Dragon Sol

It's as simple as that. The benefits of this can count in situations where you just would like to type something, even if the chatbox is either closed or has a npc dialogue or interface over it. Mainly though, the benefit would be most useful, and ought to be a feature already, when in resizeable mode, if you hide your chatbox, you have to manually click one of the buttons to reopen it. It would be a lot simpler if there were some hotfixes that allowed you to open it when you type, or use a key to make it open and close, just like you can with the function keys for the inventory interfaces. Otherwise, in fixed screens, you can bypass a dialogue or chat interface by just typing to talk publicly, or pressing tab to reply to a private message or by clicking message a friend. After the message is sent or discarded, it will return you to the previous chat interface if there was one. Say, I'm afking, or just watching the screen. To type something, I wouldn't have to first use the mouse to click the chat buttons before I start typing, just start typing would be so much nicer. This idea is very similiar to those that Jagex have been implementing just to make it easier to navigate chat options and dialogue. The pressing space and numbering of options, is just like this idea.

So now you like the idea. It was interesting all along, just with a vital flaw. That should have been the idea all along. That's the main reason why I made the asterisks next to the numbers, because they were to be determined, of course I knew there would be problems if people could sell so many items at once while before you could only up to 6. The only reason I didn't put that down was because I thought 6 might be a little slim for the use of multiple items, but now that I think about it, it wouldn't be, 6 is plenty. And so, the reason I never put that initially, and instead put a crude placeholder number of 28 and infinity (for buyers), was because I was pondering on the idea of queuing, which I've now fully developed, so I'm adding both as viable approaches. Both seem to have no conflicts or problems, but one is a lot more complicated, but of course, more useful.

It's not the number of slots that is the problem, is the repetition of inputting each offer, for every item. This can be useful for all ranges of people making sales for quick cash, or quick buying. People can choose to set desirable prices for single items, but if they have many items they want to quickly get rid of, this allows them to. You just misunderstood the concept and point of this idea, even though it's been explained. It's not at all for expanding and getting more slots. If it were that, I'd be suggesting more slots itself, rather than allowing faster transactions of items that you just want to get rid of, or say you wanted to get a set of equipment, you can put it all in one offer. The usage is universal, from dumping items, to purchasing sets of gear or materials for training/skilling/pvm, etc. It would be faster, because if you wanted to guarantee that it sells, you would put all of it at -10% or something. 90% of the items will sell at that price, then if there is something that still won't, you can cancel that single offer within the grouped offer and put it up again for even lower. When I said it was similiar to mass dropping, I meant like a button that allows you to literally empty your inventory. You still have to note items and click each note and drop each one at a time.

Bulk Sales & Queuing Rather than only being able to sell and buy individual items, the system will be tweaked so you could either,Method A (simple) Group your sales and allow the GE to automatically input them for you into each slot.This means you are allowed to select multiple items to put into offers.Method B (advanced) [*]Implement a system of queuing to allow large amounts of offers posted, queued to be sold. This still retains the limit of only selling up to 6 items (as member). This means, you can add each offer into a queue, but only a limit can be started at a time. When you initially select an item, it is added to the queue, but not started, this gives you time to adjust the price to your desire, then start it once you're ready. Benefits Method A & B The main benefit to both methods would be the efficiency/ease. This suggestion allows you to spend less time at the bank/Grand Exchange, and more time playing the game's content.People no longer have to post offers individually, repetitively going through the same interfaces for every item. Method A A benefit of the first way would be that sales would become more lenient both ways.The reasoning behind the idea is to allow more convience for players that want to either sell or buy a set of items for a particular task as soon as possible, at a cost of taking a 'bad deal'.The idea of this function is to only allow one price adjustment for the whole of the bulk sale.You may select only one percentage increase/decrease to the 'market' price of all the items grouped together. This is to enforce the fact that this function is to allow convenience over cost/profit. This would of course force players to sell at a lower price and buy at a higher price for the sake of convenience. Just like people do currently. Method B[*]Offers can be simultaneously put into the queue, without setting the prices, as they won't start immediately until you confirm the offer. If the offer isn't confirmed, it won't start, it is set there temporarily while you still have the interface open, so you can make the changes you wish to several unconfirmed offers, then start them, all at once. [*]It saves a lot more time, giving players more space of having offers queued. Discourages camping of the GE, as well as players having to come back to adjust offers whilst doing other activities; all of the offers could be queued. How it works Method A The limited amount of slots are still present. You may only have 2 slots as a free-player, and 6 as a member.Bulk selling simply allows for you to put in multiple offers at once. You can only offer as many unused slots as you have. Once you put in an offer for a grouped sale, it will take up the each of the slots.Method B [*]There would no longer be 6 slots, rather a larger limit of how many offers you can post, but still a limit of 6 offers to be selling/buying at a time. The grand exchange would no longer need slots, as a system of queuing would be introduced, which is more simple and dynamic.[*]This method allows players to queue up an larger amount of offers (say 10 f2p, 30 p2p?), but like before, only 6 or 2 (f2p) offers are being sold at a time. This is a compromise, to both allow selling of large quantities of items, but still only allowing players to sell a small limit of items at a time.[*]The function is similar to that of what the GE already makes use of. The queuing of each of the offers with the opposite end. It is recognized that how the GE works is it places each of the offers in a queue of some sort, matching each with the one next to be chosen on the other end. There could be some form or randomness to it, but that wouldn't be necessary here.[*]New Buy & Sell Interface: The new interface will just have buy & sell interface integrated into one screen, once again no more slots, something simple, as the first part of, asking the player if they want to either buy or sell. Next to it, or where ever most fitting, would be the price adjustment buttons, along with the item descriptions and stats. Once again, the search bar and list of results can be shown in the chatbox, when clicking the buy button. The sell button also once again highlights your inventory, and allows you to select multiple items, adding it all into a queue. That is the last component in the interface, the queue box, the large box with a rows of columns of the item information, price, etc, anything that would need to be displayed in each row for each offer. And because of the long horizontal length the offers would have, you could also fit the progress bar in there. This introduction also calls for a need for a 'confirm offer' button.This allows for you to add many items into the queue, without actually posting them; allowing you to select several items at once, then adjust the pricing, then confirm them all at once.[*]Allow dragging and reordering of the listed offers. If you drag an offer top the top, it will automatically start it, and pause the last offer in the queue.[*]Also have a pause button, that temporarily stops the offer, allowing another offer queued, that wasn't started, or one that was already paused to start again. [*]This interface will allow you to edit your offers without remaking them, as long as they are not started. This means, you can pause an offer, change it's price, then restart it. Though, because of the conflict of having to show previous prices if there were some sold/bought already, it may have to make it restart as a new offer (reset it's progress bar). [*]New Collection Box: Since there are no longer slots, the collection box would be a large storage of items, up to whatever amount of items they could potentially have (10/30).The number goes along with how many you can put into a queue, as it allows that many items to be buying (if all had been started, but only 6 were continuing and the rest were paused), and one slot to store the cash from sold items and extra that's been refunded or given back.[*]Due to the large amount of items you can have in there, there could be a bank-all button added for you to collect the items easier as well. [*]Just like the bank currently has the 'bank BoB button', collecting items from the GE is just as much the same as collecting your familiars BoB, the bank could even have an option called 'bank Collection Box'.

