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There are only three things I regret and would change if I could.

1: Keeping both the Dark Shard and Eluned out of Seren. The Light Within was honestly the hardest quest of the lot in my opinion when it comes to decision making, and I made my choice thinking that the Dark Shard's energy would leak on the elves and cause all of Prifddinas to become like the old Iorwerth clan, killing each other and causing Seren to become even more stricken in the long term. I also feared this effect would be increased by the negative aspects of Haluned, and I also kept Eluned out partly because she's my friend and partly because I thought she was the shapeshifters' only hope. But looking back on it now I know that Dark Shard Seren would slowly withdraw from the elves so the energy effect wouldn't happen anyway, but would weaning the elves off her really work? So many things came to factor in this quest, probably more than any other quest by far.

2: Ahrim in Kindred Spirits. Take the pain like a man and stop hating on women.

3: Not going through all the cutscenes in the maze at Sliske's Endgame. I owe this to being afk right near the stairs to the race with Armadyl and clicking on the stairs by mistake.
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01-Oct-2017 22:32:58

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I'm actually against giving players the ability to change past decisions because of the technical side of things more than anything else. Jagex has begun to make decisions made in 6th age content matter when it comes to later additions to the storyline, locking off some paths in quests entirely based on choices you made in earlier quests.

As such, you can't simply change the events of one quest in isolation. Any change you make has to be checked against your other choices to see if you'd still be able to have done them (and all changes that need to be made in order to accommodate your first change would also have to be checked for compatibility with your other choices.

It just seems far easier to allow players to replay quests with their first play through as canon, while subsequent play throughs can let you set the relevant past decisions to whatever you want before you start so you can see the differences.

01-Oct-2017 23:13:54

Summerleaf
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A Mad Hatter said :
[Ran out of characters on the last post]

Also...

Summerleaf said :
This should probably go in the New Game Content Suggestions thread, but I'm posting it here since it technically involves lore, and you guys are the opinions that I'm after.


Technically you guys are supposed to discuss Lore in threads around here instead of suggesting stuff to add to interfaces. But I'm willing to see where this goes considering the nature of the suggestion can be justified through lore too.


If it helps any, I wrote this in my original post:

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Also, if you want to compile a list of quests, and their decisions below, go ahead (like the various Void Knight stuff, where we sent the Stone in RotM, all the decisions in SE and MPD)


Because (1) I wanted to actually compile a more complete list of all the choices, and that *is* lore related, and (2) it's related to the interface concept. If it helps any, I could reword it to something like "I'm compiling a list of quest choices, for an interface concept that I'm working on. Here's what I have so far: *(insert pic)* Please let me know what other decisions you can think of in Quests/Miniquests/and if there are any outside of those also, feel free comment on the interface concept if you want."

(but thanks tho for letting it stay :P )

02-Oct-2017 04:21:36 - Last edited on 02-Oct-2017 04:21:58 by Summerleaf

Summerleaf
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~On the Changing Decisions Concept:~

When I wrote it, I knew that changing decisions shouldn't be something that is easy to do. You made a choice, and you should live with it. HOWEVER, sometimes people make mistakes, or misclick, or 10000 other things can go wrong, so I figured that a bond would be a decent price to pay for this option. Expensive enough that it won't be overused, but cheap enough to be bought once or twice.

02-Oct-2017 04:26:32

Hazeel

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Good. Then I could root out the little bastards who didn't wake me up. Runescape doesn't need a hero...it needs a villain. An all encompassing force of evil that will remain ever-threatening and use chaos to make the peoples of Gielinor tolerate each other, grow strong together, and fight side by side against this evil. I am that villain.

02-Oct-2017 18:01:51

A Mad Hatter
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Summerleaf said :


*snip*

If it helps any, I wrote this in my original post:

Original message details are unavailable.
Also, if you want to compile a list of quests, and their decisions below, go ahead (like the various Void Knight stuff, where we sent the Stone in RotM, all the decisions in SE and MPD)


Because (1) I wanted to actually compile a more complete list of all the choices, and that *is* lore related, and (2) it's related to the interface concept. If it helps any, I could reword it to something like "I'm compiling a list of quest choices, for an interface concept that I'm working on. Here's what I have so far: *(insert pic)* Please let me know what other decisions you can think of in Quests/Miniquests/and if there are any outside of those also, feel free comment on the interface concept if you want."

(but thanks tho for letting it stay :P )


For what it's worth, the fact that you had that in your opening post is pretty much the only thing that's giving me any wiggle room with letting it stay. Mostly because the way I see it, if we have a list of 5th Age quests stickied, I don't see why we can't have a list of quest choices around too.

So do what you will. I just made a post like that because I'd rather cover my bases instead of ending up with some behind the scenes stuff coming back to bite me if a moderator who doesn't use this forum ends up with a Forum Help troll report about this for whatever reason.
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02-Oct-2017 20:59:00

Quael
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On a Serious note, I do agree that changing ones past is a cheap tactic, and even Jagex had stated there will never be an option to do this, as they want everyone to make a choice, and live with it, because that's how life is.

But if they ever did make up their mind, bonds would be a fair price, then again, rich people can change everything thy feel they did "wrong".
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03-Oct-2017 14:10:02

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