The GOP activity bar is a failure.

[Youmu]

Hello, and welcome to my rant. This rant is about how the activity bar is an unnecessary feature in the minigame, the Great Orb Project.

 

 

 

Let's start with how GOP was like without the activity bar.

 

 

 

When players were playing GOP, there were people that played properly, and there were freeloaders and leechers in the game. We never liked the freeloaders/leechers at first, because most of them won't even participate after they found out they were losing. However, the game must go on, and our teams still continued to play, ignoring the freeloaders/leechers. After our match has ended, we ended up losing, only getting 60 tokens (it was a 6-0). We shook our hands with the opposing team, and went to our next match normally. There sometimes is the occasional newbie which can affect our gameplay, which can be a difference between a win and a loss, but this usually isn't a problem as people learn GOP at a relatively quick rate. I eventually enjoyed GOP, and became quite skilled at it. The occasional invisible barrier glitch can also be an annoyance, but that rarely happens anyway.

 

 

 

Now, let me describe how GOP is like with the activity bar.

 

 

 

When the activity bar was released, I thought "Yes! No more freeloaders! We can finally win again!", and it made me believe it made the game better. But, no, that certainly isn't the case. When I entered the Air Altar to play another match of GOP, guess what I ended up seeing. There were TONS of people hugging orbs, people were spamming barriers like mad, and everyone was at a loss of what to do. Unfortunately, as what I saw, the freeloaders still managed to survive the whole game, just by clicking barriers so that their activity bar fills up. Adding the activity bar made this game of strategy of teamwork into a mess of piling orbs and making barriers just to keep the activity bar up, so it doesn't kick them out of the game. I have seen many a good player been kicked out because the activity bar drained so fast, and the 10-minute penalty prevented this further. Many games didn't even make it past the Earth Altar, due to its enormous size and orbs are scattered about. At this point, now I realized the activity bar was a very unreliable update, and it ended up hurting rather than helping.

 

 

 

So, here are my solutions for clearing up this whole mess:

 

 

 

1) Remove the activity bar altogether. This certainly was the most unnecessary update in the entire game, even more unnecessary than tradeable holiday items, even. This will make things back to normal, therefore there wouldn't be so many huggers.

 

 

 

2) Include a rating system for how much games you have won. Unlike the Fist of Guthix rating, this rating should help you separate yourself between the newbies and the veterans. The rating system should be based on how many orbs you have scored, how many games and altars you have won, and how many games you have finished (so you actually participated in the whole game).

 

 

 

3) Remove the 10-minute penalty rule. A lot of people had to quit because of the activity bar, and they have to wait another 10 minutes just to join another game. This also helps people who lag out frequently, so that people can join in the game again after they quit.

 

 

 

4) Make a new token system. Like the rating system, this should be based on how many orbs you scored, how many games and altars you have won, and how many games you have finished.

 

 

 

5) Include a tutorial. This is what the game really lacks, people can only learn from the game itself because of this. Although 50-50 clans have proven this to work, if there was a tutorial, it would be even better.

 

 

 

And so, my conclusion is this:

 

 

 

Please do something about this, Jagex. The activity bar made many veteran players complain, and now the game has become a game of "click-on-the-orb-to-survive". Fix the glitches like the mind glitch and the invisible barrier glitch first, and then talk about an activity bar.

[Fairness]

The GOP activity bar isn't a failure, people are.

 

 

 

Otherwise, I agree with all your points.

[Youmu]

The GOP activity bar isn't a failure, people are.

 

 

 

Otherwise, I agree with all your points.

 

Actually the people aren't.

 

 

 

The rapid-draining bar is FORCING people to click on orbs, therefore GOP is now a mess.

[Fairness]

The GOP activity bar isn't a failure, people are.

 

 

 

Otherwise, I agree with all your points.

 

Actually the people aren't.

 

 

 

The rapid-draining bar is FORCING people to click on orbs, therefore GOP is now a mess.

 

 

 

People are failures. If they weren't, they'd stop freeloading. ;)

[Youmu]

The GOP activity bar isn't a failure, people are.

 

 

 

Otherwise, I agree with all your points.

 

Actually the people aren't.

