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Bagill

Bagill

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I don't have gobs of time to play. Too many dailies are keeping me from advancing my character for quests.

This is what I find myself doing.

Take rewards from 3 daily costumes.
Spend free keys from treasure hunter.
If any of the tasks are quick for keys (like burning 10 logs, do those).
Spend extra keys.
Go to each animal pen and check farm animals.
Check the food in each animal pen (sometimes once a week I cap it to 1k).
Sell animals for beans.
Sell animals on market.
Harvest manure from pens especially if red, now green because they changed the compost bins.
Refresh the life bar for my pet so I can keep an animal summoned at all times for free fruit (to feed animals).

There is an hour gone.
I've done no quests.
I'm never able to start quests and concentrate on them because dailies eat my time. When I do start a quest I can't think about it, I have to move, move, move so I look up the solutions every damn time just to speed it up. Plus how the heck am I supposed to know 10 years worth of lore for all these inside jokes.

Add to this that every event seems to have a daily component.
Example:
Halloween - dailies
Kharid farming event - dailies again

Is this my playstyle or are other experiencing dailies in the way of progresses. Orrrrrrr does the game just have too much to do.

I really feel like dailies make me spin my wheels in place.
I haven't even made it to the new PVP content because all I do is dailies.

P.S. When larger content comes out it's often gated behind quests. That makes it seem like I'm always behind, never good enough for the new stuff. The game REQUIRES quests though I can't get to them.

Basically, whenever they release something it either holds me still because it's a daily or requires me to have done more things than I can accomplish because I haven't had this character since the start of the game.

It's making me not want to log in as often. Help?

08-Nov-2022 09:58:57 - Last edited on 08-Nov-2022 10:08:01 by Bagill

Jeremy Cheng
Aug Member 2013

Jeremy Cheng

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Agreed. Jagex has said they want to reduce dailyscape yet they went from dailyscape flash events with that very rare dark onyx core to dailyscape garden of kharid. They know adding more dailyscape drives up player count and forces players to grind these dailies to get those exclusive rewards.

08-Nov-2022 11:12:02

Pachuli714
Mar Member 2008

Pachuli714

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The old standby: "you don't have to do it" is complete BS. Some of us have long-term goals including comp at some point and leaving it until later is not always advisable or even desirable. I tend to like to do things when they are released so that I won't have to worry about it later on.

This is why I pushed and got 120 Farming and 120 Herblore (and 120 Slayer) to leave me time to level up some of my more neglected skills. And I was right on track with several of them until I lost out on a whole day for the stupid cut 'n' paste Halloween event so I could get enough tokens for the new cosmetic ugliness but then I went right back to working on several levels and even got a few until yesterday and the new Farming junk at Kharid.

I was so done with herb runs. Got way past them over 2 years ago when I maxed my xp during BXP events with multiple fruit tree runs. Now it just feels like I'm taking several damn steps backwards doing herb runs again and I feel stupid. But it means maybe two weeks of doing this crap until everything is unlocked for future comp and then I can once again put my damn cape away and destroy my outfit.

In the meantime, alt runners will create even more alt accounts to try and corner the market on herbs and seeds which is probably the main reason for this whole thing in the first place.

I try not to get hampered by doing too many dailies. I have my own plan, my own schedule and I'll return to it once this stupid thing is dealt with. If it weren't a comp req, I wouldn't be bothering with it at all.

08-Nov-2022 16:47:39 - Last edited on 08-Nov-2022 16:48:49 by Pachuli714

Sylvanheart
Oct Member 2023

Sylvanheart

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The old standby: "you don't have to do it" is complete BS.

I agree, with reservations.

Players usually want to get the most out of their time and, in a goal-oriented game that generally means working towards goals for efficiently. Dailies tend to be good for that. But there's also a certain aspect of simply becoming overly attached to a routine because we've somewhat arbitrarily decided that that is what we "need" to get done every day. Sometimes it's important to try to take a step back and decide whether you're still enjoying it and ask if the progress towards your goal is important if it has started to feel like work.

For me, this cycle is usually at the crux of why I eventually leave RuneScape again. When I first get back into the game, I am still rediscovering things and excitedly build a new routine. But it doesn't take long for pressure to keep to that routine to result in burnout. And then I leave for another few months until I burn out of whatever other game I jump ship to, for largely the same reasons.

Right now, I have a routine of dailies that honestly takes too long but I usually keep myself to it anyways:

PoP
PoF
Jack of Trades
Buying 200 flies
Buying/claiming pineapples and seaweed
Gather Divine Herb Patch III
Claim sand from Bert
Top up my kingdom approval rating
Convert to bonemeal/slime at Robin
Infinity RC set: teleport to altar and craft various runes + claim 200 fire runes
Sandstones
Daily Challenges
Travelling Merchant if he has good stuff
Guthixian Cache x2 (preferably ones on every 3rd hour)
Goebie tasks and Nemi Forest

That's already a crap ton of stuff. And it occasionally expands when I find new things I want to work on steadily. Throw weeklies/monthlies in and it gets even longer sometimes.

09-Nov-2022 00:32:58 - Last edited on 09-Nov-2022 00:40:51 by Sylvanheart

Sylvanheart
Oct Member 2023

Sylvanheart

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Anyways, the fact is, RuneScape is designed in such a way that players tend to gravitate towards creating routines. And although technically yes, we could choose to give some of them up, the way the game is designed encourages players to not do that. Every daily that we give up is a step away from our goals. Of course, we can replace it with other things that work towards other goals. But it feels like giving up on something if we drop a part of our routine.

To some extent, this is part of every game. People inevitably build routines then burn out of them. But some games are better at helping players avoid getting tangled up in routines. One game that is quite good (not perfect though) is Final Fantasy 14. Because there aren't really so many goals to work towards. A lot of players waste the openness that FF14 offers by obsessing over the latest raids. But technically the game is quite nicely designed to not really reward players for doing much of anything. And, consequently, it also doesn't make players feel punished for just dawdling around doing whatever catches their fancy at the moment. The problem in that game is just the players: it becomes impossible to actually do anything except the latest raids because everyone congregates around them, making recruitment for anything else next to impossible.

Therefore, it seems almost inevitable that any game will always result in the same issue, whether by nature of the game, nature of the people playing it, or both.

09-Nov-2022 00:40:09

Sylvanheart
Oct Member 2023

Sylvanheart

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do you know how many dailies i do?


right now its 1, thats the 25k favour for herb patches. when i get trim comp back. i wont do them anymore

its a choice to do them

Not everyone is the same as you. Also, you're trimmed comp and I assume you have very few skills you aren't maxed in. I'm not going to spy on your high scores, but you strike me as someone with a lot of 200m XP skills?

If that's the case, then what goals are even left for you in the game? For you, the danger of burnout becomes less about feeling obligated to stick to routines to progress your character and more about whether you get sick of your routine of things you do just because you feel like it. The way that the game is designed effectively stops applying to you. Your experience is a lot more like Final Fantasy 14: You can just run around doing whatever the hell you want, but are more likely to get frustrated when you can't do what you want because of a lack of player participation. For example, if you happened to love Castle Wars but can't play it because nobody else does, then you might burn out in that case.

However, since RuneScape's content is largely solo-friendly or can be done with small groups of friends, that problem is also largely avoided.

Basically, it's just a social experience for you at this point, I would imagine. So long as you able to enjoy whatever you like, you will never really burn out.

09-Nov-2022 00:50:43

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