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Nickbastien1
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This poll was very one sided...
You can only vote yes, many people will vote yes just because it is the only vote they can make.
Also, I don't like the fact that both free trade AND the wilderness are lumped together in such a way.
A true poll would seperate both the wildy and Free trade and allow for both sides to have a decent place to cast their vote.
Boycotting doesn't really work when its through one poll.
There are large concequences and postives on each seperate issue.
Wildy questions... Will it be on every world? Just pvp worlds? How are you going to stop the amounts of bots that surely will join once the change is made?
Free trade.. Shouldn't there be some limit; not everyone should have access to items right when their account is made? The GE will be much more like the stock market as prices will jump and fall in a matter of minutes, as large clans could make it so.. how will this be regulated? Younger players may have a harder time using the GE if there is no set price to sell something for... Wouldn't it slow down the game if people can't sell the materials they have gathered?
The fact that it gained 1.2 million votes so fast is the fact that there isn't a fair poll. Some people may have even made extra accounts to vote yes so it isn't fair. There should be lvl restrictions to vote... and there really should be a vote no button. And the issues are completely seperate issues, so seperate them. Deal with one at a time. Please

30-Dec-2010 15:47:18

Darqen
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To be fair, a lot of players did stop playing after the wildy changes of '07, and Jagex would be foolish to not want to attract some of them back.
There are two parts to the vote:
Free trade: This increases the possible issues of RWT and botting, but as many have stated, botting is prety common now anyway, sad to say, so punishment needs to be severe for those caught. RWT is a problem with all online games. WOW and other online games have RWT for many items. This is almost impossible to eliminate. Scamming on items/price is far more difficult now with the changes to the trade window. However, the "guide price/GE price" is a real good help to prevent price scams, so I really hope that remains in place. Its up to the traders whether they ignore it or not. For rare items like P-Hats, there is no reason why they shouldnt sell for whatever someone is prepared to pay. On balance, these changes look to be good.
Wildy: I remember well the old wildy and getting gang-ambushed doing clues or rc'ing. I used to do wildy clues at silly o'clock to avoid PK'ers :) , so ended up doing very few clues. I hope we dont see a return to that time. I would be very happy to be able to choose whether to PK/be PK'd or not, and go equipped appropriately for a fight, if thats what I want to do, with maybe then a chance of winning. Getting ambushed by a PK gang while doing a clue or trying to get to some other wildy based area, does seem a bit dumb, and I really hope this can be avoided. Seems to me that there are a lot of people that claim to want more PVP and also a lot who dont want it, so being able to choose would be the sensible option for all IMO.
Can anyone explain why the current PVP and Bounty worlds are always the ones with the least people in them? Does this mean that the desire for more PVP is less than some seem to imply or is there another reason?

30-Dec-2010 15:48:22

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Lol it's so funny how Jagex were combating bots when there's still a huge amount of bots. It didn't make much of a difference, people just bot an account to high stats and good money then sell the account at the moment. Don't see the difference, it's still real world item trading.

30-Dec-2010 15:48:50

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Every single game has real world item trading and Jagex really shouldn't ruin the game for others because of people buying GP. No wonder around 30% of the community went and began to play World of Warcraft, WoW battle the real world item traders but think it's stupid to remove free trade as it'll ruin the game for 50% of the people.

30-Dec-2010 15:50:48

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@Nickbastien1
That was the petition, now there is a poll.
runescape . c()m / referendum
you can vote yes, no, or I don't mind and you must be signed in.

30-Dec-2010 15:51:18 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2010 15:51:39 by Not Bad

Robin Blood
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To all the players who say that they will be unable to cluesolve, did players not do clues in the wilderness before bountyhunter was created? yes they did, clues in the wildernessare are either hard or elite therefore they should be hard and what better way to make them hard by bringing back the wilderness? what an amazing idea this is and its going to bring back somany old school players and pking styles.
Another queery was people making money at dragons. dragons are imense gp there like 1million an hour and the high levels who need more gp like me for better items for there level stats thy have worked so hardfor cannot get kills from dragons due to so many '**obs' being there. so having pkers at dragons will clear the noobs out for me AS I COULD EVEN ATTACK THEM SO I CANNOT WAIT!
Now to the quests, jagex said they will relocate the quests so thats not even a problem.
Now freetrade, i understand players who say they will be scammed as i have been scammed/HACKED out of several of millons over the years, but i got over it and so will you! so this shoud not be a problem as you shouldnt be so stupid to get scammed as i was. Free trade opens a great opertunity for players to help there friends and give presents. for example if a friend has alot of money/items and quits the game all those items/gp go to waste but if free trade was enabled it cold be used to distribute to his friends.(like a will)
I think alot of players will dislike this update wen it happens but after a while will absoluptkey love it, for example back in 05/06 when i was a noob someone randomly gave me full rune, what a joy that was and i think this will happen to other people as full rune is so little to us high leveld members but so much to those low leveled f2p players.
I hope jagex enables for me to be able to go and pickup my firecape, torso, defender and barrows gloves after i die like the good old days as this made pking cheap but you always had a chance of good loot for example smiting ags

30-Dec-2010 15:51:31 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2010 15:51:49 by Robin Blood

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