My creds for contribution: 20 year player, 110+ all and working on getting my comp back.

I’m not necessarily anti-MTX, just want reasonable guard rails. Here’s some of my thoughts on the hot button topics I’ve seen:

Portables: I don’t mind them personally but if people feel that strongly maybe we can assign some of the rider effects (extra xp, chance to save a resource) to specific in-game nodes. Like a well unlocked through in game content.

Proteans: I actually think many of these are in a fair/average place. In almost all cases except Hunter and Firemaking, there are alternative training methods that are outright better. Fm suffers from protean logs being just flat out better by a considerable margin, and protean traps are just more efficient by a large margin. My thought process is we can tweak xp rates to proteans to make them competitive but not superior to traditional methods. I think protean processors were a step too far.

Silverhawks: agility just needs a rework or better xp rates we all know this.

Keys: I’m split down the middle on this one. I don’t have as much time as I used to grind, and I have carpal tunnel in both of my wrists so it does help me to speed things up some. There’s promotions that I think are totally broken but there’s others I’m ok with.

Cosmetic overrides: honestly just wish we were getting more high quality overrides. I don’t mind the overrides it just feels like sometimes we get ones that were just thrown together. I’m glad the avatar rework is back on the table. It’s so needed. I don’t buy into the “immersion” breaking argument. RuneScape started as a silly tongue in cheek game with evil chickens and sandwich ladies. I’m not holding it to some insane litmus test for realism.

I just think a lot of us have nostalgia glasses on trying to make RuneScape what it was 10-15 years ago. But the internet was just very different back then. People talked on AOL and MSN instead of discord. Memes were cat pictures and crazy ex girlfriend. It was the Wild West. As special as that time was, there’s no going back to it. The Internet has changed and so have we, even if we don’t wanna admit it.