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Mattrellen

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Thanks for that Beatrix. I've only played maybe a dozen MMO's outside of RS, so never ran across the term "raid" in this context. Sounds quite...counter to the normal meaning. It is maybe something of clones of another popular MMOR** (is saying the name of another game still considered advertising a website on here)? I haven't played unsaid game or clones, so if it's something related to them, that would explain it.

Sounds much like a dungeon (not as in dungeoneering, but in the general context used in games), then, without some of the most interesting parts of exploration, discovering, and survival using interesting means.

Sounds like group fight caves with more walking forward and with Jad having 100x as much health.

Meh...if that's how it is, I'm seeing very little to be excited about so far...I may vote no, depending on the exact question, not because I don't want a big expansion, but because the ideas put forth so far don't seem to warrant the development time that would be required or be different enough from what we already have to really dedicate a whole new continent to these types of things.

01-Nov-2014 16:37:09

Boombox
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The only thing that concerns me is-are we spreading our players too thin? If we see a doubling of the size of Runescape, I expect to see the amount of world's halved...

Furthermore, It doesn't matter how big the area is if it feels lifeless. Our current continent has enough dead content and barren areas as is. If were adding such a big area we need to make them rich with content to make them feel full of life.

Other than that I am very excited for some new land. Good luck!

01-Nov-2014 18:05:57 - Last edited on 01-Nov-2014 18:08:38 by Boombox

Troubled
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Boombox said :
The only thing that concerns me is-are we spreading our players too thin? If we see a doubling of the size of Runescape, I expect to see the amount of world's halved...

Furthermore, It doesn't matter how big the area is if it feels lifeless. Our current continent has enough dead content and barren areas as is. If were adding such a big area we need to make them rich with content to make them feel full of life.

Other than that I am very excited for some new land. Good luck!

Maybe a few less worlds.. Reducing worlds by 50% would be bad for pvm

01-Nov-2014 18:25:10

b0gs

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Boombox said :
The only thing that concerns me is-are we spreading our players too thin? If we see a doubling of the size of Runescape, I expect to see the amount of world's halved...

Furthermore, It doesn't matter how big the area is if it feels lifeless. Our current continent has enough dead content and barren areas as is. If were adding such a big area we need to make them rich with content to make them feel full of life.

Other than that I am very excited for some new land. Good luck!

this is the only post so far with reasonable reasons against Zeah.

to everyone that doesnt want overpowered gear, whats your plan for increasing combat gears? to just make them all the same up to 99?
and everyone that says its just turning into RS3 is a moron... any update to 07 can be made-out to be turning into RS3, you are just blinded by your hatred for RS3 that you dont seem to want the game to progress.

Personally Im very excited for the new continent, but am curious how they will deal with the spreading of players, and keeping current content alive whilst adding new content on this massive scale.

01-Nov-2014 18:39:22

Troubled
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b0gs said :
Boombox said :
The only thing that concerns me is-are we spreading our players too thin? If we see a doubling of the size of Runescape, I expect to see the amount of world's halved...

Furthermore, It doesn't matter how big the area is if it feels lifeless. Our current continent has enough dead content and barren areas as is. If were adding such a big area we need to make them rich with content to make them feel full of life.

Other than that I am very excited for some new land. Good luck!

this is the only post so far with reasonable reasons against Zeah.

to everyone that doesnt want overpowered gear, whats your plan for increasing combat gears? to just make them all the same up to 99?
and everyone that says its just turning into RS3 is a moron... any update to 07 can be made-out to be turning into RS3, you are just blinded by your hatred for RS3 that you dont seem to want the game to progress.

Personally Im very excited for the new continent, but am curious how they will deal with the spreading of players, and keeping current content alive whilst adding new content on this massive scale.

01-Nov-2014 18:51:54

Grimreaper22
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Troubled said :
Boombox said :
The only thing that concerns me is-are we spreading our players too thin? If we see a doubling of the size of Runescape, I expect to see the amount of world's halved...

Furthermore, It doesn't matter how big the area is if it feels lifeless. Our current continent has enough dead content and barren areas as is. If were adding such a big area we need to make them rich with content to make them feel full of life.

Other than that I am very excited for some new land. Good luck!

Maybe a few less worlds.. Reducing worlds by 50% would be bad for pvm


i agree as well 50% may be to much but depending it may not effect pvm to much considering all the new creatures that would exist on the new continent as well.
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01-Nov-2014 19:08:51

Some Poet

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I personally would love to see roughly 60% of this land function like the kingdom, and Jad runs, where it could be perhaps instanced or most NCP with player integration, as such with the 5 families idea. I think that making this new continent with out it being completely filled in to allow for more dedicated player functions seems like a good idea. It would impact the server's less if it wasn't teeming with coding, and players can venture off to claim rewards and make teams for the various attractions, while also hanging out and managing things.

PS. With regard to the impact on servers, will the servers be upgraded to reduce lag? If not, how will adding a new continent impact the already laggy servers? Will this update in fact completely destroy the playability of osrs?

01-Nov-2014 21:11:52 - Last edited on 01-Nov-2014 21:12:11 by Some Poet

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