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Update Notes / Updates April 20th - Virtual Levels, Membership changes and Barbarian Dungeon!

« on: March 30, 2018, 02:32:55 pm »

Hey guys,

Quite a long list of changes this time. I'd say Virtual levels and Membership are the biggest changes, but you'll also find the Decanter and Experience lamps as rewards for daily tasks useful!

Barbarian Dungeon
I've improved the drops of monsters inside the Barbarian dungeon. The area is supposed to be beginner friendly and give people a decent start into the game. Low and medium level monsters with appropriate drops can be found there:

• Skeletons: drop mithril items
• Ghosts: received a magic attack and drop ghostly robes
• Bats: bones give good prayer xp
• Unholy cursebearer: weak mini boss with drops for up to 4 players
• Chaos dwarfs replaced with fire giants
• Elite dark knights added: stronger black knights dropping medium level armour / equipment
• Baby blue dragons received a droptable.

Here's the unholy cursebearer:

Virtual Levels
You can now level past 99 without gaining any additional benefits. It shows your progress up to level 128 (= 250M xp) the same way as you were leveling from 1 to 99. This option can be disabled in the game settings if you don't like it! There's now also a badge on your skill when reaching the following milestones:

• 110: Bronze star
• 120: Silver star
• 128: Gold star

The screenshot below shows how the skill tab interface with virtual levels enabled looks like. The green total level shows your virtual total level, which can go up to 2,944 when being completely maxed!


Membership
I've decided that the membership system is very outdated and I've removed the requirement from following things:

• Astral rune smelting.
• Entrance to Al-Kharid and the Desert.
• Using pets.
• Pollnivneach teletab.
• Crafting skill.
• Fletching bolts and bolt tips.
• Agility obstacles & dungeon entrances.
• Hunter.
• Shooting star information.
• Thieving.
• Slayer.

To keep track of what's still included for member, here's a list:

• More bank space.
• More GE slots.
• 10% experience boost.
• More space for your house.
• Additional daily task.

This sounds like a drastic change, but I really feel that it's a good step towards making the game feel more enjoyable. I will update the list of member benefits to make sure it's clear what you get with the package!

Daily Tasks & Experience Lamps
You now get a Combat lamp by completing combat related daily tasks (no Slayer). You can choose in which combat skill you want to gain experience. The experience gain curves were taken from RSWiki and interpolated. It's not an exact copy, but very similar rates. The task system was also updated to use the same experience curve. That means that lower level tasks gain less experience and higher ones more experience. The turning point is at about level 60 if compared to the previous system. Moreover, I've also added these lamps as rewards to the EP shop. Lamps are not affected by any experience boosts but membership!

Potion Decanter Bob
You can now decant potions in any possible variation you wish. The mechanism works with noted and unnoted items and always costs 1,000gp per inventory. You have predefined options to decant potions into 3 and 4 sips. However if you wish to decant them into 1 or 2 sips (maybe 5 or 6 in the future?) you can use the Decant-X option to do so.

Improved Graphic Settings
You're now able to pick from a selection of predefined graphic settings called Automatic Setup:


Yk'Lagor
The boss has been out for quite a while now but seems to be really unpopular. I've taken a look and have to admit that he's quite a powerhouse regarding his combat strength. The strength isn't determined by his raw combat power but by the npcs he spawns. I'm therefore reducing the combat level, combat strength and health of the minion spawns:

• Necrolord: 121 combat & 91 health
• Necro archer: 119 combat & 90 health

I have also increased all amounts of noted item drops to make sure this boss is worth killing.

Mail Server Issues
I was able to identify and fix an issue with our mail server postfix. The hostname that it was sending was incorrect, which resulted in some mail providers rejecting our mails completely. I've patched it and there should no longer be mails that aren't delivered. If you are still having problems with the mail system or aren't receiving e-mails, please make a helpdesk ticket and I'll have a look!

