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As you've asked (roundabout) for suggestions, I shall give a few examples for PC, taken from various options given on threads in the past*(for Coda, see next post), these are to do with the AFK-ability of PC, which while it's low on the list for those effected, could likely benefit (from a participation point of view**), from a few extras:

When playing a game of PC, you're required to do a set amount of damage, in order to benefit from points at the end. The Knight has to survive, in order for the team effort to succeed. A straight damage cap increase would be unfair on lower leveled players, even with the 3 difficulty options, especially in massed games.


This allows for a few options:

Perhaps the most simple, would be a scaling damage cap, which took your combat level as a guide to how much damage you must do. This would encourage greater participation from higher levels (or indeed anyone, in larger groups), who can currently leech (provided they know they can, which is the majority).

This may make things difficult if in a large team with a few who are experts, and many who aren't.. but there are multiple worlds for PC, and the experts would benefit more by playing elsewhere, so are unlikely to penalise themselves, just to disrupt others (and would have to put in exorbitant extra effort to do so).

Guarding the Knight would not put at risk of losing out, unless you were not actually guarding it - if there isn't enough work to do for everyone in this role, then they can easily swap to another (the hint is in whether you're doing anything, or not).


(continued in 2 posts time, as the next 2 are the Codas).

Codas:

*..and it would be nice if such threads got listened to.. there have been threads which existed for 7+ Years, in the case of some minigames, with masses of support, and very useful, well explained, and quick to impliment ideas, yet barely any got acted upon, which is why people are no longer about, asking for these things - because they really don't believe anything will be done.. TB had promises after promises, and issues are still outstanding that were supposedly going to be fixed in the week after the game was released

Indeed, with TB, they even had so much as pictures 'leaked' (I.E. released) of an updated version, back in 08/9... yet nothing appeared, no further word was given on it, and no replies could be got about it (it's suspected that there were technical difficulties, but that's not certain.. they were linked to graphical updates, but didn't appear with them). There's only so many Years that fans can cling on in the face of such constant struggle, along with false hopes being dashed every time (although I'm aware they (JAGEX) never be doing it intentionally, and must have been unaware they were comming across so, it was felt by quite a few in the TB community that I knew, that they were being trolled into submission.

Coda 2:


** While PC may not, in itself be one of the Minigames absolutely requiring this, it would likely benefit minigames as a whole, if they all supported eachother in having similar links of effort to reward (with rewards being better, in general - People don't expect to be able to afk bosses, at the appropriate levels to fight them them, for loot.. and they certainly don't expect to be able to get more loot (either in direct terms, or on average) by doing so, than those who put all the effort in - let alone be able to do so while preventing anyone who goes there for fun, from being able to enjoy the content.).

This would prevent a resurfacing of the general consensus that minigames are to be reaped without participation.

The important thing to note about almost all the proposals for fixes, is that while they prevent afking and boosting without contribution, they don't force people to play if they don't wish to - they must either not do the games, or pay to leech, like with Dunge, and thus support indirectly, rather than detract.

The amount they pay would depend on how much value they place upon afking it, or how fast the team they pay can boost them through. While I'm not a fan of boosting, I see that it's the only way to turn something negative into something positive, and is a FAR better situation than currently (I can't emphasise that enough - and no, I wouldn't be a direct beneficiary of this, as I'm not even close to a good player in any minigame, not by the standards of those who would be the alternative; I would, however, benefit from more lively Minigames).

A great thing about this aspect, is that it will create a self-balancing, constant reward incentive, one which can save extra dev time spent on dreaming up extra rewards (*to clarify: All minigames are in need of some extras (top-tier Invention components would help), but this would help with spreading them out).

The second option for PC (and perhaps the preferable one) is:


A reworking of the points system (a moving of the decimal point), to allow a more complex rewards allocation to occur, for example:


The base number of points you can get for completing a hard wave is currently 4, given you participate.

If this were made 400, then there could be a series of targets, as the main goal (increasing amounts of damage, in order to obtain more points within that), with 100 being the lowest, and 400 the highest. The target for 400 should be higher than currently, but not by too much, the requirement for 100 should be slightly lower.


Additional points could be attained for doing any of the following (this is just suggestion, to give a basic idea, the actions and points are up to balancers):
• Up to 100 More for additional general damage, past this cap, with it being a sliding scale, requiring a lot of extra damage to make a difference.
• 20 For being the person to deal the most damage to a portal - (30 if you take it down solo).
• 50 For being the person to deal the most overall damage to portals.
• 50 For doing the most damage to pests.
• 10 for doing the most damage to individual kinds of pests.
• 1 Point for each Pest destroyed after it has initiated combat with the Knight/is in the vicinity of the Knight - whether these go to the person who deals the most damage, or only to clean kills, Idk.
• 3 points for each repair made.

These need not necessarily be balanced entirely among the roles, as PC cannot succeed without all the roles, and therefore people can rotate which role they take, or take ones better suited to their levels, within a team - no one would get ANY points, it the wave fails, so people would have to make sure they didn't just try to farm the most gains, all the time, or they'd end up with 0, anyway.