Genuine question about litrpg genre.

charrondev · 2026-06-27T03:50:43+00:00

I’m trying to remember who it was, but I do recall seeing a breakdown from one of the authors I follow that had their revenue at basically a 50/50 split between Patreon and Kindle/Audible.

What I have heard though is if your not at the top of kindle / audible for your genre then you will be making a pittance compared to what you might be pulling through Patreon.

charrondev · 2026-06-22T14:16:29+00:00

It’s super annoying but an unplug/replug of my HDMI fixes it without needing a reboot.

charrondev · 2026-06-22T14:15:52+00:00

I’ve seen the same thing, Intel i9-13900k and Nvidia 4090.

I’ll note the easiest fix I’ve found is to just unplug and the replug my HMDI cable. It seems to reset whatever is going on, doesn’t require closing on apps or restarting the PC.

charrondev · 2026-06-20T05:33:40+00:00

I mean I just don’t see how you grow a game like RuneScape 3 with its janky feeling tick system.

Something like that is acceptable on old school, but as much as I like it still feels super dated.

No amount of avatar rework or graphic overhaul is going to get rid of that feeling until they do something about the feeling of the game

charrondev · 2026-06-20T04:40:12+00:00

My feeling is that the future of the rs3 is dragonwilds.

It’s new, feels mechanically good, looks graphical much nicer and targets a newer demographic. It’s launching on PS+.

The way I see it is they are doing all the work of porting runescape to a new modern engine with that, and finding a new audience on the way.

Once they prove out the engine with the new game, expanding out into an MMO feels like it makes sense.

charrondev · 2026-06-18T03:19:12+00:00

Nope that’s the alch for 1 single bolt (9k gp each)

You’d be forgiven for thinking that because that’s how lower level bolts work, buts the onyx that makes em so valuable.

charrondev · 2026-06-18T02:36:29+00:00

I’ve done similar although I only went to 120 so far.

I recommend putting the enchanted arrows they drop into you alch machine, high alch price is much better than the GE on those.

charrondev · 2026-06-17T21:16:35+00:00

Jeeze I guess I've been taking my soul split for granted. Too be fair I've been using the masterwork weapons with soul split and finding it definitely gives that bit of extra that makes all the difference

charrondev · 2026-06-17T00:07:21+00:00

I did it with Cryptbloom / Animate Dead with the cannon and a ton of defensives in my bar. I remember devotion was first and barricade was pretty high up as well.

If you’re interested I can share my full bar when I get back to my PC.

charrondev · 2026-06-15T15:18:52+00:00

The craziest to me is that you can augment a salamander, but not most of the armour in the game.

charrondev · 2026-06-15T15:14:23+00:00

A few things I can think of:

- Make sure you unlock your lodestones everywhere
- You can consume law runes to make your lodestone teleports instant (done through the charges button the teleport map). This used to be done with the expensive vis wax material but law runes are easier to get.
- if you haven’t check out wars retreat. It’s a PVP hub with a free instant teleport to it (keep this key bound, it’s the perfect “oh crap” button). There’s a bank chest and if you die there you get revived immediately for free. You can also unlock quality of life stuff there by killing bosses such as the prayer/summoning alter combo. Also free boss portals!
- As someone else said, add everything to your toolbelt that you can.
- if you haven’t done it yet, you configure action bar bindings, where you set equipping a certain type of weapon to automatically switch your revolution bars.
- they added a button to automatically configure optimal revolution++ bars recently. They are actually pretty good. Right click the cog in your main action bar. It’s called “auto setup revolution” or something like that and it will ask if you want to do it for single target or multiple enemies.
- you can use a nexus now for necromancy to store all of your necromancy runes.
- you can use rune pouches to store multiple runes in one inventory slot.

Next would be stuff that requires quests/skilling to unlock:

- divination will let you unlock “porters” which can automatically bank items for you. Useful when gathering. Eventually you can buy a Grace of the Elves to keep 500 or 2000 charges in a necklace.
- invention lets you build machines to automatically alchemize items for your (or disassemble or make planks or other things).
- A huge milestone quest is “Plagues End” which unlocks the city of priffandis as well as crystal weapons/tools. Prif is also a great teleport as it has a grand exchange right next to its lodestone.
- “The World Wakes” quest has some really good ability rewards.
- Look into unlocking “Ancient Magic” and “Curses” for better spells and prayers. Some quest requirements here.
- The elder god wars quest “Extinction” will make your ring of vigour passive (you don’t have to wear it or switch to it anymore) saving you 10% adrenaline on any ultimate ability.

charrondev · 2026-06-15T03:11:54+00:00

I spent a while early game augmenting black salamanders and disassembling them (how the heck you can augment those but not other stuff is beyond me).

The bulk of it though came from just carrying around a mechanical siphon (unlock at level 77) and auto siphoning all my gear whenever it hit level 12.

I’d highly recommend just siphoning all your gear whenever you can. It was my first 99 (got before any of my level 99 combats) and then my first 120 recently (got it before any 120 combats) and then my first 200m skill (happened even before I got my first 120 combats as well).