As all scapers do; scaping on free time, so instead, I was drawing and typing. But I know, spent so much time on something that probably won't happen.

I'm not saying the fire cape should look exactly as I portrayed it. I just think it deserves some sprucing up.

Anything worthless, as in well below their wealth range, meaning they would probably have no interested in picking it up. If you want to be smart about it, perhaps depending on the player's combat level or their total wealth, otherwise, just in general, anything below like 1K would be considered as junk items. Yes, there is a huge space for different death animations all depending on the familiar. They could either all be different, or all have one similar death outcome (like their spirit returning into the spirit realm).

Tiny nudge.

I think it's because if you've hidden your words, underlining becomes bolded: underline [hide]underline[/hide] So, yes, it does.

Sorry, underlining seems to bold as well here. I just had most of the key statements underlined (which is a large majority of the sentences). Perhaps I'll just italicize it here.

! WARNING ! This post is very long, tl;dr is expected. But at least skim through parts of it to understand the gist of it. You can comment regardless if you've read the whole thing, but just as long as you understand what the idea behind all of these updates are. Then, you are also welcome to comment on certain aspects of various suggestions within. #— Forethought I've come across a large amount of ideas branching from making the game interaction more fluent and efficient to rethinking the expansion of familiar combat/interaction. The goal is to all of these are to allow players for not only a more relaxed experience whilst playing RuneScape in general, but improving and expanding on combat scenarios like encountering repetitive foes, familiar effects on PvM like training, slaying, or collecting loot, familiar effects on PvE and PvP. With the main basis of the post focusing on the Summoning skill, we examine it to find many stumps that could be extended and branched from, new mechanics and concepts that would make the game both more interactive and more simple. All of these suggestions can be vaguely compared to a simple, similar-nature feature that Jagex implemented to allow for intuitive ways to interact with the game: By allowing panning of the game camera by holding down the middle mouse button. I say that they're alike because, in one simple feature implemented, players no longer had to rely partly on the mouse and partly on the keyboard in order to allow for quick screen maneuvering. Combat Portability #1— Summoning Expansion Summoning has a huge impact on combat, obviously being why it counts as your combat level. It changes 'the game' of combat in two crucial manners. Allowing extra spaces for more items to be held and providing weapon-like abilities like invisible bonuses and special abilities (attacks). There are plenty of ways to expand further and add adjustments to mechanics to make both these factors more influential. They can also be very impacting for skillers. Many of the familiars are meant for skilling objectives. Some ideas I go through discuss the possibility of player control for familiars, which allows for two separate characters that you can control to skill. With these Summoning updates, combat talked about first, players can make use of summoning to both engage in combat more effectively with the support and train their skills more efficiently with more hands. It's an update to one skill that effects almost every other skill. It's goal is to make the game a lot more interactive and challenging, rather than slow and repetitive like many players complain. Though it doesn't make training significantly faster, it is both more engaging for a player and also more practical and efficient when attempting a task. BoB • Interaction Allow the BoB interface to remain open even if being attacked. I believe this was not an intentional nuisance because it clearly allows you to view the interface while in a combat state, but closes when interrupted by a hit. Either: Make it so you can't open it at all while in combat. Allow it to be open and make it not get interrupted by hits. So: People don't have to time when to open the interface; right in between hit intervals. Though: You can probably never keep the interface open to do anything if there are multiple things attacking you. So, this may be done on purpose so the more things or people that are attacking you, the harder it is to keep it open. Why? Once again, this is to make combat more fluent and easier to manage. There shouldn't be small fusses we have to contend to because we are trying to do something with our BoB while in combat. Just allow us to or don't. TMO If do: Decide whether to allow the interface to be open without affecting the character's actions: If they can continue moving or retaliating to combat or should it pause all activity by the character by stopping movement. So: It's either non-stop access or full-stop to access. In a PvP situation, they could either always freely manage their BoB as if it's their inventory or get to safety before pulling out extra items. • • All-Access BoB (Expanded Inventory) If people agree that it's a good idea for people to be able to have free-access to their BoB as if it's part of their inventory, why not make it literally an optional always-seen interface while they're playing? In PvP: There would be actual use to trying to kill your opponents familiar to get rid of their extra inventory space. This would mean: You would have to resize the interface from covering up the center of the screen. Move it to the side, make it smaller (and the item pictures as well if needbe), and even allow it to be draggable like recently shown with the Squeal of Fortune interface button. This could be different: Depending on what screen mode you're in. Resizeable/fullscreen: Allows for a slightly larger interface, just like how bank interfaces are expanded. Fixed: Requires for all the items to be as close together as possible without overlapping, and if that's not enough, slightly shrink it's size to fit somewhere neatly on the fixed window. Alternative solution: Allow the interface to be a pop-out or an inventory-tab interface. Just like the current 'Follower Details' interface opens a new invisible tab showing the details of the familiar, you could click 'Store' and open up an invisible tab showing all the items inside the familiar. But since the max amount a familiar can carry is 30 rather than 28, you would probably need to resize/change the row and column dimension. • • • Whether BoB Should Be Interactable or Depository So, turns out there are probably many ways to proceed through this. Should items in the BoB be interactable like it is in your inventory? Now that it could be open/visible while playing. Or should you only be able to move/transfer items to your inventory, then interact with the items inside your inventor? Later, I talk about expanding on the abilities to maneuver items around separate interfaces, so regardless of the restrictions that may be present on purpose, it will allow for ease-of-managing your items. I say, with these additions which increases practicality, that you should have as much freedom as you need with your familiar and yourself. As implemented, you can only move items from and in to your BoB, but you cannot interact with any of the items until they are in your inventory. Should it remain this way because the idea was that you couldn't interact with items inside a familiar? Or should it, IMO; a more logical approach, be allowed to interact with items inside your BoB as long as you are within melee distance of your familiar, as you are also required to be just to open the interface. That may mean drinking potions from inside your familiar or wielding/using items stored inside. The fact of the matter is, beasts of burden are meant to increase your inventory count. But as far as I'm concerned, it's just a lack of better mechanics that you can only