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Gnome Ballz

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dunforgiven said :
yet even with 300 programmers, they couldn't do it. what makes you think 2 can? Wheres the quote?

As sans said above:

Blog written by Andrew on 3rd September 2009
It's Andrew's turn to answer player questions in this series of Q&As.

#12
Burvis99 asks: Would sailing, sea battles etc be possible to make on Java; in RuneScape?

Andrew: Yes.

Your turn.

24-Aug-2014 00:51:32

Arbrr

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Thing I worry about with this suggestion is the devaluing of the Dragon Slayer Quest. In the quest you are to talk to someone about getting a boat for you to use to get to crandor and I feel this would not make sense anymore if you have your own boat to begin with which then if it was changed it could possibly remove a good part of the quest (the repairing of the boat so its ready to go to the island).

I will be honest but after i think the second page or third (not sure) I just started skimming because it was too much to read. I could have missed something but it seems the skills only benefit is the resource islands and a new pvp area.

Also I dont know if you mentioned diving but I know many other sailing suggestions did and if you did this could devalue (if done in way I think people want it to be done) the RFD Scuba outfit.

Sorry I dont support, It shows you've spent a lot of time in the suggestion though and hopefully you get the supporters you need/want. But as for me Its just not something I support.
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24-Aug-2014 19:33:05

San
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Arbrr said :
Thing I worry about with this suggestion is the devaluing of the Dragon Slayer Quest.

That's the sort of "isolated example" that I referred to in the core aims. As it happens, dragon slayer is also the earliest example, to my knowledge, of a monster that requires some sort of unusual method to kill (the anti-dragon shield). Since slayer has comes about, which is the skill of unusual methods/monsters, the player should surely know that from training slayer. But I don't think having slayer in any way devalues dragon slayer, do you?

Arbrr said :
I will be honest but after i think the second page or third (not sure) I just started skimming because it was too much to read. I could have missed something but it seems the skills only benefit is the resource islands and a new pvp area.

The gaining experience (page 3) and miscellaneous ideas (page 4) give more detail on the sort of things sailing can offer.

Arbrr said :
Also I dont know if you mentioned diving but I know many other sailing suggestions did and if you did this could devalue (if done in way I think people want it to be done) the RFD Scuba outfit.

Is this to do with using the RFD scuba outfit as part of salvaging? That's how I went about it, and I don't think it devalues anything. On the contrary, it takes an item that's completely useless after the quest and gives it value!

Arbrr said :
Sorry I dont support, It shows you've spent a lot of time in the suggestion though and hopefully you get the supporters you need/want. But as for me Its just not something I support.

That's fair enough, it's not everyone's cup of tea. Sailing

24-Aug-2014 19:41:05

Arbrr

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San said :
Arbrr said :
Thing I worry about with this suggestion is the devaluing of the Dragon Slayer Quest.

That's the sort of "isolated example" that I referred to in the core aims. As it happens, dragon slayer is also the earliest example, to my knowledge, of a monster that requires some sort of unusual method to kill (the anti-dragon shield). Since slayer has comes about, which is the skill of unusual methods/monsters, the player should surely know that from training slayer. But I don't think having slayer in any way devalues dragon slayer, do you?


But there is a difference, With the shield you could simply get and use to kill dragons and dragons are technically not considered a slayer monster but yes do use similar mechanics. To be honest they could add dragons to the slayer monster table but as lvl 1 requirement but yeah no the quest doesnt devalue that.

But it would be weird with sailing due to the plot of the quest. If though completing this quest allows you to improve on the boat you purchased / repaired and use then okay, but from what it seems you would get a boat before the quest possibly making the section of the quest where you have to repair the boat and get ned to use the map you made to sail to the island.
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24-Aug-2014 20:17:41 - Last edited on 24-Aug-2014 20:18:16 by Arbrr

Fallen2h

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I don't think Sailing would make Dragon Slayer weird. Maybe the Lady Lumbridge is where the Sailing skill begins. Either way, I don't think players would think about it too much/have a problem with it as the skill itself sounds quite awesome.

24-Aug-2014 20:21:27 - Last edited on 24-Aug-2014 20:22:06 by Fallen2h

San
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Arbrr said :
But there is a difference, With the shield you could simply get and use to kill dragons and dragons are technically not considered a slayer monster but yes do use similar mechanics. To be honest they could add dragons to the slayer monster table but as lvl 1 requirement but yeah no the quest doesnt devalue that.

I was getting at if somebody were suggesting slayer, if it weren't in the game, you could use the line of argument that it'd devalue dragon slayer, we already have an unusual monster.

Now, here we are with me suggesting sailing. If sailing were in game, you'd be able to say that dragon slayer wasn't part of sailing, but yes they use similar mechanics.

Arbrr said :
But it would be weird with sailing due to the plot of the quest. If though completing this quest allows you to improve on the boat you purchased / repaired and use then okay, but from what it seems you would get a boat before the quest possibly making the section of the quest where you have to repair the boat and get ned to use the map you made to sail to the island.

I can live with it being a bit weird.

There's so many examples of similar things to this that it's perfectly permissable.

There's the slayer/ dragon slayer one (and also demon slayer, and vampire slayer, while we're at it)
In legends quest you plant a yommi seed and grow the yommi tree, all before farming was a skill
In several quests you have to make repairs to something with planks, before the release of construction
The tower of life involves creating a personal monster, before summoning. Curiously, I remember reading that the tower of life was an engine test to see how summoning might work... that always made me wonder what cabin fever was! Sailing

24-Aug-2014 20:38:52

John Wolfram

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holy support, batman!

amazing work you've put into this. not so fond of adding even more melee weapons into runescape with it, but the bow-sword sounds awesome and it could be the balancing point ranged combat has been needing! cannons, fire arrows, bow-swords. finally a skill that rangers would have the advantage in! I love so much of this, I would start programming it myself if I could!


good job :)

30-Aug-2014 03:31:20

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