RuneScape Forum Archive | OSRS Death Mechanics

Aug

2023

Teridax

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The death mechanics was only a trendy topic of conversation for players this has no merit, I could care less about people not "risking" too fucking bad no one wants to PVP because you lose more than you make with it, no one wants to work hours and hours just to lose their things to 1 pk battle.

Make vanilla servers or I will not be renewing my RS membership. I am ready to quit this game, its headed in such a wrong direction with the constant fees and GE taxes and death mechanics.

Get yo shit together Jagex, I quit

22-Feb-2020 15:28:41

TheRedDemon

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#BabyScape

22-Feb-2020 20:15:30

Mar

2017

Asdewq

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A Message to the Developers

If the two minute death timer comes back it will just ruin this game. Stop punishing the players by looking for an easy gold sink just because your beloved Warding skill wasn't passed on the polls.

All the people asking for the two minute death timer to come back are the players running about with their dragon boots only hoping that if they get their wish that one day they may be able to get lucky and pick up a poor fella's Primodials.

To be honest It is a bit frustrating that the amount of time you have worked on this could be better spent else where rather than dividing the community with this controversial proposal for changing the death Mechanics.

Have you guys not learned from doing stuff like this going back to the Trade limit restriction and the Wilderness update of the past? Or are you so content of following down the same route that almost killed this game?Is it not enough having one of the highest concurrent players of an mmorpg? Or do you just enjoy toying with your player base with changes that don't need to be made?

22-Feb-2020 22:48:37

Reminiscon

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Asdewq said :
A Message to the Developers

If the two minute death timer comes back it will just ruin this game. Stop punishing the players by looking for an easy gold sink just because your beloved Warding skill wasn't passed on the polls.

All the people asking for the two minute death timer to come back are the players running about with their dragon boots only hoping that if they get their wish that one day they may be able to get lucky and pick up a poor fella's Primodials.

To be honest It is a bit frustrating that the amount of time you have worked on this could be better spent else where rather than dividing the community with this controversial proposal for changing the death Mechanics.

Have you guys not learned from doing stuff like this going back to the Trade limit restriction and the Wilderness update of the past? Or are you so content of following down the same route that almost killed this game?Is it not enough having one of the highest concurrent players of an mmorpg? Or do you just enjoy toying with your player base with changes that don't need to be made?

What a silly reply.

STOP comparing the RETURN of old death mechanics with something as disastrous as the removal of Wilderness and Free Trade. Removing those things killed the feel of OLD RuneScape; know what else did? The forced change to the death mechanics in OSRS that made the game piss easy.

I think at this point the community is too divided. The only solution is for OSRS to split again with one for the true veterans and the other for the fake "veterans" like yourselves. Long live the Wilderness. Long live risk vs reward in PVM. Long live 2006.

23-Feb-2020 01:20:00

Reminiscon

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Teridax said :
The death mechanics was only a trendy topic of conversation for players this has no merit, I could care less about people not "risking" too fucking bad no one wants to PVP because you lose more than you make with it, no one wants to work hours and hours just to lose their things to 1 pk battle.

Make vanilla servers or I will not be renewing my RS membership. I am ready to quit this game, its headed in such a wrong direction with the constant fees and GE taxes and death mechanics.

Get yo shit together Jagex, I quit

You people make zero sense.

A vanilla server? So basically one with NO GE and with the 2 minute timer on death mechanics. Yeah sure, give us one I suppose. Not sure how that helps degenerates like yourself. Long live the Wilderness. Long live risk vs reward in PVM. Long live 2006.

23-Feb-2020 01:22:32

Mar

2017

Asdewq

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I do not agree with your stance on this matter at all and your such a hypocrite. So if your such a "Real Veteran" why don't you want rid of the GE as well? but you want the original death mechanics back? I just want to make it perfectly clear that if there is anyone being fake here mate it is you.

