Minigames?

[Mazurizi]

There is only a handful of Minigames that still get played by players everyday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of these popular ones are, Castle Wars, Duel Arena (if you consider that a minigame) Fight Pits, Fight Caves, Barrows and Pyramid Plunder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whereas Minigames that don't get played, Trouble Brewing, Rat Pits, Jungle Cleanup, Gnome Delivery, Blast Furnace, Temple Trekking and Trawler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This isn't all the Minigames, just the most popular and unpopular.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question is, Why do people play the popular ones and not play the unpopular ones?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trouble Brewing is a great Minigame, it gives you decent firemaking, crafting and cooking exp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Thoughts?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Haven't listed Barbarian Assault as it is hard to decide whether this minigame will last)

[darkblade986]

Apart from Pyramid Plunder, all of the ones you listed as popular are entirely combat based. That's the main reason why. People are looking to train combat stats, and those mini-games break up the routineness of it.

[PhaperPlane]

I play Gnome Cuisine. Its still the best mini game in existance in my view as well as Trawler (Gotta make a trawler sig) :D

[Xewleer]

i do gnome cuisine... i do some temple trekking...

[tefda]

Apart from Pyramid Plunder, all of the ones you listed as popular are entirely combat based. That's the main reason why. People are looking to train combat stats, and those mini-games break up the routineness of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree 100%! Loads of people play just for combat experience because that's all that matters to them. I play Pest Conrol when I can just to get the combat experience, but as of late I get Herb Packs as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do love the Shades of Mort'ton Mini-game as well but because I cannot keep a group going for more than a week and I HATE world 2 players I never manage to play down there.

[Umega]

Rats pits is totally useless, it's like dueling/staking without trusting your character and skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trouble Brewin' only gets played on world 104, even that's empty because everyone's at BA right now. :|

[Luke]

People want games that :-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) Provide "Action" (Combat Related games, 'owning n00bz' in Fight Pits / CW)

 

 

 

2) Provide excellent XP (Pyramid Plunder is considered part of the skill, not a game, although it is a game..)

 

 

 

3) Offer Phr33 st00f (Barrows / Fight Caves)

[andufusthebronze]

barbarian assualt will last due to the gloves of lightness

[PMega]

Blast Furnace can usually be soloed, really...

[Harrington]

I think a lot of people are put off with certain team games due to players acting like noobs or just not playing ball.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For example, every Pest control game, there's always someone who insists on leaving a gate open and costing you the game.

 

 

 

Or games like Castlewars where have to wait up to 20 mins for a game to begin.

 

 

 

Barbarian Assault... i have no idea if I'm in a team or not and is a little too complicated

[Abyssalwhip]

People want games that :-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) Provide "Action" (Combat Related games, 'owning n00bz' in Fight Pits / CW)

 

 

 

2) Provide excellent XP (Pyramid Plunder is considered part of the skill, not a game, although it is a game..)

 

 

 

3) Offer Phr33 st00f (Barrows / Fight Caves)

I normally play games either for action and cool cloths or armour and rarely xp

[Trade_With]

 

 

 

Or games like Castlewars where have to wait up to 20 mins for a game to begin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made a post on official forums in suggestions, basically saying you should be able to play other people at runelink, draughts etc. during the waiting time. This would solve the long wait problems at Cw, the unpopularity at trouble brewing (to some extent) and the heavy lack of people at burthope games room.

[Malhavok]

I still do Blast Furnace and almost always see people there. Its not popular like PC or CW though.

 

 

 

And what about Barrows?

 

 

 

barbarian assualt will last due to the gloves of lightness

 

 

 

No it will last due to the granite body.

[latin14]

lota ppl do play trouble brewing

[Mazurizi]

I still do Blast Furnace and almost always see people there. Its not popular like PC or CW though.

 

 

 

And what about Barrows?

 

 

 

barbarian assualt will last due to the gloves of lightness

 

 

 

No it will last due to the granite body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I said Barrows...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trouble Brewing is hard to find players that play it often. Sure World 104, but Two Teams of 4 doesn't compare to CW or PC.

[Atroxide]

Some of these popular ones are, Castle Wars, Duel Arena (if you consider that a minigame) Fight Pits, Fight Caves, Barrows and Pyramid Plunder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whereas Minigames that don't get played, Trouble Brewing, Rat Pits, Jungle Cleanup, Gnome Delivery, Blast Furnace, Temple Trekking and Trawler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

castle wars - no quests needed

 

 

 

duel arena - no quests needed

 

 

 

fight pits - no quests needed

 

 

 

fight caves - no quests needed

 

 

 

barrows - 2 easy quests

 

 

 

plunder - not sure, but i dont think u need to do quests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

trouble brewing - quests

 

 

 

rat pits - quests

 

 

 

jungle cleanup - quests

 

 

 

delivery - i think quests, not sure

 

 

 

blast furnace - quests

 

 

 

temple treking - quests

 

 

 

trawler - its not worth the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pretty much, any minigame that needs quests arent played much.

[pompey_spud]

trouble brewing is an ace minigame!! its fun, has pirates AND monkeys in it, and gives really good (and phr33) firemaking, cooking and crafting exp.

 

 

 

The rewards are great: my full naval turns heads everywhere i go and i often get offers for it. Also, The Stuff has given me tonnes of mature chefs delight which i hope to sell one day. And dont forget that you can even buy lvl 2 clue scrolls there, which provides afair bit of my income, as they seem a little luckier than others....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only bad points of the game are a.) how remote it is. Its just a pain getting there if you've forgotten to take a bottle of rum back with you, and before the home telleport, it could be a pain getting back too

 

 

 

and b.) water bucket noobs. they dont seem to realise they reach the peak amount of PoE avaliable cant be gotten after 4 inventories and do nothing to help the team.

[Brinner]

ya because of combat exp and stuff mainly....pyramid plunder i noticed almost no one plays how did u make it up to popular?? and i think BA will last expesially since it can get you a d chain

[tripsis]

My guess is that people play the "popular" ones because they have better rewards or are just downright more fun. Out of all the minigames in your unpopular list, the only one of those that I think (and I'm sure many other people) is fun is Trouble Brewing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I'd say about 80% - 90% of the people who play Runescape are far too concerned with how much gp they have. Therefore, they play the minigames that give the best rewards. People duel because they can stake and win a lot of gp. Or they duel because they want to "test who's better." People play Castle Wars because it's fun and can be a good source of xp (particularly magic). And many people like the rewards (CW armour). People play Fight Caves so they can try to get a Fire Cape or even just an Obby Cape. People play Barrows because the rewards are fabulous. You can make a couple million gp in just one load. And Pyramid Plunder is an amazing source of thieving xp and you have a chance of getting a Pharoah's Sceptre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wheras with the other minigames.. There really aren't any great rewards. Even Trouble Brewing just doesn't give good xp. You usually get soemwhere between 0 and 10k gp in one game, which is about 20 minutes. That's not a great deal at all considering all the other great ways to get firemaking/crafting/etc. xp.

[Bloodveld]

For a minigame to be successful, it needs a few things:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Be simple

 

 

 

-Be fun

 

 

 

-Give at least decent exp

 

 

 

-Easy to get to

 

 

 

-Have good rewards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All of the popular games that you listed have these qualities, sometimes with one thing being stronger then the others. (Pyramid Plunder is decently hard to get to, but gives awesome exp, for example.) All the ones listed in the unpopular list either have bad rewards, are too complicated, or are really hard to get to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I predict that the new game will become unpopular because of it's complexity and lack of good rewards. (An organized team is needed and people only need one granite body.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Bloodveld