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IronMan Zoh
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IronMan Zoh

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That's a mini-game, not a skill... Please add a usefull skill and not a mini game you have to do over 25 000 times to get 99.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of adventure you want to create won't be there after doing it 500 times. It's like dungeoneering. Everybody knew whatthe dungeon was going to be and you could finish it in less than 10 minutes.

Pro tip : If you need to use other skills to train a skill, then it's not a skill. It's a mini-game.

09-Aug-2015 02:33:23

Pendual

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IronMan Zoh said :
That's a mini-game, not a skill... Please add a usefull skill and not a mini game you have to do over 25 000 times to get 99.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of adventure you want to create won't be there after doing it 500 times. It's like dungeoneering. Everybody knew whatthe dungeon was going to be and you could finish it in less than 10 minutes.

Pro tip : If you need to use other skills to train a skill, then it's not a skill. It's a mini-game. Damn gotta remove Cooking, Smithing, Fletching, Firemaking, Herblore, Crafting, Runecrafting and Construction then. SInce that is how they are intended to be trained.

09-Aug-2015 02:38:53

Transcendent

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MiniCale said :
Seems like this should be more of a minigame... I really don't want it as a skill in oldschool personally it doesn't fit imo I mean come on it was an april fools joke originally.

Really stop saying Sailing was a joke originally, it did not start as a joke, it started as a serious suggestion many years ago.

Seafaring or Sailing has been a serious suggestion for many years, way before anyone thought of it as a joke.

It only became a joke because it had been asked for in serious suggestions for more than a decade.

There were discussions about Farming, Construction, and many other possible skills way before they were finally added, and Sailing or Seafaring was also suggested many years before those skills were added to the game.

I personally had a thread on the forums for over 2 years in Future updates, long before EOC existed, and way before Old School was even thought of, talking about the possibility of Jagex adding Seafaring as a skill and why I thought they might add the skill and what it might be like.

The only reason some of these skills were not added sooner was because it was not technically possible at the time, or because it would take so much work to add them.

It is finally possible for sailing to be added as a real skill and I'm getting tired of hearing people say it started as a joke, it did not start as a joke, it started as a serious suggestion probably before most players who play now even started playing the game. Hi.

09-Aug-2015 02:53:45

ass kicker

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Yeah it does sound like a minigamey skill like dungeoneering and they'll no doubt pad it out into a grind with sea monsters and ambush events that repeat over and over until you unlock the next set of stuff. But, I think there's a lot of potential here if they manage to make a huge ocean map that can be explored with others, in addition to all of the instanced stuff.

I think a cool addition would be to allow players to save a randomly-generated instance and share it with other players. If you discovered an island or patch of water that really stands out - maybe it has an exceptionally good placement of resources, or a new farming patch, or the inhabitants have a nice drop table, or it's shaped like Armadyl's butt - you save the directions so other players can use them. And maybe to keep it from stagnating, the island would be drained over time and become less useful, to encourage abandoning it for a new one (so you can't just hitch a ride to diamond-runite island and mine all day for mad xp and cash). Think of it like a temporary POH. It'd probably be really tricky to implement, though... Soul of the mind, key to life's ether. Soul of the lost, withdrawn from its vessel. Let strength be granted so the world might be mended... so the world might be mended.

09-Aug-2015 03:43:17 - Last edited on 09-Aug-2015 03:46:19 by ass kicker

Transcendent

Transcendent

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Life Cycle said :
Dear Transcendent, go get a job. Or a girl. You have way to much time on your hands. You've been all over this forum. Go get some sun :-) it'll do you good. Promise.


-Sincerely, Psalm 91

Please don't post flamebait. Hi.

09-Aug-2015 03:53:29 - Last edited on 09-Aug-2015 03:59:46 by Transcendent

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