interact with items inside your inventory. While it makes sense, you cannot/shouldn't interact with some items inside your bank because it's a storage complex, but the idea of your beast of burden is to follow you and support you. Some may say, that would allow for too much flexibility between the items inside your BoB as if it was just another part of your inventory. While that may sound somewhat true, consider the fact that with this mechanic, transferring items to your actual inventory than your BoB is in fact still detrimental due to the possibility of losing your familiar. Control & Combat • Selecting As we step in to the aspect of controlling familiars, we want to figure out another intuitive way to be able to control your familiar at will. The idea of combat familiars is their "follower instinct", it should really be actively supporting its master. But without an AI, the only semi-direct way to control something other than your own character smoothly is by being able to quickly select it and putting your control from your character to the familiar. That's why the first option on a familiar should be a unique option only shown to the owner of the familiar that can quickly address the users' needs. It should always be the option on top when hovering over your familiar to guarantee ease-of-access. While its uses may remind you of your Summoning Orb next to your minimap; I get that because all of the numbers like your prayer and hitpoints are up there and so should your Summoning Points, but it's not ideal for you to have to look up to click on the orb and find the option. Perhaps leave the orb to only show your Summoning Points and perhaps the 'Dismiss' option, as you wouldn't need to find your familiar to click on it to be able to just dismiss it at will. The orb is somewhat close, but why not allow for you to click in-game, where your familiar is? That makes so much more sense. In a combat scenario, you're always looking at the main gamescreen. You interact with what's in it, and you're familiar is in it so why not allow you to interact with it through the game? A single-click allows for you to select your familiar, then, like the 'Follower Details' tab, revamp it to show the familiars information as well as it's abilities. With three buttons of the main familiar usages: Store BoB, Take BoB, Use Special or Call Familiar. Note that this option doesn't require you to be next to your familiar, just when you click it, you should literally have selected it as if you are using an item, or like in a strategy game, when you've selected a unit. • • Attack Moving Clicking on the familiar should mean you could immediately click on an opponent for it to attack move on it. No need to click on the 'Attack' option on the far right Summoning Orb, next to your minimap, before clicking on the opponent. • • Movement If you have the familiar selected, you should be able control it like make it run to a certain spot, then attack. It's as if you are turning your control to your familiar temporarily while you have it selected. Of course, you can't make your familiar run too far away, or it won't go any further, to be fancy you could add a 'quick-halt' animation, showing its intention to go no further. It should also avoid going out of sight of the player, like behind an object. • • • Energy Much like familiars have built-in stats, they should also have a limited amount of run energy if controlling of movement is allowed. Of course, they should always recover faster than the player, as this allows for the familiars to always be ahead in terms of energy to be able to catch up with the player at all times, but the familiar shouldn't be able to run around endlessly everywhere whenever the owner feels like (maybe they should?), they can run out of energy like in a boss battle, from 'over-micro', which could lead to some hassle or pain. Also, the amount of items a familiar is carrying, or just the nature of the creature (size/agility) could determine how fast their energy drains/recovers. Say a Pack Yak with a full load of items wouldn't be able to move for as long as a Terrorbird. • • Calling You can always call it to teleport straight to you so you can interact with it directly (BoB). Also, since now you can make it move to different places, you shouldn't always need to make your familiar teleport when you call it. You should be able to single click the 'Call Familiar' for your familiar to attempt to start following you again. Double-click to make it teleport next to you. • • • Teleport Animation Also, improve the teleport animation, make it take a second or two, add a longer animation to it. Make it turn into a "spirit form" like all familiars are meant to be, and very quickly fly to you and turn back into a creature. • • Microing If you've heard of the term 'micro' from playing RTS games, you know it means fast clicking to very efficiently and effectively control a unit with possibly different abilities you must memorize hotkeys for. Well, believe it or not, you micro your character. Not very intensively normally, but in combat situations like hybriding, it can get more advanced. This would encourage more micro/intensive clicking, if you are able to micro your familiar around. Say make it do ranged attacks and then move it away, then attack again. Running around a boss to attack it from behind so that it turns to retaliate. Running in circles so that an enemy cannot attack it. And so on. This would also mean, in a PvM & PvP situation, you could control your familiar as if it's a second character. You could be in a single combat zone monster area, and control both your character and your familiar to be killing monsters at the same time, in a multi-combat zone, you could be controlling it very easily to do special attacks, melee or ranged attacks, and in a group clan wars situation you could be making your familiar attack someone else's BoB familiar. Combat Expansion • Component Changes These summoning updates will significantly, while not deviate from the current turn-based combat system. It will enlarge the compacity required by a player that is to be proficient with all the elements of combat. These new elements being controlling of a secondary character and interacting with both the environment and with your other character. Your characters will be able to simultaneously interact with the environment, fighting monsters, bosses, players, or doing skill activities. Your characters can be also interacting simultaneously with one another. This allows for several more controlling components to a combat scenario. It would be PvP, PFvP/PvPF (player familiar verses player combat), PFvPF (familiar verses familiar combat), PFvE (monster-killing, skilling), or PvE. PvP Changes • Offensive or Defensive You can be offensive or defensive just like in the current combat system. Players either bring familiars that aid in combat (currently mainly multi-combat areas), BoB familiars to carry more supplies, or healing familiars. This is a crucial conflict for the two main types of familiars, offensive and defensive, which can be expanded upon. Here's the simple conflict chart: Offensive - Offensive Offensive - Defensive Defensive - Defensive • • Countering Players that bring fighting familiars could choose to either focus their attacks on an opponent's defensive BoB familiar, striking at their expanded inventory, or at the opponent, to deal extra damage. Then, the player with the defensive BoB familiar would have to choose to either focus on the opponent or the fighting familiar, either attack them or attacking their BoB/healing familiar. If both players have offensive familiars, they could either focus on each other, or the two offensive familiars could have separate battles to themselves, even in a single combat zone, as they would be fighting their own battle. • Single Combat Zone Division Now, this could change the behavior of single combat areas. All players are almost required to have familiars. Due to single combat zones allowing battles of familiars, and all familiars have their counteractive, players