It is highly doubtful OSRS will look at adding Curses when even the lowest impact Runious Power was deemed too much powercreep. If by "regular Runescape" you mean RS2 then you can look at the far more improved combat system with a lot of new content like Summoning familiars and T80 (BiS then) gear from Dungeoneering and tell OSRS's combat system is severely outdated and even a slight power up of existing mechanics may cause a lot of powercreep and be severely ruinous to combat as a whole.
Realistically, with such primitive featureless combat system of nothing but prayer flicking then hit and run for almost every cookie cutter boss, it is quite hopeless to add new higher tier updates, especially when OSRS is trying their hardest with GE tax to rig their favorite older gear like Tbows to artificially high prices.
They can have mining updates similar to woodcutting, however, realistically I think it will be lower priority given Forestry is not getting any traction with most players, not even to say it took OSRS twice as much the time to deliver that update compared to what they hyped it on Winter Summit 2022.
As fornew mining updates crashing ore prices, the economics is not just about bots but also whether there are new players buying them. For other games, low level ores actually surged in prices because those games have real new players coming in continuously (and very few and no bots too). Can OSRS get new players? I am not optimistic so yes, I think new mining updates won't help ore prices, although it may not crash them as they are selling at deeply depressed prices already.
26-Oct-2023 18:03:47
