One step in the right direction.
Just because I don’t play RS any more doesn’t mean I can’t have suggestions for it. With that said, I thought of an idea that would really work well with Runescape, providing Jagex can actually do it right. Multiple characters.
How it would work:
Your main account name (in my case, Extremewench) would be reserved along with your character. So, both the account name and the character name are reserved. Then, you’d have the choice to make another character of any name you wish, providing it’s not someone else’s character/account name. Upon login, you’ll be allowed to select which character you want to play with.
Why should Jagex do this:
Since Jagex have introduced draconian measures to deal with RWIT (real world item trading), people can’t trade their items to another account. I find this to be plainly wrong. Why shouldn’t people be allowed to have different characters? Why shouldn’t they be allowed to experience Runescape in a different way by being a mage, ranger, or a skill pure. By giving paying members the chance to make more than one character, they can satisfy the desire of players to be able to have multiple characters without being disadvantaged by the new RWIT rules. There could be one central bank (with more bank space than previously) that interacts with all characters on an account. Things like quest items will not show up for characters that have not done the required quest, but everything else will remain.
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December 21st, 2007 at 4:38 am
Yup, playing WoW gives you a lot of ideas for things Jagex could do. Shame they most likely never will, they seem to prefer ruining their game, rather than making it better.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:54 pm
I’ve always thought of this as being a good idea, since it’s implemented in so many other games. Sure, I’d probably pay for membership if I had that option.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 am
That’s actually a good idea, however did you send it in to FaGeX? but WoW i want to play it no $
no wow 
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
Good idea. Like Brad said Jagex could use so many ideas from other popular games to make them better. Account’s with characters inside them them would be much safer then how Runescape is now since noone would know your account name, they would only know your Character’s name. If you or anyone else ever suggests this make sure to add me as a supporter, please.
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:27 am
See I don’t see any problem with Jagex’s solution. Lets look at a couple of Jagex’s goals.
First, they want to lengthen the tenor of the game by slowing down player progress. Have you seen how many 2277s there are now? On thing that Gold Farmers have done is infuse a huge amount of gp into RS that shouldn’t be there. What has happened is massive inflation against the set prices. So Jagex introduced the GE which is soaking up the inflation like crazy. They tried a skill like construction…but that didn’t do anything because you can penalize everyone for a few peoples large stacks of money.
Another of Jagex’s goals is to be an in between game. Basically, they want toe preteen and young teen crowd because as the gamers progress they have more money at their disposal as well as their own computers and other resources. Enter games like FFXI, WOW, and Guild Wars.
Because of this goal Jagex puts in features that are mostly for the younger crowd…things that make the game easier…like “make X” because we know the attentions spans of 10-14 year olds.
Finally, Jagex has some fascination and it is partially because of the factors above, of being a mostly or at least half, free game. Meaning pretty much, if I wanted I could get 15 of the skill to level 99. Basically I could max out and play about half of what the game has to offer…no penalty (well there is but you get my point) for playing just the F2P side.
So with all that in mind, where do feature that us, the older teen and early twenty year olds fit in. I’m afraid RS isn’t made for people of higher intelligence. Really the game isn’t made to max out all your skills…it isn’t really made to complete. Do people? Yes, and many of them spend the better part of 3 or 4 years doing so. And many of them I would venture (like the old nite, Zezima, and N0valyfe) are adults and have long attentions spans and developed focus. But I would say the Runescape really isn’t made for them. It is made for the hundreds and thousands of other preteens that will play it for three years, get nowhere, maybe be a member fore about 18 months (levels in the 70s-80s) and quit, move on to bigger and better mmos.
So when you talk about adding features, do those apply to Jagex’s base. I would say that much of the real world trading reduction was to to a shift in audience. Jagex is hoping to attract more of the younger folk…and they are just sort of hoping that the new features are enough to keep us or that we will go away silently. I don’t mind any of Jagex’s changes. I can fairly easily work around all of them. Still, I’m a bit sad Pking is gone as I thought that was Runescape’s bread and butter. Really, though they could have easily shrunk the wildy by about 40 percent and very few trades would have been able to take place.
But that is fruitless now. Jagex is moving on and who am I to tell them how to change their game. They made it in the first place and it really isn’t their fault so many people decide to cheat. But I guess that is the nature of a game.
