almost 3 years ago - /u/JagexHooli - Direct link

Hello Ironman community!

With almost everyone back in-game, we're now ready to kick start some conversations around our future plans for doing right by Ironman players.

Ironman as a mode has much more sensitivity for us to consider than the base experience, and whatever we do in our future plans needs to take the expectations for the mode into account. That said, we really want to do more for those impacted and we hear the feedback clearly on this. 

We see our upcoming Wishes as a really big opportunity to better serve the asks we've seen out there, so today, we're looking for your thoughts on some of the areas we are considering to allow Ironman players to participate in through the Wishes and get your thoughts.

Note: These are very much still in development, so please remember anything discussed below is subject to change. Once we've locked in the design, our full announcement on the Wishes will offer a lot more detail and clarity than we can confirm today so please bear with the generalities!

What Are The Wishes?

The Wishes are our way of providing player choice across a wide variety of pre-defined bonuses, all influenced by feedback from what you missed most during the Login Lockout.

Each Wish will grant a certain number of benefits to players across a variety of categories - from XP bonuses like DXP, to Time bonuses like advancing time for your PoF, through to Value bonuses like gizmos that require no materials to create. When you select a category of Wishes, you will be given a special item with charges for a whole host of potential bonuses in that category. The more potent the bonuses, the more of your charges it will cost.

Who Will Get Them?

In our present plans, we intend to provide all players (including Ironman accounts not impacted by the Login Lockout) with 1 Wish. This will allow the selection of one 'category' of Bonuses (ie. XP, Time or Value) to give you the special item mentioned earlier, and you can then use charges to spend across the various bonuses within that category.

Our current intention is to provide impacted players (including impacted Ironman accounts) 3 Wishes. 

What Limitations Will You Apply for Ironman?

While the Wishes are still in development, our current intention is to apply a very small number of limitations to these Wishes for Ironman players. While designs are still being finalized, right now we intend to work within the following boundaries:

Allowed

  • Instant value rewards that provide catchups in key impacted areas, like Gizmos, PoP, PoF or PvM. This could cover anything from refreshing for another daily Reaper Task, being able to select certain RuneDays for Merchant Stock and so on.
  • Benefits for time based activities, such as speeding up the completion of PoP voyages, advancing PoF time, resetting D&D token daily/weekly/monthly limits etc.

Blocked

  • Any XP rate increases, such as DXP time

What We Want To Know

We're going into this next phase of our plans to do right by impacted players knowing we're unlikely to be able to meet everyone's expectations. With your help, we hope we can at least strike an informed approach for the entire Ironman community that serves those impacted without detracting from the overall Ironman experience.

In terms of feedback, we want to hear your take on everything above and what kind of options you would expect to see as an impacted Ironman player. While this information represents a broad area, we'd still like to know if you feel there's any must haves - or anything we should steer clear from.

If you were not impacted, please remember that impacted players were away from the game for some time and use it to frame any thoughts or feedback you have too. That said, we would love to know if there's any lines in the sand you feel we should draw when it comes to the integrity of the mode.

Thank you very much in advance for the feedback on this!

- The RuneScape Team

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