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Rikornak
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0 Preamble:


While I don't think f2p needs a constant flow of content, they still should be able to feel their game whole. With most main tier items ranging from tier 1-50 fixed, it now is time to fill in the few remaining missing items, the ability for free ironmen to obtain them themselves and create some more interesting item decisions. Items that have to be obtained from members should be limited to prestige armour (Recolours and Dragonstone) and cosmetics and are a concept that actually could be pursued further. More special armours (tx5, power, hybrid) could be made f2p on certain occasions, but should fittingly included then.

The thread mainly addresses issues in f2p and the beginning level experience, but will benefit members as well with some additional points mainly for the f2p-p2p transition phase, some general QoL changes, improving the entire level flow, rising values of otherwise undemanded items items they can easier come by and a more diverse distributions of equipment and more means of obtaining it for Invention.

1 Skills:


- Allow free players to level p2p only non-elite skills to 20. Make features available to f2p wherever reasonable.
5 is way too low to serve as a good teaser, newer skills certainly do a better job in that aspect.

1.1 Combat:


- Alternative cosmetics skins now always have the stats of their highest +x counterparts
- Corrupt Equipment now lasts for 1 hour and only degrades while fighting

1.1.1 Melee:

- Allow free players to play the Recruitment Drive quest and buff Initiate armour to tier 35
- Proselyte armour is buffed to tier 45 (p2p) Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:02 - Last edited on 21-Jun-2023 07:39:22 by Rikornak

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1.1.2 Ranged:

- All Javelins are now two-handed weapons, similar to ranged vanquish or sunspear.
- Snakeskin armour is buffed to tier 35
- Ammunition no longer has fixed ranged requirements, but rather a potential maximum, similar to food. Secondary requirements (other skills and quests) remain intact.
* See the suggestions on page 18 and 26 to fill out gaps in tierscape for bolts and arrows respectively.

1.1.3 Magic:

- The monster examine spell is now available for all players on any spellbook from level 6 onwards. Its costs are changed to 3 mind runes
- All strike, bolt, blast, wave and surge spells are now unlocked on the same level, have the same damage potential and only use the elemental rune fitting to them
- Auto spell selection will now default to a spell fitting to the equipped weapon and never choose locked spells
- Low levelled teleport spells will now only require one law and five elemental runes of a single kind
- Swanky boots re-gain tier 5 stats
- Lesser runic staves are buffed to tier 35 and made available to f2p
- Battlestaves are buffed to tier 45. Make basic ones available to f2p via 'Naff's Knockoff Staves' and single element ones as boss drops
- The (enhanced) ancient staff now has a 50 % chance to refund all catalyst runes used for zarosian spells, as well as increasing their damage dealt by 10 % at all times. It will now count as a zarosian item in the GWD (p2p)
- Mystic staves are buffed to tier 55 (p2p)
- The Master wand and the Mages' book are buffed to tier 65 (p2p)
- God staves are buffed to tier 65 (p2p)
- Fletching will introduce staves made from core logs (see 1.7)

1.1.4 Prayer:

- Make Retribution, Redemption and Smite available to f2p
- Chivalry and new other style equivalents are automatically learned at level 60 without any additional requirements. Piety (arbitrary defence requirement removed) and equivalents remain p2p and quest locked. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:07 - Last edited on 19-Nov-2023 06:04:03 by Rikornak

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1.2 Dungeoneering:


- Allow the tome of frost to be equipped in the pocket slot in addition. While equipped there, it just offers its passive effects, but no stat bonuses
- Allow free players to purchase bone crushers and gold accumulators. All upgrades, overcharges and tool belt unlocks remain p2p only.

1.3 Crafting:


- Lapis lazuli are now tradeable semi-precious gems, which can also be found in sedimentary geodes
- Remove all semi-precious gems from igneous geodes (p2p)
- Wooden knots are now tradeable and can also be rarely obtained from regular trees without using the dwarven army axe. The axe now boosts the chance to obtain knots to current rates.
- Free players can now craft and wear lapis lazuli brooches. The brooch now is tradeable provides its bonus to all styles.
- Free players can now craft, enchant and wear all silver jewellery and gold jewellery up to diamond. Effects and teleports for p2p content are unavailable on free worlds.
- All players can now craft the full splitbark set with crafting 40. Wizard Jalarast will no longer offer to assemble it for a fee, but instead sell pre-made ones.
- All urns now cover items up to 10, 35, 60, 85 and 120 depending on their tier.
*Remove the crafting requirement to imbue urns.
*Rebalance filling rates and experience reward accordingly to the new top tier item for that urn.
*Smelting urns are upgraded to general purpose smithing urns and award significantly more experience. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:12 - Last edited on 22-Nov-2023 21:14:41 by Rikornak

