If any update to the snake hits ironmen hard, its the teleport scroll update. Any ironmen that havent done zulrah have a huge disadvantage now, and having to conserve prayer makes zulrah a lot more annoying and less fun imo.
It also hits mains hard that havent done zulrah, as they have to pay a lot for scrolls in order to learn zulrah or lose time and invent space on the shortcut. When scrolls become very expensive pures wont be able to do zulrah as they cant use the fairy ring and walking that far isnt going to be a pleasure either. Only people who have hoarded the scrolls now can do zul*ah efficiently then, and most of those people will be the people that are already rich from doing so.
In the end this update hits the people you dont want to hit, while just reducing the (mainly alchable) supplies would be better for those. For ironmen the money made from alchs and the fletch/smith/fm xp is far less important than doing zul*ah efficiently for p ess and such.
Even tho zul andra scrolls are too convenient, its too late to change that now
22-Oct-2015 11:22:41