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Now, is -any- of that possible without dramatically scaling up the map in EITHER game?

I don't think so.

In summation, Sailing in Old School's positives are that it truly is a Utility Skill (which is what the community actually voted for in an earlier round of polling that was meant to guide Jagex's initial pitch. Shamanism for example, is a dual gather/production skill) and that it opens up the possibilities for Jagex to once again expand the world of their most successful version of the game lately, which, I would think markets itself quite well. The "meme-status" of the skill would also appeal to older lapsed players who probably still might fondly remember Sailing being bandied about in the past.

The negatives? This is a project the Old School team is going to need to be meticulous with, and the community will need to be just as patient if not more so. It's also the most ambitious pitch out of the three (or it has to be if it's going to have any chance of making it out of refinement.) Finally, Jagex would need to make the commitment to expanding the ocean ways and may even need to push its tech to the limits to create the space the skill will take place in as one that is as multi-faceted as possible, and they may need to do it in a way that doesn't teleport players away from one another -or- provide so obvious a transition that training the skill feels like an obvious departure from the rest of RuneScape's experience.

This is a daunting endeavor. I think the payoff is potentially there, but I don't see them making an end of 2023 release - at all. Nor should they even think about that in the first place if they want to even remotely get this thing right.
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Dilbert2001
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What OSRS does and fail doesn't bother RS3 at all as the two games have very different objectives. RS3 aims for another 20 years and OSRS's ship is just drifting aimlessly day to day.

We know RS3 is aiming for remastering from all sources like Mod Pips's interview with MCV/Develop magazine, the Runescape the first 20 years book, various RS3 Jmods interviews with other magazines like Forbes etc.

They are taking what we have in RS3 and remastering them. When RS3 released POP, Mod Mark even sang in a musical that "Sailing would not easy". Sailing is a minigame and manifested as a minigame in RS3 because they learned from the poor reception Dungeoneering the minigame pretended to be a skill.

Sailing as a major content in an MMORPG is poor concept to begin with. Realistically we don't see many MMORPGs emphasizing sailing. Among the few based on sailing, 90% of them have already gone out of business. The remaining couple like Black Desert only deploy sailing as a timegated D&D very similar to what RS3 is doing with POP and daily/weekly challenge. There is really nothing more RS3 can gain from sailing the 2D seas when they are going 3D like Skyrim and remastering older but familiar maps.

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