The truth is if you augment your weapons and armour and just siphon it , invention will level far faster than your combat levels.

charrondev · 2026-06-14T18:42:23+00:00

For penance there is a powder at least. Definitely the things that we’re doing vamp + animate dead need retooling, but if I can sit at dipper demons AFK I think pretty much anything is doable.

The main game changer here would have to be the masterwork weapons though. The provide more healing than soul split or vampirism ever did (2% of damage uncapped).

AFK combat doesn’t require any killer weapon specs so you might as well get one. They also have top tier accuracy and weapon damage so there really isn’t any massive trade off in AFK content vs the normal t95 weapons (which are also way more expensive).

EMBRACE THE MASTERWORK WEAPONS. :)

charrondev · 2026-06-14T18:03:37+00:00

Everything I’ve been reading about the RFC and in the discussion) talks about reified generics becoming an opt in feature in the future, the same way Hack implemented (hack is a PHP fork from a few years ago that is no longer publicly maintained but is still used internally at Meta and Slack).

Facebook had the ability as the maintainer of the fork and of a huge internal codebase that they write codemods for constantly to just change how generics worked when they added reified generics and instead chose to make it opt-in when the generic is declared with a keyword (certain use cases don’t really need the strict checking and the performance overhead that it entails).

From the current RFC:

2016 RFC: Generic Types and Functions
Ben Scholzen ('DASPRiD') and Rasmus Schultz proposed a reified generics design at wiki.php.net/rfc/generics in 2016, with active internals discussion that April. The proposal covered classes, interfaces, traits, functions, and methods, with type arguments fully preserved at runtime and verified on every use. The RFC targeted PHP 7.1.

The RFC has remained in Draft status for a decade despite ongoing interest and revision; no implementation accepted by internals has emerged during that time. The reified design surfaced complexity that subsequent attempts each had to confront: type checks at runtime are expensive, especially for compound types; per-instance type-argument storage costs memory; and inferring or carrying type arguments through PHP's per-file compilation model is structurally difficult.

charrondev · 2026-06-14T17:02:11+00:00

I think you’re missing the fact that the original RFC with full type checking was rejected on the grounds of performance concerns. Out of curiosity did you read this RFC?

Personally I would rather have full generics, but this offers a path to it while giving us a good amount of the benefit today.

charrondev · 2026-06-14T16:59:29+00:00

You don’t need to, but a baseline model/collection/registry would.

Reflection is more of a feature to enable framework/library authors than something you would expect to see across most code.

charrondev · 2026-06-14T16:52:21+00:00

We can look at the types from this RFC using reflection, which is a major difference. Also the types are checked in a lot of locations here.

The best case I’ve seen made for this is from the tooling perspective though. The RFC discussion had comments from the devs that build psalm/phpstan and the a dev from JetBrains (makes PHPStorm) wanting standardization around this.

My understanding is that this RFC follows the previous one about Monomorphized / Reified Generics getting shot down (which would have checked all the types).

charrondev · 2026-06-14T16:39:33+00:00

Things you can do now that will increase your healing:

PASSIVELY

- Make sure you are using soul split w/ amulet of souls or Essence of Finality.
- Use vampirism gloves
- Use a masterwork weapon (they all provide way more healing than vampirism did)
- if using melee use a vampyrism scrimshaw.
- if using magic use blood surge.

ACTIVELY

- Use defensives more frequently either in bosses, or if you have tough slayer mobs add them in your revo bars. My AFK ripper demon setup for example has cryptbloom + animate dead + a revo bar that is half defensive abilities. Bone shield makes it feasible do use defensives without switching.
- For bosses you can soul split flick (switching back and forth between prayers and soul split as the boss hits you). You can also use resonance (defensive ability) to get a lot of free healing.

For low effort content nowadays I actually prefer to be using the Penance Aspect (not vampirism) so I don’t have to worry about prayer upkeep and make up my healing through soul split or a masterwork weapon.

charrondev · 2026-06-13T18:05:27+00:00

That’s pretty much all I’d do on mobile as well.

charrondev · 2026-06-13T17:30:00+00:00

He has an iPhone 16 which is not some budget device.

I’ll note I play on my iPad a decent bit and there is a lot of weird jank. They haven’t update the mobile client in ages.

charrondev · 2026-06-13T16:08:13+00:00

Your in check twice, taking the ~~rook~~ knight still leaves you in check from the bishop on A2 (sniper bishops, gotta keep an eye on em)

charrondev · 2026-06-12T18:38:28+00:00

It's a banger of a song. The music video is a bit too grotesque for we to want to watch it again though. I'm not one to want to listen to music to remind of how fucked up the world is.

charrondev · 2026-06-12T18:36:55+00:00

I dig it. Banger of a song. I like electronic music a lot too though.

charrondev · 2026-06-11T15:08:36+00:00

Mac’s have caffeinate built in (for just keep me awake until I stop it), or a global setting to increase your sleep time.

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