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+ This week in 2009scape, we are looking at a new staff member, Mico, to our team as our moderator.
+ They will be assisting the developers with community issues to let developer solely focus on developing 2009scape.
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+ This has not been decided without some serious thought and feedback from very respected members of the community and of the project.
+ Over the next couple of months, some big changes are coming to the XP rates we offer. I do want to preface this with the fact that this is not a wipe.
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+ All 10x and 20x accounts will have their experience squashed down to the 5x equivalent in 2 months' time. (10/4/2021)
+ Squished accounts will not be eligible for the hall of fame.
+ Squished accounts will be eligible to compete on the highscores.
+ Squished accounts will keep all items and quests.
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+ Why are we making this change?
+ I, along with several other members of the community and staff, feel that these extremely high XP rates are ultimately harmful to the community and the game.
+ My observations over the last few months have confirmed this. There is a general correlation between higher xp rates sticking around for the least amount of
+ time. In other words, people who play on these very high rates tend to leave after a very short amount of time, usually because they accomplish all the goals
+ they set for themselves relatively easily. For this reason, along with an imbalance in who can take hold of the resource market based on how quickly they can
+ level and gather those resources, has brought us to the conclusion that removing these absurdly high rates is in the best interest of the game.
+ We have thought long and hard about what the best approach to this problem would be, and this is what we have come up with. It is my hope that 2 months
+ will be more than adequate for people to get their accounts into a position where they will not be harmed nearly as much by the squash of the XP, and I also
+ hope it will allow many to keep their 99s. My interests always lie with what I believe is best for the long term health of the project.
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+ I genuinely and deeply appreciate all of you and I hope I was able to reach an agreeable solution to this problem.
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+ As we are working on some bigger updates behind the scenes here are the list of updates for this week. Worth the wait for future
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+ - The ability to create new 10x and 20x accounts was removed today.
+ - Updated client with new config settings
+ - Corrected combat level formula
+ - Removed random message when talking to Simon Templeton. Presumably was used for debugging purposes when adding the authentic Sceptre dialogue.
+ - Fixed potential bug with boostable stats
+ - Fixed an exploit related to farming
+ - Made penguin spying infallible
+ - Fixed bug with osman's dialogue
+ - Fixed issue where tree spirit wouldn't spawn if your combat level was >100 due to index out of range exception.
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