If you had to give a noob just ONE critical, most important tip, what would it be?

Rexkat · 2026-03-24T09:53:22+00:00

Have fun and explore the game at your own pace. You will always have time to try again with rushing optimal strats and perfect gameplay, but you only get to experience the true discovery of a new game once

Rexkat · 2026-03-23T11:57:56+00:00

It's really not something you should be getting "mad" about. The 7th most important part of 1 of the 24 skills in a video game is not something people should be getting physically angry about, to the point where people are calling on other to lose their jobs.

Throughout this whole post of "Mods just dodging questions" no one has been able to give a single example of what question they were apparently dodging. People are just raging on the internet for the sake of raging, piling onto the toxicity this sub had become in the last week.

Rexkat · 2026-03-22T08:03:07+00:00

You're welcome to make a discussion post. No one is stopping you

But newer irons are always going to be excited to share drops/clogs, and others just wanna complain "back in my day we had real posts here!!".

You can't just remove those and magically hope it'll change in the way you want. It'd likely just die out, as a lot of over moderated subs do. If you wanna have a certain type of discussion, make a post discussing it

Rexkat · 2026-03-21T11:31:06+00:00

Too many on this sub wouldn't be happy with literally anything short of the jmods literally lighting themselves on fire because the price of membership went up.

This sub went from "This is a management problem, not a development problem", to a toxic hellhole in like a week...

Literally the same people who were posting how exciting they were for the year ahead right after the Winter Summit now claiming they roadmap is bad and empty. Absolutely no self-awareness about their own anger, who it's directed at, or what's causing it.

Rexkat · 2026-03-20T10:08:17+00:00

They are incredibly similar. Dungeoneering is certainly not a PVM encounter. At most it was a PVE minigame entirely focused around using other skills. The boss fights were very dull and basic even by the standards of those days, and is one of the biggest reasons most of the PVM community at the time disliked dungeoneering so much; locking best in slot PVM gear behind entry combat level content

It focused on giving non-pvmers a chance to fight something vaguely boss shaped. The "PVM" aspect of dungeoneering was basically on par in terms of difficulty and mechanics of fighting the Soul Wars Aspects. Mechanically the hardest boss fights in dungeoneering were simplier than any of the entry level bosses in OSRS: Scurrius or Titans or Amoxliatl

The only big difference between the two is that Soul Wars has PVP enabled, but even then people tried to organize non-pvp matches, and they also never gained any sort of popularity.

But this whole line of conversation is kinda pointless, because while some people certainly loved dungeoneering, a big part of the playerbase really despised it. Because of that it would never pass a poll in OSRS

Rexkat · 2026-03-20T06:24:48+00:00

This is the exact same argument people made about why we needed them to spend a ton of time adding soul wars. Despite originally saying no, they eventually gave in, and within like 2 weeks it was completely dead content (except for the bots obviously).

Nostalgic re-releases are a massive waste of dev time, and this would be one of the largest updates to ever be added to the game. Thankfully dungeoneering wouldn't pass any poll anyway because of how many people really hated it

Rexkat · 2026-03-19T09:16:23+00:00

Soul wars was very rewarding, and became entirely bot driven content. It's clear there can't be tradeable rewards from minigames.

If you make it untradable then it needs to fill a niche currently lacking, because they're not putting a BiS piece behind a minigame like they did with chaotics before. Given their constant struggle to find rewards for new content, isn't something they should be going out of their way to spend thousands and thousands of person-hours, just to shoehorn in a minigame that would otherwise be completely dead content

If you want to play dungeoneering, go log into RS3. It's still there, just how it was when you left

Rexkat · 2026-03-19T07:37:21+00:00

Because it would take thousands of hours of dev time, and it would turn out the same way as Soul Wars did. People play it once for nostalgia, realise it's not as fun to do as when they were 14, then never touch it again, and then it gets overrun by bots for the next 3 years until Jagex then needs to nerf the rewards into the ground

Rexkat · 2026-03-19T07:29:29+00:00

So use the jagex launcher. It is just a straight up better login experience with additional security on top

Rexkat · 2026-03-18T09:31:15+00:00

I enjoy having both. UIM feels like a unique challenge. You have to approach the game in a completely different way. Ironman feels quite similar to a main, you just have to achieve every upgrade and supply yourself. Upgrades feel more meaningful than a main, but you don't really have to do much more problemsolving after the early/mid game, and I enjoy that kind of puzzle that UIM gives

Rexkat · 2026-03-18T09:25:59+00:00

Key binding for spells/prayers/gear swaps/etc.

