11-Dec-2012 - Player-Owned Ports

[Miss Lioness]

I only just onlocked the pincers :o glad I finally caught up lol

 

Pincers is really the worst thing ever. Now that the race to make armour is over, unless you are rushing to make the Superior ones for yourself, the best tactic is to stick to Bowl (where you can 90+% all of your scrolls and get them in a shorter time) and gather all the scrolls you can. Now that I am in Pincers, I can barely 80% anything giving more than 200 steel, and have not sent a scroll above 75% ever.

 

I'm sure it will get better once I get all the crew and upgrades, but that's a slow slow process - most days no Pincer crew even appear from my 15 rerolls.

 

That wouldn't work, I'm doing that at the moment, but eventually I will reach pincers. and once I do that the best thing for me is to collect steel for upgrades on crew.

 

Perhaps when I replaces all my crew I could go back to bowl to level them up .

 

But the special voyages will still be at pincer rate.

[IridiumBunny]

By 'stick to Bowl' I meant slow your progress to avoid reaching Pincers too soon. That way all special voyages are Bowl-difficulty and Bowl-time.

[Miss Lioness]

By 'stick to Bowl' I meant slow your progress to avoid reaching Pincers too soon. That way all special voyages are Bowl-difficulty and Bowl-time.

 

I tried that too =d, I just went to Arc region etc, and collecting all resources I would ever need for upgrades. But I got to upgrade other stuff that requires Jade too, so now I'm back and I shot up in progress XD.

[Ginger_Warrior]

Since starting my hospital placement, which is effectively working full-time, I barely have a couple of hours to play RuneScape during working days. It's severely crippled my progression through the regions, but I'm at The Scythe now. I'm going to focus on earlier regions so I can use my full voyage count per day, and I'll just focus on upgrading buildings for now. I'll probably send all my boats out overnight for cherrywood missions, so I can keep my crew recruitment going. I don't have any of the skills needed to make anything from PoP yet, so there's literally nothing to be gained from rushing through it.

 

As an aside, it's probably easier to get scrolls here anyway. The scramble for armour has all but ended now.

 

To be honest, this is one of very few RuneScape features which genuinely feels like you're playing a classic RPG, in the sense that you can mix-and-match your approach to suit circumstances in reality, and the game doesn't punish you too harshly for it.

[aerendil]

(flips table) failed my 25 plate mission on 90%, used some pop event rewards and STILL failed... grrrrrrrrr Had merchant on it too :P

[mousepad]

I did not realize you could focus on going to a lower region!!!

 

Today I succeeded on all my missions to the skull, but my bamboo is sitting at 1400 because all the rewards are gunpowder. Should I set my focus to the Arc for tomorrow so I can get to 3000 bamboo?

[Yoko Kurama]

Yes, you will eventually have to do that anyways.

[mousepad]

Yes, you will eventually have to do that anyways.

 

Sweet, thanks! Great opportunity to fine tune my current crew as well.

[Platinum_Myr]

I didn't want to slow progress lol scrolls are rare enough as it is... I would rather just work on pincers stuff lol. Didn't want to only said scroll voyages and do nothing else lol

[Quyneax]

Yes, you will eventually have to do that anyways.

Sweet, thanks! Great opportunity to fine tune my current crew as well.

I think it's best to rush to the next region at all times. No point hanging around the lower regions, Scythe+ is where it's at (trade good wise).

[xpx]

I did not realize you could focus on going to a lower region!!!

 

Today I succeeded on all my missions to the skull, but my bamboo is sitting at 1400 because all the rewards are gunpowder. Should I set my focus to the Arc for tomorrow so I can get to 3000 bamboo?

No, you absolutely shouldn't. Assuming you have enough time, the 3rd ship will be useless until the scythe(4th island) , and by then you'll easily get the needed bamboo(you still get 1-2 ac missions a day and can always use merchants on them). I don't think you ever really have to turn back for resources when you do things right.

 

Anyway, i read somewhere that story missions give no distance. Can anyone confirm that and can anyone tell if the story missions have tiers or they will always pop up for the region you are focusing on? Planning on skipping all the story missions until pincers, but i'd need to know if that would make those missions harder to do later on.

