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Avid Sparx

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May as well post it again, since the forums (and game) are dead as PONG, why not drop a Vanilla OSRS Server? Low maintenance (since ZERO UPDATING), might bring back some disillusioned former players (me), and cheaper than FSW! Just that 2007 backup you used to launch OSRS in the first place, with NO CHANGES.

Seriously, what the f@%& do you have to lose at this point? 'Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.'
T. Pratchett, 1948-2015 RIP, you are missed

02-Nov-2022 11:53:01

Avid Sparx

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333333333 said :
Nah, we don't need more split servers for different game versions! Play or don't play!
Updates are important!

Apparently you're not getting the concept... 'Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.'
T. Pratchett, 1948-2015 RIP, you are missed

02-Nov-2022 16:29:25

Angel2D4

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333333333 said :
Nah, we don't need more split servers for different game versions! Play or don't play!
Updates are important!

Updates are "important"? Yup, so important we need to have the update for old school that created old school in the first place. That'll keep the game YOU WANT around forever and ever and ever... NOT.

Your new iteration of 'ignore it or quit' don't fly in the face of fresh start worlds..

Jagex CAN make any server type they want to.. and it costs them next to nothing.. they've already acknowledged this.

Get over your selfish attitude of not wanting others to have the version of the game that they enjoy playing.

Support for vanilla servers.. and 'official' private servers too. There might not have been tons of questions about it on that survey, but to me it sounded like they're considering offering private servers themselves (where people would pay jagex for it).

They could get membership out of vanilla servers just as easily.. and clearly there's not going to be many existing customers going to a vanilla server.. and it wouldn't be for existing players anyway... but how many players might come back? "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" -Martin Luther King Jr.

02-Nov-2022 17:17:45

Angel2D4

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So a couple of things I would point out at this point:

Choosing to manually select a world (from old school's main page) shows a list of worlds, how many peeps, etc.. there are already worlds listed as "private" worlds..

And for vanilla servers... I'd want it for longer than the 6 months the fresh start worlds are planned to get.. because 6 months on any 'good' iteration.. would be a waste of time, IMO. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" -Martin Luther King Jr.

02-Nov-2022 18:01:14

Angel2D4

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Inspire you said :
Seems like a waste of development time.

Actually, I don't think it was "a waste of development time" when they created it... and launched it... in 2013.

Though given it's become what it is, maybe it was a waste of dev time.. but.. time already spent and they wouldn't need to repeat the development of it... just relaunch it as it was in 2013. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" -Martin Luther King Jr.

02-Nov-2022 18:50:08

Draco Burnz
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Angel2D4 said :


Though given it's become what it is, maybe it was a waste of dev time.. but.. time already spent and they wouldn't need to repeat the development of it... just relaunch it as it was in 2013.

Yep and split the dev teams even thinner than they already are for osrs thus making things "worse" in the overall picture.

I mean there'll still be bots and other things plaguing the game, so theyd need devs for those things.
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02-Nov-2022 22:29:28

Excirialis

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Avid Sparx said :
333333333 said :
Nah, we don't need more split servers for different game versions! Play or don't play!
Updates are important!

Apparently you're not getting the concept...

I think i understand the concept, but what is it supposed to achieve? Provided i understand your proposal correctly, your intent is to have worlds that use the 2007 snapshop of Runescape that OSRS was based on, without any further updates or modifications to it?

Let's say they create these worlds - then what? Ignoring for a second that this would require maintaining multiple full code bases for a mode that has a very limited draw, where would this concept be a couple of years from now? Players will start on these worlds, eventually max an account, collect all gear and then face the situation there is nothing left to do because no new content is ever added. And when there is nothing left to do, players leave.

The same thing occurs in OSRS. Whenever a larger content update is dropped player interest will temporally peak and players that stopped playing will return (At least for some time) to check the new content.

So, if OSRS is dying (A term i wouldn't use at all for a game that has 86k active players at the moment, but sure), wouldn't this separate mode be pretty much the definition of "Dead on Arrival"?

02-Nov-2022 23:19:23

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