[2023] In Response to ModJack's Common Drop Stream

I don't mind this, but it seems significantly more difficult to design, implement and maintain and the long-term effect would be essentially the same as just nerfing the boss.

AFAICS everything listed here I covered in the stream, not as a specific suggestion but under the option "ignore PVM and just handle inflation via cutting a few alchables and adding some more gold sinks".

The reason I didn't focus on it for long on the stream is that that approach, while something we do need to look at anyway, doesn't actually resolve any of the underlying structural issues I went through in detail. All the factors I mentioned would still be true, and even if we went through and made huge changes to the game and got the economy in order via methods like you've described, it would be out of control again the next year when the next boss launched.

I definitely think we need to reign in the worst cases, but that doesn't in and of itself fix the problem. Enrage and streak is unusually profitable for the effort and time taken, but it's really a subset of the overall PVM problem rather than a unique problem in its own right. That was the point of my regression - we "fix" Zamorak, we fix AG, we fix Telos, now we're just rinsing whatever the next boss down is.

I'm not saying your suggestions are bad, or that we shouldn't implement some of them (although some of the gold sinks are very minor) but more that it isn't dealing with the underlying issue. I'm also not saying that kill restrictions are the only possible solution, but solutions that don't deal with the same set of issues aren't alternatives to it, just potential additions.

Which response?

IMO there's a big difference between intentionally killing old content, and not going out of your way to add new rewards to old content to encourage people to keep playing it.