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Will RS ever be Scaled Up?
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world does need to be made bigger, like wow
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17-Oct-2013 16:00:16
There are many great ideas in this thread, I hope Jagex reads and takes note of them.
The sad fact is that many areas of Runescape are very cramped with content built on content built on content (especially in the central F2P area). Take the example of how much had to be moved to make way for the Lumbridge crater, or the locations of the divination spots which has been stated was a case of 'finding spaces on the map where they would fit'.
As more content is added, the requirement for more land is inevitable. I think expansion of the world map is a better solution and has more benefits than just adding more and more continents (although considerably more difficult). Currently towns and cities are small, but they lack any room to be developed into anything else. Agility shortcuts seem pointless when the alternative only takes a few extra seconds.
I understand the scale was originally set by the time taken to run/walk between places, and the desire of Jagex for this to not become tedious and boring. But this was before the lodestone network, or fairy rings, or the reworked run energy system with resting and musicians, or any of the other numerous gameplay advances that have occurred since then.
This doesn't all have to be accomplished at once. As a first step I'd say enlarge the map by spacing out the individual cities and towns. The spaces between could be populated with generic space fillers - grass, trees, rocks, farms, mountains, rivers, just general landscape items. Then with space around them, the towns and cities can be grown and expanded one at a time as they are given their regular graphical overhaul. As new content is added to the game, new locations can be added to the spaces between the cities to slowly populate these areas over time.
It's difficult and will take a great deal of resources but it is achievable, and I think ultimately unavoidable. Jagex just needs to bite the bullet and take the first step.
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The sad fact is that many areas of Runescape are very cramped with content built on content built on content (especially in the central F2P area). Take the example of how much had to be moved to make way for the Lumbridge crater, or the locations of the divination spots which has been stated was a case of 'finding spaces on the map where they would fit'.
As more content is added, the requirement for more land is inevitable. I think expansion of the world map is a better solution and has more benefits than just adding more and more continents (although considerably more difficult). Currently towns and cities are small, but they lack any room to be developed into anything else. Agility shortcuts seem pointless when the alternative only takes a few extra seconds.
I understand the scale was originally set by the time taken to run/walk between places, and the desire of Jagex for this to not become tedious and boring. But this was before the lodestone network, or fairy rings, or the reworked run energy system with resting and musicians, or any of the other numerous gameplay advances that have occurred since then.
This doesn't all have to be accomplished at once. As a first step I'd say enlarge the map by spacing out the individual cities and towns. The spaces between could be populated with generic space fillers - grass, trees, rocks, farms, mountains, rivers, just general landscape items. Then with space around them, the towns and cities can be grown and expanded one at a time as they are given their regular graphical overhaul. As new content is added to the game, new locations can be added to the spaces between the cities to slowly populate these areas over time.
It's difficult and will take a great deal of resources but it is achievable, and I think ultimately unavoidable. Jagex just needs to bite the bullet and take the first step.
–= MEGA Construction Rework =–
Freeform Buildings, Surface World Plots, Community Involvement, Environments, Skills and much, much more...!
17-Oct-2013 17:24:44
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