setup/inventory



Location

Due to it being the place with a general store closest to a bank, barbarian village is perfect for this.



The progress

Now that you're at the general store you can finally start. Buy 25 empty vials with the buy-x option, use the humidify spell (68 magic) and all your vials will be filled with water. Bank them and simply repeat the steps until you feel you have enough vials of water, and then sell them for money if you need to.



Some stats
1 Inventory:
Uses: ~10 seconds, 25 gp, 1 astral & 1 fire rune
Gives: 25 vials of water, 192 magic exp

Per hour:
~9,000 vials made
~360 astral & fire runes used

Magic exp:
~69,120 without dxp
~138,240 with dxp

Notes:

• Lunars are no longer members only
• If you're struggling to get astrals use this guide

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Guides / [Moneymaking] Astral runes

« on: April 30, 2015, 10:47:49 pm »

This is a moneymaking guide that doesn't have that many requirements to it. It's a great way to start rebuilding your bank if you lost it. This might be ever so slightly boring, I suggest you watch a movie or series while doing this. The money from this guide is in the astrals, you'll need to sell them. This guide contains clickable links, feel free to use them to get to their wiki pages.

Requirements

• An astral tiara
• A fire staff
• A pickaxe
• 43 magic for superheat
• Nature runes
• Active membership

Skills you'll get exp in


Setup/inventory


Location
You will be mining your own ess in the essence mine, and then superheating it. You will need to teleport, ask Aubury, he can be found in Varrock and Port sarim. Just right click on him and use teleport.

Varrock:

Port sarim:


The progress

Now that we're finally inside the ess mine we can start. Mine the essence until your inventory is full, then simply superheat the essence. The spell will ignore your runecrafting and smithing level. You will get 10 astral runes for every 4 essence you superheat. So one nature rune will get you 10 astral runes. This method is great because you'll never need to bank until you run out of nature runes.

Some stats

Ess mined per hour: ~2880
Astrals created per hour: ~7200

Without double exp:
Mining per hour: 126,720 exp
Magic per hour: 498,240 exp
Smithing per hour: 43,200 exp
Runecrafting per hour: 43,200 exp

No dxp, goldsmith gauntlets:
Smithing per hour: 45,360 exp

No dxp, chaos gauntlets
Runecrafting per hour: 45,360 exp

With double exp:
Mining per hour: 253,440 exp
Magic per hour: 996,480 exp
Smithing per hour: 86,400 exp
Runecrafting per hour: 86,400 exp

Dxp, goldsmith gauntlets:
Smithing per hour: 90,720 exp

Dxp, chaos gauntlets
Runecrafting per hour: 90,720 exp

This is the end of my guide. I hope this will help you earn some money. If you have any tips to make this guide better, feel free to post. If it helped you, feel free to give the post a thank as well.

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