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Jagex has gotten very good at listening to what players want while apparently remaining clueless about how many players want it. They seem to be operating under the assumption that the players on the forums asking for new content are representative of the entire playerbase. Case in point, the stupid "prestige" idea, because if the players on our private maxed-only forums like something then of course everyone else will too. Restricting ports to 90+ only, because otherwise too many players would be able to enjoy it. Developing a string of new absurdly high-level bosses like Vorago and Rise of the Six, because one or two bosses most players will never fight isn't nearly enough, we need to showcase our new combat mechanics in a place where they can only be experienced by players with max stats and billions of gp. It's great that they're communicating, but when the only people in the dialog are the heavily enfranchised ones, the signals get warped.

I don't see how baby unicorns are any more out of place than puppies or kittens. The game has had unicorns since Classic, and they make much more sense as pets than, say, abyssal demons or tooth golems.

Just instasold seasinger top at 4821k. Little under the guide price today.

Can we just get more set bonuses? Set bonuses are cool.

I believe you can donate bonds bought from other players. However, some players may not like the hassle of that. Gotta go buy the bonds, remember only can put in offers for 6 maximum in g.e. at once (1 per slot). Gotta wait for someone to sell them. Thats if you have the gp at hand to donate. If you have items you need to sell those first then buy. With well you can just throw the items or cash in and be done. Also, of course gp is a worse deal than bonds. Jagex is using their own money when you use gp or items, with bonds they're donating the money of the person who bought the bonds. Bonds only work in increments of 7m. Gold can be donated in whatever amount you like.

It is exactly what Jagex would do if they legitimately wanted to stop gold farming for the long-term health of the game. I don't see the fabricated nonsense.

I think that all the 200m people start even when they reset, actually. AFAIK, the way they described it nobody got extra prestiges for having more than 13m xp. I also suppose it's possible that it might help use up some of the obscene gold piles many of those players have. Since they'll all be spending +40% ge price on resources to get them quick, so they can be the first to power through another 200M <buyable skill> xp. I know you don't get extra prestiges for more than 13m xp. I meant the people who have actually prestiged five times. How are you supposed to be in the running if you aren't starting right when it first comes out?

I don't actually understand how this was supposed to make it easier to compete on the hiscores. If I'm level 80, how does it help me compete against someone who's 99? They have just as big a head start as they had before. If I have 99, I can prestige and...what? Try to catch up to the guys who already have 5 prestige? Increase my rank from 10,000 to 8,000? Removing the cap only makes it more competitive for players who are capped already.

He doesn't say anything different for me, just "Thanks for saving my rosebushes."

Most players don't care about the top of the hiscores. The prestige system explicitly tells them to start caring. Players do what the game tells them to do. If you tell the players to do something that's not fun, they'll do it, and they won't have fun. That's not just a maxim of game design, it's something we've repeatedly seen in the past.

After giving it some thought, I dislike the idea of prestige. 99 is the top. It's already a stupidly high top. It doesn't need to be higher--if anything, it should be lower. If I spend 150 hours maxing a skill, I want to be done with it. I don't want the game to tell me I'm just getting started. The vast majority of players do not have skillcapes at all. And if you do get a skillcape, there are still 25 other skills for you to max. And if you max out every skill, there's still the completionist cape. And if you have that, there's still the AFK Castle Wars cape trimmed completionist cape. We're drowning in pointless post-endgame achievements as it is; we don't need more. The more we have, the more the game becomes about maxing (AKA endless grinding). For Guthix's sake, don't encourage it. Want hiscores to be competitive? Seasonal Hiscores for every skill. Boom. Done.

If the question is ever which god would win in a fight, then what we really need to know is which god is the most popular? Because there is no way Jagex is going to kill off a god without a world event like the Battle of Lumbridge. Do they say that even if you signed up with the Zarosian emissary?

I don't remember Mierin being in Die Another Day.I really enjoyed this quest, but I think that jagex needs to rethink their idea of restarting all the quests. As a new player, jumping into MPD as your first members quest would be ridiculously confusing. You would have no idea who most of the characters are (esp. Ichthalarian and Silske). I like the idea of making quests accessible to everyone but I think this should be done by removing skill requirements from all quests and scaling combat (but better then it was done in this quest). Leave the requirements to claim the rewards, and leave the quest requirements in their logical order. I highly doubt a new player's first quest will be a member quest on the opposite end of the continent from where you start. Zanaris is Gielinor's moon. It's on the same plane, but, you know, in space. You can see it in an orrery, orbiting the main planet.

[hide] Isn't that what he promised to do if Icthlarin showed up? So he kept his promise. Bet you didn't expect that! That Sliske. Always keeps you guessing. [/hide]

I hope any cosmetic rewards don't go beyond "Thing with a number on it".

Huh. This is interesting. To be honest, I didn't like the prestige system when they used it before. Losing all your progress is a drag. Having an "off" button helps a lot, though. I'm curious what impact this will have on the game.

The oldest tree in RuneScape, an appropriately-named Elder Tree near the resting place of Guthix, is turning 0.009 years old this week. No celebration is planned. The Keldagrim Black Guard still refuses to release information on the four prisoners recently arrested on suspicion of spying and treason, spurring more protests from Dwarf Rights activists. Reports conflict as to whether the prisoners were exiled, executed, released, or kept in custody. None of the four has received a trial. The ancient and powerful demon warlord of Zamorak, K'ril Tutsaroth, stars in a new reality show this fall titled "The K'ril World". Entrants must prove their worth to the mighty champion of chaos. The winner earns a date with K'ril himself. Commented Tutsaroth: "I will flay the flesh from your bones. Your blood will paint the floor. Your soul will be a tribute to the Lord of Chaos. Thank you for the lovely flowers. Hail Zamorak!"

It depends where the corruption is. If Mod MMG was getting a bigger paycheck each time he were to increase income dramaticaly then he may get the idea "Never mind the game, I want my bonus'" On the other hand, if the additional profits were rolled back into the game, then we'd have to consider the good it does for the game via more resources and a bigger budget. One could argue that funding such investments provides significant benefits to RuneScape's long-term health, easily outweighing the moral cost of allowing some players to trade money for time--which they could already do.

The bond is a tradable item in-game that you can sell on the Grand Exchange like any other tradable item. It cannot be used for coins. You have to sell it to another player to get the gp.

Insta-sell prices I got from cashing in some resources tonight: Tetsu Legs: 4.5m Seasinger Bottom: 2.3m Death Lotus chaps: 2.1m Scrimshaw of Vampyrism: 300k Tree-shaking scrimshaw: 100k Rocktail soup: 6.8k Gem-finding, Log-splitting, and Rock-crushing scrimshaws did not insta-sell at any price, so that was a bust. Upate: Gem-finding sold at 67k. Rock-crushing sold at 55k. Blech.

Damn, I was hoping I could buy one of the cool teleports. The helicopter is okay, I guess, but not really my first choice. The shadow assassin was a lot better and cheaper anyways. I forget, but what was in the assassin's pack? You get the outfit, and what else? All the other packs (Guthix/hero) had teleports and emotes, I don't recall the assassin's pack having a teleport. It has a teleport, an emote, and a title, as well as the outfit.

Same exact problem for me on two computers. Hadn't had access to HTML5 previously either so halfway looking forward to trying it out and beta testing while skilling. I had this problem and fixed it by logging in to the website.

They're all identical at icon size. All it did was chew up your bank space for no reason. Baffling why they would do it in the first place, really.

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