Planet FunOrb

Hello all,

Some of you might have noticed we have had a few server issues earlier today. This seems to have been caused by a problem at one of our hosting facilities. The problem is now rectified (I am reliably told) but please accept my apologies for the issues this may have caused you and I hope it didn’t spoil your gaming too much.

I also wanted to update you all on some other server changes we are working on. I can’t give you details as yet as it involves a back end system we will be updating later in August. This update affects all of Jagex, not just FunOrb so it’s fairly complex. We’ve already updated some of the games to be able to accommodate the change but it’s not without its teething troubles.

Now, we are not certain yet, but we think this change may be causing what you perceive as “lag” in Arcanists. I want to be clear, we are not sure about this. There is a lot of work being done by Mod Thomas to track this down right now. You might have noticed that we’ve tried to spread the population on Arcanists to more servers. This is because the problem is one of “load” rather than “lag”. I’m hopeful that we will have this issue resolved later this week, but I wanted to let you know that we are aware of it, we do take it seriously and we are working to fix the problem.

Thanks, and have fun.

Mod Korpz.

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Hi all,
We’ve deployed a couple of updates to Kickabout over the last few days. Most noticeable will be the goalkeeper’s AI tweaks, which aim to reduce the number of consistently repeatable goal-scoring patterns in the game. He may receive further changes in future but in general I’m very happy with him, despite the amount of anti-keeper feedback. As a rule: The quality of his keeping reflects the quality ofyour defence — he will eventually fumble the ball if you keep allowing the opponent to take shots at him.
Iain is also working on getting The Ultimate achievement behaving as designed. He’s reviewing accounts at the moment to remove it from players who haven’t yet earned it. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

As for other updates: F2P users should see trinkets blurred out on player’s stat sheets, and are warned before buying a player at auction that they can’t use his trinkets. Corruption problems with a couple of accounts (resulting from repeatedly purchasing one type of player in the offline shop) should have been cleaned up and the shop should now work correctly for those users. Scenery has been rearranged on all Tier 3 pitches so it can’t be overlapped by the ball. The WASD icons in the tutorial are now rendered above the cones, rather than beneath them.

Fascinating stuff, huh? 

- MZ

TL;DR

• Goalkeeper has been made to defend based on your defense.
• I believe this means rebounding (Kick, have goal keeper dive, kick in goal) is done.
• Free Players are now warned about buying teamates with trinkets.
• Corruption issues fixed
• Tutorial changed.
• Fascinating Stuff