are forced to bring a familiar of their own or suffer at a disadvantage. This would call for a slightly more complex single combat zone. If say, someone makes their familiar attack another opponent, them, the players, and their familiars would be engaged in a group, 1 player v 1 player (but with familiars) fight. Single combat zones would have to be more distinctive. There may be a need for an addition of a separate single combat areas, some designated to familiar 1 verses 1 fights (where everyone are using familiars) and some to old school 1v1 without familiars or just with support, non-offensive familiars. This would mean offensive familiars would be useless in this zone as you cannot attack with both your familiar and yourself, and you need to be attack yourself to attack with your familiar. I am for this impacting change, because currently, BoB familiars are allowed to be used in single combat zones, and that is basically making use of familiars, just not attacking with them. So, they should allow for complete freedom of using familiars, even on other players, as long as it's just one of the familiars from the attacking player that's attacking as well. I'm sure other people will disagree on that, and that would be something probably debated upon and ultimately decided by Jagex themselves, but there's no room to say that there would be no way for it to work. They could either do that or split the zones in the areas, as this new type of combat scenario, fighting one-on-one with familiars, would be very interesting and enjoyable to partake in. The single combat zones could be designated as follows, 1v1 with only support familiars (non-offensive, healing/BoB) and 1v1 with familiars (both can engage in combat with one opponent or their familiar). 1v1 with familiars could be on the borders of where single and multi-combat zones meet. So, as an in between zone so-to-speak, players can still engage in 1 verses 1 fights, except with familiars. • • 1v1 w/ Familiars Doesn't that sound awesome? Oh yeah, it's like being in a duel arena with Summoning on, which doesn't happen that often as the uses of familiars are not quite worthy. Players could switch between attacking one another's familiar because they were doing something that made them change their focus. They could be commanding their familiars to either attack the main opponent or the other player's familiar; because either they are trying to get the opponent's familiar to attack their's or trying to attack the opponents familiar attacking them. There's a cycle just like in hybrid fights, of counter to counter. PvM Changes • General Changes These updates would increase the intensity of microing two characters in order to achieve maximum proficiency of using the game's features. With the abilities of the expanded summoning familiars, you could choose through several different tactics when dealing with different monsters. • • AI Improvement Due to familiars now being active in killing monsters, they will now need to know how to retaliate properly to familiars. If monsters are aggressive, they should also target for familiars. • Bosses They will of course now need to target familiars as they are a significant advantage to players. Soon, special attacks could also be implemented just to deal with familiars. Considering that these are support characters, bosses should be able to easily kill off these familiars to deny a player of using them. PvE Changes • Controlling As Skillers Now that movement of familiars is controllable by players, making them fully commandable characters, they can be separate skiller characters that can do the same activities as players, along with them. For example, woodcutting with the beaver, the beaver could be changed to have to cut logs just like the player. This makes players have to actively control the familiar, as if the tree has been chopped down, the beaver will stop cutting for logs, and you would have to select it and make it cut another one. • Familiar Skilling Animations As familiars are now separate characters that can do individual tasks along with players, they should have animations for all the skilling activities, unique to themselves. The beaver can be seen chipping at trees, the granite lobster diving into the water and clawing for fish, the ibis flying around above the water and diving in to catch fish, etc. Familiar Combat Abilities • Purposes Familiars with powerful offensive abilities could soon be used as "special attacks" so commonly used to knock-out an opponent. For example, you can purposely fight your opponents familiar to lower their familiars health, but switch to attacking the main opponent when they are low on health, with a special attack, and possibly kill them, thus killing their familiar as well. Offensive familiars are meant to strike and deal damage to an opponent, while defensive familiars are there to support the main character by supplying items or casting spells to buff the opponent in various ways. We can even move on to add more types of semi-offensive/defensive familiars that can both deal damage and bring benefits to the main character. Like spellcasters with AoE (area of effect) abilities. • Attack Styles Obviously, offensive familiars can do primary striking attacks, but perhaps with different styles that target specific weaknesses (slash, crush, stab, magic, range). These familiars should also possibly have different types of ranged attacks on top of melee attacks, or just one. Ones with both range and melee attacks could do possibly more intensive manuevers like kiting (hit and run) and running behind obstacles. Melee familiars would be required to have good control to not get stuck or get left behind. • Movement Styles I talked briefly about the energy level of familiars. This is where more different stats could be added for different familiars, some being faster, some with more energy, some recovering faster, etc. Offensive familiars should be faster and more agile, also depending on the various types of sizes of the familiars. Defensive familiars should probably be slower, and drains in energy faster with more carried items. • Special Attacks Offensive familiars should also have special attacks that deal addition damage or add an offensive effect on the opponent. Just like special attacks of weapons. These can be used directly on the player to deal a combo of damage. BoB familiars, as a main duty, are to carry additional items. This means, it's important for it to have plenty of health and defense to tank any damage. In additional, they should have some bonus abilities, like the current ones, all of them being support spells. Healing and spellcasting familiars that do not carry items should of course have a main ability of healing or defending the player. There should probably be specials that boost or negate damage, as a counter to the special attacks of offensive familiars. • Improved Death Animation Familiar death animations would have to be improved drastically, like the one I described for familiar teleporting, the swift dissapation of the "spirit" of the familiar is acknowledged. As the familiar dies, it suffers an additional death of its spirit, shines brightly and is sucked upward, out of the realm of the current world. With blooming and motion blurring upward as the "soul" of the "spirit" flies up into thin air. Game Interaction #2— Items There should be some additional features implemented to allow easier maneuverability and management of items. Any interaction with items like moving, sorting, and using. • Moving Currently, you are only able to move an item within the compounds of a storage by dragging. To move it to another, you must select the amount you want to move by clicking left for the default amount (1) and right clicking to see additional values. Why not allow dragging across two storage areas. For example, from your bank dragged into your inventory, would withdraw as much as it can, if not all of it, much like right clicking 'All'. There could even be a toggle that allowed you to always 'withdraw all but one, unless there