Hello, and welcome to our 2018 November newsletter! Here are all the new announcements at this time:

Overview:
1. New ownership
2. New mods
3. Final replications
4. PKing referendums
5. What's next?

New Ownership

Now the torch has been passed, and I am taking over RSCRevolution, which are words I'd never have guessed I'd say when I joined as a noob years ago! I'll still be managing player-facing issues in addition to the new responsibilities, so any questions you would have directed to n0m should be directed to me instead. Aside from that, this doesn't change much for you as a player, since Kleio, n0m, Mod Pepsi and I will continue to run things as they have been. Anyone who was around this past Halloween event should be aware of what this team is capable of I'm beyond excited to step up and serve this community as best as I can.

New Moderators

-Mod Mason, who is the player Mason Rahl, from USA,
-Mod Scooby, who is the player Scooby23, from USA
-Mod Vinkie, who is the player Iron Vinkie, from the Netherlands
-Mod Wu, who is the player Shinobi, from United Kingdom,

Make sure to add these mods in-game!

Also, congratulations to Mod Mel who was promoted to senior moderator this Halloween.

Remember, moderating is a volunteer position and often a stressful/thankless one at that, so please give these new staff members a nice welcome! So what if you applied for mod, feel you are really qualified, but still didn't get in? Just because you didn't make it this time doesn't mean you don't have a chance next time, so keep doing whatever you've been doing! And if you haven't posted an application for consideration but would like to, please follow the template provided in the staff applications section.

Final Replications

Thanks to the efforts of the open-source RSC preservation community, and with a special thanks to our mods who dumped information while playing classic rscrevolution in its final days, we are finally closing in on full replication. By November 12th, RSCRevolution will exist as a faithful living memory of RSC content, except where it has been expanded on or improved by our team. We hope you will meet us on the Gnomeball pitch when the big day comes, and maybe even teleport out with a gnomeball of your very own!

The other remaining replications going live next week include gnome tasks, gnome food and drinks; missing stews, curries, kebabs and other miscellaneous foods; and fishing caskets, oysters, and pearl tipped bolts.

PKing referendums

On one hand we will look at common barriers to participation. Two related concerns are: 1) new players with one or few characters who are interested in PKing, but can't participate. Compared to established PKers who share vast lists of characters, newer players have a relatively higher cost of PKing. This especially concerns time required to train multiple builds and risk. And 2), players who can only PK on one character getting heavily out-valued by players who can fight them on multiple characters.

On the other hand, we'll look at design flaws with existing PKing that affects seasoned PKers every day: hotspot locations, Team Fort requirements, team combat, and unsatisfactory rules and boundaries.

We will continue to comb your suggestions and debate the best ones before putting them to a simple poll on the front page. We believe the wilderness is for the PKers, so let's have PKers help decide what kind of wilderness we should be fighting in. And remember, no matter your preferences, the common goal is to get as many people as possible player killing in the wilderness.

The first of these PK referendums: "Should we limit a PKer from using multiple of their own characters to attack the same target?", so pick the solution that you feel best solves the issue. (As usual, repeat voting attempting to artificially tip the scales will be punished.)

Poll discussion goes here.

What's next?

You've also seen and hopefully earned the amazing skeleton suit from this past Halloween (if not, there's always next year). So be on the lookout for regular additions of new items and equipment!

And finally, even though there's still only a couple months left in 2018, there's even more content and activities coming your way. Aside from a minor event this coming Thanksgiving, players should ready themselves for the major holiday event this Christmas season complete with a limited-time quest, cooperative boss fight minigame, and a new cosmetic that you'll get to earn for keeps!

As for next year, sky's the limit.

Conclusion

See you in game,

Billy, Kleio, Mod Pepsi, and RSCRevolution Staff