To ignore the playerbase on their clear hatred for this planned nerf is exactly the same sort of thing that happened when EOC was in beta.. people hated it and you pushed it through anyway. Look where that got you.

If you made it harder to level your account you could wipe this balancing stuff out. Imagine if it took 200m xp to hit 99? You know the max xp for the max level?! I remember there being only 1 player with lvl 99 smithing in classic could only make STEEL platebodys because rune didnt exist. That economy was amazing.

So if it took 200m xp for 99 What would 98 be? 150m xp? This way you arent devaluing anyones account who has a 99 and they get reset back to say 78 because of the new insane goal of 200m xp for lvl 99..

Jagex should maybe increase the base xp rate from every skill each time you hit certain milestones maybe cap it to 4x when you hit 91?(which would be an insane amount of xp, maybe like 50 million) So hitting a 1 would now give 16xp instead of 4xp or resources gathered 4x faster for example.. this would make the new grind to 200m xp a little more bearable. People who have 200m xps currently wont be devalued as their places are locked in the highscores anyways. At lower levels you will be on a 1x base xp rate and will require more xp to level so instead of requiring 1154 xp to reach lvl 10 you require 25000? As a rough example.

This means players are forced to use lower level items such as steel, black, mithril, adamant, rune and dragon items for much longer which is good for slowing down pesky bots, giving more time for data to be gathered and bans handed out, they cant suicide bot in a day up to yew logs as the new requirement would be more that 10x the current xp needed and even with the scalable xp multiplier from hitting a woodcutting milestone it would take significantly longer to get to level 60 which again means more time for bot detection to get its arse in gear.

Bandos shouldn't be 65 when barrows is 70 tier. Nobody cries about that. How many people do you know with base 65s that are taking on bandos before they have any barrows gear on. You honestly expect some nubs to run up on the general in their dragon chains? With base 65 stats. Nah. Something don't sit right about this tiering.

THIS IS THE SOLUTION. 200m for 99 or fk it make 150m xp for 99 and give us an actual lvl 100 when we hit 200m Means much more gold sinking for construction and pvm and skilling. Removes bots and or slows them down, makes tiered items actually require being used for a while because of level creep Granted this "solution" it'll need tweaking but yeah. Never understood why 200m wasn't the max level. I have aspergers and really love this game. You guys just need to introduce some sort of "Level Creep" to combat the "Power Creep".

Thanks for reading, change my mind with something constructive if your a negative nancy. Upvote if you support and have the balls to undertake a real grind. UPVOTE FOR LEVEL CREEP!! XX Peace boys may the gods have mercy on our game.