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A decade later, we get Kudos Island, huzzah, ! Acheron and Palingrad next year, then? Woo!

Looking forward to this. At least one quest (right?), plenty of exploration and hopefully some kind of archaeology minigame with cool rewards. I certainly am looking forward to this!

Just hope it doesn't suffer from the same mistakes as Menaphos; wanting too much, ending up watering down everything. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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21-May-2019 19:21:16

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Blackwing said:
Lord Drakan said:
Just hope it doesn't suffer from the same mistakes as Menaphos; wanting too much, ending up watering down everything.

That's my worry as well, because this feels like the kind of hyping that Jagex did for Menaphos, which turned out to be a beautiful city with a boring grind for gameplay. At the very least, I hope they scrapped the whole "we had to add a reputation system so that you wouldn't complete the whole content in just 1-2 days" mentality.

Kind of tentatively hoping for more collections though... Arc and Menaphos ones are fun, but: some of the birds/orokami/storm- & stoneberry seeds/gems/insects are too rare. It should be fun and not grindy. Requiring obscurely specific conditions is fine, but having to rely on pure luck or level 90+ stats is not.

Hoping for an extension of the kudos system to fill some more exhibits, too. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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21-May-2019 19:49:11

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Blackwing said:
Lord Drakan said:
Kind of tentatively hoping for more collections though... Arc and Menaphos ones are fun, but: some of the birds/orokami/storm- & stoneberry seeds/gems/insects are too rare. It should be fun and not grindy. Requiring obscurely specific conditions is fine, but having to rely on pure luck or level 90+ stats is not.

Ye, Arc collections felt more about exploration, which was fun, while Menaphos forced me to spend many hours using medium level training methods as a comped player, which was the opposite.

Well, insects (and gems) turned out not to be as bad as I had feared. Got the last six or seven insects within two hours. Suppose I was lucky with some; got both plover insects with three plovers.

But that last orokami...and that *damned* Pumpkin Limpkin. I really dislike Uncharted Isles, but that bird, may Zamorak eat it, just makes me loathe the Arc, even though it doesn't deserve that. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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21-May-2019 20:13:43

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Cinderlynn said:
Lord Drakan said:
A decade later, we get Kudos Island, huzzah, ! Acheron and Palingrad next year, then? Woo!

Looking forward to this. At least one quest (right?), plenty of exploration and hopefully some kind of archaeology minigame with cool rewards. I certainly am looking forward to this!

Just hope it doesn't suffer from the same mistakes as Menaphos; wanting too much, ending up watering down everything. get what you're saying but I'm hoping for Arponsandra next year!
Dear Guthix, has the gnome series been so neglected that even I forgot anout Arposandra? Ack. Though I'd be fine if it never became a big thing and just remained mainly a quest location. Same for Palingrad, really. But the rest of Acheron should be great. But let's start with Kudos for now. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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21-May-2019 20:31:20

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Jon Stryder said:
Not sure what the origins of this screenshot is (perhaps UrekMazino can enlighten us), but copying it here for reference as it may be relevant to the conversation:

UrekMazino said:
Actually, the name has been revealed.


This seems queer. Kerapac somehow bringing fossils back to live without necromancy is plausible. Kerapac making the island appear just now is not, since we know it's been around forever. Hence the Varrock Museum's interest in it, and the canal barge's being constructed.

Kerapac being called the 'new antagonist' worries me, though. Previously, we had Lucien, after whose death the Dragonkin (specifically the Necrosyrtes) took over as the new antagonist. Then we heard absolutely nothing from them as Sliske came on stage. Now after Sliske's exit it's suddenly Kerapac. What happened to the Sakirth, Sithaph and Strisath? What have they done except torch Edgeville and bits of Mos Le'Harmless?

If it's accurate, though, it seems the island will require Desperate Times to access, making its expedition Sixth Age. Hmm. 100 kudos not mentioned. This can't be good. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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23-May-2019 19:00:58 - Last edited on 23-May-2019 19:02:29 by Lord Drakan

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Dilbert2001 said:
Logically it doesn't need Kudos to go to Anachronia because it is not Kudos Island and Jagex clearly expressed the content is for all players including new players. New players don't have kudos.
It can't not be Kudos Island since you see in the trailer it involves the barge, and it's talked about in the recent Digsite rework. If it isn't Kudos Island, why is Varrock even involved...

