[2019] Game Improvements Poll Blog

Originally posted by Zyruvias

These are actually awesome suggestions.

Would digging up herbs lose the seed? Honestly if I plant the wrong seed in the wrong place I would not wait 20 minutes to replant it, I would just wait and do another herb run anyway... Maybe that's useful to others?

Spice racks are a great idea. Makes spice gathering seem like a one time grind instead of every time you need a boost....

I also like that you're addressing vanilla client issues now. Seems like a step in the right direction. Any word on future plans there besides this poll?

Originally posted by newquestidewa

"Should players be able to dig-up herbs after planting them? The herb would have to have reached the first growth stage to avoid repeated planting as a method of gaining experience."

it would be 100% pointless if you have to wait for 20 minutes

also how can someone plant wrong seeds?

Originally posted by KreaHS

I thought smoking traps didn't do anything

Originally posted by jimmytwoshoes67

if im not mistaken, the dark dagger and blurite sword have no use after the quest, who would benefit from this? or is it just a "why not" sort of thing?

Originally posted by newquestidewa

could it be changed so you get the plant xp when you pick the first herb for example

i dont really want the herb run xp to be reduced

Originally posted by Pidjesus

Some of these shouldn't even be polled but y'all ain't ready for that conversation

Originally posted by aaron12153

Great changes I hope they get through!!

Originally posted by TisMeDA

is there not a way to have it grant xp after first stage of growth, and only allowing you to dig it up before the xp drop instead? I feel that is a cleaner solution

Originally posted by Honorable_Zuko

The ToB changes will be so nice if they pass. Good execution and powerful gear should rightfully lower the rng dependence in a boss fight, much like how the more powerful shadow spells can take out the rng in the sire fight.

Originally posted by bartlebeets

Holy SHIT these would be unbelievablely convenient for UIM - not even QoL these are just straight massive buffs!

Spice rack in the POH combined with stat pool would make +5 boosting trivial whereas it used to take upwards of 30 minutes with good RNG.

Weiss tele in the portal nexus would permanently free up an inventory space during the farming/herblore grind.

Fenkenstrain's Castle tele would also free up a permanent inventory space during farming/herblore (no ectophial), and Harmony Island tele would be yet another massive buff to end-game herblore.

Barrows tele in the portal nexus would mean no more camping barrows on the arceuus spellbook, not only saving time making tele tabs but also saving around 30 seconds per run getting home from spawn point or fairy ring (~5 hours total saved over the course of 500 chests).

And just thinking of all the times I had to drop half my inventory each patch on a herb run... the herb sack update would be a godsend.

Honestly on the fence voting wise though - on the one hand I obviously want to make things easier for myself, but on the other hand I started this game mode because I wanted it to be challenging... Stuff like the herb sack update dissolves many of the quirky challenges inherent in the game mode, and I'm not sure if making things easier is worth it when I'm aware of how much easier things are. If that makes any sense, hah.

In any event thanks for taking so much community feedback into these poll questions!

Originally posted by FunEnabled

Big no on the prayer reordering thing. I do that with my 3rd party client and I don't want everyone to be able to do the same.

Originally posted by Xyborg

Cattleprod and demonic sigil pls

Originally posted by nyeaon

that MTA interface proposed change is awful please dont add that

Originally posted by newquestidewa

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Silver_necklace https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Ghostspeak_amulet#Enchanted

could these be added to list of items you can get after quest

i think there are other items too but now i cant remember them

edit: also https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Hazeel%27s_mark and https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Carnillean_armour

you can only get one of those, and im not sure if you can even reclaim them

Originally posted by samwise800

The mta store interface is quite iconic, could there be an option for making it more useable (adding buy-10, buy-50 options etc), while maintaining it's current look?

Originally posted by tbow_is_op

Why does graceful need a buff? The set effect already isn't as useful as most people seem to think.

Penance gloves, boots of lightness, and spottier cape all still had niche use in being better straight weight reduction than graceful, but with individual graceful pieces offering 'partial set bonus' it makes their niche even smaller.

Originally posted by mage24365

The buttons on the side are far from standard for a shop.

Originally posted by adam1210

"Reorders, moves, or resizes prayers or spells" is already on the list of banned features. Which is why we've removed it. So either 1) we can readd it to RL or 2) /u/FunEnabled should be banned for rule-breaking

Originally posted by jesse1412

Could you look at making these ToB changes scale with team size? These issues are absolutely infuriating in a solo and only slightly annoying in larger teams. Splashing freezes in a solo also has a significantly higher impact than in groups and these changes won't help because no one takes that kind of mage bonus into solo tob.

Originally posted by Hess_

Not all interfaces need to be the exact same. Sure, interfaces for crafting items should be in-line, but unique interfaces like this one should stay. Otherwise we're just going to have everything be a brown interface, which is extremely boring. It doesn't even help in this instance, as who is ever going to be buying multiples of the rewards from this shop? (Nobody goes there to buy thousands of runes)

Originally posted by alterhshs

Hi Gambit, thanks for polling the prayer reordering again given it was a near-miss.

If I can throw in my 2 cents, having prayer reordering is super valuable as a PKer who does both pure/main bridding as I can keep muscle memory for my range/mage consistent across PKing. I really hope this passes (for selfish reasons). I feel like if this poll fails, it detriments the PKers who don't use dubious clients because their competitors still will - the team have acknowledged that plugins such as these are virtually undetectable atm.

Also for what it's worth, it's already on the unacceptable plugins list. That's why there was a recently increased demand for it.

