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I've been off for a while now, haven't read the news for months which is a first because usually I still read it even if I'm not playing.

Anyway, it was quite a surprise to see them resurrecting some old things but also seems pretty brainless. But I still want to play again, so a few questions:

 

1) what is the general consensus among the intelligent community (i.e not rsof) about the wildy etc. and are they doing it because sub/player numbers have dropped as some of my friends have suggested? can they really kill off botting? It was instantly obvious to me when I logged into the game how much worse it has gotten since summer '10 when I was last playing.

 

2) how does damage soaking work; is it a big thing now?

 

3) what happened to mechscape - i remember it being cancelled or restarted or something

 

4) does the old objective/summoning button have a different use now? (at the bottom left of the interface) or a planned use?

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2) It's no big deal, a few percent less damage here and there. Basically the soak percentage is applied to damage over 200. 20% soak on a hit of 200 is nothing. 20% soak on a hit of 500 is 20% reduction of the 300 damage beyond that 200, e.g. 60 reduction for a total hit of 440.

 

Others I got no clue.

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2) already well covered

3) Mechscape is Stellar Dawn. Its due to launch sometime this year, the website is up and they did applications for the beta a while bk.

4) Its nothing atm, but when they moved task system they did say they had a use for it planned.

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1) what is the general consensus among the intelligent community (i.e not rsof) about the wildy etc. and are they doing it because sub/player numbers have dropped as some of my friends have suggested? can they really kill off botting? It was instantly obvious to me when I logged into the game how much worse it has gotten since summer '10 when I was last playing.

 

Silentcore (a rather famous Runescape on youtube) created a video describing the poll regarding the wildy and free trade as an attempt to break a record in the Guinness Book of World Records. However, that is just a theory, 90+% voted to bring back free trade and the wilderness and the only thing Jagex said was something along the lines of "We'll have an announcement Monday". So at this point in time we cannot be 100% sure that Jagex will bring back free trade or the wilderness, we can only wait till tomorrow to find out.

 

In my personal opinion, it's not because numbers have dropped. Jagex is in the position as the largest free/relatively inexpensive MMO; this position practically gives them the ability to do whatever they want to their playerbase under the understanding that there isn't any other alternative out there. If they do go through it, then I think it is because they have finally wised up and started paying attention to their community.

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Just curious, what happened when you instantly logged in?

 

if you mean what i saw to make me think botting was worse, it was people ess mining in varrock. loads and loads of people making the same movements. granted, some will be actual people quietly getting on with it but it didn't half make me think of the times when level threes swarmed the place back in '06-07 etc.

plus various people on IRC channels i frequent constantly boasting about getting away with it since '09, honestly i'll be surprised if jagex can or will do anything impressive - because I know people with 20m+ hunter and runecraft xp who are still playing with not even a warning.

 

Thanks for the help everyone

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Just curious, what happened when you instantly logged in?

 

if you mean what i saw to make me think botting was worse, it was people ess mining in varrock. loads and loads of people making the same movements. granted, some will be actual people quietly getting on with it but it didn't half make me think of the times when level threes swarmed the place back in '06-07 etc.

plus various people on IRC channels i frequent constantly boasting about getting away with it since '09, honestly i'll be surprised if jagex can or will do anything impressive - because I know people with 20m+ hunter and runecraft xp who are still playing with not even a warning.

 

Thanks for the help everyone

 

They have hit alot of bots lately.

They have a new automated system tht starts draining the stats of suspected bots, until they can deal with em.

 

If u look msot bots up in highscores if u see em several times their levels will be static or falling

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