Has Jagex addressed the issue of ironmen competing for drops in multi-combat areas such as within the Kourend Catacombs and Lizardman Canyon? If it worked as in the main game, no one would be able to get any drops if there were any competition for monsters.
I'm sure that Jagex has considered this and has a solution, but i can't find any discussion on how it's being solved. Does anyone know?
External link →Hey, I've seen this come up a few times and tried my best to answer where I can.
I don't believe this is actually going to be an issue because there are no aoe methods in Zeah outside of Grey chins which are far less sustainable than if Ancients were available which just requires runes.
For shamans in particular, there are 3 places to kill them and only one is multi-combat AND there are no cannons so it won't be an issue.
We are not making any changes to the way that players will receive drops. If someone damages it you won't get the loot. Although, we are aware of the worlds problem and will do our best to make sure that there are enough worlds that you can hop to another one if someone is crashing you.
I can imagine every multicombat zone becoming a giant griefing fest
I really dont see that it will be. You forget that everyone is an Ironman so if they "crash" they're also ruining it for themselves. Also as I said, no cannons and no ancients makes it less of an issue. Perhaps for streamers but that's a special case which doesn't affect the majority and even then its caught on video.
We are aware of the potential though and we hope to control it by the number of worlds we make available. However, part of the strategy for leagues is identifying which tasks will be heavily populated and considering I'd that affects the points per hour for those activities.
So it's ok to attack other people's monsters so they can't get drops? Knowing the issues that have happened with previous tournaments (people making accounts to pk others just to let their main have spots in wildy in King of the Skill, clans locking down areas to prevent people from necessary progress such as locking down shilo village quest I'm DMM) I wouldn't be surprised if people made accounts just to tag and grief others.
We've already seen players hopping at bosses and popular training spots just to crash ironman players, it only takes one damage to invalidate all the damage the other person made, not a huge time commitment to get a free world.
As I've said, I dont believe this is an issue because then both players miss out and there aren't huge IRL prizes on the line like DMM. Especially because a most damage system makes boosting accounts so much easier which I'd say is a bigger problem.
We'll keep an eye on the problem and try to control it as best as we can with more worlds if need be or banning those intentionally grieving or harassing where video evidence is given.
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