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The Impact of Invention
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Invention essentially takes us back to Retroscape, the old version of Runescape.
What we have seen over the years is the transformation of Runescpae from where most players could not realistically hope to "finish" the game in terms of maxing, to one where maxing skills became a relatively simple and easy process. Buyable xp, free bxp, a wide variety of D&D's, minigames, and regular xp giving events such as Tuska and the Beach Party now mean that the average regular player is already maxed or so close to it as to make little difference.
Which is why we have comp, trimmed comp, 120's and 200's nowadays.
So along comes invention and suddenly all those 99's mean nothing. You either have to gather the resources yourself or pay exorbitantly high prices for them. So as we have seen a small proportion of fabulously rich players have spent considerable amounts of money, draining out banks in the process, gaining high levels in Invention. The bulk of the players, however, will still have to grind out Invention in the most cost effective way they can. Which will be slower. Much slower. It will mean they will have to revisit activities they thought they had finished with once they got 99.
99 summoning? Too bad, back to making pouches once again. Reset that charming imp.
99 Woodchopping. Back to chopping yew, magics and elders.
99 mining? Back to the harmonized ore.
99 smithing? Back to making bars, oh joy!
99 crafting? Yup, lets make orbs again
Of course the most rational skillers will soon follow in the footsteps of the Pvmers, who are quick to analyze their most profitable activity in terms of gp/hour and compare that to the cost of any activity in Invention that requires supplies. But it will certainly take considerable time for the market to settle down before such an analysis becomes feasible. And at the end of the day people will not be wanting to waste time at the citadel when they could be making money at their best skilling activity. I failed to keep my New Year's resolution before I even made it.
What we have seen over the years is the transformation of Runescpae from where most players could not realistically hope to "finish" the game in terms of maxing, to one where maxing skills became a relatively simple and easy process. Buyable xp, free bxp, a wide variety of D&D's, minigames, and regular xp giving events such as Tuska and the Beach Party now mean that the average regular player is already maxed or so close to it as to make little difference.
Which is why we have comp, trimmed comp, 120's and 200's nowadays.
So along comes invention and suddenly all those 99's mean nothing. You either have to gather the resources yourself or pay exorbitantly high prices for them. So as we have seen a small proportion of fabulously rich players have spent considerable amounts of money, draining out banks in the process, gaining high levels in Invention. The bulk of the players, however, will still have to grind out Invention in the most cost effective way they can. Which will be slower. Much slower. It will mean they will have to revisit activities they thought they had finished with once they got 99.
99 summoning? Too bad, back to making pouches once again. Reset that charming imp.
99 Woodchopping. Back to chopping yew, magics and elders.
99 mining? Back to the harmonized ore.
99 smithing? Back to making bars, oh joy!
99 crafting? Yup, lets make orbs again
Of course the most rational skillers will soon follow in the footsteps of the Pvmers, who are quick to analyze their most profitable activity in terms of gp/hour and compare that to the cost of any activity in Invention that requires supplies. But it will certainly take considerable time for the market to settle down before such an analysis becomes feasible. And at the end of the day people will not be wanting to waste time at the citadel when they could be making money at their best skilling activity. I failed to keep my New Year's resolution before I even made it.
13-Feb-2016 10:47:30 - Last edited on 13-Feb-2016 11:29:40 by Corugi
I understand where you are coming from, but even with how broken invention seems to be at the moment, and the reason that people may not have been going i don't that are going to be lasting effects.
Reason:
People were literally buying the crap out of everything they could get their hands on, and some people still are, to grind to 120 invention(for all those previous compers/maxers out there) and there was just a HUGE market inflation, but as of right now, we are only 3 weeks in and I don't think that it is going to last. eventually once all of these maxers/compers(such as myself) get 120, we wont need to go buy like 1k adamant claws, as an example, to get the (stupid) swift components for our precious pogos! and so on for each item that people bought thousands of so they could rush through invention
Maybe, because of the huge item/money sink it might take a while for it to actually stay even, but im a bit pessimistic in saying i don't think some things will go back to "normal"
Eventually, it is going to settle down. Yes, with the new batches there may be a bit of a spike in prices again, but probably not nearly to the degree they did the last few weeks.
Or, maybe my clan was just lucky and people capped to help the clan, not just for exp
Reason:
People were literally buying the crap out of everything they could get their hands on, and some people still are, to grind to 120 invention(for all those previous compers/maxers out there) and there was just a HUGE market inflation, but as of right now, we are only 3 weeks in and I don't think that it is going to last. eventually once all of these maxers/compers(such as myself) get 120, we wont need to go buy like 1k adamant claws, as an example, to get the (stupid) swift components for our precious pogos! and so on for each item that people bought thousands of so they could rush through invention
Maybe, because of the huge item/money sink it might take a while for it to actually stay even, but im a bit pessimistic in saying i don't think some things will go back to "normal"
Eventually, it is going to settle down. Yes, with the new batches there may be a bit of a spike in prices again, but probably not nearly to the degree they did the last few weeks.
Or, maybe my clan was just lucky and people capped to help the clan, not just for exp
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13-Feb-2016 23:24:50
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