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Will RS ever be Scaled Up?
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Yes it would be easier (along with shoving things out of sight in other planes, or in dungeons, etc.) and that is why it seems to be the 'go-to' response for the developers. But that just avoids the problem of the overcrowded central areas, which I think limits the developer's design choices when it comes to future content developed for those areas - something which is especially critical for the F2P area, as content developed for F2P players simply cannot be put any where else.
Lets see if I can illustrate the point with a few examples of before and after maps for a few recently redeveloped areas.
Falador
Before - After
Port Sarim
Before - After
White Wolf Mountain/Catherby
Before - After
Notice how these land-locked areas all maintain roughly the same footprint. They simply cannot be developed into anything larger because they are restricted by the surrounding content. This surely must impact on the developer's design choices and limit what they can physically do with the areas.
Prifddinas
Before - After
Menaphos
Before - After
By contrast, these areas are situated on the coast, and can easily be expanded out to sea if necessary to accommodate all the features they contain. As a result, they are much larger after being developed, and are so much better because of it. (The original footprint of Menaphos for example, covers little more than the central plaza and Merchant district. Everything else would have been outside the original city walls.)
Just imagine if those same freedoms could be applied to Varrock or Falador when they are next redeveloped. That for me is what a world expansion is really about. –= MEGA Construction Rework =–
Freeform Buildings, Surface World Plots, Community Involvement, Environments, Skills and much, much more...!
Lets see if I can illustrate the point with a few examples of before and after maps for a few recently redeveloped areas.
Falador
Before - After
Port Sarim
Before - After
White Wolf Mountain/Catherby
Before - After
Notice how these land-locked areas all maintain roughly the same footprint. They simply cannot be developed into anything larger because they are restricted by the surrounding content. This surely must impact on the developer's design choices and limit what they can physically do with the areas.
Prifddinas
Before - After
Menaphos
Before - After
By contrast, these areas are situated on the coast, and can easily be expanded out to sea if necessary to accommodate all the features they contain. As a result, they are much larger after being developed, and are so much better because of it. (The original footprint of Menaphos for example, covers little more than the central plaza and Merchant district. Everything else would have been outside the original city walls.)
Just imagine if those same freedoms could be applied to Varrock or Falador when they are next redeveloped. That for me is what a world expansion is really about. –= MEGA Construction Rework =–
Freeform Buildings, Surface World Plots, Community Involvement, Environments, Skills and much, much more...!
10-Jun-2017 23:57:16 - Last edited on 11-Jun-2017 20:23:07 by Jon Stryder
I support this
, though I understand it would be very difficult and time consuming to implement.
One of the smoothest ways to implement this on a very small scale would be to remove all this easy teleportation - lodestones especially. The world gets so much smaller when you can blink anywhere in a flash, without having to cross it at all. It's a series of hubs now, not a world.
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