Game fixes / changes:

• Granite shield alch value increased and noted version added.
• NPCs around Barbarian village now drop talismans.
• A clipping issue around the Kalphite Queen entrance was fixed.
• Thrower trolls now count towards the troll Slayer task.
• A bug was fixed where opening passable doors while the map was loading wouldn't show.
• The slayer experience gained for group bosses has been increased.
• The prayer experience of bat bones was increased from 90 to 150.
• Swapping two special attack weapons no longer resets special attack activation.
• Fancy and Fighting boots can now be found on the Grand Exchange.
• Bolt effects (only 1 word) are now shown in the equipment interface. The full effect can be viewed by hovering over the bolt item.
• The weapon animations for dharok's axe, anger battle axe and anger mace have been updated. The previous versions were a little buggy and I found a set of animations that fits their style better.
• Multi target spells no longer increase their range when attacking larger monsters. Also a bug has been fixed which allowed you to target enemies with multi target spells through walls.
• Pet dragons can now be found in the GE.

Engine fixes / changes:

• The performance of rendering players on the minimap has been improved. The code that determined if players are in your clan chat or are on your friends list had horrible complexities and were costing some fps. All fixed and improved now though.
• A bug was fixed where the minimap wouldn't update properly when crossing Agility obstacles.
• Animations are now properly preloaded when equipping items. This fixes an issue where equipping a 2h sword and walking would shortly pause your walk animation because it wasn't previously loaded.
• Ground item system improved. You can see up to 5 different items now and all doubles are filtered. So if you drop coins and 10 mantas on top of it, you'll be able to see 1 manta ray model and 1 coins model. This will make it easier to see which items are on the floor.

Water Edges
I've given the water calculation an additional depth test that determines how transparent the edges are. It creates smooth coastlines giving water an even more realistic look. I've also updated swamps, because dirty water has very dithered reflections.


In other News
I've started a discussion about future updates and how the game could be improved. You can read all the details here: https://emps-world.net/forum/index.php?topic=20986.0 There has already been some discussion on-going and I am now working on following things:

• Voting system: already got the scripts working really well, now looking into the rewards. My plans are to create voting boxes, which contain random useful loot and a rare chance to receive unique pets. My aim is to not let these rewards affect the economy at all but it should be worth your time. Probably dyes for existing items that are tradeable and small experience lamps. Thoughts on that?
• Daily minigame task: I'd pick a different minigame every day that is featured, so teaming up becomes easier.
• Daily boss task: An additional challenge once having reached a certain milestone. I definitely want to include the 4-man group challenges too.
• Difficult game mode: This mode will have experience rates lowered by a lot and will get separate highscores. I also plan on receiving unique rare items when reaching certain milestones at this game mode.

I cannot say when all these changes find their way into the game, but I'll be working on them from now on. I've also delayed the new boss a little bit more, because I just haven't been able to get things done yet. Lots of smaller projects and idea compilation were taking up my time.

All the best,
Thomy

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Screenshots / pretty crazy stuff

« on: March 24, 2018, 05:13:06 pm »

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Suggestions & Ideas / Farming aura

« on: March 21, 2018, 01:54:11 am »

It's a simple suggestion, adding a Farming aura to the EP shop that gives a 10% chance to harvest double herbs on an herb patch. Thoughts?

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Goals & Achievements / Farhieving

« on: March 19, 2018, 05:49:33 pm »

Still a long way to go, but a bit closer once again!

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Suggestions & Ideas / Re: Creating a market for runes.

« on: March 17, 2018, 06:23:17 pm »

While I think this could be a great way to create more demand for runes, I think that it's really tedious to keep track of which runes are required for which item. I think I'd prefer creating a special "repair rune" for such purposes. We could try how that works with new item sets? Not promising this finds its way into the game, but I like the concept of skills being needed to repair items.

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Suggestions & Ideas / Re: Creating a market for runes.

