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Abs

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I believe we should bring back rares into old school!

Rares are a huge motivator for players! Giving them a goal to work towards, and a goal which once achieved can be worn with pride. I believe personally that making rares TOO easy to get will undermine the fact they are supposed to be "rare". As for the untradeable rares prior to old school, I hope that they remain untradeable. This is a fresh remake of old school, so lets release rares the same way they were released originally. They will have to climb up in value, so release limited amounts to random people just like they were released in the original events. Perhaps by random dropping around areas of runescape for a limited period of time.

That being said, I would be happy to see rares coming back to the game no matter how, they really do add colour to runescape. Yay for rares!

On a side note. I believe players who have played this game since the original sythes were released should get a sythe, just to make them standout from the newer players, similar to the 10-year cape in the EoC :)

05-Apr-2013 17:46:09

Madeen
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The big issue i have with most of the ideas posted is that eventually throughout time there will be ALOT of rares in game if you make it a rare drop or a rare reward from a clue scroll..

the point of rare items is they are discontinued.. if you bring in new rares to the game everyday rares will eventually be worthless :/

i would suggest a rare drop reward BUT ONLY FOR A LIMITED TIME!

that way rares will stay rare :)

05-Apr-2013 17:49:19

Unitconn

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It's kind of difficult to decide. From one side, it's better to choose a certain day and drop spread them around the game. Which could be unfair , of course, to people with different time zones.
Shouldn't be a drop from monster as well, as well as it should be in a clue scroll, because some people have skillers as their main accounts, which would give them a huge disadvantage to them...
Dropping looks like the most fair way to be honest , though.

EDIT: Rares such as Half full jug wine, pumpkin and other unequip-able items could be modeled (I believe it shouldn't be too hard to do it) and become an equip-able ones. It would add them some price, and they wouldn't be just a "cash" item.

05-Apr-2013 17:53:41 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 17:55:53 by Unitconn

Mr Snoman
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NO NO NO NO AND NO

I play Old School to stay away from the stupid and boring rs, please don't do this AGAIN Jagex... Don't ruin the perfect version...

I'm interested in how introducing rares would

1) make the game like EOC
2) ruin the perfect vision
2.a) What is the perfect vision?

05-Apr-2013 18:01:09 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 18:02:46 by Mr Snoman

Mace Brown

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Hell no ... rares would be a plaything for players being rich on OSR or the main game due to the semi-allowed cross-trading. And, of course, for botters and rwt'ers.
They added more bad than good to the main game, don't see why this should be different on OSR.

Seasonal & untradable holiday items, like the yoyo and so on, are a different story (and should probably get their own vote).

Best regards,
Mace

05-Apr-2013 18:08:20

Allstar Mvp

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I do believe rares should be reintroduced, how so i do not know. However i do think the treasure trail idea is wrong and imbalanced. This would prevent lower levels(maybe skillers, etc) from having equal opportunity. The point being it is not BALANCED.

Also the poll should not require 75% yes because this was in fact a part of 2007 rs.

05-Apr-2013 18:11:34 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 18:12:36 by Allstar Mvp

MilkyJoe89

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My opinion on untradables is that they should be introduced in future holiday events (going back through the years). As for tradable rares - it would be cool to make them a rare drop obtainable in clue scrolls (all levels) throughout the holiday period (for example party hats would be able to be obtained from clues during the x-mas holiday events). However, in my opinion they should be altered to untradable. As others have mentioned they give another reason for rwt and botters to target osrs, it's unfortunate but true.

Will look forward to the poll! :)

05-Apr-2013 18:30:58 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 18:33:47 by MilkyJoe89

Lunatic

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1. Distribute them using similar mechanics as you did before (dropping them, holiday events)

This and 9 are pretty much the only options that actually bring them back as proper discontinued rares, however both would bring in such quantities they may well just become pointless.

2. Appear as a very rare reward from a treasure trails

Then they're just the same as third age, not discontinued items - don't really see the point.

3. Distribute them through very rare monster drops

Again same as 2.

4. Have an NPC shop you can buy rare items from for a small amount of GP

What would be the point, wouldn't be rare or discontinued.

5. Have an NPC shop you can buy rare items from for a large amount of GP

Same as 4.

6. Have them given out as rewards from community events

Don't really get what this one means, a one off thing?

7. Give one of each rare item to every old school player

Again then there just wouldn't be a point to them.

8. Have them appear as very rare drops when skilling

Same as first few.

9. Introduce new seasonal events for each of them

At least they would be discontinued then, just think the quantities that would come in would make them a bit obsolete.


Tbh not really a fan of any of the methods suggested, I would have rathered them enter the game in smaller quantities whilst remaining discontinued and rare. Sounds like they're just going to be brought back for the sake of it and won't serve their purpose of being a goal to aim at that I hoped. Shame.

And wouldn't be surprised to see less than 75% on vote anyway so expect they won't return anyway.

05-Apr-2013 18:31:03 - Last edited on 05-Apr-2013 18:32:10 by Lunatic

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Rares are a huge motivator for players! Giving them a goal to work towards, and a goal which once achieved can be worn with pride. I believe personally that making rares TOO easy to get will undermine the fact they are supposed to be "rare".

Yep this is how I feel, none of the options will apply this though unfortunately.

05-Apr-2013 18:33:44

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