is only one' when dragging an item from your bank into your inventory, as to leave a placeholder if it is a stacked amount of items. Just imagine, doing a runecrafting run, a farming run, a slayer task, anything. Especially when you are safe, you just need the specific items, not dependent on the amount. Simply do a quick click and drag into your inventory and you've got it. Another thing to note, due to the nature of using left-clicks to 'use' items, you should drag-to-move items by right-click dragging instead. This would avoid the possible conflict to what they want to do. • Sorting Change the way you toggle swap/insert with sorting items. This way makes it universal throughout all interfaces. Instead of only when using a bank, simply drag an item in between two items to insert it or right on top of an item to swap their places. You would be able to do this across two compound spaces like from your inventory to your BoB, deposit box, or bank. • Using Allow using items on an object by dragging it to the thing you want to use it on. This may need a tweak that allows for the "use-on" line(s) around the item to appear once you begin dragging an item. If you let go without it being on something you can use it on, it would automatically cancel the usage. Otherwise, it will automatically try and use the item on the thing you let it go on. Examples: Decanting potions, using quest items, or putting together assortments of items. #3— Option Menus The same idea applies in this aspect; to enriched the ability to conveniently scan and select options in a pop-up menu. There are various ways to improve, ever so slightly, the effectiveness in choosing options in a menu. • Right-Click Hold Selection As a common, intuitive alternative to selecting pop-up menus that appear right as you right-click is being able to hold on to your right-click and letting go on the option you want. This allows for single right-clicks for selecting options, which could benefit in various ways like looting many items or clicking a monster fast to attack. Just think of how many times you've clicked throughout playing RuneScape. RuneScape is an extremely click-reliant game. Many players over the span of playing have easily clicked more than tens of millions times. Just imagine cutting that down by half, even just half. That's a lot of clicks saved. This could also be as useful as the mousekeys' usage of dropping or selecting the secondary option for an item. Power-trainers rely on clicking items as fast as they can, so they use mousekeys. With this, it would virtually be the same thing. You single click, hold, and very swiftly move over the option you want and let go instantly and it would probably be as fast as using mousekeys. • Hover-Over Selection Another intuitive method is the mouse hover-over method. Similar to when Jagex first introduced the new stat interface a long time ago, you can now hover over a skill for a short period of time and a pop-up menu would appear showing your statistics in that skill. This allows for a clickless option display on objects of interest, and single-click to select an option. To not make it an annoyance, make the timer as reasonable speed that shows that a player is clearly interested in the option, thus they are holding their cursor over it. Once again, the amount of clicks you could save. Especially clicks that wouldn't have been done because you just wanted to see what options there are for something. Rather than right-clicking everything you could just leave your cursor over it. And note that I say that this should only be for objects. Freely present objects in your game screen should allow for this feature, but items and options of interface shouldn't always have a hover-over menu. This makes it work with the previous idea of letting right-click hold selections. That way, you won't get bombarded with different options every time you hover your mouse over an interface option. • • Hotspots for Options Rather than the current system, relying on the location of the object to show the options, this function would require placement of hotspots on the center points of objects with sets of options. This prevents other object's options to be shown along with the rest of the options in that same spot. For example, if the current spot has both a player standing on it and a pile of items, that location would contain all of those options of all the items and the players. However, should you hover your mouse over just the player, it should only show the options for just the players standing in that spot rather than both the player and the items' options. And to see the options for the items and not the player, you would hover over the pile of items underneath the player's feet. Game Mechanics #4— Drops on Death Currently, there is an extra amount of time that you must wait before the loot of a killed opponent appears. Depending on the length of the animation, it must first play a death animation before the loot is left behind. While this repetitive animation glorifies the loot by delaying it slightly, being that someone is trying to, as quickly as possible, kill a large number of the same monster, the player will have to endure the slight wait every kill they make. This could be a tiny bit troublesome for players that are in-the-action and need to get what's left immediately to move on. • Valuable Drops Make valuable drops appear right after death, this makes looting a lot quicker after each kill. Players can collect loot quicker to move on to the next target then waiting for the same repeated death animation such as on slayer tasks with creatures that die very often, many times per trip that the player is there. • Unvaluable Drops Appear after the death animation, as it is non-priority to loot these items. This way, the idea that items appear after the target has despawned still remains, except with the priority drops appearing as soon as possible. • • Players' Notability of Drop Values Because players are able to tell if a monster has dropped something valuable by seeing it appear right after its death, players are able to swiftly move on to the next target. This makes no need to stay an wait for the loot to appear, to make sure that you didn't miss something valuable. If you kill it and something valuable is dropped, you can pick it up immediately so to move on with more killing. • PvM (non-bosses) Bosses should not receive this adjustment because the animation is the glory to its defeat while killing many monsters is a task to be done efficiently. I realize: *This would increase the rates of profits from monster killing, but only monsters that are killed very quickly would this make a small impact on the total time it takes to kill each monster. *But since monsters you would be able to kill fast (e.g. not bosses) would likely not have a high-valued loot table, you would only be benefiting a couple of seconds less per kill (the time it takes for the animation to play), being able to kill one and immediately loot their valuables and move on to the next, rather than waiting for it to die and show it's loot. The benefit is more for the proficient players that like to move from one task to the next as fluidly as possible and I think some people may support the idea because of that. • PvP This feature doesn't need to be implemented for PvP because the speed at which the death animation finishes is already short enough. #!— Conclusion Those are the current ideas that I believe would truly influence a larger range of game mechanics, expanding the opposite ends of the game, both influencing a more practical and relaxingly smooth gameplay and making the possible intensity of gaming that can be achieved with the number of "multi-tasks challenges" that arised with the advanced combat components and capabilities. I am always trying and happy to create these new adjustments and alterations to benefit the player's experience. How about you? Is there anything you can think of that would help make the game not less challenging, but rather more practical mechanically? Thank you for reading.