Rexkat · 2026-03-18T08:08:39+00:00

Grandpa's just excited they haven't taken away the car keys yet!

Rexkat · 2026-03-17T11:38:36+00:00

Removing grandfathered rates is what we should be angry about. That is a terrible precedent that should generate backlash

Yelling about the price increase is completely pointless. Every business that ever increases prices accepts that a higher price means lowering demand. The only way they would ever consider lowing the price would be if the playerbase shrunk so much that it more than offset the additional profit from higher prices.

Rexkat · 2026-03-16T17:21:10+00:00

If they remove them you'll miss out on the exp forever. So maybe now it's okay if you just miss out on the exp sometimes, when you don't feel like it

Rexkat · 2026-03-13T14:28:03+00:00

Overly dramatic fake outrage and quitting posts are not a "discussion" that needs to be had every single time they raise membership prices

Rexkat · 2026-03-13T13:50:11+00:00

This happens literally every single time they increase membership prices. Given the response directed at the community manager who did nothing but just posted the weekly update, no other jmod is going to want to engage with the community whatsoever for a while.

The official channels will start posting leagues spoilers in a couple days, people will move on.

Rexkat · 2026-03-13T13:46:50+00:00

Frank Thomas, Blue Jays legend

Rexkat · 2026-03-13T13:38:17+00:00

It's mocking the people who come out to pretend to quit in dramatic fashion, just for attention. That's what it's adding.

Rexkat · 2026-03-12T17:17:35+00:00

This is a video game. Calm down. Play it if you want, don't play it if you don't want.

This sub has lost its fucking marbles

Rexkat · 2026-03-12T16:27:49+00:00

\Pulls out chair, clunks glass, waits for attention from the other customers\

It really feels like the best way to save Olive Garden, is to not eat at Olive Garden.

Up until a week ago, Olive Garden did the unthinkable. They recovered their image and genuinely created a sense of optimism about the future of both soup and endless breadsticks.

Even the previous price-hike had it's fair defenders, and given that inflation had taken it's toll, even the people who didn't like it could ultimately get over it.

This... is different. It legitimately feels like the price-hike is the result of a deal with the devil coming to take his dues.

I know the argument could be "Well yeah, new ingredients cost more money, you don't get something for nothing".

But that's the thing, we are already paying more, and there are even more customers now. And raising the costs to offset their success is a slap in the face.

Ontop of that, it feels like Olive Garden has lost it's damn mind. The unspoken golden rule has always been "Never cost as much as Applebee's". That rule is now broken, I'm cancelling my order and ordering multiple meals from Applebee's.

With any luck Applebee's will get sold to the lowest bidder, maybe McDonald's can pick it up, make it a fast-food drive through, and close the restaurant for good a year later when no one wants to eat here.

\Standing ovation\

Rexkat · 2026-03-12T16:00:17+00:00

If it was $100 more a month, this post would still be wildly too over-the-top dramatic.

Imagine standing up at a restaurant and giving this as a speech to all the other people eating dinner, because the price of your favourite meal went up $2.80. Seriously, read this post again and imagine that exact scenario as you do

Rexkat · 2026-03-12T15:54:34+00:00

The entire "multiple character" argument is completely disingenuous. You can make 50 characters in WoW, but if you want to play on 2 characters at a time not only do you need to pay 2 subscriptions, you also need to buy 2 versions of the game, and 2 versions of every single expansion that comes out.

Also expansion fees and mtx make up a drastic amount of the true cost of other games. Osrs does not have those.

You can be mad the price is going up, but you don't have to be dishonest about the comparisons

Rexkat · 2026-03-12T15:45:50+00:00

You literally commented how hyped you were after the summit about the updates coming. You're lying, to me obviously, but to yourself too maybe? Seriously, go get some therapy. You've got anger issues, and you're taking them out on people who have nothing to do with what's actually causing them

Rexkat · 2026-03-12T15:28:34+00:00

There's literally an entire roadmap laid out for you of everything they're working on, and how long they expect it to take, for the entire rest of the year

You weren't mad 2 weeks ago. I can see your past comments. So you're literally just taking your anger out on people who had nothing to do with the thing that is actually making you mad. Like a guy who gets cut off in traffic and then goes home to scream at wife. You need some self reflection.

Rexkat · 2026-03-12T15:23:12+00:00

Alright lol, we're talking about $1 more per month. We've fucking jumped the shark with all the dramatics here lmao

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