« on: March 17, 2018, 05:05:19 pm »

So money sink + rune sink? I like it

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Help me! / Re: Codes for forum messages

« on: March 15, 2018, 03:26:01 am »

https://emps-world.net/forum/index.php?topic=9094.0

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Help me! / Codes for forum messages

« on: March 14, 2018, 10:01:14 pm »

I'm searching for a code who's unfolds and close a paragraph in a message. Common used for hiding spoilers at some forums.

They were also used back in the days for clan pages.
To keep an compact page without destroying your scroll button..

I tried

Spoiler

[close]

but nothing happens. Is there a list of all the codes for SMF 2.0 ?

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Update Notes / Updates March 29th 2018 - Clan Chat Rework, Barrows Overhaul and Engine Fixes!

« on: March 14, 2018, 01:08:52 pm »

Hey guys,

I've decided to pick up two old systems and give them a rework to ensure that they are still convenient to work with. This includes a complete rework of the Barrows minigame and a proper Clan Chat. You'll now be getting way more Runes from Barrows and are able to manage rights per user in your clan chat.

Barrows Minigame Overhaul
The minigame has received improved rewards, puzzles, locked doors and a darkened minimap. I've completely overhauled the minigame, because it was running ancient code and improved the rewards. Doors inside the crypt dungeons are now randomly locking and you need to find a path through the crypts to find your way into the center. Before claiming your rewards you also need to complete a puzzle. Don't worry, you've got as much time as you want to complete it, but once you provide a wrong answer the locked doors will re-arrange and force you to find another entrance.


You can now also see which Barrow brothers you've already slain, as well as your Rewards percentage. The looting system has completely been reworked. You can get a maximum of 6 rewards in total. Each brother slain adds one run to the reward system. The Rewards percentage determines how many stackable items you get. The higher it is the higher the amount of runes, arrows and darts you receive will be.



Clan Chat Rework
I've had this project on the schedule for too long and am proud to finally present you a fully working chat room system! You are able to configure your own clan chat and manage rights of users.

You can set individual rights for following actions:

• Enter: Join and read messages.
• Talk: Ability to send messages.
• Kick: Remove users from the chat.
• Ban: Permanently ban users from the chat.

On top of that you can change your chat's name whenever you like (assuming nobody else has taken the name already!) and only the owner can also delete the chat. The general concept of the rights management in clan chat is that you cannot touch any higher ranks. The owner has immunity to everyone as well as admins. The following ranks gain special abilities:

• Lieutenant: Change user rights.
• General: Change channel rights: enter, talk, kick and ban.
• Owner: Change chat name and delete option.

Initially chat and member ranks could be a little confusing, but you can join and take a look at our official clan chat "Emps-World" where we will be applying these rights in a meaningful way and show you how a chat ban be managed.

Attack Option Priority
This setting may be a little bit confusing, so I've overhauled it. Prior to the update this setting was only prioritizing attack options of a single npc or player. So it had no impact on items or objects being on the same spot. With this update the attack option is prioritized over anything. Other entities are still prioritized if they are closer to you - this only applies if being on the same spot. When disabling the setting, any other option but attack is clicked first. Meaning that pickpocketing and talking to npcs is now a simple left-click. Moreover items on the floor are also prioritized when disabled. The attack option on players also doesn't have priority by default anymore, this is now also determined by the setting. All your runs (amount of slain brothers) are added up and shown to you in the rewards interface. When claiming your reward all doors lock and you can teleport out by clicking on the rewards chest again.

Slayer - Boss Tasks
Let's just be honest here... Boss tasks are too short and give way too much experience. Thus I'm reducing the experience gained but increase the task length. In the end the task is still giving the same amount of experience but is longer. The changes will shortly be live on our wiki page: https://emps-world.net/wiki/Slayer I know this change may be frustrating, but the gap between boss and normal tasks was just way too big.