Kids talking without context.

Since the new TzHaar city has been implemented by Jagex, there have been various new elements of lava graphics introduced into the game. I've made use of those textures and color pallets to create a concept fire cape from the concepts in the post. I used Paint to construct this concept, no need for PhotoShop, lol!

Note: this is free to play as well.

50k is nothing compared to 500m, yes.

Just like I mentioned, I never stated where these depots would actually be relative to the location of the resource sites. It could be the same distance as teleporting to a nearby bank, then teleporting back to a location near the site and running back. So essentially, it's not any faster, it simply creates the incentive for narrow-minded newbies to bank more often, because not many of them learn to teleport to a bank and run back, especially if they don't take runes or jewelry teleports with them.

Why not just remove every pointless method or resource site that doesn't yield good profit then? Just by it being there is promoting bad behavior. And if that's the case then the game would surely be overpowered full of maximum profits, then when they add even better ways because they have to move forward they would have to remove the previous methods because it's no longer worthy, as it's considered being bad behavior.

I might know, but does everyone noob that just started playing for the first few weeks know?

RuneScape isn't real life. Cashiers have lines because they can't take to more than one person at a time, you also need to state what you want and talk like a human to them. In RS you can single-click the bank booth, punch in a 4-digit pin and you're good to go. I never said this would completely eliminate powertrainers, it would encourage more players, especially lower leveled players to bank because it's slightly simpler and easier. Once again I never stated how far these depots would be from the actual resource site, so dependent on that it could the just as equal as teleporting to another location to bank, then teleporting back to a location near the site and then running back. The difference would be, rather than figuring out which teleports to use and which routes to take to run back, what runes to take, do you have the magic level for the teleport, or the jewelry or do you have to run to the GE to buy some, just use the global map to find a depot near the site, and run to it like a bank/deposit box, it's global for everyone to use, level 3's just starting out without any money or runes to teleport to level 80s that just don't want to bother look up on Youtube for a method to bank resources from a particular place, but it's closer because real banks are much further away (ideally, that's the point of the idea) and would mean you would have to teleport.

Every time you establish an effective means to transferring your loot to a bank via your example like the Ring of Kinship would be likewise "overpowered" as your argument suggests, making your too close to a bank, therefore are you suggesting that teleports overpower the game because it makes you too close to banks? I never stated where these depots would be located in relative location to the destination of the training ground as surely they would not be right next to the resources. It would cause you to have to run a particular distance in relation to the training ground, rather then from any location to a set point of where a bank is. Considering that, it would simply be an alternative to teleporting to a bank, which requires you to traverse back to the training ground after likewise with the depots. Whether you believe it or not, many newbies will not have thought of using teleports to travel back to a bank, allowing them to know a set location where depot are located will more likely allow them to make use of it. Banks are the same thing as a deposit box but better because it has the capability of withdrawing as well. Which renders a deposit box being right next to the bank pointless. It's like having a sword with a one-sided blade right next to one with a two-sided blade. Expanding from that idea, what WOULD make deposit boxes useful are in circumstances where you cannot withdraw items to further your encounter with an activity (banking for food and more potions for example) but should be able to deposit the goods you collected that otherwise would've been useless to powertrainers. Yes, it does lessen demand over supply, but that demand is only induced from the wasted resources of the powertrainers that will turn around and buy resources from the legitimate skillers. This provides a balance for both as the legitimate skillers no longer are demanded to provide resources to the people that buy skills, but supply is also no longer needed for the players that buy the resources as they now can easily stock up on resources to train their production skills, without the need to powertrain and waste resources. The problem with powertraining currently is that it's a binary circumstance. It's either you keep the resources you gain and lose all potency in your experience gain, or vice versa. This idea regards to that problem and fixes it by allowing powertrainers to negate the need to drop everything and allow some form of transporting what they gained to the bank for later usage.

So not being overpowered would mean to choose one or the other? Gaining pure experience or looting drops to bank? How would it nuke the economy if the depot is strictly meant for low-valued items that could be used as a slow but steady increase to someone's wealth? Where do you come up with numbers like hours? How does only hours make it work but also make it not work? If I take care to think it through? Not everyone on RuneScape are genius gamers like you seem to be. I've pointed out several times that this would be of benefit to newbie players that need a crutch to their wealthiness. What you think someone that just wants to train their melee stats are going to start picking up the hides, ruin their experience rate to bank them and use them to craft? Yeah, sure. With my idea, they could not only bank the hides at a decent rate (not overpowered due to the limitation, which I've not established, that's for Jagex to balance) and be able to continue training what their main focus is on. Then they can go back to the bank, either sell those hides for cash to buy some food to train further, or use it to train their crafting by tanning the hides. All they have to do is intuitively time their dispensary rate and make sure they are getting a steady flow of hide collection. With the decreased distance along with the time restraint it could be balanced quite well. The vast majority of the players are very single-task oriented. There are players out there multitasking, making the best out of what's possible. But if you want to assume all players do that then have fun with your own game. The point is it's how the game SHOULD be played. Not like this: Go powertrain a skill, drop all yielded resources until your level is high enough to make use of an "overpowered" method to make money, then buy resources that someone spent hours on gaining minimal experience to collect the resources for you to use for your skill. The idea would be to allow players to not waste their resources by powertraining, inhibiting it by somewhat allowing players to send quantities of goods to their bank without running all the way back. But I guess if the game is meant to be purposely divided in which players either get resources by sacrificing their experience rate or ditch all income and focus on the experience. That imo is lame as it would encourage players to buy out skills by simply powertraining all resource gaining skills and then turn around and buy the resources because they so happened to have a ton of cash from exploiting some single-approach method. The way my idea would set up the game would make it so much more passive, allowing players to gradually skill each skill higher while gaining the productivity for another skill. And really? Bank pins take less than 5 seconds to type in and once you've done that you don't ever need to do it again. That's a really useful objective for it, to "bypass the pin" for an easy bank. How about this? Login, type in pin once, press bank all items, done. No difference. Your arguments make no sense whatsoever, it only and purposefully focuses on all negative outcomes of an idea which clearly has a relevant point of usefulness to the game. They're all assumptions of a foul idea, discrediting its potential as a whole. Basically, you're using the ignore tactic, something bother you before?

