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Yolp
Jun Member 2022

Yolp

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Only issue i have with NEW skills and NEW prayers, is that this is seems way to familiar to what they did with RS3 which was originally 07 RS, they made so many changes that, it is now turned to RS3. We wanted OLDSCHOOL not a RS3 V2. Only problem i see that will happen, and alot of people will turn off the game if this happens :(
;) Happy ^_^

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14-Apr-2023 06:34:18

Dilbert2001
Jun Member 2006

Dilbert2001

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Noticeably the OSRS team seems to have backpedaled from their original statement that once when the community passed the vote for a new skill, they would make a new skill no matter what. During yesterday's livestream, they seemed to say at a certain point if they got the message the community doesn't support a new skill, they will just give up.

Interesting.

14-Apr-2023 18:24:18

Snow Flame

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I feel is more that the community wants a new skill but it will never agree on *what* the new skill should be and what it should contain.

As such a new skill that has been refined and worked on (like warding / artisian ) will never pass being tossed in to the polling system directly.

In fact I 100% bet a majority of skills in game if polled today would fail. Fire making? Why not just make it apart of wood cutting. Fletching? Why is that not just apart of crafting! The exp rates and training methods for this runecrafting skill sucks, so voting no.

It is one reason why I am happy they polled first on "Do you want a new skill?" since that's really the only thing they can get the community to agree on. Them backtracking on what they said in December / January with the most recent Q&A with that since the first skill poll passed, that we *will* get a new skill makes me sad.

As part of the excitment I had for OSRS back in the day was getting a new skill every year or two. From 2003 to 2008 we got a skill a year. So people saying new skills are not OSRS are just... wrong. While the skill itself might not be "old school" as in existed from back then, getting a new skill is very much in the spirit of OSRS.

15-Apr-2023 21:04:39

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KelanTuki said :
Practically, none of the 3 proposed skill received more than 60% votes for going forward for refinements. Actually there was a question in today's livestream about why they didn't need to pass the 70% threshold on the concept of a skill for it to go to the refinement stages. OSRS's response pointed to development limbo so they used a different polling system to make this skill passed.

Sailing is selected as the next skill to work on, but practically less than 60% of the players (including those who voted for it) approved the concept of it..

with a 5 way poll, it's near impossible to get a 70% majority vote. So they were correct to go with the new method if they wanted to avoid development limbo.

That said they could have easily done a different way. After the last poll they could have easily dropped the least voted of the three (taming) and polled again. Then after that Polled one last time between "No" and the top voted skill. It would have taken longer but would have been more faithful.

15-Apr-2023 21:10:19

E I E dInO
Sep Member 2022

E I E dInO

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"After reading the New Skill Pitch blog, which concept(s) for a New Skill in Old School RuneScape would you be happy to see refined further? Select all that apply.

Sailing 59.2% (105799 votes)
Taming 39.9% (71390 votes)
Shamanism 58.8% (105208 votes)
I didn't like any of them 12.5% (22209 votes)
Skip question 1.1% (1961 votes)

Note: This is a multiple-choice question. Each value reflects the percentage of voters who chose that option. Since players can pick multiple options, this will not add to 100%."

Yes, it is not just possible to get a 70%, but also 100%, vote for each skill, but it didn't happen.

16-Apr-2023 00:32:43

Dilbert2001
Jun Member 2006

Dilbert2001

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Well, we should have known by now voting really doesn't mean a thing in OSRS anymore. We don't really need 70% (or even lower if they want to further lower the threshold for show) of the community votes for any content to move forward now. Jmods can always point to "development limbo" and proceed with whatever project they like as "integrity" updates.

16-Apr-2023 16:23:25

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