Update:13-07-24

Store items in your large capacity bank

Welcome back. We are excited to be releasing some important new features which have been in development over the last couple of weeks. Finally after nearly 9 months of filling up your inventory, you can store items in your Bank found in Town Hubs. We are looking for feedback on any issues you run into with the Adventuring with Friends feature which rewards players for exploring together.

We will now start work on two significant features; Quests and Town Donations. These features are integral to Realm's gameplay loop and will precede the upcoming combat skills which we hope will start to be released in August. We intend to release Quests by the end of July.

Finally due to the time it will take to release quests, we will instead be focusing on ensuring the Wiki is up-to-date and contains all the important information relating to the features we have been releasing this year. We are aware it has fallen behind but hope to put it back into our continuous update pattern as part of the Quest update.

As always, thank you for testing!

New Features

The Bank

The Bank is a new area found within the town hub (the button to access it is at the top right of the listings). Inside the bank you may deposit items from your inventory and withdraw them by tapping on the items within the menus. The Bank starts with 20 available slots for items. Unlike your inventory, the Bank can hold an unlimited amount of any stackable items within a slot. For example, in your inventory, you can hold up to 50 pine logs in a single stack; the Bank can hold an unlimited amount of pine logs within it stack. The number of Bank slots can be upgraded for coins. Four additional slots can be purchased for 500 coins. This then increases by 250 coins every future purchase. The Bank can be upgraded to a maximum of 100 slots.

Adventuring with Friends

Adventuring with friends is an important aspect of Realms and we want to start promoting it within our closed testing. You can now receive a 5% bonus to the amount of experienced obtained from skilling and combat (NYI) when a online friend is actively playing nearby. A symbol will appear within an encounter where you are receiving bonus experience. Currently the area at which this bonus is active is larger than planned. We will be shrinking this in the near future after initial feedback.

Gift System

The gift system is a new messaging service added to the game where the Development Team, NPCs, and Support may send you messages containing items. This process enables us to provide rewards for players, gift special items for testing, or return lost or deleted items. Tapping on a item in the message will place the attached item into your inventory. You can access your gifts from the top left of your character window. We will be testing this system by gifting items to active players over the coming week.

Change Log

• Added Item Bank to Town Hub:
  • Players start with 20 slots available to store items from their inventory.
  • Four additional slots can be purchased for 500 coins. This then increases by 250 coins every future purchase.
  • Banks are currently maxed out at 100 slots.
• Added adventuring with friends benefits:
  • Players will now receive 5% bonus experience when gathering resources or slaying monsters with friends.
  • A symbol will appear within the encounter when friends are nearby to the player and will gain the bonus experience.
  • The loot window now shows the extra experience gained from the benifit.
• Added Gift / Reward system:
  • Gifts can be found within the left hand corner of the Character Window.
  • Gifts can contain items from the Development Team, NPCs, or from Support.
  • Tapping on an item in the gift message will add it to the player's inventory.
• Reduced time between nearby player updates from 10s to 5s.
• Mining node entries have been visually reduced in size by 20%.
• Fixed an issue with Well of Wishes POIs being infinitely intractable (Thank you Crazymage).

Issues and Hotfixes

Last Updated	Issues Raised	Current Progress	Status
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Testing Notes

• We are looking for feedback on the banking system and the cost to upgrade the capacity of the bank.
• We are looking for feedback on the feel of the latency on Friend updates.
• We are looking for feedback on the success of bonus experience.