Game fixes / changes:

• The saradomin and zamorak hood and cape from Emps-Wars now count in the GWD as protection.
• Ironmen can now accept aid. This was causing a bug when ironmen where tasking people to be their slayer partners.
• Fletching crossbows has received fixes. You can no longer combine invalid combinations to create crossbows.
• The ancient staff buff was too much - it's now a tier 65 weapon with the same effect though.
• A bug was fixed where your character wouldn't follow enemies when wearing a staff and not auto-casting a spell.
• The DPS calculation for special attacks has been fixed.
• Crossbows (u), crossbow stocks and crossbow strings can now be noted.
• The skulling system no longer resets upon death. This fixes a bug where you'd get a skull after death although you shouldn't when attacking the same enemy again.
• Farmed items can now be noted when using them on Leprechauns.

Engine fixes / changes:

• A z-priority issue with models was fixed.
• Barrow brothers animations overhauled.
• Karil crossbow animation fixed. It's also been sped up so that it cannot reset when firing with 2 quick auto attacks.
• A flickering issue with water reflection was fixed. Their resolution is now proportional to your screen size.

The rework of Barrows and Clan Chat took way more time than I expected. So I have to delay the release of the next boss a little. I expect it to be done within the next two updates. There was also a quest planned for Easter but due to the upcoming Double Experience weekend I am delaying that for one week to make sure it works well and isn't frustratingly buggy!

All the best,
Thomy




Fixes of 30th:

• Broadcasts are working again.
• Clan Chat can now use special characters and uppercase letters wherever you wish.
• Default Clan Chats have been re-added and blocked: Emps-World, Emps, Assistance, Marketing, etc.
• Barrows rewards slightly adjusted. The amount of mind and chaos runes was reduced by a little bit (5-10%). I'm sorry, but it was just way too much!

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Goals & Achievements / Maxed

« on: March 14, 2018, 04:34:32 am »

First of many goals as Ironman player has been achieved.
Big thank you for all of those who have helped me along the road.

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: March 07, 2018, 10:41:42 am »

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Update Notes / Updates March 14th 2018 - Interface Overhauls, Balancing and Slayer Partners!

« on: March 01, 2018, 12:48:49 pm »

Hey guys,

I've prepared a few changes and QoL improvements with this update. I've also dedicated some time into rewriting old systems to make sure certain skills in the game are enjoyable and convenient to interact with.

Slayer Partners
You are now able to share and complete Slayer tasks with one friend. You can setup your Slayer partner by right-clicking an enchanted gem. Once a partner is chosen it will be remembered until you pick a new one. When being close to each other kills count towards both of your kill count. Moreover, your partner gains 25% of Slayer experience from your kills. Happy Slaying!

Rune Emporium - Buying Runes
We've identified that the Rune store is quite a big target for macroing. Creating an auto-clicker to buy runes can easily be done and is also quite rewarding because of the restock rate. Therefore I am halving the amount of runes available in the shop and it now takes 10 seconds for the shop to restock 1 rune (previously 3s). I do understand that this is going to complicate the process of quickly getting runes, but I think that it's a solution that makes Runecrafting more attractive and solves an auto-clicker problem.

Fletching - Crossbows
You can now fletch crossbows. It is done by fletching different log types into crossbow stocks. These are combined with limbs (bronze - rune and blurite) to an unstrung crossbow. The unstrung crossbow needs to be combined with a crossbow string to create the final crossbow. Crossbow strings can be created by using flax on a spinning wheel, identical to how bow strings are created. The Fletching interface contains the level requirements for crossbows. Daily Fletching tasks now consider strung bows and longbows instead of unstrung ones. Crossbows have been excluded from the daily task list, because limbs can only be received as monster drops.

Interface Updates and Overhauls
Some interfaces have been overhauled and reworked to increase their usability. With this update I've also rewritten the entire fletching and hide crafting interfaces. You're now able to select options 1, 5, 10 and X properly throughout the entire item creation process.

I've updated the jewellery interface to ease the creation process of rings, necklaces and amulets. With this update the Crafting experience gained for jewellery has been increased by 20%.


