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Runite

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It blows my mind that Jagex lets replies to a forum post dictate what is and what isn't "popular" or wanted by the majority of the community. The users of the RS forums do not represent anything close to the majority of the Old School community, for Mod Ronin & co to believe so makes me lose faith in the OSRS JMod team.

Ironically, if they had polled the Loot Share system outlined in the earlier dev blog it probably would've passed. Most people do not want shard share or anything else and this is proven with the poll results which speak volumes.

11-Feb-2016 17:30:43 - Last edited on 11-Feb-2016 17:33:48 by Runite

Jesica

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the reason SS failing is not because that much people hate it. its because they totally removed LS and IS from poll. we dont care if SS in game but removing other 2 is stupid move. so only way to raise our voice is by voting no.
Poll LS/IS/SS all together, everything will pass for sure, people do which ever they prefer. dont force us to do thing which we not interested at.

11-Feb-2016 17:35:11

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oMage

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This is a terrible idea. The same idea was used in eoc. the shards end up never selling , so if one person on the team splits out your incapable of making the drop. THIS EXACT SYSTEM TRIED IN EOC AND FAILED. People were profiting off buying shards and making items because people whogot stuck with shards were forced to sell them lower. this is a badd***dd idea

11-Feb-2016 17:44:42

bwarrend

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FINally!! I got scammed out of a armadyl chest plate split, i see so many people hating on it but you obviously havent been screwed over on many drops... coinshare wont work because who knows what the value of the drop is could be lower or higher.

11-Feb-2016 19:56:27

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Super Mario

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Gotta say I wouldn't vote for this. Shard share is the same crap that we have in RS3 because coinshare became something that screwed up the market (even though this happens as content gets older, items become more available, and new items become top tier/more desireable).

Shard share, quite frankly, is something I never used in RS3 because most players do not buy shards and instead just buy the item. Its hard to sell shards for fair value because you have to wait for them to sell for an equivalent price to the item. Why Lootshare isn't get carried over confuses me. Prior to coinshare I loved LS because it meant eventually I'd get my item. More random teams took me because they didn't require max stats or certain gear set ups. However, with coinshare I couldn't get into most teams until I got max stats and optimal gear.

There is nothing you can do to make shards of items more appealing to a player like myself. I'd rather have lootshare fine tuned to make PvM trips more worthwhile.

11-Feb-2016 21:42:01 - Last edited on 11-Feb-2016 21:46:46 by Super Mario

Blitzd

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I want to dispell this myth

Shard shard won't work. The shards sell for less on the GE than they're worth with respect to the item.

This makes no sense. Let's say you get a Bandos Chestplate worth a hypothetical $10m. It's split into 100 pieces worth 100k each.

If you could buy the shards at say 90k each, it would mean merchants could buy 100 of them for 9m, transform them into a Bandos Chestplate and then sell for 10m. A 1m profit for no risk!

Hence a market should always exist for these shards made by the merchants themselves.

I agree that LS and whatever other sharing mechanism you want should be offered alongside SS.

11-Feb-2016 22:34:47 - Last edited on 11-Feb-2016 22:35:34 by Blitzd

Mr Roboto

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I was going to come back to OSRS thanks to lootshare or Shard share! since I have no time to be making friends in RS I'm scared to do pvm with just random people... any kind of system that prevents you from getting scammed would work for me!

11-Feb-2016 23:02:13

Gurt19

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Why is there even a vote system for shard system? If somebody doesn't like the shard system then they don't have to enable it and go to the ffa worlds.

Our clan "Next Gen" just got scammed for Bandos tassets and Bandos hilt because one of our cc members ditched us for it. Now that's an unfair system when a clan member decides to scam the clan and doesn't get punishment for it besides getting banned from our clan and black listed.

--Member of the clan

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11-Feb-2016 23:29:54

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Mystic Veil

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Gurt19 said :
Why is there even a vote system for shard system? If somebody doesn't like the shard system then they don't have to enable it and go to the ffa worlds.
That's because if there wasn't one, scammers wouldn't be able to vote for a chance to continue being able to scam people.

11-Feb-2016 23:48:13

Avid Sparx

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Mystic Veil said :
Gurt19 said :
Why is there even a vote system for shard system? If somebody doesn't like the shard system then they don't have to enable it and go to the ffa worlds.
That's because if there wasn't one, scammers wouldn't be able to vote for a chance to continue being able to scam people.
Definitely some truth to that... 'Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.'
T. Pratchett, 1948-2015 RIP, you are missed

12-Feb-2016 00:25:21

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