The_Hunters_Star

There may have been confusion as to who I was talking about, but the person who currently has the most runecrafting xp for the week is no longer showing on the hiscores. He had mutliple bots running and trading with him.

Jabberwoky has had some nice runecrafting gains...second only to a bot this week.

Jeez, that has to be one of the worst idioms in the English language to cite. Not only is it grammatically incorrect (reminiscent of something someone who barely made it through 5th grade would say), but it also seeks to prevent any sort of progress. Things may be fine, but they can be better. Not only that, but it also says that the combat system wasn't broken, which is 200% wrong. Everything was wrong with it. It wasn't engaging, it wasn't balanced, it wasn't logical. It needed to be fixed. Balance, engagement, and logicality aren't objectively good or desirable features to have in a game. Jagex destroyed a very specific aesthetic that RuneScape had for many years and turned away a significant portion of the playerbase in the process. There are much better executions of the combat system Jagex poorly cloned so I really don't understand why anyone would choose RuneScape as it is now over other games. Yes, shirking away from change or improvement is bad. RuneScape pre-EoC was far better than OSRS in many ways. Overhauling one of the core mechanics of the game wasn't as simple as an improvement- it was a gamble. The success of that gamble is determined by each individual, and obviously some found it to be a failure and turned to OSRS.

With a shrinking playerbase, should buyables be placed at a greater priority to complete first than they have been historically? If the playerbase shrinks so much that the demand for gold disappears and resource skills aren't botted, surely it would be hard to amass bulk items to train effectively. For those of you in the race to maxing, what are your thoughts? In the months to come could we perhaps see top players resorting to DIY methods of training, or will there be sufficient supply to train quickly? I would consider crafting, smithing, prayer, and construction to be the buyables most affected by the supply of resources. To my knowledge no one has more than two of those completed. I think it will be very interesting to see how these skills are managed in the coming months.

If only you put as much effort into fact-checking your insults as you do skilling..