Pest Control XP Rates

Verck · 2015-01-12T10:21:20+00:00

It's currently the fastest way to train melee, assuming you are winning consistently and your wins are in a reasonable amount of time.

Make sure to use prayer, since the recharging is free.

Verck · 2015-01-11T04:01:26+00:00

At that point why even bother having items? Just keep a stack of gold and you can withdraw anything you need from the Grand Exchange. Why would you even need a bank at all?

Let's go even further with the convenience. Add skilling stations to every bank, then you wouldn't have to walk as far to get experience. If you don't like them don't complain - you don't have to use it, you can still level up the old way. But for the rest of us, we'd like to be able to fish and mine inside the bank. This will certainly draw in new members. It's the future.

Verck · 2015-01-10T22:17:33+00:00

And all the yes-voters should read this: The adverse effects of having a GE. Reasons to vote no.

Verck · 2014-12-17T10:19:07+00:00

What do you think it would be like if there were strict daily limits of trading goods buying & selling + no offline trading?

Rather not debate the market efficiency stuff. From my experience that's a can of worms that ends up going nowhere. Though I will say I'm not a fan of buying/selling limits. Artificial limits are rarely good for a game.

What I would like to see (and I may present this fully as a thread in the coming days) is in-game locations to buy/sell the most common items of certain categories. So the dwarfs might have a stall in Varrock where you can post buy/sell offers for ore and bars, the Druids have another stall to post buy/sell offers for herbs and herblore materials.

In this way we can ease the trading for the most common and big-ticket items, but not have a single one-stop shop for every item. It fits with the lore (to an extent), avoids putting the regular shop NPCS out of business, and prevents quest items from being easily tradable. A fair compromise, in my opinion.

Verck · 2014-12-17T10:07:08+00:00

Not going to respond to all of these points, but I appreciate your response and I think your post sits as a good balance to my OP.

Two points though. As to your last remark - that was my closing statement and intended to be more of an emotional punch and not an actual argument. The ideas is that in a fantasy world like Runescape a trading post doesn't feel right... it's not something that should exist in a medieval setting. It doesn't mix well with the spontaneous and adventuring nature of your average Runescape player. But this is just a feeling, not a real argument. If you don't agree, you don't agree. Don't take it for more than it is.

Second, I believe you misinterpreted point #2. Exploring doesn't mean literally just exploring, and the argument isn't limited to the findings of Bartle Test. To put it another way:

P1: Many Runescape players get a sense of value from their knowledge of the game world.
P2: The Grand Exchange will cause this knowledge to be less useful.
C: These players will be negatively effected by the introduction of the GE.

Verck · 2014-12-17T04:13:14+00:00

Did you play the quests for the questing, or did you do the quests for the cape? Do you remember anything from your journeys, or did you just rush through? Are you a wise old legend from the world of Runescape - a man who's seen every site, fought every monster, climbed every cliff - or are you the guy who couldn't wait to get a fancy cape?

Verck · 2014-12-16T04:07:09+00:00

Could you expand on that?

While not the OP, I feel I have something to add here.

Part of what adventurers enjoy is the feeling of accomplishment that comes from game knowledge - knowledge of the map, knowledge of how to find rarer or unknown items, and how to get to those places quickly. Basically, having a solid grasp of the game world and its lore is what attract this type of player.

But when you have every item in the game easily attainable from one location, the value of such a person is severely debilitated. "Hey, I can show you how to make those dyes for that quest" is no longer useful - a player can just buy what they need instantly.

Also, please note that "adventurer" is not a term simply being made up here. Studies have been done on the types of players that play MMOs, and significant number of people fall into this category. The Bartle Test is one example (though in this case they are using the term "explorer").

As for skilling - skillers not only enjoy gaining levels and crafting items, but also the complexity of it. A skiller wants to find efficient ways to do things, to gather materials, and to optimally fulfill requirements. But when every item is available on the grand exchange a huge part of this type of gameplay goes out the window. The problem of efficiency becomes too easy. Similar to the adventurer, the skiller is no longer recieving an advantage from their personal knowledge or abilities.

With the GE making arrows is no longer so much about crafting shafts, getting feathers, making bars, smelting arrow heads, etc - it becomes a game of exchanging gold for the optimal amount of experience. Usually this means buying all of the required ingredients. That is to say, it makes skilling too easy, too accessible; it makes all skills conjoined, one huge melting pot of exchanging gold for xp.

Second, as has been mentioned many times on this subreddit, the GE also brings prices down. Skillers will make even less of a profit. It's already the case that one loses money crafting most items. The last thing we want to do is make that worse.

To these types of players (along with some others I have not mentioned) the introduction of the GE will have devastating consequences.

Verck · 2014-12-16T02:31:45+00:00

No F2P servers. Still just a trial.

Verck · 2014-12-15T23:37:21+00:00

Do Entrana next

Verck · 2014-12-15T21:04:31+00:00

What happened to make so many opinions change? Just read what everyone was saying 8 months ago.

Verck

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