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Haydn3
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Sailing has got to be the stupiest thing I've ever seen.

The flashy, new-age runescape feel, abyssal whips, barrows, all of that new-fangled RS3 tripe is too much like WoW to be put into RS2.

I remember back when I was playing Runescape classic and I came over to RS2; it was good then. They should let everyone spam in banks and remove everything after the runecrafting update.

RS2 is meant to be where I can experience what it was like to play Runescape back in 2006.
This is not what I play this game for and I feel like seeing Barrows gear, Boss pets and hunter skilling things is too flashy for me to like.

I avoid all of it, and this is more of what I've come to hate of Runescape.

10-Sep-2015 15:30:45

San
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There are loads of reasons why adding sailing would be overwhelmingly beneficial. I mention a heap in this thread but I suspect you didn't read it.

Also, what better skills? What other skills-that-never-were have even close to the enduring popularity of sailing? Sailing

10-Sep-2015 20:23:55

Haydn3
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But the point stands that if sailing were added it would make Runescape into objectively everything we are trying to get away from.

We play Oldschool for nostalgia, and seeing the nosalgia tree off into something new and its own game is lessening the amount we can appreciate it for how to like to relate it back to what we did when we were growing up, or at least in that what we did in 2006/7 can be reffered and disguised-as-similar in regards to what we do now.

To take Runescape Oldschool in the direction of non-nostalgia, dev-playground, additive-laden and chopped and glued with completely-seperate-from-2007-Runescape mods and blocks of code we will not be able to experience the type of Runescape we, as lovers of what we grew up with, relate back to the family set of Monopoly with original metal player-pieces and browned cards and torn money.

I revel in thinking I'm doing things I loved to do as a kid and still love to do them.

This game is only going to chance itself in losing the wishful playfulness of childhood for an added skill and some boat physics.
I do not want to morph my perception of Runescape. I want to live in 2006 and like the game as it was in 2006 because it's a bloody good game as it is; only in accordance with the reasons above.

11-Sep-2015 10:00:38

San
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That's simply not true. You might play for nostalgia, but not everyone. Not by far. In fact id say the majority play old school simply because it isn't Rs3. And when you look at the fact something as big as zeah passed with like 90%, it's evident that people like you that want it to stay as a relic are overwhelmingly outnumbered. Sailing

11-Sep-2015 13:22:31

Haydn3
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Haydn3

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Saying the voters are 34% against something as popularised as sailing means about a third of the Runescape Oldschool playerbase wants it to stay as it was in 2006, with little in the way of major changes ala. New Skills Being Added.

To say 90% on a vote to make a map bigger where players are all cramped into the place they've grown accustomed to isn't something special, it isn't even a point of interest when the Runescape map is arguably, small.

Zeah is like adding a new Karamja. Sailing is like adding Grass-Mowing as a skill. Permanent, unavoidable and everywhere.
They're nothing alike.

11-Sep-2015 16:03:04

San
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San

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They're both massive, gamechanging, and would bring in a huge amount of content. The only particular difference is that sailing is a skill.

Besides, technicalities aside, it still refutes your premise that it's "everything we are trying to get away from". Only 32% are against sailing. Enough for it not to pass, sure, but also enough to demonstrate that people in your position are comprehensively a minority. The fact that other permanent, unavoidable and everywhere things pass - for instance, the GE and bonds - show that this figure is rather generous, and that you are definitely in the minority. In those cases, enough of a minority to show you aren't even able to stop things happening. Sailing

11-Sep-2015 16:12:21 - Last edited on 11-Sep-2015 16:15:11 by San

Eagle Eye

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@San

Not gonna lie I'm worried Sailing won't pass the poll :( ..

Even though they didn't use many of your idea's I am sick of having same Old Content only releases now are PvM and it's getting quite annoying seeing this nonstop I want the community to relise they don't have to skill if they don't want to.. but relise those who do should be the ones choosing if it comes out.. I personally think Jagex should make it so you need 1 skilling 99 for voting on skill related updates..(cooking/fletching doesn't count) therefore we can finaly get content related to what us guy's want while the PvM players get the content they want..

11-Sep-2015 16:35:16 - Last edited on 11-Sep-2015 16:36:16 by Eagle Eye

Roadrunner

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Well San, after a long think about it I renewed mems just to add my support to the fight you've been waging here on the forums forever it seems.

If not for your voice I'd have voted no.

Pass or fail, well done Sir!
Ha ha, made you look ;)

11-Sep-2015 16:38:56

San
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San

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I don't think it will pass this time either. But then again, I don't think they polled it too well. There still seems to be quite a lot of people voting out of misinformation. Plus, I don't think Jagex really took enough time to justify why sailing can be so great. They seem to have taken more time to discuss stuff that doesn't really matter like specific rewards. We don't need to know that yet. They should go into detail about the new dynamics and styles of play it could offer. I would think that would help get it closer to passing. Along with, of course, doing whatever it takes to stop people voting no out of misinformation. Sailing

11-Sep-2015 16:39:15

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