Originally posted by rekker1

@JagexGambit Regarding reobtainable quest items: Maybe consider making the silver necklace from Murder Mystery reobtainable? It has a unique model and it is currently not obtainable if you did not droptrick it during the quest.

Originally posted by Pikamander2

@/u/JagexGambit - Would it be possible to implement ranked choice or approval voting for future A/B/C polls? The current approach, which is first-past-the-post, has the potential to lead to some poor outcomes.

The dragonstone armour poll, for example, suffers from the spoiler effect. Even if 66% of the playerbase wanted the design to be changed, it could still fail if the vote was split 34/33/33.

This was brought up during the Elves polls, which had the same problem but ultimately didn't make a difference because of the overwhelming demand for a different elf design.

Originally posted by Tom-Pendragon

im against the beginner clue reward emote.

Originally posted by ViscoseNarwhal

By "storing" an infinite number of spices you mean that you'll have to collect them and place them into storage still, right?

Originally posted by RennacOSRS

The dragonstone armour option C is wonderful- it no longer feels out of place, but it's unique enough that it will still stand out.

A+ work to whoever did the models.

Originally posted by Timid_Adventurer

Lots of nice changes in here, I'll probably vote yes to almost everything I don't skip out of ignorance (raids, mostly).

The stuff about stews/spice though, I might vote against. I really dislike the whole mechanic and would rather have some proper boosts available than just grinding random stews/spices and hoping.

Originally posted by IKLYSP

While we're messing with the charter ships can we add numbers on the destinations to select them with the keyboard and get rid of the "are you sure you want to pay" dialogue to streamline the process slightly?

Originally posted by TheArkratos

I feel like this should be buffed, even if no one still uses it. 2% is a joke. Even 10% would still be a joke but at least make a noticeable difference.

Originally posted by dkilla53

For the recoloring of the Phoenix pet, is it 1000 gnomish firelighters every time you want to change the color or 1000 to unlock that specific recolor?

E.g. I have a white pheonix pet but want to change it to red. Didn't like the color so would I have to obtain 1000 more white gnomish firelighters to change the color again?

Originally posted by IkWhatUDidLastSummer

Make OSRS harder? When have u ever polled something to make the game harder, lol

Not voting something through doesnt make something harder, it maintains status quo, which means that the game is cemented, anchored on very firm principles which is what the game should be about. Not this fluid "up in the air" nonsense.

Terrible comment. And from a Jmod. Yikes.

EDIT: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

EDIT2: Thanks again kind stranger!

Originally posted by PapagenoPapagena

I made a lot of suggestions in the Q&A thread as requested: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/dhnd7v/submit_your_questions_for_this_weeks_qa_16102019/f3uclnm/

Not saying all should have been considered, but for none of them to be seems a little strange as at least one must be applicable?

Originally posted by Urano_Metria

Might want to add this clarification to the question before the poll goes live. I would hate to see a QOL update shot down solely because fewer than 75% of people understood the wording.

Originally posted by DanEkis3

Some really nice stuff in here! Looking forward to the poll.

Originally posted by ViscoseNarwhal

Only thing I'm voting no on is the graceful change. I think set bonuses are an important thing to maintain.

Originally posted by Veldyr

So any update on a cerb improvement to help those of us that are color blind? I still find cerb painfully difficult to do since not being allowed to use the plug-in that made it so i can accurately see what is going on.

Originally posted by the_fascist

I have to say, as great as everything here is, I think you guys misunderstood the bank section. I think people wanted to equip and eat directly from their bank as opposed to in the inventory. This might be an engine limitation, in that case, so be it.

HOWEVER, as proposed, it might make normal banking more inconvenient if you were to change the current order of the right click interface. Players have their muscle memory set to deposit-x or deposit-all quickly, you don't want to mess with that.

I suggest either adding the new commands to the very bottom of the interface, OR add a checkbox somewhere, anywhere, that allows you to disable these options.

Thanks

Originally posted by originalbastard

@JagexGambit while these awesome updates are happening can the lunar spell book be revisited? Certain spells, specifically the one that views another players stats, seem outdated.

Originally posted by ZombyHippy

Wanna fix polls? Keep em open long enough that people can actually take part in them if they go on vacation or have a hard/busy time for a week so someone other than the no-lifing sweats and merchers can actually get a vote in.

And as for your integrity changes slow down on those or go for game mechanic and lore consistency over loud mercher and mob streamer agendas. Hotfixes to new content obviously excepted with the lack of game testing that goes on before updates, as much as people would have loved to keep those twisted bow spawns.

Shouldn't be too hard to run overlapping polls so there's always a chance or at least a couple weeks to make your voice heard though IDK if there'd be engine issues there since it submits a form. IE: Run poll 1 for 2-4 weeks and begin poll 2 halfway in, then begin poll 3 at the end of the period when you pull poll 1 then continue on giving each poll the same amount of time. Ideally this gives extra time and information on how you (jamflex) should adjust and continue with (or when to stop) new updates and with each revolution give us (the players) a more solid grip on the whole picture instead of a panel of the puzzle-box at a time.

Though this would give multi-acc whales and bot farms more time to abuse the system it would give the polls a better chance to reach the filthy casuals who have those weird things called Lives in that shitty zone called IRL. Maybe slap an IP limit on votes the same way you slap an IP limit on vanilla clients open at a time because of non-existent advertising reasons.

Though people would probably find a work around for that I'm just pitching my 2 cents that ain't worth the copper it's printed on.

Originally posted by Eating_A_Cookie

Could you clarify if it's an unlock by sacrificing the firelighters, or a 1000 firelighters fee every time you would like to change back? This should be noted in the poll since it's a pretty drastic difference between the two options.