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Formerly Joy

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I'm home from a long day at work. Glad to see that the mass majority is completely against this garbage. I can't believe we have clueless people who've never stepped out to PK trying to defend this. They don't know what is good for PvP.

A word from the wise: It will relocate a small minority of PvP'ers to Deadcontent Mode themed worlds and will slowly plague our PvP community. Players will quickly quit as the hype is settling down. Players will quit once they are PK'd. The real PK'ers, including the well known teams, aren't going to participate in this garbage. They will continue their true accounts and make bank off of the clueless people who try PK'ing. The same ones who support this blog.

News flash, starting new doesn't make you good at PK'ing. More importantly, who are you going to play with when the game community is gone? Zeah is already going to add a massive chunk to our map. The player base will be divided in a positive way. Deadcontent Mode will just ruin everything.

I don't care what Mod Archie and Mod Mat K think about this update. They are completely wrong. To err is human. But as we learned last time during EoC... there is a point of no return. We've yet to hit that point. I'd love to see this cancelled before even being polled.

If they disagree and want to poll this garbage. I hope it dies miserably. 40%. I really hope so. So that we can laugh right back when you see just how bias your own creations are.

11-Jun-2015 01:50:55

Turkey One

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I also made this a thread in the poll/suggestions section but figured I'd put it here too.
Quick find code: 322-323-53-65636114

How to make it fast and fun but still harsh on death?

- 15 times the normal experience from everything. Including quests. You'll still lose 7 levels on every skill on every death or roughly half your total exp in said skill. This is to make it fun and not too discouraging when you die and to make it reasonable to catch up to higher tier players once they get ahead.

- Deadman worlds should be able to be logged into by your current account but feature their own specific character. Maybe even make said character stay on the deadman world it was created on.

- To balance out the insane exp rates and to help newer players get into the game it should be reset. The seasons of deadman should be roughly four months long I think.

How do you make this worthwhile if it'll just reset every four months though? Glad you asked.

- At the end of each season you should get some type of cosmetic reward and a diary recounting your kills, deaths, quests completed, stats and other achievements for your normal RS character.

- You should get an EXP lamp equaling the experience you finished the season at divided by fifteen. Remember how we buffed the experience rates by 15 before? This is to bring that number back down to what you would have received exp wise if you had been playing on a normal RS server and to make it so that playing deadman doesn't feel like you're falling too far behind on your normal RS character.

Another suggestion I have is instead of being able to loot the entire bank of someone you kill maybe it should be limited to four or five items with stacks of items (like coins or food) counting as one item and to have various supplies dropped in the deadman worlds at random intervals to have players fight over them

11-Jun-2015 01:55:31 - Last edited on 11-Jun-2015 01:57:18 by Turkey One

Formerly Joy

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Is anyone not comprehending their own garbage?

Increased EXP rates? By 15 times the normal rate!? Sure, let's make a private server on top of what already is a private server. This is ludicrous and only being accepted because J Mods created this. This is a bastardized private server being popularized by moderators who didn't take a minute to think of the bad they are about to cause.

If you want deadman mode, I highly suggest you go talk to a private server owner, but do not plague our current player base with this trash. Thanks.

11-Jun-2015 01:59:10

Formerly Joy

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Reminder,

Hi do you remember when Old School servers were being built? Yes? Well then, do you remember the entirety of the community demanding no bonus EXP, or increased EXP rates? I do! So now that we're building a cancerous private server within a private server, it's okay? No, absolutely everything about this concept is completely F'd up.

I cannot believe Mat K had the balls to suggest this live. Huge balls Mat, you have enormously huge balls to put a concept like this out there. I hope it gets smashed so hard at poll.

Don't take it personally. This is an awful idea and has a lot of negative impacts within the main game. I like all you've done so far, but this is too much. I have to ask you to reconsider your own idea. You've been great so far and surely can see what this will do to your own game.

And shame on anyone even supporting this idea. You're going back on all the viewpoints you held dearly that gave us Old School Runescape in the first place. Reevaluate your selves!

11-Jun-2015 02:10:41

dubomb2112

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How would this current idea even be close to feasible? a dead man mode player achieves the stat and quest reqs for desert treasure. then completes the quest only to soon die and have their stats reduced below the quest reqs. does this mean the player would still have the quest completed or would have to once again achieve the stat reqs and complete the quest?!?!?!?!

There are so many issues with this poorly thought out concept I will not be returning to this thread to discuss them. I am purely disgusted.

According to Hans in lumbridge my account came to runescape over 4k days ago.

I quit with EOC and returned for oldschool. The prospect of this game mode potentially being introduced disgusts me and makes me want to quit.

I agree with and back Joy 100% when it comes to dead man mode. Survival of the fittest

11-Jun-2015 02:53:23 - Last edited on 11-Jun-2015 02:55:04 by dubomb2112

Old Alec

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Look my stats up. I actually play this game, a lot. We don't want this update. A vast majority of the people supporting this idea are under 100-110 combat/1500 total level. As the same was for NMZ, splashing, etc. I do not speak for every single on of us, but trust me, this is a mistake.

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11-Jun-2015 03:05:41

Tank All Day

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jagex, you guys are pretty bad at explaining things sometimes.... badly wording things effects votes!

questions
Will our stats start at 1 when logged in on deadman servers?
Or do we have to risk our current live game stats while playing this mode?
These were not cleary answered which is leading people to vote NO

To the people bashing it

you dont have to participate

in deadman mode

"'it will split the community" How so? we still play the same game.. The wilderness will always have pkers in it.

some people bashing this without giving helpful criticism deeply dislike the PVP community and will do anything stop new content for it. Look at the F2P teleblock, Pures mounting KBD head polls for example.

11-Jun-2015 03:11:37 - Last edited on 11-Jun-2015 03:17:52 by Tank All Day

Formerly Joy

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Predictions:
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Ddosers win.
Oh, I see you angrily typing your counter argument, but stop your typing there, because you're wrong! Ddosers win. You play solo, ddosers win. You play with a friend, ddosers win. You play with a maxed world 2,000 player team, ddosers win. Regardless of the several problems there are with this mode there is the fact that ddosers win.

Players then proceed to quit the game.
Players then proceed to inflict self-harm irl over the shame of dying for their gear.
Jagex then receives million pound lawsuit.
Jagex declares bankruptcy.

This is what Deadman Mode will do to this game. Period.

11-Jun-2015 03:12:33

Formerly Joy

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Your argument is 100% invalid. You're so spoiled up your own arse you didn't even read your own argument. Nor did you read ours.

How will it split the community!? Hmm, I wonder, oh wait! You answered your own question! Players will still have the wild. Oh, but guess what garbage update has put an unnecessary divide into the wilderness? This one.

A lot of the players bashing this ARE THE PVP COMMUNITY. Such as, oh I don't know? ME! Defil3d the #1 Tank PK'er. Who says this is going to plague the PvP community. That of which I don't think you are a part of. If you were you would be able to read through how terrible this update is.

Tank All Day said :
"'it will split the community" How so? we still play the same game.. The wilderness will always have pkers in it.

some people bashing this without giving helpful criticism deeply dislike the PVP community and will do anything stop new content for it. Look at the F2P teleblock, Pures mounting KBD head polls for example.

11-Jun-2015 03:15:43 - Last edited on 11-Jun-2015 03:16:13 by Formerly Joy

The Way Out5

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To be honest I think this is a waste of time. We don't need other modes for the game, and i can't see anyone in their right mind paying for an extra account to play this. In theory I think it's a cool idea, but I don't think it should be implemented into the game.

11-Jun-2015 03:17:45

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