RuneScape Forum Archive | Construction overhaul when ?

Dec

2010

xMr Glenn

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I think this was like anounced back in 2017 or something that it would be for in the next few years they would rework/overhaul construction...

Where is it ?

Just asking, but what I'd really hate about rs3 construction right now is that your house has literally no value, whereas in OSRS you do almost ANYTHING through your house, people train construction because a maxed out house is so viable, you can place a fairy ring, spirit tree, a jewellery box and even a wilderness obelisk. they even have an altar for spell switching where in rs3 u could make it for spells and prayer switching... got a rejuvenation pool for when your stats have been drained so you don't have to waste pots (I know RS3 has wars) but the teleports from inside your house are such a big W imo, why can't we get all of these teleports with a construction update ?

30-Nov-2023 01:17:47

Nov

2003

A Cole

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Inb4 "Fort Forinthry is the update" - in my opinion it is not the update we are looking for.

As for the real answer, we don't know. There was a Jmod looking at moving and rotating rooms in your POH as a side task, but that seems to have gone nowhere too.

I'd love it if they were able to port our Player Owned House to the surface world. It's clear that Jagex can make different things appear on our screens, such as the different development stages of Fort Forinthry, and while the POH would require work on how to deal with hidden obstacles, I believe it could be a good way to get people to engage with POHs again, particularly if we can see other people in their POHs at the same time.

Then of course there is are several in depth Construction idea threads on these forums, for example

Construction. Updates needed

and

Ultimate Construction Update!

.

Construction has a lot of potential, and if they were to think of this as a new skill coming out in 2024, I believe the amount of content and the quality of the content would by far surpass what we have for the skill right now. If we compare what is possible to what we got for Archaeology, we could see construction sites all around Gielinor, varying in size and lore, and offering us more than just "another skill to train".

~A~

30-Nov-2023 17:07:19

Jun

2006

Dilbert2001

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We can access POH features through our bank interface OSRS can't even dream of. That's already very good POH updates since 2017.

Recently, xp rate using protean planks in POH has been significantly increased too. Great for RS3 players still training construction the old school way in POH. And we don't have to pay our servants and waste our time for them to bring our planks back a few at a time.

OP also failed to realize we have much better versions of all the OSRS POH features in RS3. We have portable fairy ring, bottled spring water, portal Wildy Obelisk and we can switch magic books etc at our bank, as well as we have borrowed powers from our spell books that can give us a 2 minute window to switch to other magic books anywhere. It is a big waste of time to have to go to our POH for all these things when we can do it at any bank, if not just anywhere.

30-Nov-2023 18:34:52 - Last edited on 30-Nov-2023 18:38:40 by Dilbert2001

Nov

2023

Renshaaka

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Honestly. I have been crying about this for nearly a decade now. Player owned housing has such potential. There are so many skills in this game that could be integrated into our house. I personally LOVE playing games like the Sims, Harvest moon, etc. Life sims are really relaxing because I make a cozy lil life for my character without the ugliness of real life.

It would be easy to implement farming plots, a bank chest, fairy rings, cuttable trees, an invention table, perhaps fishing marine life that you breed yourself. Maybe an expansion for the otherwise useless player dungeon where you break into your own trapped dungeon and see if you can get the treasure at the end.. maybe even turn that into a community where you can go to other people's houses to train thieving. Wildlife like birds or something that you could hunt. An agility course you can build yourself and get some early agi levels in for new players. A bonfire where you and your mates can chill? Literally ANYTHING would be better than what we have now.

I spent time to make my house cute on both of my characters even though intrinsically they have no value to me whatsoever. But it's cute an aesthetic so I did it. It might be aesthetic, but to be honestly it's kind of pathetic (the construction skill). The fort is cool and all, but it's not a good substitute for the absolute abysmal quality of life of construction. Even OSRS somehow has better player owned housing than we do. It does not make sense.

I love love love the idea of player owned housing, I made my house so cute in final fantasy 14 and any other game I'm given the opportunity to do so. Please Jagex, hear my plea and do something about it. The potential is quite limitless, yet the content has not been improved since I was a child. I'm 30 years old now. I love my house and would like it to be actually useful. A proper housing update has the potential to bring a lot of players together if you incentivize it and reward community togetherness.

01-Dec-2023 17:44:29

Aug

2010

Qwis7

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Jagex decided to shelve the PoH overhaul some years ago, because people voted for something else.

They added fort to make construction little bit different, but PoH update probably wont gone happen in some very long years.

OSRS made PoH a small player hub Runescape(3) decided to make Priff, menaphos and the for like a player hub thing.

Two different games two different direction.
Personally I like this about osrs.

02-Dec-2023 09:26:59

Jun

2006

Dilbert2001

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Qwis7 said :

OSRS made PoH a small player hub Runescape(3) decided to make Priff, menaphos and the for like a player hub thing.

Two different games two different direction.
Personally I like this about osrs.

OSRS wants to make a small cumbersome "playerhub" for only a handful of friends with POH, which is actually an instance and not a hub and invisible to everybody else, and the owner of the POH has to be online. This is an extremely bad social idea for a bona fide open world MMORPG like RS3.

You forgot about Fort Forinthry, which is the bona fide open world MMORPG player hub far more so than Priff and Menaphos that are locked by a lot of progression requirements.

You did mention one thing right though - players preferences called for Jagex's implementations of content. RS3 has been running Community Hitlists for the last 6 monthis. If the 2023 RS3 community liked some POH features, we would have seen them rolled out through the Community Hitlists release already... but evidently modern players didn't ask for them.

On the contrary, in the next Community Hitlist update coming in 2 days, we have seen future bank and presets improvements because the RS3 Community asked for them. That's right, our Player Owned Bank is far more important and useful than our legacy Player Owned "House". The 2023 RS3 players have spoken, and our modern RS3 players are not much different than modern players in other games. We live in our bank, not POH anymore. All the relevant content better be accessible through the most accessible one-stop feature - our bank, and player housing and such are just for cosmetic purposes for most part.

02-Dec-2023 16:55:09 - Last edited on 02-Dec-2023 17:22:05 by Dilbert2001

Aug

2010

Qwis7

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O sorry The t was not shown in my post, but yes even you quoted it:

OSRS made PoH a small player hub Runescape(3) decided to make Priff, menaphos and the for(t) like a player hub thing.

All aside there is no right or wrong.
You do not have it right or wrong and we do not have it right or wrong.
All we do is speculating and put in suggestions.

The social aspect of Runescape did decline many years ago.

I and I do think many other players share my point of view.
Runescape is more like a rpg with mmo aspects.
We even got Ironman mode!
I mean the social aspect gameplay wise did declined a loooong time ago.

07-Dec-2023 18:46:29

Jun

2006

Dilbert2001

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There weren't clans and Clan Citadels in RS3, and still no Clan CItadel with meaningful social content in OSRS at all.

We have a lot of social sharing and skilling content in RS3, whether they are social slaying, social divination and a lot more. Social aspect of RS3 in 2023 is on par with the social aspects of the MMORPG genre - open world social grouping and clan based content. Regretfully POH is anticlimatic to the modern social aspects of MMORPG.

07-Dec-2023 19:52:53

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