Furthermore how can you call this game easy when it is most definitely not. I am not sure what game you have been playing but nothing gets handed to you on this game. All the players put a lot of time and effort to earn their desired levels to boss and the obtain the gear needed to do it effectively. So when the Developers propose a change to possibly return to the Death Mechanics of the past then yes I will 100% be against because is complete and utter stupidity.

23-Feb-2020 13:40:43

Knoxius

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i have been with this game for a very very very... long time. why are you trying to reinvent the wheel? why the fuck do we need gravestones or death coffers? WHY? just to please some potential kids who will cry about their deaths? this is not what this game is about.

sure, oldschool ways, 2 minutes maybe not enough. but please, stop with the new uneeded inventions. Personally, i always liked the fact that you can claim items of a fellow players who just died. where would this go if you implement this new bullshit mechanics you propose? sure, you can take some food and potions if you like...

raise/reduce (depends from what year you are looking at it) the time items stay on the floor to 15 minutes. after 5 minutes they become visible and claimable by all players. items stay on the floor only on that world.

you are welcome

24-Feb-2020 02:42:37

Reminiscon

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Asdewq said :
I do not agree with your stance on this matter at all and your such a hypocrite. So if your such a "Real Veteran" why don't you want rid of the GE as well? but you want the original death mechanics back? I just want to make it perfectly clear that if there is anyone being fake here mate it is you.

Furthermore how can you call this game easy when it is most definitely not. I am not sure what game you have been playing but nothing gets handed to you on this game. All the players put a lot of time and effort to earn their desired levels to boss and the obtain the gear needed to do it effectively. So when the Developers propose a change to possibly return to the Death Mechanics of the past then yes I will 100% be against because is complete and utter stupidity.

Wrong again.

I'd vote to have the entire GE removed in a heartbeat. I just don't think that is ever going to happen. We are more likely to get the 2 minute timer than that ever happening.

However, taxing the GE would actually turn it into a net positive for the game because it would be the ultimate gp sink, which again is good for the game. That's why a GE tax (or simply call it a service fee) is better than not having a GE tax, period.

By all means remove the GE, but I think we can actually make it work for game integrity rather than against it if the cards are played right.

And no, this game is really easy now. It was respectable back in the old days, but now you don't lose anything if you die. Even RS3 is a more difficult game in terms of PVM, which frankly is just pathetic. Retro gamers play retro because older games tend to be more difficult than newer ones. That's why making this game piss easy just seems so idiotic and backwards to me. Long live the Wilderness. Long live risk vs reward in PVM. Long live 2006.

24-Feb-2020 14:00:23

Miu

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Asdewq said :
If the two minute death timer comes back it will just ruin this game. Stop punishing the players by looking for an easy gold sink just because your beloved Warding skill wasn't passed on the polls.

1. Jagex isn't punishing players. Death is punishing them. Death should be punishing.
2. Two minute timer wouldn't be a gold sink...

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25-Feb-2020 06:26:56

Miu

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Reminiscon said :
Miu said :
Just give us the old death mechanics but up the timer to like 10 minutes. If you can make the timer only drop down while logged on, even better.

Death should be an item sink, not a coin sink. Stop flooding PvM droptables with absurd alchables and you wouldn't need it as a coin sink in the first place.

However, I do like the idea of purchasing gravestones that came with the original gravestone update. What if you pre-purchased graves for only a single death, that could up the timer?

I would only support the idea of buying "disposable" Gravestones if the default death timer and mechanics are reset to what they were originally, 2 minutes.

You could pre-purchase a gravestone that would up this to 3 minutes, 4 minutes, or 5 minutes. The cost would be 100k, 1m, or 10m respectively. If you die, then you must purchase another for that insurance to apply again.

In all cases the timer would freeze while offline.

That's about as far as I am willing to go for making this game easier, and only because it makes death both an item and gold sink in this case.

The exact prices/timers could be different. But I agree with the principles here.

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25-Feb-2020 06:28:09

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