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1.4 Cooking:


- Free players can now skewer and roast raw beast, bird and rabbit meat, cook potatoes with butter, cheese and egg and their respective toppings and bake garden pies.
- Make chocolatey milk tradeable, allow free players to make and use it for chocolate cheesecakes.
- Increase the healing values of the following low and medium levelled foods to the following values: Sardine (300), Herring (400), Cake (400/slice), Rabbit sandwich & Makerel (500), Chocolate cake (500/slice), Roast bird meat & Trout (600), Cod & Roast rabbit (700), Pizza (700/slice), Roast beast meat & Pike (800), Meat pizza (800/slice), Salmon (900), Anchovy pizza (900/slice), Slimy eel (950), Tuna (1000), Rainbow fish (1100), pineapple pizza (1100/slice), Cave eel (1150), Karambwan & Lava eel (1500). The constitution levels required to fully benefit from the foods are increased accordingly.

1.5 Herblore:


- Introduce a couple of new low levelled potions. All new materials can now be obtained on free worlds as they can on p2p. Existing stat boosting potions are upgraded to super +5 ones.
* Crafting (2): Guam + Common kebbit fur - +3 boost
* Fletching (6): Tarromin + 10 Red feathers - +3 boost
* Compost (10): Guam + Weeds - existing item
Weeds will be tradeable
* Lesser prayer (14): Marrentil + Snape grass - restores (prayer level*2.5 + 70) prayer points
(Existing) Prayer potions are buffed up to (prayer level*3.0 + 70). This buff also applies to the instant prayer restoration of any combination potion containing them. They now also are sold in limited quantities in the Warriors' Guild.
* Lesser luck (16): Tarromin + Lapis lazuli - Tier 1 luck for 1 hour
* Farming (17): Marrentil + Compost - +3 boost Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:16 - Last edited on 15-Oct-2023 20:02:08 by Rikornak

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1.6 Smithing:


- Players can now learn how to smith defenders they've already obtained once up to rune.
- Allow free players to smith iron spits
- All consumables will now only require half the amount of progress, similar to armour spikes.

1.7 Fletching:


- All core crossbows are now assembled from tierwise fitting limbs and stock at a fletching level equaling the tier (i.e. a t50 rune crossbow is made with runite limbs and an acadia stock at 50 fletchting). Introduce crossbows, limbs and stocks made from missing core materials.
- Blurite and Dragon crossbows are not changed when it comes to their crafting recipes, but they are changed to be only cosmetic alternatives to iron and orikalkum respectively. Dragon crossbows continue to be used for creating ascension ones.
- Introduces staves made from core logs at any given tier, since the game lacks a lot of magic equipment all over the place. None of the staves grants elemental runes, nor are orbs able to be attached to them. They can be bought under fitting rules from their respective shops.
- Introduce bows made from missing logs, adjust the tier of existing bows to the level of the respective log.
- Fletched core (cross)bows will have stats equal to a +0 smithed counterpart. Attaching a sight will increase their attack range by 1 and their stats comparable to the highest +x variant of said counterpart (i.e. elder bows will have 90 requirements and 80 stats, increased to 85 with a sight).

1.8 Woodcutting


- Introduce teak trees at Het's Oasis and Musa Point for f2p to cut. Stiles will also offer to certificate teak.
- Replace some of the trees south of Varrock and the Clan Camp by maple. Introduce a log pile at the daemonheim resource dungeon, which auto deposits logs to your bank.
- Introduce acadia trees at Het's Oasis and the Garden of Kharid for f2p to cut.
- Allow free players to create and use teak, maple and acadia wood boxes. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:21 - Last edited on 21-Jul-2023 08:05:25 by Rikornak

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2 Shops:


In general shops in free areas should sell basic (+0) equipment up to tier 40, while those in guilds, the wilderness and lower levelled p2p areas will do this up to tier 50. Tools and ammunition can be more generous in some cases, but should of course remain fitting for the place they're sold.

