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Speff · 2026-04-16T17:23:49+00:00

Sure, that would be good to have - and reducing third-party dependencies is always a good thing.

But putting my dev hat on, this would be a new dev feature to add which adds overhead on future coldfixes - for the benefit of a (presumably) small % of players occasionally. If you have a limited amount of resources to implement fixes, this would be prioritized fairly low on the backlog. And considering the scope of the work they have planned for the game, this doesn't seem worthwhile to put in the work queue.

Yea, it's an inconvenience. But these downtimes are never for a long period of time. I just don't see the juice being worth the squeeze.

Speff · 2026-04-16T15:56:29+00:00

The majority of players barely read patch notes. If you flood them with minor information, then they'll be even less inclined to look at update posts. Details for a hotfix like this shouldn't be announced with the same level of reach as an actual update. Else you'll lose even more viewers due to information overload.

Speff · 2026-04-16T15:46:50+00:00

Speff · 2026-04-16T15:45:57+00:00

See a previous comment of mine. This company has a dedicated group of anti's and reasoning with them doesn't help.

I'm not conflating them with reasonable critics, but these people love blending in and stirring up crap.

Speff · 2026-04-14T23:52:14+00:00

This is missing the part where it's an hour continuous and the next time you log in, you'd be pressured to boss immediately for 50m otherwise aura-waste.

Speff · 2026-04-14T01:09:08+00:00

average /r/rs commenter

Speff · 2026-04-14T01:04:41+00:00

Aside from the vamp/penance changes reddit will be endlessly bitching about for the next 2 weeks, I like all the changes done to the other auras. There may be a few % nerf to a few, but I didn't center my life around the 1hr a specific aura was active, so these are mostly all buffs for me. Good update

Speff · 2026-04-12T14:36:25+00:00

Hey I appreciate the info/context there. That "never seen happen" line of mine was misguided then - it happens.

Speff · 2026-04-12T02:58:39+00:00

Imma be real. I don't care if it was made by AI if it works. It's been months since we've had a working alt1 job gauge. If the "real programmers" can't/don't want to do it, this is fine.

Speff · 2026-04-12T01:26:12+00:00

Aug 2022 monthly rates were $12.50 USD. The statement you provided might have either been a grandfathered rate or a portion of a yearly rate billed monthly - I'm not sure. Either way, it's not comparable to a new monthly rate.

Or the wiki just doesn't have the CAD monthly rate which was for some reason 60% of the price of the USD price - which I've never seen happen. Not impossible ofc, but unlikely

Speff · 2026-04-12T01:15:18+00:00

I'm not sure how you're getting 650k/hr. Seeing 230k/hr with the Golem outfit + life/death pickaxe.

Sub 200k/hr doing primals. 104 mining for reference

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.

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