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Dungortheb
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Dungortheb

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I have an idea. How about some timer that makes players get thrown out of the current match if they have been standing still for say 1-2 minutes? At least it would be more difficult to stack idle alts into the opposite team.

Edit: As OP already mentioned the castle wars bracelet, what's the point of it anyway? Couldn't it just be removed?

Edit 2: Could there also be a requirement that you have to have something in your weapon slot to participate? It wouldn't be much but a one thing more to make things harder for the alt stackers.

Edit 3: Maybe even timer for being thrown out if you haven't engaged in combat i a certain amount of time, maybe 5 min? Or are there serious roles for anyone in CW that doesn't want to participate in combat?

Edit 4: Some other reqs to be able to participate? Combat level 20-30? 50-100 quest points? A quest?

Edit 5: And of course I acknowledge that the kicked players would leave empty spaces anyway to the teams but there is the system that allows players to join if there are empty spaces in the teams. AND: what if there would be some NPCs to fill the left empty spaces before some actual player comes and takes the place? This would also require that the thrown out players are not able to participate for a certain amount of time, say 30 mins?

19-Feb-2021 09:45:13 - Last edited on 19-Feb-2021 10:14:03 by Dungortheb

4ev

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Before I address your points, I want to preface my post by saying, I am not trying to change game mechanics any more than is absolutely necessary, and even then, very minor changes.

Standing Idle
- when defending, if there is nobody coming to the base to score, this may very well look like you are doing nothing, however, you are in fact waiting for players to come score. There's certain squares to stand at that are better than others also, since running is 2 tiles per tic, so you can set up where your barricades get placed as you run just ahead of the scorers. So needing to move off those tiles to beat some timer, would be detrimental to real players.

Combat/Weapons
- Combat isn't necessary to be beneficial to the team. I play castle wars on level 3 accounts quite often honestly, as barricades + tinderbox are stronger than the sword.

Castle Wars Bracelet
- I don't mind the bracelet, I was just pointing out that the damage increase makes the power creep exponentially worse within the game, making it easier to defend than score (in members). That is why a lot of the better players put gear caps such as mage bonus and certain weapons turned off, when playing competitively.

In F2P, they experience the opposite problem, where it is super easy to score on a high level account, so in there most games are limited to no armour and any weapon goes to make the games more balanced (also no freezing defense in their own base).


TL;DR

So basically, I unfortunately disagree with everything you've posted above, since it would change game mechanics and accomplish nothing other than annoying legitimate players (for example, to counter needing a weapon, I could wield the bronze sword from tutorial island on a new lvl 3). Castle Wars in Theme - A few minor changes to fix cheating
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Kid Penguin

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I super duper support the idea of getting Castle Wars more balanced, and I think the fastest, easiest solution to implement (probably, as I am not an OSRS dev) is to disable the red and blue portals in themed worlds. It's not perfect and it doesn't address everything, but it is certainly simple to implement and would address the clan-domination issue. It would incentivize playing the game as intended. Top 1% bestselling Dungeons and Dragons game designer
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13-Apr-2021 21:54:02 - Last edited on 13-Apr-2021 21:54:45 by Kid Penguin

4ev

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ty for support, yes green portal only in theme would solve most issues, sbotagers for the sake of sabotaging wouldn't be fixed, but pretty much everything else would be (for the most part, games would still be unbalanced, but you couldn't control that as much). Castle Wars in Theme - A few minor changes to fix cheating
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4ev

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Which discord specifically? I popped into privs, competitive castle wars, and the world 334 CWs and didn't really see any new discussion.

I've been really inactive on OSRS because nothing is done with the sabotagers and it just ruins the game completely, even cancelled membership over it because nothing is done. So if I can assist in coming up with a solution I will. Castle Wars in Theme - A few minor changes to fix cheating
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