[Veiva]

I did not realize you could focus on going to a lower region!!!

 

Today I succeeded on all my missions to the skull, but my bamboo is sitting at 1400 because all the rewards are gunpowder. Should I set my focus to the Arc for tomorrow so I can get to 3000 bamboo?

No, you absolutely shouldn't. Assuming you have enough time, the 3rd ship will be useless until the scythe(4th island) , and by then you'll easily get the needed bamboo(you still get 1-2 ac missions a day and can always use merchants on them). I don't think you ever really have to turn back for resources when you do things right.

 

Anyway, i read somewhere that story missions give no distance. Can anyone confirm that and can anyone tell if the story missions have tiers or they will always pop up for the region you are focusing on? Planning on skipping all the story missions until pincers, but i'd need to know if that would make those missions harder to do later on.

 

Story missions have tiers--they aren't affected by the focused region.

[Sy_Accursed]

I did not realize you could focus on going to a lower region!!!

 

Today I succeeded on all my missions to the skull, but my bamboo is sitting at 1400 because all the rewards are gunpowder. Should I set my focus to the Arc for tomorrow so I can get to 3000 bamboo?

No, you absolutely shouldn't. Assuming you have enough time, the 3rd ship will be useless until the scythe(4th island) , and by then you'll easily get the needed bamboo(you still get 1-2 ac missions a day and can always use merchants on them). I don't think you ever really have to turn back for resources when you do things right.

 

Anyway, i read somewhere that story missions give no distance. Can anyone confirm that and can anyone tell if the story missions have tiers or they will always pop up for the region you are focusing on? Planning on skipping all the story missions until pincers, but i'd need to know if that would make those missions harder to do later on.

 

Story missions have tiers--they aren't affected by the focused region.

 

Only affect on story regions have is each adventurer gets 1 instalment unlocked per region unlocked.

[Miss Lioness]

I just read on RSOF, that PoP armour degrades about 11x faster then Nex gear.

This is due it degrades in combat stance, not in charges like Nex/Barrows/Chaotics/Gano does.

 

That puts a nail onto the coffin for PoP armour =C

[xpx]

I did not realize you could focus on going to a lower region!!!

 

Today I succeeded on all my missions to the skull, but my bamboo is sitting at 1400 because all the rewards are gunpowder. Should I set my focus to the Arc for tomorrow so I can get to 3000 bamboo?

No, you absolutely shouldn't. Assuming you have enough time, the 3rd ship will be useless until the scythe(4th island) , and by then you'll easily get the needed bamboo(you still get 1-2 ac missions a day and can always use merchants on them). I don't think you ever really have to turn back for resources when you do things right.

 

Anyway, i read somewhere that story missions give no distance. Can anyone confirm that and can anyone tell if the story missions have tiers or they will always pop up for the region you are focusing on? Planning on skipping all the story missions until pincers, but i'd need to know if that would make those missions harder to do later on.

 

Story missions have tiers--they aren't affected by the focused region.

 

Only affect on story regions have is each adventurer gets 1 instalment unlocked per region unlocked.

Good, and as we can see from people having trouble getting scrolls later on, putting off story missions as long as possible might actually be the way to go. Again, this also assumes story missions give no distance, which i haven't seen any conformation for.

[TheLad1]

Partial success on Shambling Lair mission, 1st Crew re-roll = Oxhead :)

 

Now to get lots of steel to improve rest of crew.

[Quyneax]

I just read on RSOF, that PoP armour degrades about 11x faster then Nex gear.

This is due it degrades in combat stance, not in charges like Nex/Barrows/Chaotics/Gano does.

 

That puts a nail onto the coffin for PoP armour =C

Yep it does :(.

 

Good, and as we can see from people having trouble getting scrolls later on, putting off story missions as long as possible might actually be the way to go. Again, this also assumes story missions give no distance, which i haven't seen any conformation for.

Can confirm that stories give no distance.

