Have you thought about how MTX has an impact on the economy? For example all of the proteans created that trivializes drops from bosses as they grant insanely high exp. Or maybe a protean processor giving out 5m xp at once instead of them needing to buy 30k uncut dragonstones they can just use 1 protean processor. Pretty crazy huh
It's definitely on my mind, but it's really a separate topic and one that largely has to be discussed internally rather than externally if you see what I mean.
Reading over the feedback, a key error I made in the livestream yesterday has been pointed out to me. The question was asked and answered at the time, iirc, but I didn't appreciate how misleading that specific point was and I didn't emphasise it heavily enough.
If you're not sure what I'm talking about, yesterday I did a livestream about common drops and their impact on the game. Most of the stream was explaining the problem, but at the end I posited a possible solution. You can find the stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1752649536
If you're wondering why I'm proposing anything, or you think it's obvious that the solution is something different, I wou...
Read more External link →u/jagexJack look at my response please. I metion what you say with regards to just shortening the cycle before it repeats. These ideas of weight and have been independently mentioned by other players too.
Which response?
I don't fully understand, could you explain it a little further? I have two rs3 accounts, my main and this one (the account in question). One created in 2006 and the other 2012? Maybe? Its been a while. I don't see how that is a mass creation. But alas, if the account had been comprised and used for botting then yeah, there is nothing i can do in that sense.
Created your latest account on your own ISP or on a VPN?
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Your ban isn't a high velocity ban though. It's a real world trading ban that happens to be correct.
It appears that you were banned as part of a high velocity ban. This is applied to accounts that are mass created meaning you would have had to have created more than one account to be caught up in that kind of ban.
Mod Fowl has been making some small changes to the layout of mobs in the wilderness. She tells me she's fixed this issue in particular. I don't have an ETA on the launch, but it shouldn't be too far away.
Would it be possible to make the VODs of streams available on youtube? The last one is from 7 months ago.
I really appreciate all the streams you've been doing
They don't show up on the official channel for some reason, but they're all listed on the wiki: https://runescape.wiki/w/Livestream
Mod Jack's design livestreams are not content showcase or Q&A. It's more about mulling over the how's and why's of RuneScape's design, so it's not something most players are interested in. That's why it's not top priority to advertise them.
Design livestreams do not replace the usual announced livestreams. Those are still happening, but with reduced frequency because Jagex switched almost entirely to "monthly content drops", so there's little reason to do more than 1-2 official Q&A/showcase livestreams a month.
Nothing to do with it being a priority to advertise. Unfortunately, to get something into the newspost or broadcasts for Monday it needs to be finalized during the prior week and sometimes this isn't possible.
Running more streams is in our plans for the CM team and the recent addition of Mod Doom is intended to help with doing just that but they are finding their feet in their new role so its going to take a bit of setup before more consistent stream return.
"ignore PVM and just handle inflation via cutting a few alchables and adding some more gold sinks"
there are suggestions in there to fix the drop table for streakable bosses, in particular the money printer that is arch glacor.
there are also mentions of relics being made 1gp alch value while zamorak having some of it's alchs changed to wines of zammy, which currently the best source of them is minions from a boss so old you actually mentioned it's counterpart in the stream having a 15 second kill time or less.
specifically the post is to point out the alternative cannot be to remove the enjoyment from the playerbase, and i would hope that some of these suggestions won't be dead in the water as they are actually pretty good ones to note.
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.
I always forget to let the people know who put the notifications in the newspost and for the ingame popup. I have to commit to the final details on Friday for that to happen, and often I'm unable to commit to the slot on wednesday because of some work or home situation.
I'm not averse to this as an approach, but I feel it runs into the same issues I went through in the previous stream about rare drops.
We went down this path of excessive common drops due to rares being too infrequent. Let's imagine some numbers for your system and say that I can choose to not get commons on a kill in exchange for 2x the drop rate of getting a rare. Depending on the boss that might be a good deal or a bad deal you can calculate on paper, but in terms of the very thing that common drops are trying to fix (losing money feels bad), it wouldn't feel good.
I would suggest that removing all common drops from all bosses and doubling the rare drop rate wouldn't be super well received by players (except the ones who only care about completing their log). If you pick a multiplier higher than 2x until everyone thinks it's great, now we're back to "rares are common and the boss has no longevity" which is where we started.
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Read moreAFAICS 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 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.
But, how come a Reddit post was what was required in order for them to be banned? Does the bot busting software have some holes in it?
Also, what about that other post about the guy with 5.1b xp, red phat and quite obviously botting? Are you banning him, too?
I primarily focus on OSRS. I have banned that account though, the second one.
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