Here's an idea that would benefit many of the new as well as old players on RuneScape like they deserve. Simply having a better method of depositing items into your bank would make resource collection much more easy and more effectively made to use. The idea is called "Resource Depots" which are placed throughout RuneScape at specific locations. Concept Currently, areas where resources are gathered which are far away from banks are basically places with constantly wasted resources. Methods have been established due to this called "power" training. If a player wants to collect resources while training, they have to run to bank every so often, severely impacting their experience rate; which players find more important, thus causing resources to be simply left on the ground to disappear. Players fishing, mining, woodcutting, slaying and any skill that produces resources are leaving their gains in order to achieve better experience. Experience being the factor that levels you and gives you better options to making money and training makes it more important, making some resources in certain areas useless, wasting collected resources that could be added to the game's economy. Players without an effective way to gather resources as well as gaining experience are at a dilemma, cut their experience rate by ten folds, rendering their training useless, which makes them stuck at a particular method, or leave all collectables that don't stack to dry. This seems to be an ineffective gameplay mechanic. Player should be given the ability to both keep up with their training to further their levels for better methods of training/profiting. Some may argue that the Summoning skill that allows BoB is meant for this. Keep in mind this idea focuses on the less inclined training areas that produce semi-valuable items (cowhides, coal, iron, trout, salmon, willow logs) which effects low-leveled F2P & P2P players which may not have the means of a BoB familiar. Idea So my idea is simple, with current deposit boxes residing inside banks itself, it pretty much makes them completely and utterly useless, especially now that you can left-click a bank booth to access your bank. Why not scatter out these deposit boxes, renaming them "Resource Depots", in useful places? For example, low-leveled players killing cows. If a player is looking for benefiting from their low defence and strength and decent lifepoints to train, they will leave all the cowhides, meat and bones on the ground, leaving a field of dead cows' carcasses. If a Resource Depot is placed somewhere near this area, players can both train and collect the items which were meant to be picked up. Now one can also argue that this would mean players would be able to gain access to these deposit boxes for other uses that unbalance the resource gain, or that a player can effectively deposit a infinite amount of items without returning to a bank. Simply limit of a deposit box's usage. If say the boxes are set in the place for some unknown entity to collect and transfer it to your bank account, it shouldn't be able to do it none stop. Simply make a cap to how many items in a certain amount of time you can deposit. The Resource Depots should also only allow "resource" items to be kept in it. Items that can be processed into other finished items like ore, wood, hides, bones, etc. Anything else like charms, weapons, clue scrolls, ammunition and armors will not be allowed to be put in it. This suggestion is once again aimed at low-leveled players. Regardless of the insignificence of some of the drops that the resource sites give, if a player without any wealth were to spend time picking those items up as they were going to spend time training there, it could eventually add up. Each of the training areas they spend time in also slowly adds to their wealth. So by the time the player has leveled up in various skills to a mediocre level, they will also have a good amount of cash to spend. This balances out the training rate with the income rate, acting as a stepping stone for low-leveled players to step up better and better, rather than currently, having to grind at low levels to gain certain skills without any income, then only at a certain high level then can you start profiting. This is a very cost-effective way to implement instruments that allow for better balancing for the income rate of various leveled players. Not only would this make it easier on the newbies, it will also vastly increase the stockpile of low-valued items circulating through the game rather than being left on the ground to disappear as if it never existed. Mechanics Here's some elaboration on how the deposit boxes, or rather "Resource Depots" would work. Each depot would have a space of say 100 spaces for you to fill. You can at any time dispend what's in the depot to your bank, it being full or not. Now once you dispend your goods, the resources inside will be emptied to your bank. You can start putting new resources into it again, however, it will take say 3-6 minutes before you can dispend it again. And also, if you forget to dispend your resources from a depot, and you return to a bank far away from it only to realize what you've collected is still at the depot, you can simply call it to the bank from the bank itself. This also starts the timer for the depot to be used again. So, let's use a classic example of collecting cowhides. A player collects a full inventory of them, runs to a resource depot and fills it up, 28 out of 100 spaces. He can go back and continue to collect more and come back, or immediately send the 28 to the bank, making him have 3-6 minutes before he can send more to the bank. The amount of spaces and time can be adjusted according to the location and the type of resources gained in the particular area. Relevancy Simply put, this idea is an extension off the original concept of Deposit Boxes in banks which are seemingly useless at this point. That is due to the fact of its location. If there is a bank right next to it with the ability to withdraw and deposit, there is no use for a one-way deposit system. However, if these are moved to various advantageous locations where players may deposit but not withdraw for equipment or edibles to further their endurance at an activity, the outcome could be as follows: People have argued that this would imbalance the supply and demand as now there will be a huge supply for everyone. The legitimate skillers that collect resources by sacrificing their experience gain would feel threatened by should not be affected because this idea passivizes the supply verses demand circumstance. However, I believe that the current game's mechanic is flawed, being a binary circumstance whereas one can either choose to utilize the resources for other skills or income at a suffering of their experience rate, or vice versa, ditch all resources in order to proceed single-handedly at training one particular skill fastest, all but to later buy resources from the legitimate skillers to train their production skills. That is currently what creates the supply and demand. So, since essentially what it does is inhibit powertraining as a whole, which are seen as people that negate all resource collection in order to achieve maximum levelling, only to turn around and make use of the legitimate skillers by buying their resources to train their production skills, it would cut down on that effect. What inhibiting powertraining would do would be that it would convert them into legitimate skiller as well. It's a mutual benefit, as all would have all, prices become cheaper but everyone has their collected resources from a collection skill to aid their production skill in return. This balances the game mechanic altogether allowing players to passively train all skills more equally. And thus, income is shortened by its means to only boss hunting and high-valued drops which I noted cannot be banked by these depots. And imo that is perfect as players would once again have more means to play group activities with PvM or PvP rather then spending all their time powertraining one skill, exploiting one method in a skill for income, then buying resources for a production skill. RSOF Quick Find Code 185-186-349-63561313

