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E Mc73

E Mc73

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I'll say this: if Runecraft, Farming, Summoning, Dungeoneering, Divination or the upcoming Invention skills had been polled before entering the main game and needed 75% to pass, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have any of those skills right now.

Runecrafting? Who needs it, you can get plenty of runes by killing monsters. Increase drop rates if needed, you don't need a new skill. Farming? Booorrriinnnggggg. Summoning? That's just an extention of Magic (literally, it was once going to be a part of the Magic skill - look up Life Runes). Dungeoneering is a mini-game, not a skill.

You can imagine how things would have gone. No progress. I'll be honest, I'm not at all impressed by Divination and I'm quite wary of this Invention idea... but honestly, most of these are solid skills that have a place in the game. But if the players had their way, I doubt we would have most of them. Just something to think about. Stay open-minded.

This. I think any of these skills have the possibility to work in the game, it's primarily up to jagex to make it fun, though. The concept itself won't decide if people play it, it's the rewards. The only one of these ideas I wouldn't enjoy personally, would be artisan. That seems like regular skilling, except you don't get to choose to do the parts you enjoy. I'm not sure, though, I think jagex might be able to make that work with a bit of effort.

21-May-2014 19:13:07

Liquar

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Wow... I'm amazed at the mass of negative thoughts here :( It's so easy to burn down ideas of others!

I must say that these five finalists have really put a lot of effort into their suggestions, they're creative and range from simple but effective to rather complex and completely thought out already. Well done!

Whoever thought of Artisan wasn't even creative, it's just a scrap copy from RS3 daily challenges and mixture of a slayer but for skilling. I swear it could've been done for copyright, "You're assigned to chop 100 yew logs." Really?

Artisan isn't even a skill, it's a skill telling you to do another skill. Other suggestions were unique and different.
He who dares, wins :)

21-May-2014 19:15:40 - Last edited on 21-May-2014 19:17:19 by Liquar

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Hey Mod Mat K

OS Rasta here if you read this just wondering if you read our Idea Armorer as we spent a lot of time on it.

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We did email it to you with 4 minutes to spare so we were just wondering if it actually made it though.

Many thanks :D

21-May-2014 19:21:03

Billogbfd

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Wow... I'm glad there's an 80% vote pass before implementation. These are terrible. Cheap knock off slayer, one is someone obsessed with the digsite quest, herding? .. and I can't even be bothered to remember the rest... shortlist should've been longer. I think Coolsville sucks!

21-May-2014 19:25:20

ChampionJohn
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These choices are brutal... None of them are appealing. From all of the great skills that were thought up, these sub-par ones were chosen? I really think the list should either be reevaluated and/or extended with better skills chosen. If any of these make it, it'll be a true pity knowing we missed out on the possibility of a truly fun or interesting new skill.

21-May-2014 19:28:49

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