New clan event: Skilling party
- Requires a new type of currency to enter - skilling tickets. Similar to chests, these can be found whilst skilling and are dropped at a slightly higher drop rate than exceptional chests. They are automatically submitted to your clan's collection as you receive them.
- You can create a party for a skill when you have at least 1 ticket for that skill. If you have multiple, they'll all be used and rewards will scale accordingly.
- Tickets cap at 10 per skill to prevent funnelling.
- No cooldowns or daily limits.
- Experience is about half of what you get from other skilling events per ticket.
- Loot:
- Resources based on your clan's level in used skill.
- 1% chance to receive a pet per ticket.
- 2% chance to receive skilling gloves per used ticket. More on skilling gloves below.
- Loot is given to everyone in the clan when the event is completed, not just participants. Non-participating members can claim their loot via the bag icon in the clan front page.
New item type: Skilling gloves
- For gathering and crafting skills, skilling gloves provide a 5% chance to double your loot (does not grant extra experience) when completing tasks. This stacks with existing mechanics, so if you, for example, proc "The Fisherman" upgrade to double your fish, skilling gloves will potentially double the already doubled fish.
- As Agility doesn't produce items, Agility gloves work differently. When worn, you'll have a chance to receive random boss keys instead of chests whilst doing any skill:
- 75% chance to receive a key instead of common chests.
- 50% chance to receive a key instead of rare chests.
- 25% chance to receive a key instead of exceptional chests.
New clan upgrade: Ways of the Genie
- Unlocking it permanently raises Otherworldly Essence's effect from 30% to 72% for all clan members.
- Costs 250k clan credits.
- Requires your clan to have used a total of at least 1,000 skilling tickets.
Other
- The inventory space token activation cap was raised from 5 to 10, bringing in 150 new inventory slots for use.
- When attempting to leave a clan as GIM, the confirmation popup now has a 15-second timer until the confirm button can be pressed. Kicking players has the same functionality.
Bug fixes & tweaks - some of these already went live as minor patches
- Made some improvements to data initialization on game startup. Hopefully, some lower-end devices that weren't able to load the game before will be able to play now as well.
- Fixed some issues in the Group Ironman clan standings leaderboard tab.
- Fixed about a dozen texts in the game not being localized correctly.
- Fixed the "Kronos who?" upgrade requiring only a total of 50 Valley of the Gods kills rather than needing to have killed each of them at least 50 times.
- Fixed an issue where if you DM'd a user after creating a party chat and had the DM chat active when the party chat dissolved, you wouldn't be able to open any other channels until closing the DM chat.
- Attempting to enter Reckoning of the Gods now specifies that you need 25 kills in the Valley of the Gods rather than general boss kills.
- Fixed an issue with new skilling equipment not being sorted as such when auto-sorting your inventory.
- The X button in the confirmation popup now acts as a background click.
- Fixed offline Exterminating not awarding quest kills as it should've.
- Block icon in raids was using the wrong icon, fixed.
- Fixed an issue with retrieving clan logs.
- Added Exterminating to leaderboard Standings pages.
Valentine's event
The event will start on the 14th of February at 9AM UTC. This event normally lasts for a week, but due to our Christmas event ending prematurely, I've set this one to run for 2 weeks. Additionally, as the Christmas event ended with 10B still in the supply, I'll be sneakily donating that amount to this event once it starts.