 

You still want to do stories over xp missions of course, and if you want armour asap you should go for stories in the Bowl so you can get your Pincers/25 trade good voyages in quickly.

[Estoc]

I just read on RSOF, that PoP armour degrades about 11x faster then Nex gear.

This is due it degrades in combat stance, not in charges like Nex/Barrows/Chaotics/Gano does.

 

That puts a nail onto the coffin for PoP armour =C

 

How much does Jagex have to piss all over any non nex armor just to keep it's price artificially high?

[Ginger_Warrior]

It's only creating a hell of a lot more pain in the long run, too. We've already been over the issue of putting level 80 armour at that level of difficulty to obtain. There will have to be a nerf eventually, most likely when t90+ armours get put into the game, because Nex would no longer be "end-game". If that happens, the prices of Nex armours will plummet into oblivion compared to their current values because there'd be much more people hunting her and much less demand for the armours, and a lot of people on both sides will be left very pissed off.

[Estoc]

It's only creating a hell of a lot more pain in the long run, too. We've already been over the issue of putting level 80 armour at that level of difficulty to obtain. There will have to be a nerf eventually, most likely when t90+ armours get put into the game, because Nex would no longer be "end-game". If that happens, the prices plummet into oblivion compared to their current values because there'd be much more people hunting her, and a lot of people on both sides will be left very pissed off.

 

Also the jump in quality between 80-90 will be much greater than 80-85. We will likely see a sharper drop in a shorter time than had port armor been better.

[Platinum_Myr]

Yea it is stupid... Is that degrade style true of the superior type as well?

[Miss Lioness]

I just read on RSOF, that PoP armour degrades about 11x faster then Nex gear.

This is due it degrades in combat stance, not in charges like Nex/Barrows/Chaotics/Gano does.

 

That puts a nail onto the coffin for PoP armour =C

 

How much does Jagex have to piss all over any non nex armor just to keep it's price artificially high?

 

This is one thing however that gotta be fixed whatsoever!

 

QFC for whoever is wondering my source:

 

[qfc]15-16-686-64230049[/qfc]

[muggiwhplar]

I did not realize you could focus on going to a lower region!!!

 

Today I succeeded on all my missions to the skull, but my bamboo is sitting at 1400 because all the rewards are gunpowder. Should I set my focus to the Arc for tomorrow so I can get to 3000 bamboo?

No, you absolutely shouldn't. Assuming you have enough time, the 3rd ship will be useless until the scythe(4th island) , and by then you'll easily get the needed bamboo(you still get 1-2 ac missions a day and can always use merchants on them). I don't think you ever really have to turn back for resources when you do things right.

 

Anyway, i read somewhere that story missions give no distance. Can anyone confirm that and can anyone tell if the story missions have tiers or they will always pop up for the region you are focusing on? Planning on skipping all the story missions until pincers, but i'd need to know if that would make those missions harder to do later on.

 

Story missions have tiers--they aren't affected by the focused region.

 

Only affect on story regions have is each adventurer gets 1 instalment unlocked per region unlocked.

Good, and as we can see from people having trouble getting scrolls later on, putting off story missions as long as possible might actually be the way to go. Again, this also assumes story missions give no distance, which i haven't seen any conformation for.

 

If it's relevant, I didn't unlock the Convict until halfway through the Bowl. When he'd be in port, I could choose to do his first story mission which was Arc-difficulty, or Jade or scroll missions which were Bowl-difficulty. So in other words, prolonging their stories won't make things any easier when you make it to the next region.

[Sy_Accursed]

Wow that degrade thing sucks so bad. Serious if you wanna keep your precious nex gear so brilliant Jagex stop titting around: Make pop armours into normal degrading perfectly acceptable tier 85 gear; throw in some other easier to get than nex t80 gear (maybe drag sub/arma/bandos up?) and turn nex gear into t90.

[Golvellius]

Sounds like nonsensical propaganda to keep nex gear up.

I wouldn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes and besides if that is the case then expect the other gear to be nerfed.

Afterall, 10 hours of combat is 10 hours of combat not 100...