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Behind the Scenes Invention vs Elf City
Starting this month you vote for the content you want to see as the team give the power to the players.
Our first power to the player poll starts very soon and it's a big one.
What do you want the team to work on the invention skill or the Elven city?
It's a big decision to make and its up to the community to make it.
There's loads to think about when choosing and to give you a hand
Mods Mark and Dean each have sixty seconds to tell us how your choice will change Runescape.
Mod Marks up first and he's been getting worked up at the very thought of the new skill, invention.
It's a brand new skill! It's exciting; there's lots to do and lots of reasons to train it!
Imagine a device, powered by divine energies and new stuff like sulphur, where you tip in your raw materials and it can grind for you!
There are existing items like turning ore into bars but also new things like making explosives or lightning conductors.
You're a medieval style mad scientist, or a crazy Greek philosopher or alchemist, manipulating raw energy.
You'll be able to find new rare plans and earn inspiration to make new gear marvelous items of wonder.
You'll also be able to customise this new gear visually and make it unique for you and your play style with your own name on it.
These items become even more unique with skill and combat equipment leveling up with you,
growing and changing depending on how you use them, almost developing their own personalities.
It's linked to the existing NPC technologies that you see in quests and also the godless,
and ultimately gives the population of RuneScape their best possible defense against the gods if everything turns nasty.
Bringing the elven city to life is something that we in the development Team are really excited about working on
and if you vote for it, Priffdinnas will be one of the most stunning updates of the year.
The elven city will be a key location for mid to high level players with new training areas and new ways to train skills
including learning the art of crystal singing to craft items from crystal seeds.
We'll have guild like areas, shops and new combat encounters and all with an Elven twist.
We want to remain true to the existing lore of the area, so you'll get to see the Tower of Voices, The Great Library and the Eight Towers to name but a few.
Of course, the awakening of the city wouldn't be complete without a quest.
And so close to release of the elven city, there'll be a story that'll see you continuing your adventure deep into the Elven lands.
The shape of the elven city update will be guided by you with key decisions up for the vote throughout the development.
Whether you're a Quester, a skiller or a killer; we've got you covered.
This year, you have the chance to make Priffdinnas, the elven city, a reality.
Hmm, pretty strong cases for both the Elf City and the Invention skill there.
Choosing the content you want to see in game maybe tough but fortunately, voting for your favourite is easy peasy.
If you're a Runescape member, log in to game, go to your community tab and click on vote now.
At any one time, there'll be several polls running at once so choose the one you want to vote on and then make your choice.
You can then see how the voting is going and if you want to, switch your vote.
You get to change the shape of Runescape forever with this poll
and so it's open for a month to give you plenty of time to campaign for the content you want to see in Runescape.
Good luck and get voting.
And the first polls launch next week.
If you've got a question for Behind the Scenes about Power to the Players or any of RuneScape's updates then we want to hear from you so get in touch.