Read moreI 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 YouT...
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 serve...
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