I was convinced this was a youtuber project, until the survey asked people will be able to make custom PvM encounters.
It's not 100% guranteed, but it is a big aspiration for us - although will take time to get there.
Project Zanaris is a colossal unpolled waste of time and effort. I am certain we will all be here in a few years time asking why this was ever a thing.
I'm sorry you feel like that fam, is there anything specific that's making you feel that way?
"I'm sorry you feel like that fam" really feels condescending. I get they're not being exactly positive in their response, but your reply feels off.
That's my bad if its coming across that way - not my intention to disregard any opinion and more to understand <3
I want to like Project Zanaris, I really do, but there's a few things about it that seriously upset me.
-When surveys asked about playing area restricted irons or other snowflakes, I was really excited to do this and be able to play with my friends in the main game worlds, meet up for clan events, check how I was doing vs the normal iron hiscores, etc. I'm hugely dissappointed that the support for this seems to be Project Zanaris, aka separate servers where I can't meet up with my main game friends or compete on the main hiscores.
-I don't trust random server makers to maintain the integrity of these sorts of snowflake gamemodes. I am unwilling to spend potentially hundreds of hours progressing my account on a PZ server with limited means, only for the server owner to push an update that massively devalues every grind I have done. Jagex has been pretty careful not to devalue achievements too much, at least not all in one go, but I don't trust a random YouTuber to feel the same way.
-Moderation seems really sketchy. When asked "Will the server owner be able to ban me from their Project Zanaris server?" on stream the JMod's response was "Why would they want to do that?" which implies yes. That seems like a ridiculous answer- have you seen what volunteer internet moderation is like? People ban you for the tiniest slight, no matter how much you have contributed. Yet another reason I am unwilling to put in any real time on such servers.
-I don't trust that Jagex will follow up on PZ after release and improve it/continue to make it better. So, SO many updates have been released and then abandoned for years despite tons of feedback. Jagex has a habit of releasing an unfinished product, making some quick patches that only partially solve the issues, then never touching the content again.
-I want to play on servers managed by Jagex, because Jagex has a track record of at least some integrity- I obviously have some misgivings about how bans and updates and such are managed by Jagex, but nowhere near as many misgivings as I would have when Random YouTuber #312930 is in charge of them with nobody he has to answer to.
The tl;dr is that there will be no checks and balances on integrity, and my progress in PZ can be wiped or massively altered at any time.
I appreciate the concerns but to address some of your points.
- We don't want Community Worlds to interact with the main game - while seeing your friends in the same world regardless of what your playing is great in concept, the technical aspects of that make it so difficult, especially with the future we envision Zanaris to have! We don't want to affect the main game in any way, hence why the worlds will be hosted somewhere different that the main game and I can't see that changing.
- I think that concern comes with any player-made content as there's always a chance someone will stop either unintentionally or intententionally that will cause disruption to a server. This is something the team are aware of and we want to have further discussions on how we could help make these types of issues potentially not as disruptive.
- Core moderation from our end will be based on the Rules of RuneScape and anything that breaks those will not be tolerated, but any server specific rules that don't break these will be down to world host and it will be up to them how they are moderated, but we would like those rules to be available from the get-go before you join a server.
- I can only speak from a personal standpoint, but this is a long-term project for us and we want to keep this going far into the future.
- Jagex owned or at least Jagex approved worlds have been something the team has discussed but nothing is confirmed yet.
Hopefully that answers some of your questions!
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