And, well, it can't be for new players if it requires Desparate Times, which has a whopping requirement of three level 50s, including a members' skill. Getting 100 kudos is a lot easier (natural history quiz + cleaning finds is 78 and then 5 novice quests). Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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23-May-2019 19:55:56

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Dilbert2001 said:
Lord Drakan said:
Dilbert2001 said:
Logically it doesn't need Kudos to go to Anachronia because it is not Kudos Island and Jagex clearly expressed the content is for all players including new players. New players don't have kudos.
It can't not be Kudos Island since you see in the trailer it involves the barge, and it's talked about in the recent Digsite rework. If it isn't Kudos Island, why is Varrock even involved...

And, well, it can't be for new players if it requires Desparate Times, which has a whopping requirement of three level 50s, including a members' skill. Getting 100 kudos is a lot easier (natural history quiz + cleaning finds is 78 and then 5 novice quests).

Kudos Island was just what the players called it like when? At least 10+ years ago. I think Mod Mark probably had the idea of no longer made Kudos a requirements in 2012 when he changed its name to Fossil Island.

"Available for RuneScape members, the island’s ancient shores and deadly jungles

will be accessible to new, current and returning players alike

. Adventurers looking to follow the storyline over future updates require just three skills (Mining, Smithing, and Divination) to be level 50 or above, along with the completion of two quests: The Needle Skips and You Are It."

To me it sound like access to Anachronia is granted to new players (don't need kudos) but to follow the storyline further (quests, I believe) one will need level 50 in 3 skills.
If they completely retcon everything, they might as well not do it.

Since the barge is involved, though, I cannot imagine not having a Kudos requirement (100 is very very easy anyway), since the Varrock Museum only takes qualified archaeologists to the island, not just anyone. That's the entire premise... Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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23-May-2019 21:46:48

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27-May-2019 07:21:15

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Dilbert2001 said:
Lord Drakan said:
I give up. I'll just keep my trowel and specimen brush ready and pray.

Actually nothing to give up. Whatever name the new island is won't make any difference to the content and the entertainment it comes with.

We know there will be jungle, shores an dinosaurs. We also know there will be

new skilling activites

. That's already a very promising start since we know it will unlikely to be the same old, same old, boring and uninspiring wc, pickpocketing, fishing, rockslide trapping etc in Menaphos and the OSRS Fossil Island.

Whatever name the island is called doesn't matter much. It is the

content

which matters.
I don't care about the name; Kudos or Fossil Island is just the placeholder until the museum officially names it. I hope it's very similar to OSRS though, their island has super fun activities with an archaeology theme (of course the entire island should be about archaeology and exploration). And not similar to Menaphos. If it weren't for the insects, I'd not have touched any of those skill training things (and now that I am done with the insects, I shan't). Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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28-May-2019 07:20:54

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Mtx event in preparation...

No 100 Kudos required...

Goodbye excitement for this content. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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08-Jun-2019 09:32:48

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Draco Burnz said:
Jon Stryder said:


What is considered 'bad' varies from person to person.

For me, skilling for over 2 hours per day, every day of the event, to collect enough in-game currency (twigs, leaves, embers, tokens, whatever) to unlock all the rewards, where missing even a single day will dash your hopes of completing the event, would be 'Bad'.
Skilling for 30 minutes per day, in a much more forgiving event, not so much.

Where on that scale this new event will come, we have yet to see.

Uhh im sure you're still able to achieve everything even if you start on the last day.

That's how the other event have been at least.
Without buying MTX stuff or playing for an unhealthy amount, I've been unable to complete such "events" starting from the first day, with daily interaction... I absolutely loathe them and am very disheartened to see such a massive update like Fossil Island (or, at this point, just Island ) is preceded by one.

But as Jon said, let's get the thread back on track.

According to Mod Daze on the Tiwtter, the island won't be similar to OSRS's version (i.e. the originally intended version, as designed by Mod Mark and Mod Maz) but focus on Desperate Times instead. Personally I'm very upset by this... Also why does that quest get a sequel within a few months, while The Prisoner of Glouphrie and Elemental Workshop IV have been waiting for over eight years now... ;_; Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. Minigames & ninja fixes & achievement ideas!

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09-Jun-2019 09:02:26

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