Hi Everyone! I had a question of the plans for this game moving forward?
I wonder what the general consent is for the player base - whether they want QOL updates or not.
I personally really would rather there be NO major QOL updates ever…
examples
Please don’t change the item respawn timer or death rules
Please don’t give shortcuts to Rune Essence Altar
Please don’t make items highlight when clicked
Please don’t add guides in-game for skills or quests
Please don’t remove the AFK timer
Please don’t make things easier… that’s the charm of this game
Right now everything feels like you really earn it.
that’s just my opinion but I really wanted to hear everyone’s thoughts. I would love for this game to remain feeling like it felt the first month and a half since release
This is a preservation project. The devs are not going to add anything that was not actually in the game back in the day, and they are going to add the things that were added back in the day.
As for opinions, I will be glad for the return of highlighting items you’re about to use and for the return of skill guides and quest logs. 2004scape does not have a wiki, and requiring players to leave the game to learn how to play is not fun. The skill guides are very basic, and the quest journal doesn’t tell you anything you haven’t already learned by then.
If I were trying to make my own ultimate version of RuneScape, I would personally add some very basic QOL like being able to sort/search the bank, tooltips to show item stats (rather than having to flip between interfaces to check), and Make X. I wouldn’t want anything that changes the actual game mechanics, though, like shortcuts or item timer changes or adding more banks or whatever. I think there is a healthy balance to be struck between utterly tedious mechanics that make the game annoying (think RuneScape Classic) and a game that plays itself.
But that’s just my idea of the perfect RuneScape. Once again this is a preservation project, so they won’t be doing any of those things because it wouldn’t be authentic, and they will probably do a few things I don’t want for the same reason.
All of those things are coming. This is 2004 right after launch. It’s basically just RuneScape Classic with Big Chompy Bird hunting.
By the end of 2004 it starts to resemble RuneScape that most people remember. Such as log icons and plate armour icons. Glowing items when selected. Etc.
iirc skill guides and highlighted items around them when clicked came out sometime late summer 2004 so that one is going away. as for respawn timer/death rules those wont come for a very very long time (werent in osrs until like 2016), afk timer i believe is 5 mins and was changed as a runelite feature, not anything in game rs3 recently changed it from 5 to 10 mins. so the game is going to be hard for quite a while, but you can always stay in 2004 if you feel like this is the best version of the game!