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Madman911
Feb Member 2012

Madman911

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Still waiting for Death Cost to be looked at. Over 1M a death is BS.

As you rewards from the grand master quest shows, you lost insight how to manage game play. However, you guys are awesome at producing useless cosmetics items all the time.

25-Apr-2022 04:32:42

XSlay4DeathX
Mar Member 2007

XSlay4DeathX

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1 million per death is also a different value to some, you make 500k an hour, that's big, make 5mill an hour it's a oh well. make 10mill+ or 20mill+ an hour it goes unnoticed sometimes.

1million is still better than losing 'everything' except for 3 items which it used to be.

But....In a world where we have internet issues, power outages even internet speeds that hinder your movement and actions in game that leads to your character dying. Is it biased against such players to have a fee for dying? after all not everyone has good internet, we have instance costs which is enough.

For me 1million is nothing, but for others depending on how often they die for whatever the reason be, can pile up. I'd support it's removal/reduction to 200k-400k based on boss, zero for quests as it's sometimes a surprise.

"disclaimer quest boss your about to face uses magic and can teleblock, plus your wearing the weakness of his attacks and his special can 1 hit you if you stand still too long"

^never seen one warning other than "wish to proceed into cave' etc unless you watch a guide nothing warns of the attacks.

I know many who did quests that lost all items minus 3 during a quest, reason i always use quest guides, I never did like death fees of any sort.

28-Apr-2022 05:13:20

Tuffty
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Few ways to fix this.

1 Don't die. :P

2 Pay Death. :)

3 If you die Death sets you up a Task that you can either do or pay not to do. Much like a Slayers Task. Could be fun to do. Say you are killing Black Dragons Death sets a task to do 50 Black Dragons to off set the cost. You could get a small reward too.

4 Watching the last live stream Death is getting a makeover. So see how that goes. Comprehensive Account Security
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28-Apr-2022 10:59:49

Roddy Piper
Jan Member 2011

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"But....In a world where we have internet issues, power outages even internet speeds that hinder your movement and actions in game that leads to your character dying. Is it biased against such players to have a fee for dying? after all not everyone has good internet, we have instance costs which is enough."


This is a good argument against death costs. A few days ago Jagex decided my game world should be the automatic login for people who don't choose worlds. I went to do the ranged version of Rex Matriarch for Reaper and my prayers were changing way too slow. I was getting moiderlized out there.

I didn't even realize what was happening, but I went to world select page to check the ping and 650 people were logged in.

The game was completely unplayable on that world. In those instances, the game should pay ME if I die.

28-Apr-2022 11:44:46

Tuffty
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2003

Tuffty

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Roddy Piper said :
"But....In a world where we have internet issues, power outages even internet speeds that hinder your movement and actions in game that leads to your character dying. Is it biased against such players to have a fee for dying? after all not everyone has good internet, we have instance costs which is enough."

You bring up a valid point. I'm not sure how that would be caught by Jagex. I'm sure though that is no clicks are tagged by Jagex it could be a sign of being booted out of game and thus a refund or Death saying " Whoops it looks like you dropped conenction " etc and He would let you off.

Have to see what Jagex plans are now to update Death. Comprehensive Account Security
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28-Apr-2022 12:30:00

Tranq
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You have the options of paying death for convenience or attempt to go retrieve your items from your grave. Fair warning if you die again before looting everything in your original grave is lost.

That there is the real reason people pay death since he can hold your belongings for up to 24 hours and you don't keep to run a potential gambit to get there.
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28-Apr-2022 12:31:48

Eddy Razor
Feb Member 2008

Eddy Razor

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I don't really get this, it looks like max death costs will fall (sic) from 10,807,918 to 2,147,483,647, maybe its just how you tell it. Also my ring of death won't work properly and GE transactions will be taxed.
Current death costs are quite reasonable, I only wonder if they work for death by game crash.
To get gold out of the game why not offer better stuff, including cosmetics, in the shops?Especially those useless general stores. I often can't get stuff on the GE, eg for farming requests. Perhaps we could have a dodgy dealer to source items at double GE rates. Perhaps he could buy stuff too at half ge rates, I've got a pile of rubber turkeys at the moment that are taking up bank space, but just don't sell.
And get on with sorting out construction, which used to be a cash sink, but in recent years hasn't offered anything at all. I don't mean xp gain, but stuff to make me want to spend coins.

05-Jan-2023 15:46:02 - Last edited on 05-Jan-2023 15:54:39 by Eddy Razor

Skeleton Man

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Madman911 said :
Still waiting for Death Cost to be looked at. Over 1M a death is BS.

As you rewards from the grand master quest shows, you lost insight how to manage game play. However, you guys are awesome at producing useless cosmetics items all the time.

Don't worry, your HANDOUT IS HERE!

And us SKILLERS will ONCE AGAIN take it on the chin for you!!!

ENJOY YOUR HANDOUT! BOSSERS WHILE US SKILLERS GET TAXED SO YOU CAN GET BASICALLY FREE DEATHS!

09-Jan-2023 16:14:39

Tenebri
Jan Member 2015

Tenebri

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Skeleton Man said :
Madman911 said :
Still waiting for Death Cost to be looked at. Over 1M a death is BS.

As you rewards from the grand master quest shows, you lost insight how to manage game play. However, you guys are awesome at producing useless cosmetics items all the time.

Don't worry, your HANDOUT IS HERE!

And us SKILLERS will ONCE AGAIN take it on the chin for you!!!

ENJOY YOUR HANDOUT! BOSSERS WHILE US SKILLERS GET TAXED SO YOU CAN GET BASICALLY FREE DEATHS!

pvmers get taxed too. lol

why are you thinking its pvmers v skillers? such a weird mindset
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09-Jan-2023 16:16:56

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