Hey guys,

Big shout out to everyone giving me their input in our New Player Experience discussion: https://emps-world.net/forum/index.php?topic=19563.0 It really helped me pick some things that needed to be reworked or updated and I'll definitely create more of these topics in the future! Thank you.

Duel Arena and Staking Limits
I've come to the conclusion that limiting stakes doesn't benefit us at all. It's just shifting problems or denying to actually deal with toxicity. I'm therefore removing all staking limits. The staff team will also act much stricter on offensive language from now on. Starting off with warnings and faster mutes, especially in clan chats.

Emps-Wars
I've seen a lot of feedback on the forum and requests to bring this old minigame back. I'm not returning the exact old minigame, but imho an improved version of it. I've removed the top floors of both team's castles to make the actual boss fighting area larger. On top of the Zamorak castle you'll find Fareed and on top of the Saradomin castle the Ice queen. Their stats remain the same and both of them have a low defence level. This means, that also lower leveled players can deal damage to them. Moreover, the Ice queen's and Fareed's attacks scale with your maximum hitpoints level. This can reduce damage up to 90%! I've also spawned 3 Saradomin/Zamorak warriors on top of their appropriate castle. The capture the flag minigame wasn't removed, you can still steal flags to gain additional score for your team! The minigame ends if one of the team's boss dies or if more than 10 flags have been captured.


Broadcasting system
I've added a basic system that broadcasts messages across both worlds. They are disabled in all PvP zones to avoid other people from sniffing you out on good drops! Following in-game events will trigger a broadcast:

• Level 99 in a skill.
• Level 99 in all skills.
• 50M experience steps in a skill: 50M, 100M, 150M, 200M and 250M.
• Drops from a monster exceeding a Grand Exchange price of 5M.
• Untradeable drops that have a rarity of <= 1%. This is for rare collectibles.
• Players completing the tutorial.

Frame Scaling
You can now scale your client's window by factors of 1.0, 1.125, 1.25, 1.375 and 1.5. What does this mean? It just makes everything in your client larger. This will increase performance and is useful on 4k monitors or on small laptop screens. It's not yet 100% perfect and still a little bit blurry, but you'll immediately feel the change if you have a small screen or a 4k monitor. By default this setting is set to 1.0, which means that it's disabled.

Lunars
It's been a while since the Lunars have been some updates, so I've decided to fix / add some spells:

• Cure plant now works on farming patches.
• Monster examine has been fixed. It now shows all the monster's levels and max hits.
• Npc Contact has been added, you can talk to following people: Current Slayer master, Taskmaster Matt, Tyras Guard, Ghost Captain and Observatory professor.
• Moonclan teleports now work. The area isn't configured though
• Shilo village teleports now work. The area isn't configured though.
• Hunter kit spell added.
• String jewellery spell added.
• Animations of share potion spells updated

The other spells will be added whenever their original functionality gets into the game.

Other changes, fixes and updates:

• An issue with displaying multiple graphics, projectiles and ground items has been fixed. Sometimes one of the aforementioned would have wrong angles. This was only a visual bug.
• Shops in Barbarian village have been updated. They now contain more useful items for beginners: Runes, arrows, armours up to rune, dragonhide and blue mystic. Something everybody will recognize and know that it is useful.
• The shadows of particles has been improved. Please note that particles only cast shadows at higher shadow settings.
• Valuable drops (100k+) are now mentioned in your chatbox and received a looting glow. You cannot miss valuable drops.
• Level up graphics updated. They're now in more detail and level 99 displays a special one.
• Limpwurt roots can now be planted and farmed. Their seeds are dropped by Hill giant variants.
• Total bank value or per tab bank value is now shown in the title of your bank screen. This system is using Grand Exchange values if available else high alch values.
• Shenven can now assign Obsidian dragons.
• New players are now put into the Assistance chat by default.
• CTRL + C and CTRL + V now work. Pasting can only be used once every second to avoid massive spamming. It can also be used at the login screen to copy paste passwords from password managers. Copying only works when being online and copies the current chatbox input.
• Daily tasks interface now shows the rewards for their completion. There's now also a cash reward for completing daily tasks. This goes up to a maximum of 65-70k for level 90+ tasks. The minimum reward is 15k. This is supposed to help new players gain some cash by completing their daily tasks.
• The ::wiki command now supports search options. For example '::wiki Grand Exchange' will directly bring you to the appropriate wiki page.
• A bug at tormented demons was fixed where their recoil damage didn't take protection prayers into consideration. They'll no longer deflect more damage than you dealt to them.
• Catching chinchompas now adds 1-6 to your inventory. That results in an average of about 3 per catch.
• Chinchompa spawns north of Falador have been doubled. It'll now be easier to catch them in larger amounts.