When clicking on a furnace you'll now get an interface allowing you to pick the bar you wish to smelt. You can also still use the ore directly on the furnace.


Some Fletching and Crafting interfaces have also been overhauled:



Game changes:

• Attack range of granite maul increased. It's now the same as spears and halberds. This makes comboing its special attack with other longer ranged weapons easier.
• Instances for Kalphite Queen and Corporeal Beast have been fixed. They are now properly respawning. Moreover, recycled instance names (bandos instance named "test" and zamy instance named "test" for example) no longer interfere with each other and cause one of the instances to not work.
• A bug was fixed where you could still gain combat experience when dealing 0 damage on a Slayer monster.
• A bug was fixed where you had to click your enemy twice when swapping from a magic to melee weapon.
• Clicking the Glacor is now working properly.
• The run animations for santa and skeleton ring have been updated.
• The smite prayer now drains 25% of your hit in prayer points instead of 20%.
• Ancient staff now requires level 71 Magic and increases the cast range of all ancient spells by 2. Its bonuses have also been updated to be a tier 70 weapon.
• A bug was fixed that didn't load POHs properly when eating while teleporting.

Engine changes:

• Fixed an issue where the images of items wouldn't update when crafting green, blue, red or black dragon leather.
• The quality of interfaces and sprites when using the framescale option has been increased. This change is visible the most at UHD or 4k screens.
• Ground adjustment formulas for npcs have been overhauled. Larger monsters (dragons or larger) will now align better to the terrain.
• A turn animation for players and npcs has been added when there is no movement and they are facing another entity.
• The animation for climbing up stairs no longer blocks walking.

E-Mail Delivery Issues
I've received a few complaints that e-mails aren't being delivered properly. Checked the our mail server and gone through the configuration again. Should be working properly again, some configurations were outdated or missing. I'm receiving all mails on my google account and assume it's thus also working for others. Please let me know if you aren't receiving any mails from the Emps-World server and I'll have an individual look at why your mail provider blocks it.

I hope you're enjoying this update. It's mainly aimed at improving the game and fixes a few bugs. I'll now be starting to work on the next group challenge boss named Kal'Ger. This demon is going to drop new tier 85 melee weapons.

All the best,
Thomy


Updates of the 15th:

• Ironmen can now accept aid. This was causing a bug when ironmen where tasking people to be their slayer partners.
• Fletching crossbows has received fixes. You can no longer combine invalid combinations to create crossbows.
• The ancient staff buff was too much - it's now a tier 65 weapon with the same effect though.

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: February 27, 2018, 10:34:13 pm »

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Feedback / Re: Emps-Wiki: feedback

« on: February 24, 2018, 04:53:14 pm »

https://emps-world.net/wiki/Magic
https://emps-world.net/wiki/Ranged
https://emps-world.net/wiki/Defence
Zero information as to:

>No Staff of light.
>No Ragefire Gloves.
>No Demon Orb or Demon Wand
>No Virtus.
>No Demon Crossbow/Longbow
>No Glaiven Gloves.
>No Pernix.
>No Torva or Steadfast Gloves as well.

Items are released for some time now. Some of them are long enough. Not sure why shortcuts to items haven't been done yet.

https://emps-world.net/wiki/Bandos_armour

It is considered to be the best armour set for melee but is rivaled by the 3rd age melee set. - not true. It is popular armour which people usually choose to wear. Torva is rivaled with 3rd one.

same could be said about:

https://emps-world.net/wiki/Armadyl_armour
https://emps-world.net/wiki/Battle_robes


https://emps-world.net/wiki/Zuriel%27s_staff
"Unlike most Ancient weapons, Zuriel's staff does not have an acquirable corrupt version. This is also the case with Morrigan's javelins and throwing axes" Not true since spectrals received an update about month ago.

Also charges have changed on ancient items as well. Plenty of items which information is still not updated.

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Videos / Maxing an ironman

« on: February 22, 2018, 11:32:22 pm »