06-Dec-2011 - Loyalty Programme - Batch 3 & Chrome Goggles

Mike · **Posted:** December 6th, 2011, 3:31 pm

RuneScape.com wrote:

Loyalty Programme - Batch 3

Today sees the release of our first tier 4 aura, a range of new combat auras with some amazing visual effects, and some excellent choices for those pursuing a peaceful path. There’s something to suit every loyalty point balance so, if you haven’t already, sign up to our Members Loyalty Programme now!

Auras...

First up is our first tier 4 aura: Aegis. It’s our priciest aura at 84,000 points, but it’s accordingly powerful, reducing damage taken by a percentage based upon your Defence level. The Aegis effect lasts for 30 minutes, or until it has absorbed an amount of damage also determined by your Defence level.This affects all damage types and stacks with armour, making you a burly bastion of resilience in the hairiest of combat situations.

The Salvation and Corruption auras both offer increased Prayer XP and a means of prayer point recovery. While the effects of these auras are identical, visually they’re very different, bestowing you with angelic or demonic wings depending on your chosen version.

The Ancestor Spirit aura gives you a chance that, when you’re struck in combat, the ghostly forms of your forebears will return to wreak vengeance upon your assailant with a retaliatory attack. This works in both PvP and PvE.

The Dark Magic aura is sure to become a favourite among magic-users everywhere, as it has a chance to add an additional damage-over-time effect to any direct-damage spell. Again, this works in PvP and PvE.

Fight fans will also enjoy the Berserker aura which gives an Attack and Strength boost for a short time, and the Regeneration aura, which increases life point regeneration.

There are some new options for skillers, too: There’s an all-new Greenfingers aura for farmers, which prevents crops from becoming diseased and gives a percentage chance for increased crop yield. Hunters among you will enjoy the Tracker aura, which increases your chance of successfully trapping hunting targets.

On top of all this, we’ve added new tiers to many of the auras already available, including Knock-Out, Call of the Sea, Five-Finger Discount, and many more.

Click here for full details of available auras, including durations, cooldowns and loyalty point costs.

Emotes...

There are now eight new emotes to choose from, at a range of loyalty point prices to suit everyone. Ever felt the need to express your irrepressible mirth by rising on the seismic tide of a Lolcano? Perhaps, instead, you’d prefer to crescendo malevolently into an Evil Laugh. These, and more, are now available from Xuan’s store.

...And Much More!

There are four exotic new costumes available, each in a range of colours. Whether you’re looking to style yourself as a Colonist, an Aztec, a Musketeer or a Highlander, there’s a choice for every fancy-dress party or period re-enactment. Feel free to visit our costumes page for a preview before you choose!

We’ve added some new titles too, including Prince/Princess, Archon and The Awesome.

Finally, there are several new re-colouring options, as well as the option to change the transformation bestowed by the ring of stone.

Full details of the rewards offered as part of the Loyalty Programme can be found here.

Improvements

There’s little that can’t be accomplished with some hard capital and a sturdy set of tools, and with this foundation in mind we’ve introduced some much-requested usability improvements in the Money Pouch and Tool Belt.

At the bottom of the mini-map interface, you’ll notice a small icon depicting a pile of coins. From now on, coins can be stored here rather than in your inventory, if you would prefer. You can right-click coins to add them to the money pouch from your inventory. Remember that coins are safe from being dropped on death unless they are in your inventory when you die in the Wilderness.

The tool belt icon can be found in the bottom right of your equipped inventory interface. Most tools can be added to this belt, so they can be used whenever you need them without taking up inventory space.

To add a tool to the belt, right-click on it from your inventory. For certain tools, such as pickaxes and hatchets, only a bronze item can be stored. While the tool belt won’t replace your shiny dragon gear, it is great for performing varied skilling tasks on the fly. We’ll be adding functionality to this in the future, including support for Dungeoneering.

Last, but not least, we’ve given all members 30 extra bank spaces!

Mod Raven, Mod Avatar & Mod Srowley

In Other News...
The Thanksgiving event has now ended and is no longer accessible in-game.
The armour from the new Polypore Dungeon now lasts about 3x longer before degrading; to balance this, the slash defence of the ganodermic poncho has been reduced. The polypore staff and stick have had their melee stats removed, so they no longer have an Attack requirement.

RuneScape.com wrote:

Exclusive Goggles only in Chrome

Download Google Chrome here to receive a pair of exclusive goggles in this limited-time offer!

We’ve teamed up with Google to bring Chrome users a set of exclusive goggles to wear in-game. Whether you’re looking to style yourself as an eccentric engineer or to spruce up your forum avatar, these are a sartorially sound choice of headgear.

Google Chrome is a great choice for RuneScape players looking for a browser that’s speedy, secure and simple to use; it’s already the browser of choice for 26% of our users, and is used right here in the Jagex office. For a limited time, those who choose to log in using Google Chrome will receive a pair of these prismatic marvels as a free gift.

The goggles are available to free players and members alike. If you’re an existing Chrome devotee, you need only to log in and the goggles will be deposited into your bank. If you don’t currently have Chrome installed, you can download it for free here.

This spectrum-spanning set of eyewear is only available for a limited time and isn’t tradable, so be sure to grab your goggles while you can!

