Hello, thank-you for visting this thread.

 

As you can easily tell from the title, this thread is about how unfair the game of Castle Wars can get for many people. I will adress here a few of the bigger problems, and some solutions. After you read, please compile your own ideas and post, as well as give your thoughts on my ideas. Also, share any other big problems in this minigame. :D

 

 

 

 

 

1.) Uneven teams

 

 

 

This is not a huge problem for players who's combat levels reach into the hundreds, but the game is supposed to be fair fro everyone. The main problem here is that all too often, one team may be no match at all for the other as one side has mostly high level players while the other has slightly weaker ones. It's easy to organize an unstopable team, all you have to do is walk into the game with your own clan of high levels. This is not being fair to lower levels who want to play, and even to some mid/high levels.

 

 

 

The solution?

 

This solution is easy, maybe not easy for Jagex to script, but the concept is. Remove the Zammy and Sara portals and somehow change the Guthix portal so that it can organize and mix up the two teams into groups of even matches. This way, the winner of the game wont be so obvious, and there is a chance for either team.

 

 

 

 

 

2.) Flag holding

 

 

 

Everyone who's played atleast one or two games of Castle Wars has witnessed this. Holding your own teams flag is simply unfair and form of cheating. All it takes is one person with low defence and not many hitpoints to grab the enemy flag, storm out of the castle and get killed. It can happen to anyone really. After that, there is a window of several long seconds for anyone to grab the flag. Most likely in this common case, its going to be someone who is on that flags team. Then, for the rest of the game it is almost impossible to get the flag back and win without the use of ancient magics, and those magic users arent around in every game. So from here, the guy with the flag runs around, evading attack and damage. The other team (who might be holding their own flag too) have no chance of winning now.

 

 

 

The solution?

 

 

 

This is simple; either omit the ability to hold your own flag, or have it respawn instantly at its place at the top of the castle, no matter where it hit the ground. (It's respawns instantly only if you are in its castle, starting with the second floor by the player respawn room).

 

 

 

 

 

3.) Ancient magics

 

 

 

Now, I dont have a problem with this in CW's, its a good and powerfull tactic that I like to use occasionaly. However, I would like adress my official opinion because many people complain about ancient magics being unfair. First of all, the people who are using it have every right to, and you cant stop them. Desert Treasure is a very hard quest as well as incredibly dangerous, and afterwards using the powerful spells you are rewarded with is very gratifying. Casting spells like ice barrage is very expensive, at around 2.5k per cast, so the casters are sacrificing alot in the long-term for their magic. There is also a wide range of armors available which highten your magic defence, making the damage on you less. Battle is what these spells are meant for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.) Helmets

 

 

 

I have a mixed opinion on using helmets in CW's. On one hand, it would be very nice to have the added defence/attack bonus of the various helmets out there, as well as strength bonus for some, but on the other hand, not many people would stand a chance if barrows sets like Verac's were put into full use in the minigame. I just recently sold my own set of Guthans, and bought Veracs set (as well as some other goodies :D) but I want to give others a chance. Simply running out of your castle to meet your doom time after time is not fun. So this is where I stand; no helmets, or atleast not barrows helmets.

 

 

 

Possible solution?

 

This has been suggested many times before, but helmets could be worn "under the hood".

 

 

 

Thats all for now :)

*yawn*.

 

 

 

General complaints everyone has, Castle Wars has been out for such a long time it won't be changed.

 

 

 

Much like Coloured Gloves being F2P.