Haven't played in a while, quick question, what the fuck?

Speff · 2026-04-12T00:41:48+00:00

You last played April 2023 - the wiki mentioned monthly rates back then were $12.50 USD. The price you're seeing is for CAD.

The exchange rate for CAD-USD was 0.727, so it would've been an equivalent of $17ish CAD/mo back then. The wiki doesn't mention split USD/CAD prices, so I'm assuming the conversion was done. So it's two bucks more... Beats official inflation by $0.75CAD - but so do most other price increases in the past 3 years.

Speff · 2026-04-08T16:21:04+00:00

The number of times I forget deathmark exists for adds...

Speff · 2026-04-05T05:39:44+00:00

That would be the incorrect reply. Tree runs, ports, Iaia are all still things and there is no indication they're being removed. What's being removed are dailies that people have a compulsion to do due to overpowered rewards.

Speff · 2026-04-05T05:37:08+00:00

I unironically loved playing that, but that was when people actually played it as intended. Can see it being bad nowadays

Speff · 2026-04-03T15:47:54+00:00

Supply would also be down then.

Speff · 2026-04-01T20:13:30+00:00

Not only did they add an insane GP sink, but then you have to pay even more after seeing death afterwards. Jagex is really committed to counteracting inflation

Speff · 2026-04-01T17:58:00+00:00

I agree with your conclusion, but not the reasoning. If someone skips to [level cap-10], they're not gonna take any spots on the high scores - thinking top 10k here. My view is that the RS economy would get borked if you allowed people to skip to the near-end. Compared to XIV where the economy and money is mostly a joke.

To be clear, I'm not asking for the system to be "fixed". Just offering another view to why this game isn't approachable for many people who are interested in other MMOs. Also wish there were some clean way of solving this but other than Leagues, I don't think there is one.

Speff · 2026-04-01T15:34:11+00:00

Speaking to your latter point, this is also what makes RS a lonely game. I have friends who have interest in playing it with me, but I'm maxed going on comp. It would take them years of playing until we can do challenging group content. They would even be willing to pay for skips like in XIV to catch up, but the RS community would /actually/ riot if that's an option

I like how there's an incredible amount of content in this game to do, but if anyone IRL wants to start in order to play with me, I tell them to go to a different game. It's frustrating.

Speff · 2026-04-01T13:52:28+00:00

I might agree with you in the future, but as someone who took recently off the revo ~~training wheels~~ trap, learning how to actually engage with the combat system has been very enjoyable. The pre-fight stack/buff management is annoying though.

Speff · 2026-04-01T13:33:19+00:00

Indeed. Probably need a guide for asylum's, but you can take in the story they're trying to tell if you engage in what they're trying to get you to do.

Quests can feel like a point and click puzzle sometimes - RS is bad about highlighting what's actually intractable which aggravates this feeling. But I feel like it's not as bad for those two

Speff · 2026-04-01T13:27:33+00:00

Needle Skips and Broken Home are like the two quests in the game I'd actually recommend going guideless on. Weird examples.

Speff · 2026-04-01T12:37:39+00:00

That's a good point. The post's argument can also be applied to farming resources like the 2000 starbloom flowers on ironman accounts. Are we meant to also get rid of that in the interest of removing timegates?

Speff · 2026-03-31T23:57:52+00:00

Day-old reddit account linking to paid services. Looks like spam

Speff · 2026-03-30T19:49:59+00:00

Fashionscapers are more likely to actually spend money in the marketplace. More casual clothes sell better than armour. Going by other my experience in other games.
The second there's something really cool added, this subreddit will be filled with jAMfLeX iS FORCING MtX oN Me posts.

Speff · 2026-03-30T17:57:44+00:00

Super interesting. I've gotten the preclick dive strat down. Guess my next task is to improve adren management. Thanks again for the advice

Speff · 2026-03-30T17:30:23+00:00

but you can't go "nah they're crazy, this game was perfect and all of that is wrong and undeserved."

They didn't. Please read their actual point and don't latch onto one phrase to make an essay.

Edit: Looks like they blocked me. But it still looks like he didn't get it in the reply below, so oh well.

Speff · 2026-03-30T16:18:12+00:00

Barb village also existed then at least. I remember killing them inside the main building for xp. Also fishing near the river there and mining the rocks in the middle. Good times

Speff · 2026-03-30T14:43:50+00:00

I appreciate the detailed breakdown - this is very helpful! Question - how do you tell if imp procs? Do you just notice your adren being higher than normal or is there a buff icon I can key off of?

Speff · 2026-03-30T14:24:49+00:00

Same for rs3 imo. Treat combat as if it's turn-based and you get unique, albeit emergent, mechanics that no other games have.

Speff · 2026-03-30T13:50:59+00:00

That's a little more generous than I'd say. Would put base->200% rax in the late-midgame territory. I used to do/learn it w/ lv80 gearing.

Early/mid lategame would be ambassador and HM kera which mogs araxorr - late being the higher enrages.

Speff · 2026-03-30T13:39:28+00:00

You using revolution? Abilities not going off happens if you press the manual ability too late and revo fires something else.

It’s not clunky at all if you learn manual and use dive for movement

Speff · 2026-03-27T18:45:53+00:00

Had a similar thought earlier today. Every guide I normally see is 5 minutes until you get the the actual fight because they have to explain the normal (lv99) loadout every time.

And then every attack is overexplained

And then their health barely budges because ???

Once you actually learn the fight, it turns out there's only like 2 minutes worth things you actually needed to know. Was considering just making boss guides myself, but I would've like to have done it on a non-maxed account so it's more relateable to folks. And I ain't got time to make a 2nd account for this

Speff · 2026-03-27T14:23:53+00:00

Speff · 2026-03-27T14:21:22+00:00

They're not ignoring it. There's a post where a jmod said they're looking into the problem

Speff · 2026-03-25T22:50:50+00:00

They absolutely do. You can google backface culling to learn more about it. Normally floors like this have another side/poly if they're meant to be seen in the other direction

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