No protip needed from you. I get 10-20 kills per death pking, I'm a maxed dragon pure. I dominated zerkers and can beat barrows pures with lower risk value (unless if Jagex were to add some new 50-60 defence armors that would higher my risk as I'm having to use rune and d boots, etc). Yes, the statistical values for the armors are basically balanced. But that is not considering the aesthetic values of the armors, which I am saying do not match their stats. Defense is not pointless. Especially as you progress in your defence levels. When you reach past 40 defence, the armors have a significant impact in closely-matched situations like player vs player combat due to the nature of matching combat levels meaning matching advantages/disadvantages. Of course when you are using the armor to train against monsters and bosses, particularly a large number of repeated monsters, armor is indeed only lessening the need for food. As for the 1%, dragon is unjustly below that standard while just 5 levels higher at Bandos it becomes worthy. As for replacing the plate and full helm with their respective predecessor is practically useless as the med helm is out matched by the Neitiznot helm (which only requires 55 defence) and the chain is also much too expensive for it's value. That is why people fall back to using rune or just decide to wear some dplatelegs because they are somewhat worthy. That is once again while I suggest another tier of armor that's more affordable/effective at 60 defence while moving dragon armors up in stats while remaining at 60 defense to separate the unlocking between it and bandos OR increase the requirement to 65 defence as well which gives it more room for having better stats which matches with its aesthetic qualities (bandos looks worse than the new dragon but they might update bandos along with armadyl). Finally... 50-70 defense takes less then a day of keyword: no lifing. What I am focused on are not the well equipped high-leveled players (like you and I) on RuneScape but rather Jagex's focus on the newbie new members trying to rank up into more experienced players. Your argument is also invalid, basically saying to "suck it up" and not get any benefits from 40-70. Which is my whole problem. There should be "stepping stones" and once again dragon is not one.

Ok, I understand your first two sentences. But you guys should look at this before saying updating dragon is "misplaced nostalgia": Now ask yourself, does this or Barrows look better? I can bet the majority without knowing the origin of the armors would say the dragon has a more powerful look and feel with better design elements as well. Although some will find a liking to Barrows as well. So, why would they put so much work in armor that's underrated and outdated? That's what doesn't make sense to me. Which is why I am suggesting what I am. I'm basically only suggesting two things separately or both. Either add a new set of armor that is not only more affordable because it wouldn't be dropped by bosses and actually smithable by Smithing which gives another set of gear for smithers to make, and also or boost dragon armor's stats by a bit and also or its defence requirement. As far as I can tell, the 60 defence requirement was just for it to be a "stepping" stone up to high-leveled armors. But if the armor looks like this it shouldn't be a stepping stone, the new 60 defence armor should be. That would loosen the need to have the armor still at 60 defence with it's minuscule and unworthy stats. Like I've explained in detail, again, if they simply add a new set of armor at 60 whilst keeping dragon there, not only would they have a slight room to change its stats which cancels out the possible decrease of value to dragon, the new armor would be affordable while the dragon armor still remains as the reprised armor everyone seeks for while hunting bosses. Those are indeed random, baseless ideas based off one preliminary being to focus on offense. Which itself is a opinionated concept, as people do enjoy and consider defensive bonuses. My idea of adding a new set of armor for 60 defence or at least beefing up some 50 defence armor (granite just looks lame, but who knows they can always update it graphically to look more worthy and BE more worthy) which has grounds in several factors as I've explained in the main post. If it were a smithable armor it would be another step towards two different skill trees. Smithing has been looking for a profiting update for some time now, this would do. And as for defense, like I've said, from rune being the most worthy for it's requirement, no other armor sets are really practically used except when you reach 70 def. Which is why something should be added in between, not over powered, just another stepping stone which dragon is clearly not considering its price verses its stats. Consider me, being a pure, I am a minority. But considering players in general, 60 defence is a level passed by by many players. With Jagex focusing on the front of new players becoming members; by updating Buthrope and Taverly to be new-member friendly and updating all the low-leveled gear, their next step would be in continuation of those players, updating mid to high-level armors. What do they unlock at 60 defence? Dragon, but most of the main pieces are prices past 10M+, who could afford that to train with and fight? That leaves the majority, which includes me, with rune to wear. As for granite, I think no one even wears it just because they think it's noobish (don't ask me why I've read other people's posts about it) and barely having any extra stats. So, why does someone have to get to 40 and wait till 70 to get the next tier of good armor/affordable armor (65 for Bandos but Bandos is way expensive)? Everything in between if you look at Quyneax's post are overpriced for it's value, except for Bandos, which once again leads to my prior suggestion of making Dragon the same requirement as Bandos and having varying stats but of the same power; what a waste of dragon's new look if it were to stay the way it is.

Keyword almost. And if not I can still enjoy being the only pker with full dragon running around with updated claws as well at 60 defence being maxed, lots of zerkers would have to consider going dragon pure but maxed ones might not, so I'll still be the only maxed dragon pure around the wild. :P Then I'll just use my maxed main to get some of the new capey. Idk. I guess we'll have to wait and see how good this new cape looks, then decide if one day they could fit in an upgrade to the fire cape just as a graphical update.