- Restore the prices of metal equipment to their pre mining/smithing rework values
- All shops now also sell off-hand items fitting to sold main-hand items
- Items are sold in following amounts:
* T1-30 equipment: 10
* T40 equipment: 5
* T50 equipment: 2
* T60 equipment: 1
Existing exceptions (e.g. for dragon items) shouldn't be touched by this and also be possible in the future.
*Ammo: Bronze & Iron: 1000, Steel & Mithril: 500, Adamant & Higher: 100
*Free Samples, Runes or stores with special mechanics and/or higher values won't be touched by this. Furthermore those changes won't touch non-standard equipment.

Non-specialized stores (e.g. gnome shopkeeper) and secondary assortments (e.g. weapons in a general store) can be both lower in quantity and quality.

Allow all stores to sell items noted with a fee of 100 gp + 20 % of the original value per unit with a toggle. Free samples can't be noted.

2.1 Melee:


- Bandit Duty Free now also sells rune +3 battleaxes, scimitars and 2h swords at 80 % of the usual store price.
- Claws up to Rune are now sold at Martin Thwait's Lost and Found (p2p)
- The Warrior's Guild Armoury now sells equipment up to rune

2.2 Ranged:


- All three Crossbow Shops now have separate stocks
- Knives up to Dragon are now sold at Martin Thwait's Lost and Found (p2p)
- After completing 'The Tourist Trap' players can now purchase darts up to dragon at a new vendor in the Bedabin Camp (p2p)
- The vendors in the Ranging Guild now sell Ammunition up to Dragon and armour up to Blue Dragon. (p2p) Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:26 - Last edited on 21-Jun-2023 07:40:45 by Rikornak

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- Archery Tickets can now be exchanged for the following (p2p) (Refine the interface used for exchange):
*Red Dragon Armour (1000 Tickets - Full Set)
*Black Dragon Armour (3000 Tickets - Full Set)
*Royal Dragon Armour (5000 Tickets - Full Set)
*Skirmisher Armour (4000 Tickets - random missing piece, lost items are still replaced with diango)
*Bronze to Dragon Reprisers (n*50^2 Tickets + previous repriser, with n = 1 for bronze and +1 for each rank)
*Rune Arrows, Bolts or Javelins (100 Tickets - 10 units of ammunition)
*Dragon Arrows or Javelins (500 Tickets - 10 units of ammunition)
*Barb bolttips (100 Tickets - 30)
Could be removed from the game to be fair...
*Ruby bolttips (200 Tickets - 30)
*Diamond bolttips (500 Tickets - 30)
*Dragon bolttips (1500 Tickets - 30)
*Onyx bolttips (10000 Tickets - 30)
*Ranged XP (1,10,100,1000 Tickets - XP awarded scale with level and amount of tickets turned in at once)

Players will need to collect new tickets for this, which are virtual and untradeable, but have improved rates to obtain them (especially at higher levels). Legacy tickets are automatically removed and converted to 10 gp each.

2.3 Magic:


Zaff's Superior Spellcasting, Betty's Magic Emporium and Wizard Jalarast will now sell finished pieces of splitbark armour for a t40 armour adequate price. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:30 - Last edited on 19-Jun-2023 20:31:02 by Rikornak

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3 Game Mechanic:


- Allow free players to use bonus experience and to trade with Vic whenever he shows up, akin to the buyable variant.
- Convert all remaining item pets to the interface.
- Promotional items with a reclaim cost can now additionally be stored with diango, similiar to lucky items. Items that have to be reclaimed are now indicated with their costs.
- Allow players to remotely access their material storage, metal bank and quest item storage from the bank.
- Except for direct quest and progression rewards, all skilling sets can now also be acquired via thaler.
- Allow portable crafters to be used for smelting ores and casting jewellery.
- Increase the capacity of the f2p friend list to 400 (like p2p)
- Free Players have once again access to Tuska's Back via Wizard Chambers. They can play the Anima Islands D&D, but not access Mazcab and the Desert. They have full access to all rewards except for Tuska's Wrath.
- All WE Abilities are changed to tradeable Ability Tomes (drops included (GWD/cremation)), which can be obtained more than once.
- Free Players can now lift their trade limit upon fulfilling one of the following conditions:
*Having purchased anything for real currency or bonds
*Access to the 5 year veteran cape
*Every 125 total levels and quest points the trade cap doubles until it is fully lifted at 1250
- Extend the TH instant use settings for lamps and stars to item xp sources in the rest of the game. If you don't have the required level to use an item for your favourite skill (or this skill isn't covered by a non-prismatic multiple skill item (e.g. a combat lamp) you'll still get it placed in your inventory
*Add in a new setting for auto turning in multiple skill and prismatic sources to your lowest skill (following the rules of tears of guthix)
- Change the mechanics of the ore box to those used by the wood box (increased storage based on tier and level, storage of non-core ores without further requirements). Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:34 - Last edited on 08-Jul-2023 05:30:11 by Rikornak

