I don't want this to sound like a rant. However, with Fort Forinthry there seems to just be a lack of effort in the quest.
There is no denying that the players of this game love to AFK, who doesn't? But, the "Construction Hotspot" mechanic in the New Foundations quest is just ridiculous. It takes such a long time, of 1 click gameplay with no interaction, for what reason?
The content did not require this kind of time sink to be built in, and on top of that, there are mechanics in the game (such as the statues monthly) which could have been faster, more engaging and served a purpose. Instead what we got feels like a waste of our time and lazy from the developer.
I don't mean to be critical. I'm just getting the feeling with recent content, no one in the Jagex drawing room is raising the question of "would the players actually enjoy that mechanic?". The general direction of the game just seems to be getting lazier and lazier.
This is a maybe separate issue - but if this lack of engaging content is due to the so called "spaghetti code". You cannot create or add new mechanics into situations as the code is too messed up.
I personally, would happily see all updates get benched, even the new skill. Have you spend a year or two fixing the code start to finish and then have a functioning game with survivability of engaging content. Rather than these filler mechanics that are quite frankly, extremely boring to play.
25-Feb-2023 09:40:13