For further details, see our Chrome Goggles FAQ.

Once you have your goggles, why not enter our free competition for a chance to win £30 of Jagex Store vouchers?

Mod Nexus

Adbot · **Posted:** December 6th, 2011, 3:31 pm

hummerwar921 · **Posted:** December 6th, 2011, 4:25 pm

It's official, Jagex is whoring out their fanbase to other companies for money.

Shane · **Posted:** December 6th, 2011, 5:17 pm

hummerwar921 wrote:

It's official, Jagex is whoring out their fanbase to other companies for money.

How? It makes sense from the economics of a business, I love the idea. Also how are they "whoring out heir fanbase" when a user needs to actively decide on their own to install Chrome? Chrome is a great browser, this shows Jagex knows this. What's wrong with wanting to promote decent web standards and a fast browsing experience in return for a bit of money (probably, though we can't know for sure what Jagex is getting)? It's also good for the player since they receive an item to show they took part in the promotion along with a better browser. Not to mention that most of the people reading that could be using Internet Explorer or some other inferior variant. Jagex is doing the community a favour.

Win win for all.

Edit: I'd also like to highlight this from the FAQ:

RSOF wrote:

”What’s next? McDonald’s in Varrock?!"

Mod Nexus: Well, you’d have to speak to the master Farmer in Draynor about that! Seriously though, we have no intention of putting soft drink adverts into the bars throughout RuneScape or agility courses sponsored by athletics companies. Your browser is a separate entity and doesn’t affect the immersion and gameplay that you’d expect in a game set in a magical/medieval time!

I think this whole anti-corporate thing is needless worry. The points about why are also addressed in the mentioned FAQ.

Warren · **Posted:** December 6th, 2011, 6:08 pm

I don't like the loyalty program, if I'm paying to play I'd like to pay for things to do and be rewarded from. So pretty annoying for another batch.

And the chrome thing is kind of whoring out the fanbase. They're handing their players over to Google, and rewarding only those who choose to continue down the path. The good thing is at least Chrome was the one who bought us for the most, rather than a really bad browser. I wonder if you can play rs in Chrome on Mac without it telling you it's not compatible now XD
But it's about not promoting good web standards. Jagex would do the same promotion with IE6 as soon as the money was offered.

zant · **Posted:** December 7th, 2011, 2:23 pm

I like them supporting chrome, but sadly I cannot get the goggles because I cannot use chrome. As much as I want to, I cannot because my laptop is a school laptop and has software restriction so I cannot install Chrome....sigh

Priss · **Posted:** December 7th, 2011, 3:00 pm

On another note... Tool Belt and Money Pouch are excellent ideas.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 7th, 2011, 3:00 pm

Jeki · **Posted:** December 7th, 2011, 11:39 pm

The Money pouch thing is annoying. Everything you withdraw money it goes inside & you can't even put a d pick inside the toolbelt. I'm not sure if they overlooked that or didn't want to add it.

Ranging God · **Posted:** December 8th, 2011, 12:04 pm

I actually think the goggles are pretty neat. It does seem to be medievalish

Lord Rickles · **Posted:** December 8th, 2011, 5:10 pm

I think the Chrome support is a good move. Heck, I think corporate sponsors in F2P is a good idea! Anything to get rid of banners and allowing Jagex some sort of say in the ads that are shown. Why not?

The money pouch and toolbelt is pretty awesome. There is some oversight on the toolbelt though. This effectively nerfs cast nets that are wield-able and wield-able harpoons, which were decent rewards from quests and skill leveling. I'm sure they will make changes, add some items to it, and possibly offer certain item slots as rewards from quests/tasks/etc. It wasn't quite what I was thinking of, like being able to wear different types of belts for different tasks or getting better belts as drops, but it will do.

Now I will gripe. It makes sense that Jagex would come out with an aura that increased prayer exp after I train from 87 to 92 prayer... -.-

Sxe Ketchup · **Posted:** December 14th, 2011, 8:10 pm

I have my red slayer helm, and it's actually red...compared to the other items you can dye, the red is more of a pink.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** December 15th, 2011, 5:49 am

Warren wrote:

I don't like the loyalty program, if I'm paying to play I'd like to pay for things to do and be rewarded from. So pretty annoying for another batch.

And the chrome thing is kind of whoring out the fanbase. They're handing their players over to Google, and rewarding only those who choose to continue down the path. The good thing is at least Chrome was the one who bought us for the most, rather than a really bad browser. I wonder if you can play rs in Chrome on Mac without it telling you it's not compatible now XD
But it's about not promoting good web standards. Jagex would do the same promotion with IE6 as soon as the money was offered.

Exactly. It's whoring out the fanbase. They'd have sold out to the highest bidder it just happens to be Google cause there making a big push in that direction right now.

The loyalty program i condemned the moment they brought it in. All it's there for is to encourage people not to cancel membership if there taking a break cause they'll lose there perks. The fact is you pay for a subscription why the hell are they hiding content behind yet another wall.

It all makse business sense. They'll rake in the money. But it ruins there image and it'll damage them long term.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

I downloaded Chrome just to get the goggles. Then uninstalled.