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S Klasse AMG

S Klasse AMG

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I am seriously inclined to state that the ideas mentioned in this blog though may be with an intention of sinking items & provide convenience, however should this be the way for the game to creep towards getting easier?
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12-Sep-2018 03:03:47

SoSleepy

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Portals will still be made at 100x the cost of spell for a permanent teleport. Why force players to pay 10x the already existing spell price for the exact same benefit that already exists just to have it in one location. I think paying the material cost to build the nexus is enough of a convenience fee. I think making the nexus equal cost to the portals (100x) would be better.

12-Sep-2018 03:40:30

Blue Racer
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Blue Racer

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I think the nexus seems like a good idea. It seems a bit pricy for the convenience of a central locale. I don't think it will be faster for teleportation because the menu interface. So I'm a little torn on cost to use ratio. I would consider revision.

One question I have is: how will the portal deal with teleports that have multiple options i.e. (g.e. & Varrock, watchtower/yanille, etc...)

Another question: could the nexus also act as the entrancr/exit portal to the house? If so, it could be a nice revamp to the plain garden portal that exists.


I'm against the guaranteed drop of the k.q. head. If it's an issue because of the diary requirement, why not remove the requirement?
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I think the new revision to the k.q. Head is better, but it still making a guarenteed drop. I certainly will vote no to. I still believe since it's clearly a diary issue that the specific diary entry should be removed.

12-Sep-2018 07:35:27 - Last edited on 12-Sep-2018 17:40:29 by Blue Racer

King Kai
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King Kai

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I'm surprised u guys haven't figured this out after all these years, but creating a new "portal room" that is more difficult to use than the current one is pointless.

we'll now have to right click and scroll through interfaces just to use daily teleports instead of left-clicking them as we do now.

A better way to do this would be to keep 3 portals (your main 3 teleports) just like they are now, and make the centerpiece have a 4th left click teleport + an interface for the rest of the teleports. You would be able to toggle your 3 main teleports at any time within the new room.

ex: one of your main 3 portals is varrock, you can right click it and change it to fally at any time.

That way you would be able to left click to 4 locations instead of 1 (which is less than the current 3)

12-Sep-2018 09:40:21 - Last edited on 12-Sep-2018 09:42:46 by King Kai

Mod Ayiza

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Hi All,

The blog has been updated. Please ensure you have checked the updated version (the link is the same) before commenting :)

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12-Sep-2018 17:27:16

Miu

Miu

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I love the idea of the portal nexus but it seems like too much of a straight upgrade, as opposed to leaving the original portal room some sort of niche.

Could more exclusive features be added to the portal room instead of the nexus? Like the lizardman fang proposal.

If the nexus passes as is, then the original portal room is pretty much useless other than as a low level alternative, and a bit of silly scrying. I think it deserves some love as well, especially since some people have already put so much effort into owning multiple portal rooms, and all that work and gold spent is will become significantly less useful.
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12-Sep-2018 19:14:05

Miu

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One little idea that could make the original portal room a little more useful while retaining the nexus's strengths.

What if you could attune the portal room's portals to rooms in your own house? You could use a portal to visit the workshop, the costume room, the altar, and even the new portal nexus!

Would give it a bit of a niche, and the new portals would of course cost law runes (100 casts of the home tele?) so it's still a rune sink as well.
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12-Sep-2018 19:20:54

Vlanessa

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Hi

Why not allow the centrepiece of the existing Portal Chamber to be upgradeable to the newly proposed Portal Nexus? Doing so would come with the advantage of allowing the player the option of directing their most commonly used teleport destinations to the existing adjacent portals so that they remain left-clickable in the way that people are already used to.

The player could then be freely able (at no further cost) to redirect those portals as many times as they like from their pre-existing pool of unlocked teleport destinations. Left-clicking on the new Nexus centrepiece itself could bring up a window that presents all available unlocked teleports which could then be clicked on to activate the chosen teleport without the need of redirecting it to a portal first.

That way, the player gets the best of both worlds because they would still be able to single click to get to their most commonly used destinations, but without needing a Portal Chamber room in addition to a Portal Nexus room to facilitate it.

In the same vein, if the intention is to reduce the amount of "real estate", would it not make more sense to simply add Xeric's Talisman and the Digsite Pendant to the existing Jewelry Box rather than require the creation of yet another room for them?

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12-Sep-2018 19:23:45

CapitalPain
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The nexus thing sounds great and all that, however most of us already have the teleports anyway so to pay to do them all again for one room makes no sense for me personally ill just put another nexus room in for the other teleports I haven't got.

I feel if this is done then there should be an option to get all you runes back from previous teleports as an option as we would lose money on marble settings etc anyway.

Seems a fair trade and for people who are not high enough for nexus could change teleports if wanted to so its good for whole game.

I like the idea I just would like to know if this is the case or could be

12-Sep-2018 20:25:28

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