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Danetta

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It feels like this poll was intentionally loaded with 2 awful ideas and a generic one to force an update Jagex wanted to pass while attempting to appease players who were mad about the unpolled changes in the first place.

27-Feb-2020 04:47:47

Reminiscon

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Danetta said :
It feels like this poll was intentionally loaded with 2 awful ideas and a generic one to force an update Jagex wanted to pass while attempting to appease players who were mad about the unpolled changes in the first place.

Poll system is a joke since the results are determined by the lowest common denominator. This is the glaring problem with democracy.

Poll system is a failed experiment. The only way to have a great game is to keep it out of the control of both the player and the businessmen. Only a true grassroots game created and controlled exclusively by a gamer has ever amounted to anything. This game only continues to survive off of its own legacy, but nothing about it today is great at all. We can't even have good death mechanics anymore because Timmy the Communist is crying about it being too hard, or Bill the Capitalist crying because it's "a bad business decision."

That's really the bottom line here, no pun intended. We're finding ourselves increasingly in Clown World, whether irl or in-game, sandwiched between two types of cancerous imbeciles. Long live the Wilderness. Long live risk vs reward in PVM. Long live 2006.

27-Feb-2020 14:48:22 - Last edited on 27-Feb-2020 14:52:16 by Reminiscon

GEN OS KWA

GEN OS KWA

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So um... you've made a quicker start time in castle wars to appease the casuals irrespective of stacking and saboing, and have given an unpolled directive around death mechanics and admitting you have no future guarantee over DDossing issues as advancing technology / methods to hijack servers become more sophisticated and have completely ignored the most obvious way of providing a gold sink such as a G E tax....

OK,... I get it now.

Truly,... you really need some more logical thinkers on the team.

27-Feb-2020 15:44:36

S ythe

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Reminiscon,

I really like your passion for this subject and I've read a lot of what you have said over the course of this thread. I can tell by a lot of your suggestions and replies that you have played since the near beginning of actual Runescape because I completely agree.

The 2 minute timer needs to come back and the GE needs to go (but we will never receive the latter).

28-Feb-2020 05:23:35

Thrill Kill
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Thrill Kill

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You are literally a step away from destroying your game.
You haven't considered mobile users, their connections are usually alot more volatile than those on a fixed connection. The chance of them dieing is alot higher, and with the difficulty of using a small touch screen to try and retrieve your items chances are they will never get back. If you kill off mobile players, you will kill this game.
Not to mention really this is a tax on the poor, The maxed players in full bandos/ancestral/armadyl etc are not the ones likely to die due to high bonuses, the lower leveled players with lower gear who may be learning different aspects of the game are the ones who will pay the price.
Is that what you really want to do, turn away new players to the game that are learning.
PLEASE DO NOT implement this change, you will destroy this game, this is a hastily put together idea with not all aspects considered.

28-Feb-2020 09:01:48

GEN OS KWA

GEN OS KWA

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@ Reminiscon ?... your the man!- or even woman,... I dont know.


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We can't even have good death mechanics anymore because Timmy the Communist is crying about it being too hard, or Bill the Capitalist crying because it's "a bad business decision."


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It matters not which. The far right and the far left wings,... are the same wings of the same bird. And stretched far enough around? ... they meet in the middle. Your posts are refreshing to read.

Support.

28-Feb-2020 12:16:46 - Last edited on 28-Feb-2020 12:17:57 by GEN OS KWA

GrossMalone
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In a big way, this has turned into a referendum on the OSRS playerbase style of play. For me, I have a job and family, I play OSRS for the express purpose of relaxing, unwinding; I chose to become a member again explicitly for its ability to be a low-key, non-anxiety-inducing game. So for me, yeah, bring in big death timers, death's office - heck, make it a 2 hour timer for all I care. I'm only here an hour or two a day, and I'm not interested in the anxiety of losing all my nice gear that took months to get, especially for something stupid like a server blip that caused me to DC during a fight. For me, if I want to laser-focus on a videogame that is high-focus, high skill driven, I'd play warframe or dark souls. However, as you can see in this thread, lots of folks play for that risk, adrenaline, adventure, etc. They play OSRS as a skill based game instead of a one click every few minutes game. And hey, that's cool too. It's those players that dig the 2 minute timer. I'm very interested to see the results on this one!

I'm also interested to see how few votes death's office gets, given the anti-RS3 elitism that festers untethered in OSRS, heh heh

28-Feb-2020 13:37:52

started 2019
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started 2019

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Last time I died against a very easy boss, because my computer crashed and it took 5 minutes before I was online again. With a 2 minute timer I would have no chance to get my items back.

Why would anyone buy bonds for armadyl armour instead of black d hidefor example and have more risks when they are dieing, so I would consider that point as well.

28-Feb-2020 15:23:18 - Last edited on 28-Feb-2020 15:25:33 by started 2019

HotSageHolly

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I don't really like the direction Old School is going if they are going to be adding Death Mechanics from Runescape 3 into Old School the soul purpose of Old School is to remain Old school I have quit Runescape 3, Years ago because of these updates and if you guys are just going to turn old school into Runescape 3 all over again I don't see a sense in playing anymore The game is fine how it is the only risk you should have on death is if your in a PVP world I don't think gravestones are a good idea and removes the old school aspect out of the game entirely a better solution to the Death mechanic would be when a player has died all the items are dropped on death visible to other players instantly excluding items kept on death unless skulled player loses all items, Protect items in the prayer spell book still works the same Another idea would be on death all items are broken such as Armor and weapons and cannot be wearable to the player until repaired by using the Smithing skill to repair the items that broke and such items requires a certain level to repair certain type of armors, this gives the player a must to train the smithing skill to repair items or high value items to be able to sell/trade them Players not willing to the smithing skill can still repair them using Bob axes but items will cost a bit more then the item is worth due to labor cost unless repaired at a player own home which repair cost are 25% less cost efficient.To stop players from item scamming saying give me the gold and ill repair the items for you make the broken items non tradable until repaired [EXCLUDES BARROWS] and have bob axes or yourself the player have to gather resources instead of using gold to repair the items which the player can only obtain themself using various skills around runescape such as repair tokens from training a skill itll drop from a npc or chopping a tree fishing ect [ tokens will not be tradable to other players ] you can only obtain them by training

28-Feb-2020 16:20:43 - Last edited on 28-Feb-2020 16:26:14 by HotSageHolly

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