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Mark Snow
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Support!
Would be nice to have an option to hide all pets except your own.... (I might even still want it in non-crowded areas away from banks.) - I guess an exception could be when a pet/familiar is actively in combat.... But otherwise, it is probably more of a distraction than it is useful....

I guess the alternate solution is alright, but still prefer the option to have them hidden.

If we need to know who has pets out/what they are (when using this setting), then you can put the Pet info in a player's Examine interface. (That info should probably be there anyway?) Use those smileys! :) Express your inner character! :D Yeah! Go for it! :P

28-Jan-2021 07:47:20 - Last edited on 28-Jan-2021 09:03:55 by Mark Snow

HC Whatusay

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Frankly its upsetting that owning an $800 laptop is not enough to run Runescape on any real decent quality. Jagex constantly updating the game to require higher and higher end gaming hardware is why these people want
as many cluttering FPS-lowering things
, like large pets, able to be hidden.

My laptop can run just about every other game I own with ease. Runescape though is the only game i play on it that constantly causes client crashes due to high cpu usage, and I only play on very medium level settings.

If i really wanted to, i could turn on ultra settings and still play, but with a much less steady fps and only slightly more frequent client crashes. But, minimum settings with the lack of draw distance, ground textures.. etc.. makes runescape a rather unappealing game. So no, i will not use them. Would you?

I'd rather Jagex focus on boosting their game to Not require such intense hardware before making options to hide things like this. but if them making the game run smoother and require less isn't realistically possible, but implementing a small toggleable button for hiding large, cluttering things is... then I'd happily support the many possible options like this.

I support it to help people who have more important things to spend their money on, rather than expecting everybody to drop $1000+ on a gaming desktop that has better processors and graphics cards, just to be able to play Runescape on a quality higher than mid without having to worry about the client crashing. Expecting that out of every customer is unrealistic. Would love to see 200m capes.

09-Feb-2021 02:26:38 - Last edited on 12-Feb-2021 19:03:20 by HC Whatusay

HC Whatusay

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Again you miss the main points and only see the tldr version.

Our mid-grade laptops have to process everything in the game. And as I said in the first sentence, if we want to play on any real decent quality , it requires a lot of cpu power to run the game as a whole. At least that's what I've been told by support when i queried them about my client crashing. People having a higher quality gaming-specific setup would make them unaware of how hard runescape is on anything else.

The point of these toggleable options is to
offer better fps and/or comfort to the people who want it
by letting them turn off specific parts that they find unnecessary. Thats what graphics settings are for.

It has also been said in the thread many times that it would be a strictly user-side only update. Nobody on the other side would possibly ever know somebody like me turned it on. If they want their drakes or kalgerions out, let them. nobody is against that. Do what you want with your pet and have it out for everybody who loves them.

Judging by the overall support I've seen in this thread over the long time its been out. its obvious Some people will use options like this for their own reasons. Whatever their reasons may be. Would love to see 200m capes.

10-Feb-2021 06:42:16 - Last edited on 12-Feb-2021 19:09:56 by HC Whatusay

Draco Burnz
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HC Whatusay said :


Judging by the overall support I've seen in this thread over the long time its been out. its obvious Some people will use options like this for their own reasons. Whatever their reasons may be.

Yet hasnt jagex already made more areas hide pets such as drakes so why is this still even a thing?

IMO, it more a personal attack towards the drakes themselves and not something thats meant to help solve "framerates".

Jagex has already pretty much solved this issue yet ppl continue to complain about it.
Draco Burnz
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10-Feb-2021 10:35:02 - Last edited on 10-Feb-2021 10:35:21 by Draco Burnz

HC Whatusay

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Draco Burnz said :

IMO, it more a personal attack towards the drakes themselves and not something thats meant to help solve "framerates".

Jagex has already pretty much solved this issue yet ppl continue to complain about it.
1) Keyword there is "IMO." People still complain about it, so it must not be "fixed."

2) Whether it is a personal attack on the pets from some specific people is irrelevant. those people support this idea just the same as the people who aren't targeting the pets specifically, they just support it for their own individual reason.

