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Gleand

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Minigames are dead but there are people who are still interested in playing them so let's fix this:

• Make them accessible to F2P (either F2P only world or hybrid, or enable P2p for all like OSRS LMS).
• Make their areas locked to specific servers (no more than 1 server per minigame).
• Everyone gets rewards but member benefits more (possible options: p2p only lamps, p2p only shops etc).
• Add optional notification in settings for each minigame to notify about active minigames.
• Add NPC to each minigame area that automatically makes you join respective minigame Group Chat when clicked.
* Remove all minigames except: soul wars, fist of guthix, pest control and castle wars.


By doing this more people are able to play minigames, people can easier find out about active minigames and see how many people are on respective minigame server. Also duplicate servers can be reused for something else.


Meanwhile I want to invite everyone to Discord server.
Here you can opt in to get notified about active minigames, clan wars also group bossess such as wildywyrms and demon flashmobs and more. Or just group together to do something fun.
https://discord.gg/v5FUEZahqy
https://dsc.gg/hunt

04-Mar-2023 13:41:02 - Last edited on 18-Jun-2023 09:10:30 by Gleand

Deltaslug

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Making an activity accessible to F2P won't "fix" the issue. Even OSRS tried that for like Castle Wars.

Issue is a lot of the rewards are ... outdated.
They were fine on release, and had a place when best in slot gear was dragon tools or up to Chaotic Gear.
EoC sadly rendered most of the minigame rewards obsolete. In part because their Tier is 70 or below and the game is simply saturated with easier to obtain rewards. (Heck, melee can easily make T70 and better gear just with mining and smithing without getting into most "special" equipment or boss drops.)


you'd be better starting with getting Sinkholes, SC, TB, and pest control on a single player to start (not having to wait for teams).

05-Mar-2023 02:22:38

Gleand

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Dilbert2001 said :
No. Just make new Flash Events and D&D. They are the new minigsmes.

Even OSRS is going this route. They aren't going back to old minigames. Don't you see the likes of Guardian of the Rifts and Foresty?
Nty, I want to log in and play, not log in and wait till the d&d start. They are basically dead on realease and work similar to minigame spotlight just better rewards. https://dsc.gg/hunt

05-Mar-2023 17:49:13 - Last edited on 05-Mar-2023 17:50:37 by Gleand

Deltaslug

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On release and for a few years after, Sinkholes were almost the meta way to train the skill.

With the daily skip token and a team that didn't do stupid stuff (constantly stealing, trying to randomize rewards) ... you could end up with 2 x medium to Huge Lamps and get more XP in the 10 minutes or so than you would have been doing regular dung floors.
So in an hr of gameplay, you could do the 2 sinkholes (do at reset, get to sinkhole location quickly, do first sinkhole quick, reset, go right back in, do 2nd sinkhole before it collapses ... wait for next sinkhole spawn at the start of next hour ... then repeat doing first sinkhole, use daily reset again, then do 2nd sinkhole) you could rack up a decent amount of xp for less interaction than you normally do on a Daemonheim floor (no puzzles, no wonky boss mechanics, no OP creatures to have to kill)
(keep in mind that doing large solo floors was a more recent update)

08-Mar-2023 13:28:43

Bertel62
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I think they should make the minigames have only one instance across all servers, like they do with Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza. Of course it is hard to find a game to play with anyone when they are spread across hundreds of servers. Have only one instance of each minigame, but accessible from whatever world you are in.

09-Mar-2023 10:49:32 - Last edited on 09-Mar-2023 10:50:07 by Bertel62

Bertel62
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Bertel62

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Dilbert2001 said :
No. Just make new Flash Events and D&D. They are the new minigsmes.
No, they are not minigames, they are events. Minigames are something you can play all the time, as much as you like, without any restrictions.

I hate the events and D&D in this game, because you have to wait for them, and because they interrupt you in whatever else you are doing when they suddenly pop up. You cannot just go and play them. I never do any of them because of that. Don't let them wipe out minigames, which we can play whenever we want.

Sinkholes are the same timed event garbage. I never play those either.

09-Mar-2023 10:56:03 - Last edited on 09-Mar-2023 11:00:12 by Bertel62

ShallPrevail
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ShallPrevail

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It's more than just people still wanting to play them, minigames are part of the many ways RuneScape operates and the fact Jagex is about 8 years short of properly updating them says a lot about how this company looks at RS3 in terms of importance.


Every player that ventures back into the game of RuneScape will eventually see and find out how poorly Jagex has updated their content and once they acknowledge it's been 8 years or longer players won't be coming back.

In other words, people will create a better life without RuneScape included.


It's funny, I actually ventured back to look at older polls from about 5-7 years ago and saw that there were about 10 different options that included minigames, PVM and such. I then added up the % of all the separated minigame options and it added up to a number higher than any other category, and this isn't even including all the vet's who quit the game at the time, who of course always have a potential of coming back to the game.
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19-Mar-2023 01:15:18 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2023 01:20:17 by ShallPrevail

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