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When I was still playing back in '07, every world through 9 or 10 was full at all hours of the day (and several more had populations in the thousands); if you look at the server list now, even world 2 isn't always full--and during peak hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt soul
That right there ought to tell you how many people have quit since the '07 update. Jagex realizes this, and this is a move to bring customers back in.
Interesting, Jagex changed it from 1.2m votes to 1.6m votes:
"Following a petition of 1.6M votes in December, we are holding RuneScape's first ever Referendum. Please read the following to make your decision. We want our entire community to decide the future of RuneScape and whether the Wilderness and free trade should return. Every vote counts, so ensure you get everyone who plays/has played RuneScape to register their vote too! Hurry, as the voting ends on the 14th of January.
If they want 1.6m votes by the end of Jan.14th were screwed.
I don't think so. They changed it from "1.2m in less than 24 hours" to "1.6M votes in December"
I think it would be one of the stupidest decisions to not bring it back now.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingarabian
Well from sythe:
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5...0108212848.png
They were bugging Mod Jon H for some answers about the wilderness and he replied with that.
I did also. I remember buying the pink robes and protesting in world 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by sgt soul
Time to get my scamming skills back on <3 along with Luring! <3
Time to brush up the auto bots. Here we go.
Up to 91%
When is this update supposed to take place? this saturday or next tuesday?
http://shirtoid.com/wp-content/uploa...s-roll-out.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by anonymity
http://usuarios.multimania.es/toxico...tm_dvd0280.jpg
I DON'T THINK SO, AUTOBOTS.
well the poll closes on 14 jan, so the update will probably happen a week or so after that(if it happens)Quote:
Originally Posted by Failpailirl
You can't really say when they will update it. Doubt it will even be for january. They don't need to add lots of features tho as they made everything already. I hope we will get a date after the referendum.Quote:
Originally Posted by kongking
Trade limit should theoretically instant/ASAP, as I seem to remember Mod Andrew saying that the original trade limit implementation was "just a few lines", so surely it's merely removing those lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by blab
However, the wilderness will require a hell of a lot more work, as they'll have to relocate a considerable amount of quests, and various other content. Mid-year I'm going to guess for the wildy come back. Either that, or they'll slowly update it/have safe zones especially for these quests.
Thoughts?
Don't forget that they could have been working on this for quite some time..Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
Good point, I highly doubt they were expecting a negative outlook on this...Quote:
Originally Posted by Naike
Well I don't care one bit about wildy, all i want is free trade and ASAP(so i can bot the hell out of rs :D)
ahh can't wait till old wildie, i'm missing it so much...
That free trade isnt bugging me so much but it was great too, but wildy.. mmmm... (love the memories)
that hurts to hear that :( I swear the freedom to kill whoever you wanted in your level range and loot everything you can off them was what made runescape the game it was! (in 2007) free trade and wildy came hand in hand and worked together :)Quote:
Originally Posted by kongking
On this topic I actually feel that with this luxury back the chances are that even more bots will be active when this update takes place as the activity of runescape will increase dramatically so will supply and demand. or something like that anyway haha.
The reason i don't care about wildy is because i didn't know pretty much anything about rs back then and just lvled up the skills(maybe now ill get the chance)
ahh that is fair enough, I guessed that but I didn't want to say it unless it would have offended you. I would be offended if someone came up to me and accused me of being a noob(etc.) for not wanting(caring for) the wildy back due to not experiencing it. But if it comes back I am sure you will love it ;)
I voted for both, this will eventually get the game fun again!
But i heard they did close wilderness because chinese gold farmers planned to make a autopker army, is this true ?
I have never heard of this, but hmm its chinese goldfarmers, no one knows their next move!Quote:
Originally Posted by tom99
USFine's Moves:
1. Hire Americans from Powerbot (Specifically Sara, the last time I chatted with them.)
2. Buy Nexus scripts from RSBot.com and do not actually do any real "Labor" on their side. (Proof: I spent about an hour working with one of the "Female" live chat people setting up "Her" bot while she noted everything down on how to set things up. I hate Chinese language default computers. I really do. And you can also blame me for showing USFine.com how to bot at green dragons.)
3. Remove services for smaller games such as Gaia Online.
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Originally Posted by sgt soul
The actual idea of them PKing for gold is possible, but they would not bother. They are too lazy now. At least they are good for WoW gold on new servers. WHOOPTEEDOO!
Jagex is desperate. The amount that they have lost is so substantial that they are willing to open up free trade again and the wilderness.
I'm going to miss P2P worlds, as others have mentioned.
EDIT: Gak. PvP F2P.
i remember that f2p worlds were overly-full.. 50% chinese bots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartzkid
They would be implementing some algorithms and/or detection methods to locate bots. Best to have someone test their new build before we go full out. (of course, i'm expecting the old RS to be back).
I love free trade and Wild. I just hope prices will mellow out. Right now the GE is going insane with merchant clans selling junk really low and selling everything combat related really high. (For me atleast) It's making everything really hard to afford. :( Even with the sufficient amount of botting I do it's just never enough. Or my rotten luck. 1 of the 2.
Just remember though.. What caused this to happen in the first place (the taking away of free trade)? everyone exploiting bots and getting caught. I fear if this does pass people will stop being sneaky about it and this "victory" will be short lived.
I personally voted yes for it. Like numerous others I quit playing rs back in 2007 when jagex took out the old wildy and free trade. While the GE is convenient in all, I do miss merchanting in world 2 fally, transferring items between accounts, and such. I didn't do as much pking, however i always had fun when i did. Granted jagex is probably just doing this to get players back so they make more money and i'm not too sure it'll be the same as the old free trade/wildy, but time will tell.
3 hours left till the referendum ends!
Can't wait!!! :)
~Eerik.
---Some random forumer on the Rs forums.Quote:
Hello fellow nerds
The results are in! Over 1 million people have taken part in the Wilderness and Free Trade vote over the past couple of week which is an amazing turnout! We are extremely pleased with this result, but the question is, will we get to see the old wilderness again? Will free trade be reinstated in the lands of Gielnor?
The answer is no.
Unfortunately we didn't receive enough votes to bring back the old wilderness and free trade. Yes I know 90% voted yes. I know that totals to over 1 million players voting yes. But that is not enough.
We have over 150M accounts in this game. Yes, I know 144 million of them haven't logged in for 3 years. And I know 3 million of them belong to goldfarming companies. But its still not enough.
The wilderness and free trade is not coming back. We are sorry that it has come to this. We were looking forward to it as much as you were. But that's the way it is. No arguments. Anyone that speaks out against us will be banned.
On the plus side we managed to nab ourselves a guinness world record! Highest voted poll for a MMPORG!
Have fun with your EP!
Happy Scaping
Mod MMG
Edit:Imagine if Jagex announced something similar to this.
Come on, this guy is just a nerd?
~Eerik.
Jagex would have to reinforce their "castle", I think.
Come to think of it, IF they do indeed comeback, will you update your lumby miner? I used to run it 20 hours flawlessly...Quote:
Originally Posted by The Claw
I bet that if jagex do something like that, botting will probably increase by 10 fold, because of all the pissed off players and jagex will probably lose more players.
I'd bot just to bot.
"Catch me if you can" :D