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ProSmither

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I'm honestly loving the game without them right now. Sure it's fun to think about what they'd be like (and to consider that they'd probably never actually be worth anything in this 07) but I'd really rather them not be introduced at all.

Overall I think it would just facilitate greedy, selfish, 'I'm better than you', hoard-isher , etc. type of players and those are not the type of people that I want to share the game with.

05-Apr-2013 16:10:23 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 16:15:04 by ProSmither

Its Violent

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I think getting a tradeable rare of your choice after getting 100 questpoints would be cool. (Not for getting questcape, because I think pures should have a chance to get their rare as well)

I think Jagex should put this in the poll, or something similar.

05-Apr-2013 16:11:24

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Theos

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Sounds very fair. My only hope is that people are willing to at least consider the untradable option. Having discontinued items for nostalgic purposes is more important to me than the whole tradable factor. It will be interesting seeing the results.

Thanks for the update on this.

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05-Apr-2013 16:11:24

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Spaced0ut

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1. Would you like rare items return in some form? yes
2. If you vote for rare items to return, would you like the currently tradeable rare items to remain tradeable? I only think some should remain tradeable. Eggs, party hats, crackers, and Halloween masks
3. How would you like rare items return? treasure trails, community events, drops, skiller drops just minimal enough ways for them to return so that no one is denied the chance to get one. (hence if it was only from high level drops, pure couldnt get them. )

05-Apr-2013 16:14:52

Qeltar

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Unfortunately, because of how this is set up, people like me who don't want discontinued, limited items in the game, have to vote 'no' on rares entirely. Because if the first 'yes' vote passes, we have no control over how they are implemented.

This is a significant problem with the two-poll system. I concede that it's difficult to work out a way of doing this, but I am not going to help in any way in the return of the greed, hoarding, obsessive behavior, hacking and bragging that these items cause in the old game.

05-Apr-2013 16:17:48 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 16:23:05 by Qeltar

Qeltar

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Actually, I do have a suggestion.

Start with the second poll first. Ask people, if rares returned, how would you want them to work.

Then take the top two answers, and make a poll with three choices: yes #1, yes #2, or no. If more than 25% answer no, the poll fails, otherwise, it passes, and the method used is whichever got more yes votes.

This allows people who would only vote yes under certain circumstances to support their return. Without this, I doubt the first poll will get 75%.

05-Apr-2013 16:24:47 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 16:25:27 by Qeltar

ottoman58

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I want rares too come back into the game. just make it so everyone can get the untradibles from diango in draynor, then make it so every oldschool player got 1 of ea rare in there bank when they log in,

if we are getting rares from clues, that will take forever and destroy the economi,
and if we get them from monster drop it will be crowded 24/7,
and if we got the, from skilling ect same as Before will destroy the economi.

05-Apr-2013 16:25:26

Red nWhite

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In my eyes rares being distributed as it was back in classic RS would just be idiotic, a small amount of people back then thought that the items would be rare and trade able in the future, bringing so many of the rares into the game, if they were introduced the same way everyone would be picking up as many of these rare items as possible because they know that they are discontinued causing the price of them to be very low.

05-Apr-2013 16:32:26

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Jouni

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Rares back?: Yes
Via clue scrolls: No
Why?: Causes mass clue scroll gathering. Higher leveled players have advantage.
How is that?: Unlucky players will find out that they can't do every clue. Meaning you can't access to certain areas and so forth. Also pure characters just can't do that.

So whatever the outcome is, the distribution have to be:
1. Exactly same as it was
OR
2. Just FAIR to everyone

05-Apr-2013 16:37:17

Red nWhite

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I think a good way to introduce rares to the game is to give everyone in OSRS an untradeable christmas cracker, they use it on a person and the possibility of getting a rare from the cracker is 10%, giving only around 10% of OSRS players rare items.

05-Apr-2013 16:37:35

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