3) Jagex making specific areas entirely hide pets to everybody, means Jagex supported the idea of this thread enough to literally implement it. They just went about doing it wrong.

4) This thread's suggestion is the better, more.. Individual User-Specific version of what they implemented. So instead of forcing those pets to be hidden to everybody, its only hidden to specific people instead, not you. So those spots can revert back to how they were previously and not force your pets to be hidden to all. While those people don't have to worry, no matter where they are. Would love to see 200m capes.

11-Feb-2021 18:51:03

Draco Burnz
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HC Whatusay said :

1) Keyword there is "IMO." People still complain about it, so it must not be "fixed."



Yet it is in those areas. Sorry, but i dont see them doing this to the whole map otherwise they might as well go with my suggestion as well and let me toggle ppl.

HC Whatusay said :


4) This thread's suggestion is the better, more.. Individual User-Specific version of what they implemented. So instead of forcing those pets to be hidden to everybody, its only hidden to specific people instead, not you. So those spots can revert back to how they were previously and not force your pets to be hidden to all. While those people don't have to worry, no matter where they are.

Well i dont think this is entirely possible otherwise jagex wouldve done so by now.

That or this is such a small issue that it isnt worth their time.

Either way considering this hasnt been done yet i dont see it ever happening.
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11-Feb-2021 20:52:52

HC Whatusay

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Again, that is an opinion. And frankly you cannot speak for Jagex. So don't.

They can create a toggle for me to see shadows under everything or not, which is a huge boost to my fps. They can also create an overlapping mapping of a specific area to make that area unable to allow pets, like the party room in Falador... and other areas where pets are hidden from view, like you keep bringing up.

All of these things are possible and have already been done, so why wouldn't it be possible to make a toggle, that makes a general mapping around the player based off of their draw distance or a specific number of tiles, unable to see pets? That sounds very possible.

My posts are acting as a very realistic view and explanation of the threads purpose, and benefits, over this method of implementing it vs the way Jagex already implemented it.

Your posts are being a very narcissistic complaint about the thread existing. so to avoid further cluttering of the thread, I say we stop talking to each other seeing as we will never agree. Leave it for somebody else now and i will do the same. Would love to see 200m capes.

11-Feb-2021 21:31:51

Draco Burnz
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HC Whatusay said :


They can create a toggle for me to see shadows under everything or not, which is a huge boost to my fps. They can also create an overlapping mapping of a specific area to make that area unable to allow pets, like the party room in Falador... and other areas where pets are hidden from view, like you keep bringing up.

All of these things are possible and have already been done, so why wouldn't it be possible to make a toggle, that makes a general mapping around the player based off of their draw distance or a specific number of tiles, unable to see pets? That sounds very possible.



One reason they might not want to do this has been, once again, said in this thread but ill say it one last time. Loss of money. Sure they have already done this in certain areas but again, its only in a very few select areas.

So the rest of the map you are forced to see them. Thus unless you want to deal with another form of MTX for the potential loss of revenue, i dont see this happening.
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11-Feb-2021 23:10:33 - Last edited on 11-Feb-2021 23:11:33 by Draco Burnz

rasco400
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Mass Drakes effect game play. This is fact as people need to take steps to mitigate the effect (zoom in, zoom out, go to less populated worlds, rotate the camera, Etc) This is caused by there size.

Can we accept the above? Given players need to change their gameplay habits if there is a drake on screen this is a negative.

The other side of the argument is that people payed money for them and some people where influenced in this decision by the fact other players could see them.

I find the argument of showing off weak due to them not being advertised as a display item but instead a utility where they proved extra benefits. Most people who purchased them with the intent to show them off, did so under the motivation of being a troll once they where proven to be annoying. This point is illustrative in the game that you very rarely see them on there own and instead will end up on a world where there are 8+ in the same bank area. The odds of this are so rare it is most likely a organized event.

So in essence it boils down to it negatively impacts the play of others vs people wanting to be a troll.

16-Mar-2021 20:11:58

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