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SlR
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Nice one Dilbert, I'm still crossing my fingers for a beret, I think I'm on 2k pumpkins also... Bob says:
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30-Oct-2023 11:29:27

Kat Stryke

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Dilbert2001 said :
^^

"the number of pumpkins available to smash in P2P is in fact much greater - or highly inflated - when compared to what is available to free players."


So you admitted free players get rewards from pumpkins in RS3, compared to free players don't get anything from some OSRS events like DMM, Leagues.

In RS3, members get more benefits than free players, but their events and money making methods are far more favorable to free players than OSRS. That's the point we have been discussing. Thank you for justifying my discussion with the other players like H I L D A.
Dude, your imagination is running wild again. You will need to use Soul Surge to catch it. :P

Where in the hell do you see me mention OSRS in any of my prior posts? That is clearly false. I've been putting out fire with gasoline! ^_^

Kat's Diary

31-Oct-2023 19:34:17

Dilbert2001
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Kat Stryke said :
Dilbert2001 said :
^^

"the number of pumpkins available to smash in P2P is in fact much greater - or highly inflated - when compared to what is available to free players."


So you admitted free players get rewards from pumpkins in RS3, compared to free players don't get anything from some OSRS events like DMM, Leagues.

In RS3, members get more benefits than free players, but their events and money making methods are far more favorable to free players than OSRS. That's the point we have been discussing. Thank you for justifying my discussion with the other players like H I L D A.
Dude, your imagination is running wild again. You will need to use Soul Surge to catch it. :P

Where in the hell do you see me mention OSRS in any of my prior posts? That is clearly false.

Totally wrong, as at least SLR just showed us they got close to 2k pumpkins too:

" I think I'm on 2k pumpkins also"


Do you have to mention OSRS for it to mean a thing? We don't need you to mention OSRS for everyone to know Jagex have members only events in games like OSRS where free players likely you are totally shut out. There are Wikis to inform us. Vast majority of games with subscriptions have events not fully available to free players too. Why single out RS3?

02-Nov-2023 16:29:39 - Last edited on 02-Nov-2023 17:17:14 by Dilbert2001

Roddy Piper
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I actually liked the event. Once they made the pumpkins bigger and added oddments, it was a lot more fun and rewarding. I cleaned out the oddments store and got the wraith walk.

I won an orange mask from smashing events and I got the surge and dive animations for a good price, won another later on.

Fort Forinthry was most fun, Draynor was challenging and rewarding. IDK what happened at UM, they got budget issues. :p

07-Nov-2023 12:34:43

Dilbert2001
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To me (at least), I am just happy I can get every old Halloween event untradeable items previously locked behind the H'Oddments Store AND we had very few ways to obtain H'Oddments from participating in the limited time Halloween Events.

I am supper happy my goal of getting every one of such old Halloween H'oddments Store now is achieved rather cozily just doing everything I used to do normally as well as smashing a few pumpkins for like 30 minutes total actual time a day.

I'll say some lore based Halloween event content will be nice going forward. I don't mind pumpkin parties and new such initiatives returning in the future, but let the stories of the Horsemen and the Dragnor Manor bunch continue.

07-Nov-2023 17:23:32

Kat Stryke

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Dilbert2001 said :
Kat Stryke said :
Dilbert2001 said :
^^

"the number of pumpkins available to smash in P2P is in fact much greater - or highly inflated - when compared to what is available to free players."


So you admitted free players get rewards from pumpkins in RS3, compared to free players don't get anything from some OSRS events like DMM, Leagues.

In RS3, members get more benefits than free players, but their events and money making methods are far more favorable to free players than OSRS. That's the point we have been discussing. Thank you for justifying my discussion with the other players like H I L D A.
Dude, your imagination is running wild again. You will need to use Soul Surge to catch it. :P

Where in the hell do you see me mention OSRS in any of my prior posts? That is clearly false.