Oh, well, Runescape is approaching the end of its cycle anyhow. You don’t see many games that stay popular for more than a couple of years, and RS has brought Jagex much acclaim and staying power. I’m sure they’ll have a clone that gains them much more money later.
-Christopher
P.S. Oh, and WOW to RS comparisons are pointless. WOW for it’s own sake as I understand it, uses a hook to search your computer, each and every time you log on, for malicious software to the game (macros, bots, etc…) I for one would never allow anyone complete and full access to my computer knowingly, and that is why I have tried to take steps to learn more about OSs and the code behind them. Personally, I don’t like the concept of wow…is see a lot of people spend weeks and month holed up in its online community and that is a scary thing. Because of the nature of RS it really does getting boring after a while. But if you have friends in WOW you can literally play 24/7 and never get out and live your own life, that much power in a game IMO is a dangerous thing…and thus I have never supported WOW, or many of its compatriot games that I have lost friends to.
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:01 am
@Christoper
Playing with friends in WoW and playing with friends in rs is practically the same :S Addiction is down to the person, not the game. What a moronic comparison.
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:00 pm
That’s a damn good idea. I’d rather that than multiple accounts. The bank sharing would be better also. But no doubt the space would be filled faster.
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Way to go Brad. Normally I would call that spam…but since an admin posted it on a global mods blog no doubt, I think it must be okay.
First, playing with friends in RS has never been that much fun.
Second, everyone I’ve ever talked to about RS is able to set it down, put it away, or quit when necessary. Maybe that is just my group of friends though. Every WoW player I know sacrifices classes at the very least, and any sort of social life at the most to keep playing.
And don’t give me that “all games are equally addicting it just is the person” crap. You know that depending on the depth, variety, and expansion of a game it can be quite addicting. Example: Lemmings isn’t as addicting as WoW…
But hey maybe I’m just making moronic comparisons, because we all know that name calling is a valid way of refuting an argument.
Christopher
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
@Christopher
To address your first post, no comparisons were made to WoW on my part. Many games offer multiple character creation, not just WoW. Also, Jagex’s shift toward the younger audience? Getting more young people to join? As it stands, young people really have no other choice in free browser games other than Runescape. They (Jagex) are individual and unique in the game they offer when it comes to younger age groups. However, when a game that started out by word of mouth consciously decides to regulate the economy through price manipulation, remove any risk-related activities (pking and staking), and then limit its players’ capabilities in the P2P version then I refuse to take part in the game. Instead of saying how displeased I am with the new changes, I offered a quite clever way that Jagex could appease many of the players that they’ve either lost or disadvantaged with their new “updates”. I’m not the type of person who’s going to just say “Oh, well, they just want to go down a level so that more kids play”. Runescape used to be a good game. It didn’t matter that it’s graphics sucked, or that the music was lame. Runescape was charming and spurred friendships and teamwork amongst its players. Now, it’s basically a wasteland of twelve year old children who sit around mindlessly raising levels. I rather Runescape be flooded with gold-farmers than be like this because at least there was more freedom.
To your second post. I’ve played WoW for all of about 10 days. I’ll play for about an hour or two and then log off to do something else. While I find WoW to be an intricate and creative game, it actually overwhelms me and I feel the need to log off and occupy myself with something else. Whether or not a game is addictive is down to the player, as Brad said. Some people actually do find Lemmings addicting. Why? Maybe because they find it relatively simple and enjoy the difficulty that comes along with developing strategies, instead of complex game plots. I sure know that my mum is addicted to Tetris, NOT because of the graphics, but because of the ease and simplicity of the game. It’s down to what fits with the person.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
In RS, characters do not have classes or specialties - they are generalist who can do everything. So in a game like RS there is much less of a reason to make a second character to try out Magic - if you want to try being a Mage, just do it with your main character.
Also, the RWT have moved onto the next new thing, which is trading accounts. Your plan doesn’t say directly how this would be prevented.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Not true. Provided Jagex just left Wildy alone, there are/were a few different builds that players could make that would make a character a better pker. Even with Wildy out of the picture now, why shouldn’t people be given the choice? P2Pers are now paying for a castrated game that lets them hardly do anything.
As for RWT? Obviously, they thought of powerleveling minutes after the big update, but there’s no reason that players shouldn’t be able to trade between their own accounts. That’s just ridiculous.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:52 am
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