Now this is in reference too the new update "Wilderness Changes, Bounty Hunter and Clan Wars!" -- 10-Dec-2007

 

 

 

Well here it is. The long awaited clan wars!

 

But sorry people, it comes with a few changes too the runescape wilderness. Firstly they thought the time was ripe to destroy pking, and instead place a bounty hunter mini-game that will allow people to fight in a multicombat area against people of a combat level up to around 30 levels higher. This isn't such a well thought out idea jagex, and ill explain why.

 

 

 

Previously if you were in trouble in the wilderness by use of a big team chasing you, you could run into the single combat area as a way too even the score. This was meant too eliminate clans dominating the whole of the wilderness, where only other clans could hold there own against them. Now lots of people like to "PK" and sometimes you may get the urge too PK while you are on your own, that was no problem as you could go too a single combat area and duke it out with somebody in the safe knowledge that you won't be mining for the next 3 months too recover what you lost due too a swift kill by a big clan.

 

 

 

Now don't think im bitter - as i am in a clan myself - but having a new area thats fully multicombat will be run by clans. You can try and take 1 item in there, kill your target in the bounty hunter, and then protect your item before you get pilled and see the screen fill up with red numbers. But wheres the sport in that? Say you do risk your items and manage too survive a brutal onslaught... now what?

 

You have got 1 kill, whereas your buddy who is in a clan is on his 6th... and isn't even breaking a sweat. I mean this new "Rogue" board will be a display of who has the biggest clan.

 

 

 

Now that update i can live with. Barely, but its just something too work around - "Join a clan!"

 

 

 

The next one isn't so great. Limiting the amount you can give in a trade. Believe me, i understand why they are doing it. Its another punch against the real life traders, and then futhermore the bots. Imagine taking a team too GWD next year for a shot at one of the fabled god sword pieces only too be lucky enough too get one.... and then it hits you. Yes you can use lootshare but if you or your friend get an armadyl hilt, the other items that he collecting are going too seem worthless in comparison. So you decide too split the cash... only too have Jagex place a limit on the amount you can give too your friend(s). Combine this with the price restrictions in the GE where the amounts of items can be manipulated by Jagex themselves. And these few months have placed the runescape player in a communistic type hold on (Exaggerating a little) with the reason being too limit the unfair players of the game.

 

 

 

Combine this with the elimination of "DM's", "PKRI's" and PKing as a whole.... and for a game with alot of updates it seems too be getting smaller.

You made your points quite well and I see exactly what you mean. I hope Jagex rethinks this but I somehow think they don't even care about pkers.

Just wondering why they even added the whole wilderness to the game if they dont like playerkilling..

I noticed that - lost my "cheap" pk try-out gear:

 

 

 

Guthan plate

 

Rune legs

 

Neitiznot helm

 

RFD gloves highest

 

fletching cape

 

dds

 

dscim

 

blackdhide body

 

rune kite

 

power amulet

 

adamant boots

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, I took a risk, and accept the fact, but I dont quite like the way I died - to a clan of rogues. I thought they made nice and even battle, but I was wrong.

I completely agree with all of that.

 

 

 

Also the thrill of an escape is totally lost. Anyone that's never tried to escape a large clan from east drags while teleblocked: i urge you to watch the final scene of Finnald's 5th video:

(5:21 in vid)

 

it's stupidly easy to escape a team in bounty hunter, if you dont have any 'rogue pked' loot, just click on one of the many exits and you're out fully healed and restored.

Just wondering why they even added the whole wilderness to the game if they dont like playerkilling..

 

 

 

If you've been playing since 2001 then you would know wilderness was just another step back from pking. There used to be pking all over the whole of RS. Wildy is resctricted to one area pk, now its even shrunk even more. :-w

a IDEA i came up with was just have one door and make the mini game smaller have all people of the same combat lvl compete agaisnt each other on 2 servers, so you can truely see who the best lvl 100 to even the best lvl 32 to is.

There needs to be an area where non-multi pking can still occur. Surely Bounty hunter where a single player gets highlighted on highscores should be that place?

It's problematic that now you need to be in a clan to pk, and that you won't be able to trade more than 3k each 15 minutes. Myself I'm almost never in the wilderness, so for me the wildy update isn't such a big problem. But I can understand that for some people this is disaster, and I'm sorry for them.

 

The merchanting part I think is worse. Now you won't be able to merchant the old way anymore, you will have to use the GE. And the GE's prices is controlled by Jagex, so there won't be that easy to merchant using the GE either. This means that you will probalby need to skill to make money in the future. So it's just to start training mining and fletching...