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Jmod Rotten Potato

Discussion in 'RuneScape' started by Drama, Sep 22, 2011.

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    For those of you don't know what this is and never read the RuneScape forums, allow me to provide a little bit of copy/pasted information :).

    TL;DR version at the bottom.




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    In this image you can see some of the option choices that the item provides.

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    The rotten potato is an item which can only be obtained on accounts that belong to Jagex staff. These accounts are used by employees of Jagex for work related activities within RuneScape. Jagex staff accounts always begin with the word 'Mod' (with the exception of the 3 accounts 'Andrew', 'Paul' and 'Ian') and Jagex accounts always have a gold crown next to the text in-game chat, and gold coloured backgrounds on forum posts.

    The rotten potato is an item held in the inventory of a Jagex staff account, and it allows the staff member to undertake some short cuts within the game or to apply some special abilities which are not available to regular players. For those of you who may be interested - the item examine option is 'Yuk!'.

    Some of the abilities of the rotten potato are:

    - Ability to set a forum Avatar from any location
    - Teleport to locations
    - Heal all stats
    - Exclusion from random events
    - Ability to spawn monsters etc. for in-game events
    - Ability to obtain a quest cape without completing all quests
    - Banking options outside of a bank environment

    There are also a few other options, which are utilised for game testing and bug tracking.

    Jagex staff will use some of these options when using their accounts to interact with the community or lead and support in-game activities. It's important to remember that Jagex staff accounts can not upset the balance of the game, they are unable to trade in any way, offer assistance etc. Anything a J Mod account does is limited to that account only.

    The Rotten Potato item has been available for many years, but it has recently come to the attention of some players following an unfortunate incident in which a regular player was able to pickpocket a staff member and obtain the Rotten Potato on a regular account. We would like to be clear on 2 points here:

    1. The item can only be used by Jagex staff, even if it is on a regular account, the regular account can not apply any of the options the item gives - all a player can do is examine or drop the item

    2. We had put security measures in place to stop the item being pick pocketed but there was a slight gap in the security which meant that the item could be pick pocketed in a rare and unusual situation. We have of course, now plugged this gap.








    Basically Jmods can use this potato to do almost anything in RuneScape. A normal player or pmod with the potato will not be able to use it.


    There was once a problem with the potato in which case 1 jmod was pickpocketed in stealing creations and a player got the potato outside of the stealing creations game. Jmods can take any item in stealing creations =p. The server was soon rolled back and the player who stole the potato no longer has it.​
     
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