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Apollo S0L
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Apollo S0L

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This is the #1 issue I have when trying to bring my friends into the game.


The World is tiny and graphically out-dated.

The upside to making the game superior in size and graphics is gigantic! I'm sorry to break it to the jagex team, but this game is neither competitive in size nor graphics to other MMO's ESPECIALLY now that they are raising the price.


Bigger game, better graphics = more players joining the runescape experience GUARANTEED......
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23-Jan-2015 13:00:18 - Last edited on 23-Jan-2015 13:01:13 by Apollo S0L

Pikkupstix
Feb Member 2020

Pikkupstix

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Jon Stryder said :
Just explain what you want, and why you think it would be good for Runescape and the potential benefits to the player. Let Jagex worry about the 'how'. Then remember to include a QFC to a forum thread to contain more information, feedback and discussion about the idea (this gets around the 2000 character limit.) Seems like a good idea. I'll be taking a look at all this thread's responses when I consider what to write.
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24-Jan-2015 03:44:27

Terencio

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Apollo S0L said :
This is the #1 issue I have when trying to bring my friends into the game.


The World is tiny and graphically out-dated.
The upside to making the game superior in size and graphics is gigantic! I'm sorry to break it to the jagex team, but this game is neither competitive in size nor graphics to other MMO's ESPECIALLY now that they are raising the price.


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24-Jan-2015 12:30:13 - Last edited on 24-Jan-2015 12:30:52 by Terencio

Big Storms

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Great to still see this thread around on the Future Updates Forum! Again, I support this idea as it is the one true way to solve the problem of the world becoming too densely packed with content and too small (Karamja and Port Sarim visible in one spot).

Again I urge people to be realistic and realize that making all cities up to scale would be a massive job, simply not possible with the assets available (not now and not in 5 years). Instead the space between the cities should be increased and just by adding environment. Getting this to work is enough for a XXL project (probably even more).

Mod Matthe's reply doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I wouldn't get too hopeful of seeing this idea being made any time in the forseeable future (unless it gets a massive amount of support from runelabs), as assets needed to get this to work will likely be used on other big (yet smaller than this) projects (construction rework? =p ).

Still, increasing the world would brting back the true adventure spirit again: adventuring, exploring new areas you have never been to simply due to the scale of the world.

Please put this idea in runelabs and notify the community here. I for one will definitly support this idea, as will probably many others that have posted in this thread. Just be certain of the formulation of this idea, as once submitted it can't be changed. If needed post the 2000 word version here first so people can give feedback on it ;)

Oh and don't worry about the size of this idea: even if it is not wanted now it will still stay on runelabs for when they do plan to work on a XXL project. If anything having this idea in runelabs (and referred to here) longer will result in more people knowing about it, meaning more support! "One should not mindlessly follow gods or the godless:
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26-Jan-2015 06:40:01 - Last edited on 26-Jan-2015 06:56:03 by Big Storms

bootyblast6
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I would love to see this and have wondered this myself quite a few times, but like Mod Matthe said, this would be a HUGE project. I'm sure Jagex have higher priority tasks for Runescape, but hopefully we can see this in the future :)

28-Jan-2015 04:44:03

Lego Miester
Nov Member 2023

Lego Miester

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Apollo S0L said :
This is the #1 issue I have when trying to bring my friends into the game.


The World is tiny and graphically out-dated.

The upside to making the game superior in size and graphics is gigantic! I'm sorry to break it to the jagex team, but this game is neither competitive in size nor graphics to other MMO's ESPECIALLY now that they are raising the price.


Bigger game, better graphics = more players joining the runescape experience GUARANTEED......

That's deluded. This would be a massive undertaking that would accomplish little more than removing most transportation methods in the game and nerfing running to require a decent agility skill/low weight again would. The world used to feel bigger because we had more trouble navigating it, and had to navigate it more often. Now we teleport everywhere, so it feels small.

If you want RS to feel bigger, pick up Old School, or, even better, Classic with its fatigue system and complete lack of running. I don't advocate us ever going that far backwards convenience wise, only ensuring that all transportation methods are either significantly expensive or earned.

If World of Warcraft, which has a drastically larger gameworld, changed all of its flight points and inns into waypoints with no cooldown or cost, it too would feel much smaller. The solution then would not be rebuilding every single continent from scratch to be bigger. Headcanon Haven, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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03-Feb-2015 06:41:53 - Last edited on 03-Feb-2015 06:43:38 by Lego Miester

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