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Elijah254

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look like greedy Jagex wants to make people pay for lenthy memberships in order to acquire all the rares, this "backup plan" was sought from the start. Now I have to purchase a 1 year membership or I cant collect them all!

17-May-2013 17:10:25

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Ok so the rare spawns and only one person gets it. Then it spawns somewhere else and 1 person gets that and so on? So only if you are in the right place at the right time and no else is faster you get the rare? Hmmm


Should be interesting! I want to know if it's only one day out of the week, or if it's the entire week, and if it is the entire week, how many would be spawned, seeings how there will be a "limit" as to how many are spawned.


I'm not sure the 'how many' can be answered as it would be directly affected by how slowly or quickly someone picks up each spawned item in order for the next one to spawn.

How many days of each week though, is certainly something that only jagex can determine.
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17-May-2013 17:12:52

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Ok so the rare spawns and only one person gets it. Then it spawns somewhere else and 1 person gets that and so on? So only if you are in the right place at the right time and no else is faster you get the rare? Hmmm


Should be interesting! I want to know if it's only one day out of the week, or if it's the entire week, and if it is the entire week, how many would be spawned, seeings how there will be a "limit" as to how many are spawned.


sicne the vote failed why care if its 10m per user or 10000m rares / user?

17-May-2013 17:54:07

kaleesi

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Well 2013-02-22,

I am not a very lucky person so not really counting on getting any rares.
I do think it will be fun trying and will try for them.
If ppl want it to be fun it can be. If ppl get greedy or take it to serious then it won't be. I is all up to the individual I reckon.

17-May-2013 18:00:59

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This is a terrible idea, it totally negates the 'rarity' of these items if you are able to get them year after year.

Seriously re-consider your way of implementing these items or you will lose a lot more of your already dwindling OldSchool community.

The whole point of OldSchool was that you would listen to the community and do only what they wanted. Please re-release a poll with all previous drop ideas in one question, and whichever option gets the most votes, follow that. (Or if 2/3 are all close, use those 2/3 ideas for implementing different items - e.g. Phats through treasure trails, Halloween Masks through holiday drops etc.)

You are introducing the rares in a way that no-one voted, and it is clear from the responses here and on other forums (Check Reddit; you have a strong base of frequent players on /r/2007scape) that this is not the way to go about introducing rares.

17-May-2013 18:01:25

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I don't like the fact they won't be discontinued. I do like the way they'll be distributed, though.


Completely agreed.

Great way to put them in the game. Those who want them can seek them out and attain them without too much trouble but still requiring a bit more work than just talking to Santa.

I still know they should be discontinued.

17-May-2013 18:02:53

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Well, I used up all 2000 characters voicing my opinion, just to have found out that it signed me out so when I hit "Submit", it erased everything. FANTASTIC! :D

Anyways, how could Jagex think ANY of the voting ideas were good ones? Killing chickens until you get a rare holiday item? Killing rabbits until you do? I'm curious as to how any of them would have won. With 3-4 different implementation plans for items, it was practically impossible to get a 75% dedication to a single idea.

The point of rares was to either show that you were around back then to get the item, or for monetary value.
Giving them away to virtually anybody that happens to stumble across them seems to defeat that purpose.

I would rather wait for the community to come up with better ideas for implementing holiday items, and leaving it to a vote again, rather than going with Jagex's "backup plan". I mean, why do they feel the need for a backup plan? Why not still let the community decide? I saw a LOT of better ideas from other players throughout the forums than what I saw on that voting page. What happened to those ideas?

Also, it's not like we all need these items RIGHT NOW. Again, there is no need for this backup plan. They decided certain things about the items beforehand, if they'd be tradable, if they should remain tradable or become untradable after a certain amount of time, etc. Then they left HOW we would get the items in a vote consisting of like 50+ questions, each with different implementation ideas, making it virtually impossible to get 75% of the community to decide on a single one. The fact that they had this backup plan tells me they expected that, and that just leaves me wondering why..

Anyways, I'm going to copy this message before it gets deleted again from my login timing out. -.-
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17-May-2013 18:05:21 - Last edited on 17-May-2013 18:07:59 by Pulse OG

Royjuro

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I really hope i will get a scythe ^_^

Btw are those random places really random? Example as spawning an item in a location where nobody goes and it will stay there for the rest of the week.

Do we receive message in the chat box when an item spawn'd?
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17-May-2013 18:20:29 - Last edited on 17-May-2013 18:21:53 by Royjuro

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