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It's crazy how you have to jump through hoops to keep it and if you mess up there's no way to recover it without making an entirely new account

The trim on the capes hasn't really signified it being the only 99 since pre eoc, they're almost entirely just used as "my first 99 on this account/game" and losing them can be somewhat heartbreaking, I know I was when I lost mine, and was just watching mr mammals video in which he loses his by accidently picking it up after dropping instead of telegrabbing because he wanted to be sure he had enough time from what I can tell

There's no real reason to keep this restriction anymore, and I understand it would be far from high priority for the team to eventually implement, but just being able to buy back the untrimmed versions of your first cape, and only your first cape would be awesome.

Or just stopping the automatic trimming so people don't have to jump through hoops to keep theirs, it definitely feels like the majority of the community actively try and keep their first untrimmed cape but many end up failing with a dumb mistake, for example with mine I bought 5 untrimmed hp capes, but I afked just a little too hard while playing with my kids in the real world and ended up accidently getting too much xp

Most people probably don't/wouldn't care either way but there is some level of sentimentality to your first cape for some of us and it would be nice to have that back, but even if you could just prevent future players from losing it that would be cool too and I'd consider it a win even if mine was still lost

I doubt there's any real support for this but it would be greatly appreciated by some of us, there's no real downside so long as it's locked to your first cape except taking up a bit of dev Time, but I can't imagine it would be terribly complex to do, or maybe it would retroactively but even just going forward would be great

Oh and the biggest con of all, unfortunately no yellow text nor a black background, but the true yellow text on black background was in your heart the entire time

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over 3 years ago - /u/JagexLight - Direct link

Hey, this came up in discussion a few weeks ago as we understand that players want to preserve their very first 99s.
There's no way we can retrospectively give people back their untrimmed capes, but we understand the sentiment and are open to allowing players to store their very first untrimmed cape in their POH in the future. This would be a polled question and would be very clear that we can't apply this retrospectively. It hasn't quite been fleshed out, but it's in the works. In regards to your suggestion, I'm really sorry but there's no way we can tell which your first 99 was so we couldn't implement it in the way you'd want it, but we can try to do so for future players if it passed a poll.