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- Allow free players to gain access to gold/silver storage in the the furnace upon reaching 99 smithing as an alternative.
- Extend Item lending to more modern tradeable non-degrading equipment
- Convert outdated warnings (like the sophanem slayer dungeon without feathers) to the doomsayer system
- Remove confirmations for left-click two-way travel options to safe areas (e.g. GE <-> Keldagrim), but keep them for one-way travels and dangerous two-way travels on a toggleable basis
- Add toggles to warnings that can be disabled permanently
- Allow f2p to trade and equip more p2p only obtainable cosmetic items including canifis boots and robes.
- Allow free players to convert p2p only proteans into f2p variants, but not vice versa.
- The chaos elemental now is affected by tier 1 luck, down from 2
- The following changes are applied to bark and fine cloth:
*Zaff's Superior Spellcasting now sells finished pieces of armour instead of raw materials
*Trading mole skins and claws rarely award bark in addition to the nest, noses uncommonly
*The King Black Dragon can now also drop fine cloth
*The Chaos Elemental can now also drop both items
*Hollow trees now grant bark much more commonly and chests in the shade catacombs now always drop cloth alongside a secondary reward.
*Shades and Catablepons can now rarely drop fine cloth
*Moss giants can now rarely drop bark
*The tier 1 luck drop table can now award both items
- Allow free players to use overrides earned by p2p content.

4 Stuff to be considered - Experimental Corner:


I am not too sure how to implement the following entries (as they could need more developing time as the aforementioned quick fixes), but they still should be done due to balancing issues:

- Introduce a t55 crossbow, shield and power body as ranged equivalents to gud raider armour.
- Introduce a t55 magic wand, shield and power body as magic equivalents to gud raider armour. Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:45 - Last edited on 08-Jul-2023 05:29:20 by Rikornak

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- Introduce corrupt demon slayer, lunar and elder items as ranged and magic tier 60 degrade to dust
- Introduce a cape (Champion's Cape) with 10 armour and 3 Bonus to all styles, which can be purchased at the Champion's guild following the Dragon Slayer quest. The cape also includes a teleport to the Champion's guild and is intended to be comparable to the veteran capes as the penultimate cape in f2p.
- Introduce a tradeable cape with 12 Armour and 8 Bonus to all styles using the Brassican cloak style to the Cabbage Facepunch Bonaza. The cape is intended to be comparable to the t40 Starfury Cape as the best in slot cape in f2p.
- Free players should be able to obtain Warpriest Armour on free worlds again

5 Conclusion:


Feedback is generally appreciated and hopefully you like my suggestion. If I have forgotten something please notice me.

If those points make it in the game, f2p really should be a whole game.

6 Change log:


29/12/15 v1
29/02/16 Free to Play Extravaganza released!
26/03/16 Opened up v2
26/09/16 Currency pouch is implemented
26/06/17 Restocking for shops has been improved
10/07/17 Tier 75 warpriest armour is no longer available in f2p
07/08/17 Batwing and Carapace are now available to free players for crafting, Batwing has its crafting levels required fixed
14/08/17 Several improvements have been released
21/08/17 Free players can now smith studs and craft studded leather armour
09/10/17 Tons of improvements have been released
04/12/17 Many further improvements have been released
03/04/18 Task set overrides have been released
07/01/19 Mining/Smithing rework
11/02/19 Churning is now available to free players
11/03/19 Free players can now churn cheese
19/06/23 Woodcutting rework Improvements: Tooltip / (F2P) QoL v2
Quick Fixes: Invention

26-Mar-2016 06:17:50 - Last edited on 26-Jun-2023 06:26:39 by Rikornak

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