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I don't think bonds are a great idea for OSRS. This is basically a way for people to buy their own gp. Yeah it may reduce the amount of scamming going on between swapping clans(which are used at the player's own risk), but it will also take away from the fun of working for your wealth and essentially ruin what makes Old School the fun and nostalgic game that it is. I think it's great seeing people who are proud of the items that they have which are high in price. If bonds are added, people will pay for them, sell them for gp, and then effortlessly be able to have access to all of the high value items in game.
I guess my main reasoning for no bonds would be because Old School is hard and it is also a grind to work your way up. Bonds just take away from that in my opinion.
I guess my main reasoning for no bonds would be because Old School is hard and it is also a grind to work your way up. Bonds just take away from that in my opinion.
25-Jan-2015 23:02:26
I am hugely opposed to microtransactions. However due to mtx giving membership which is a shared between OSRS and RS3 then OSRS will always have some sort of connection to the RS3 mtx. So we cannot escape any connection to mtx due to people relying on them for membership.
In a way we already have mtx, which is currently in a RWT state, but they cannot restrict this without affecting player count on both games, which they would never do.
Due to the fact we cannot escape mtx, we have to make the decision: Do we want official microtransactions in OSRS?
Personally I think I could accept them if we enforce strict controls, rules and regulations on bonds and mtx.
- No more mtx will be added to osrs.
- RS3 and OSRS bonds will not affect each other.
- Gold swapping and other similar activities will be against the rules.
- The number of bonds an account can have at a time will be limited, limited to a small amount unlike RS3 were it's limited to your bank space. I can't imagine a time were anyone would want more than 3.
- In game you can only buy bonds when you're F2P or your membership is about to expire. You won't want more than 2 bonds because that's a month. so limit the amount of bonds a player can buy ingame.
- Only allow P2P to buy bonds. If a F2P guy is willing to buy bonds he should be willing to get membership either through a bond or through buying membership.
- The number of bonds that players can buy with real money money will be limited to the number of F2P + P2P about to expire. Meaning there isn't an over-saturation of bonds in the game.
These suggestions will mean that no one can stock up on bonds to manipulate prices, making sure bonds only exist when needed, bonds will be evenly distributed and players cannot buy a large amount of bonds to profit from them at once.
If not then certain players will get a lot of bonds to increase their ingame wealth or to manipulate the ingame price of membership which is bad. RIP Forums
Finally we have signatures in the surprise forum update. I'm Lewis, I play Old School & I've been playing since 2005.
In a way we already have mtx, which is currently in a RWT state, but they cannot restrict this without affecting player count on both games, which they would never do.
Due to the fact we cannot escape mtx, we have to make the decision: Do we want official microtransactions in OSRS?
Personally I think I could accept them if we enforce strict controls, rules and regulations on bonds and mtx.
- No more mtx will be added to osrs.
- RS3 and OSRS bonds will not affect each other.
- Gold swapping and other similar activities will be against the rules.
- The number of bonds an account can have at a time will be limited, limited to a small amount unlike RS3 were it's limited to your bank space. I can't imagine a time were anyone would want more than 3.
- In game you can only buy bonds when you're F2P or your membership is about to expire. You won't want more than 2 bonds because that's a month. so limit the amount of bonds a player can buy ingame.
- Only allow P2P to buy bonds. If a F2P guy is willing to buy bonds he should be willing to get membership either through a bond or through buying membership.
- The number of bonds that players can buy with real money money will be limited to the number of F2P + P2P about to expire. Meaning there isn't an over-saturation of bonds in the game.
These suggestions will mean that no one can stock up on bonds to manipulate prices, making sure bonds only exist when needed, bonds will be evenly distributed and players cannot buy a large amount of bonds to profit from them at once.
If not then certain players will get a lot of bonds to increase their ingame wealth or to manipulate the ingame price of membership which is bad. RIP Forums
Finally we have signatures in the surprise forum update. I'm Lewis, I play Old School & I've been playing since 2005.
25-Jan-2015 23:11:06
Voting yes to both since this bond thing actually is in game through rs3. Bonds in os will make it safer for players to buy membership with in-game money. Also we get f2p!
25-Jan-2015 23:25:29
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