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Raxxess
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I partly agree with a lot of what has already been said.
The thing I really don't like about the sixth age at all is the popularity aspect of it all. Bandos died because he lost a popularity contest. They put in Garlandia and other really badly written pieces on Saradomin for the sake of hurting his popularity to even out world events.
RoP and DoC2 were back burnered because they kept going up against Mahjarrat or Seren related quests that offered way more rewards, and honestly this was a pattern that expanded well beyond lore with Runelabs we had a near constant flow of bossing or PvP updates that died a few months after they were released and now popularity is based on rewards.
There was nothing wrong with Garlandia that using them as more than a filler would not have solved. In other words giving them a real reason for being about. It was like dropping a new character into tv soap that potentially rocks the boat so there was a story to be used, and then never doing anything with them. No follow up. At the very least a face off between Garlandia and Zilyana...a short face to face with Owen...something!
Probably a bit late now. Can't see any way of shoehorning them into DoC2 lol.
Point being that it was more poor utilisation than being badly written. Badly written is having a major character dress up in a bath towel and a helmet with a couple of half-mellons on, then just moan their way through a "main event" while they just watch,
The purpose of adventure is to shine light into dark places,
Poke monsters with a sharp stick, Then steal anything that isn't nailed down!
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I partly agree with a lot of what has already been said.
The thing I really don't like about the sixth age at all is the popularity aspect of it all. Bandos died because he lost a popularity contest. They put in Garlandia and other really badly written pieces on Saradomin for the sake of hurting his popularity to even out world events.
RoP and DoC2 were back burnered because they kept going up against Mahjarrat or Seren related quests that offered way more rewards, and honestly this was a pattern that expanded well beyond lore with Runelabs we had a near constant flow of bossing or PvP updates that died a few months after they were released and now popularity is based on rewards.
There was nothing wrong with Garlandia that using them as more than a filler would not have solved. In other words giving them a real reason for being about. It was like dropping a new character into tv soap that potentially rocks the boat so there was a story to be used, and then never doing anything with them. No follow up. At the very least a face off between Garlandia and Zilyana...a short face to face with Owen...something!
Probably a bit late now. Can't see any way of shoehorning them into DoC2 lol.
Point being that it was more poor utilisation than being badly written. Badly written is having a major character dress up in a bath towel and a helmet with a couple of half-mellons on, then just moan their way through a "main event" while they just watch,
The purpose of adventure is to shine light into dark places,
Poke monsters with a sharp stick, Then steal anything that isn't nailed down!
To the Manor Born QFC 185-186-367-65788716
24-Nov-2016 06:34:13
Solanumtinkr
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There was nothing wrong with Garlandia that using them as more than a filler would not have solved. In other words giving them a real reason for being about. It was like dropping a new character into tv soap that potentially rocks the boat so there was a story to be used, and then never doing anything with them. No follow up. At the very least a face off between Garlandia and Zilyana...a short face to face with Owen...something!
Probably a bit late now. Can't see any way of shoehorning them into DoC2 lol.
Point being that it was more poor utilisation than being badly written. Badly written is having a major character dress up in a bath towel and a helmet with a couple of half-mellons on, then just moan their way through a "main event" while they just watch,
I have to disagree I was never a fan of Garlandia, I was actually kind of optimistic when they said they wanted to make Saradomin a grey kind of character because it meant we were going to learn new things about him and his ideals that may sway us one way or the other.
Instead we got Garlandia and NPC whose story makes no sense. Her wings were ripped off so she couldn't hop island to island on New Domina but she somehow made it to another world? If her friends helped her get there or it was the Godless druid it still makes no sense why would they wait till after winter to save her? How did they actually travel to New Domina and know the island she was on?
And then in the podcast on Saradomin they even admitted that she was put just to even out his popularity on world events, and what really makes no sense is that they can put her in instantly to bring down Saradomin's popularity but they can't even take the time to put him and Armadyl on the surface world with some dialogue? It makes no sense.
There was nothing wrong with Garlandia that using them as more than a filler would not have solved. In other words giving them a real reason for being about. It was like dropping a new character into tv soap that potentially rocks the boat so there was a story to be used, and then never doing anything with them. No follow up. At the very least a face off between Garlandia and Zilyana...a short face to face with Owen...something!
Probably a bit late now. Can't see any way of shoehorning them into DoC2 lol.
Point being that it was more poor utilisation than being badly written. Badly written is having a major character dress up in a bath towel and a helmet with a couple of half-mellons on, then just moan their way through a "main event" while they just watch,
I have to disagree I was never a fan of Garlandia, I was actually kind of optimistic when they said they wanted to make Saradomin a grey kind of character because it meant we were going to learn new things about him and his ideals that may sway us one way or the other.
Instead we got Garlandia and NPC whose story makes no sense. Her wings were ripped off so she couldn't hop island to island on New Domina but she somehow made it to another world? If her friends helped her get there or it was the Godless druid it still makes no sense why would they wait till after winter to save her? How did they actually travel to New Domina and know the island she was on?
And then in the podcast on Saradomin they even admitted that she was put just to even out his popularity on world events, and what really makes no sense is that they can put her in instantly to bring down Saradomin's popularity but they can't even take the time to put him and Armadyl on the surface world with some dialogue? It makes no sense.
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