Totally wrong, as at least SLR just showed us they got close to 2k pumpkins too:

" I think I'm on 2k pumpkins also"


Do you have to mention OSRS for it to mean a thing? We don't need you to mention OSRS for everyone to know Jagex have members only events in games like OSRS where free players likely you are totally shut out. There are Wikis to inform us. Vast majority of games with subscriptions have events not fully available to free players too. Why single out RS3?
Quit squirming. You said I brought up that game - a game I have never played, and have no interest in. You lied, and I am calling you out for it.

Why single out RS3? Easy: Because it is THE game I currently play, and because it is the main version of the game.

Is it within your ability to actually stay on-topic? Here is what that looks like:

I did not enjoy the Halloween event this year, if you even want to call it an "event". The rewards were mostly garbage, and the pumpkin spawns (rare as they were) all too often were annoying, not festive. I've been putting out fire with gasoline! ^_^

Kat's Diary

07-Nov-2023 18:18:45

Dilbert2001
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Dilbert2001

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^^
We have already gone through the part you enjoy this year's Halloween Event or not. The comments from me and the other user I quoted were on the topic of how easy it is to get pumpkins.

If you are free to play, please don't use your non-existent experience to tell we need Soul Surge and such to get high pumpkin smash count. We don't need that at all. All members who participated in the event can easily tell you that. In fact, pumpkins were hidden behind objects we couldn't surge through like doors, trees, etc.

07-Nov-2023 19:14:35

Mel 624
Dec Member 2021

Mel 624

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They seriously need to stop making time limited activities that require large groups of players to gather in a single area. It's one thing to have a temporary AFK skilling area that players can use throughout an event but I specifically mean things like the pumpkin parties and the giant butterfly. It's really laggy in ways that undermine some players' ability to participate/get their fair share of rewards. You don't want people freezing and crashing on content that hinges on clicking things fast within a limited period of time on specific times of the day.

Because they can end early if players are fast, it also leads to issues with world hopping as players try to doubledip rewards on other worlds. For the pumpkin parties, it would've been better to keep them going the full 5 minutes regardless of group progress. This also means players don't get screwed over if they don't make it to the area until the start only to either barely get a pumpkin or fall just short of reaching one because the party was unusually short.

I found that all the locations had some kind of downside to them. You pretty much have to turn roofs off so they don't get in the way of finding pumpkins inside buildings, which is especially an issue for Draynor. Draynor's biggest problem is the doors, since a number of pumpkins were in buildings and near the doors. If someone closed the door, it would interrupt pathing and cost you time even if you were quick to notice. Because of the lag and number of players, you'd risk ending up with multiple people opening/losing the doors trying to catch up to what was going on. This is in pretty stark contrast to the lack of closable doors in Um and the fort.


The big issue for the fort was how many of the pumpkins were next to interactable objects. You risked cutting trees, crossing into the grove, climbing a ladder or ending up in the stonecutter interface if you were misclicked trying to get the pumpkins. It was really annoying. How to block a forum user

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07-Nov-2023 22:18:25

Dilbert2001
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Sudowoodoz said :
My gripe is, it is meant to scale off players correct? Then why is it, nobody, not even the most populated servers can beat any of the locations for the event? It is tuned far too high, not enough time is given and City of Um event is far too spread out. And on top of that, not that I have enough H'Oddments to warrant anything, but the shop is also not available.

Thought and execution on this one are pretty poor. Why release an untested, unfinished product?

EDIT: I find it ridiculously hilarious that anyone would have thought that 35000 H'Oddments (the top buyable prize in that store according to post) is remotely achievable from a once in a while pumpkin spawn that may or MAY NOT give you 5 H'Oddments at a time for a two week event? I imagine most people are gonna be hard pressed to achieve buying some of the cheapest items on the list.

The level of buffoonery in that thought process has got me rolling.

I got over 10 pumpkins per party. My highest smash count was 21. The Um party is the worst with like 7 or 8 pumpkin per party, but all the 2 are extremely easy.

07-Nov-2023 22:23:26

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