Outlook
I thought it may be interesting to know what I'm currently working on or planning for the future? Let me know if this section is interesting and I'll keep doing it in future update notes.
I've created a way of generalizing all minigames, having the ability to put them into a minigame finder / minigame checker interface. That'd give you the opportunity to see who's playing what minigame and teleport there directly. I'm also looking into getting water reflections to work. Other than that, I'm browsing the Suggestions and Ideas sections to find nice additions to the game.

All the best,
Thomy



EDIT: All new Lunar teleports are messed up, because I typed a wrong id. Since they don't serve any real purpose, I'll patch them tomorrow!

I like every bit of this update.

This Jandar noob

Good job

Ty! Nice updates! Whipsout4arena!

nice updates man! but more content= more active players

Life of a cb 3 skiller:

Nice update! Totally hyped about the Empw-Wars 

Updates are sick! Looking forward to see them in game.

Everything seems pretty nice!

Duel Arena and Staking Limits
I've come to the conclusion that limiting stakes doesn't benefit us at all. It's just shifting problems or denying to actually deal with toxicity. I'm therefore removing all staking limits. The staff team will also act much stricter on offensive language from now on. Starting off with warnings and faster mutes, especially in clan chats.

Very good update, as I'm not staker myself, but that definitely should reduce the scamming of a middleman.

Emps-Wars
I've seen a lot of feedback on the forum and requests to bring this old minigame back. I'm not returning the exact old minigame, but imho an improved version of it. I've removed the top floors of both team's castles to make the actual boss fighting area larger. On top of the Zamorak castle you'll find Fareed and on top of the Saradomin castle the Ice queen. Their stats remain the same and both of them have a low defence level. This means, that also lower leveled players can deal damage to them. Moreover, the Ice queen's and Fareed's attacks scale with your maximum hitpoints level. This can reduce damage up to 90%! I've also spawned 3 Saradomin/Zamorak warriors on top of their appropriate castle. The capture the flag minigame wasn't removed, you can still steal flags to gain additional score for your team! The minigame ends if one of the team's boss dies or if more than 10 flags have been captured.

Like division66 said, I also am super hyped, can't wait to try it out, go nostalgia.

Broadcasting system
I've added a basic system that broadcasts messages across both worlds. They are disabled in all PvP zones to avoid other people from sniffing you out on good drops! Following in-game events will trigger a broadcast:

• Level 99 in a skill.
• Level 99 in all skills.
• 50M experience steps in a skill: 50M, 100M, 150M, 200M and 250M.
• Drops from a monster exceeding a Grand Exchange price of 5M.
• Untradeable drops that have a rarity of <= 1%. This is for rare collectibles.
• Players completing the tutorial.

This was something I was waiting for so long, thank you for updating this, simple but super awesome!

Other updates are great, it is seen that clearly community has had it's word in it, I want to say that thank you for listening our suggestions, these updates are just super awesome. Can't wait try all these out.


Best to you Thomy!

Nice.

Awesome updates, great that you brought back something of Emps-Scape !

This actually is a really good update with a lot of features, nice work Thomy!

• Total bank value or per tab bank value is now shown in the title of your bank screen. This system is using Grand Exchange values if available else high alch values.

Nice thanks thomy, i will help to fix any problems with this.

Well done.