RuneScape Forum Archive | Will RS ever be Scaled Up?

Aug

2013

Fearce Deity

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No support for mounts but would love the world to be a bit scaled up at least a little. And hope one day we can visit the eastern lands. But maybe for all this to happen RS would have to be a downloadable game but idk.

11-Jun-2014 04:34:35

Mar

2023

Kiran Baal

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What I would really like to see, and something I think is completely realistic, is not scaling up the whole world map, but simply adding open space in between towns/cities.

I feel like that would take much less development. For example, keep Falador, Barbarian Village, and Varrock how they are, but greatly increase the space in between them so walking from city to city seems realistic and meaningful. It would add such a great level of exploration back to the game. And would make teleports and unlocking lodestones meaningful. That first trek though would be epic!

More long term useful though, I also day dream about those areas being sprinkled with extra/new resources. Where the path is "safe", and straying from it enters wilderness, with nice resources but also a risk, and monsters. I think that would be great.

And I also would very much like mounts that were limited to only be used in this increased space between cities and town for increased speed and passive boosts based on the kind they are.

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11-Jun-2014 05:42:37

Sep

2022

Reg sf vynce

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I really support this thread, too bad jagex doesn't take note on it to add this to their list of future game updates since it would enhance the gameplay which huge amounts.

12-Jun-2014 23:30:32

Mr Dr Slayer

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agreed

also i cant wait till HTML5 to goes live, to bad it will be a while

14-Jun-2014 05:25:03

Prad

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support
the world size sucks for this game and id love to see a bigger map.

id also be willing to give up a lot of updates to see this actually happen because in my opinion, it would be well worth it but that's just me.

14-Jun-2014 07:24:31 - Last edited on 14-Jun-2014 07:25:42 by Prad

Severn

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I support, but I can completely understand why they would not enlarge the map.
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15-Jun-2014 23:24:47

Je148

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Mod Matthe said :
Scaling up the world, as various people have described and suggested in this thread would be a huge project - not only would it require a complete redrawing and designing of the whole world but it would have enormous knock on effects to the balance and economics of the world . As such it is highly unlikely to be something we would work on in the foreseeable future.

I don't see how increasing the distance between 2 points would magicly make range stronger vs melee, or let the price of things go up or down.

Dissagree about that statement.

15-Jun-2014 23:31:20

Nov

2009

EthanAlvaree

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Support... RuneScape needs this... And add random events in the forests between cities... rune rocks that can be mined by the first person to stumble across them, rare trees,special monsters with unique rewards, etc... to encourage people to explore the world rather than just teleport from place to place...

16-Jun-2014 00:23:37

Cevinus

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I really dislike the idea of scaling the world up. I really enjoy the closely spaced contend in this game. Regular MMO have a huge but empty world. RuneScape has a reasonable sized world packed with contend. Though there is one thing which should be reconsidered: Loadstones(and also other teleport- and quicktraveloptions get out of hand, f.e. branches of darkmeyer).

16-Jun-2014 00:28:35 - Last edited on 16-Jun-2014 00:29:48 by Cevinus

Aug

2007

elysiaanna

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I totally support this.

07scape will soon have a new continent added to the game which, they say, is the size of 50% of the world map, somthing which many of us have been asking for since 05 so content is added to the world map, not portals to other dimensions.

While I respect Jagex might not wish to do this for their own sake, A majority of players would want, even if it ment moving a few pieces of content around, like to see the game map increase by 10% just to space out a few things

Personally I feel RS3 has an inferior development motivation to release content the players actually demand on these forums, with the exception of the elf city taking 10 years to reach development. I hope with more expansions of the game map and more content via that (not crappy content such as bacon and skillchompa's) this game could once again grow in player base and size

16-Jun-2014 00:52:02

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