 

 

 

The rapid-draining bar is FORCING people to click on orbs, therefore GOP is now a mess.

 

 

 

People are failures. If they weren't, they'd stop freeloading. ;)

 

Well, at least they are better than those godawful orb huggers. -.-

[3hitm4g3u]

You didn't really think Jagex would allow you to continue enjoying one of their activities, did you?

 

 

 

In all seriousness, once Jagex realise their error I'm sure they'll remedy it.

[Youmu]

You didn't really think Jagex would allow you to continue enjoying one of their activities, did you?

 

 

 

In all seriousness, once Jagex realise their error I'm sure they'll remedy it.

 

I know, but instead of fixing the glitches in this already neglected minigame they added a FREAKING activity bar, that made things worse. :evil:

[Zamorakshadow]

Annoying activity bar and lagging out all the time forced me to never play GOP again after i got my full Runecrafter and Tally Staff :evil:

[Youmu]

Annoying activity bar and lagging out all the time forced me to never play GOP again after i got my full Runecrafter and Tally Staff :evil:

 

Wow, you also perfectly described me! :o

 

(Well, except the tally staff. :P )

 

 

 

I won't play GOP again unless Jagex does something good about it.

[KevinsLunchbox]

I think the acitivity bar shoudl stay but for the big alters they could make it drain a lot slower so people can have time to work around the alter.

[Bassy]

Yea I'm not playing GOP again until the bar is removed. I'll wait a year if I have to, I'm in no hurry if they want to ruin yet another minigame. I still wonder why they bothered to put in an activity bar and still leave all of those glitches in the game. Clearly they either think 50-50 is a work of Satan or they rushed it.

 

 

 

50-50 is fine, games are just as long and the max is only like 635 tokens a game instead of 900+. I enjoyed it because it totally got rid of the "omg unfair spawn I quit" attitude. GOP was potentially the best minigame made in my opinion until they ruined it. :(

[Youmu]

I think the acitivity bar shoudl stay but for the big alters they could make it drain a lot slower so people can have time to work around the alter.

 

Or, they could just remove the activity bar completely so that you don't have to worry about being kicked out AT ALL. :wall:

 

Yea I'm not playing GOP again until the bar is removed. I'll wait a year if I have to, I'm in no hurry if they want to ruin yet another minigame. I still wonder why they bothered to put in an activity bar and still leave all of those glitches in the game. Clearly they either think 50-50 is a work of Satan or they rushed it.

 

 

 

50-50 is fine, games are just as long and the max is only like 635 tokens a game instead of 900+. I enjoyed it because it totally got rid of the "omg unfair spawn I quit" attitude. GOP was potentially the best minigame made in my opinion until they ruined it. :(

 

Yeah, I support 50-50. In fact it is probably the only resemblance of a tutorial in this rushed minigame.

 

 

 

Also, yeah, why don't they bother to fix the glitches yet? That really baffles me. #-o

[LatinII]

Or, they could just remove the activity bar completely so that you don't have to worry about being kicked out AT ALL. :wall:

 

 

 

QFT. I haven't played it ever since they added that horrible activity bar. I can't even play a fun 1v1 against Pinkbullet anymore. :cry: And playing against those annoying noobs that repel their own orbs and stuff get on my nerves a lot.

[Youmu]

Or, they could just remove the activity bar completely so that you don't have to worry about being kicked out AT ALL. :wall:

 

 

 

QFT. I haven't played it ever since they added that horrible activity bar. I can't even play a fun 1v1 against Pinkbullet anymore. :cry: And playing against those annoying noobs that repel their own orbs and stuff get on my nerves a lot.

 

Actually, it's still possible to 1 vs 1, if you have a clan of AT LEAST 4 people, have 2 people on each side, have you and another person 1 vs 1, and have everybody else spam barriers on the corners of the map (so they don't affect the orbs at all).

 

 

 

Still, activity bar sucks, hope Jagex realizes this soon.

[LatinII]

Actually, it's still possible to 1 vs 1

 

 

 

Not in the way Pink and I played GOP :P

[Youmu]

Actually, it's still possible to 1 vs 1

 

 

 

Not in the way Pink and I played GOP :P

 

Ohh... then that sucks. :cry: