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[Nk xazr]

What is your suggestion?: Free to play LMS

My idea is to have a free to play LMS mode that runs along side the 1m entry LMS mode.
 

Is this in OSRS?: No, but neither is normal LMS
 

Has this suggestion been accepted already?: No.
 

How would this benefit Alora?: 

Well, the LMS minigame looks very very exciting, and I will be playing it a lot I'm sure, however 1m per game is not a significant fee to me. For a sizeable portion of the playerbase however, 1m per entry could be a significant portion of their bank. I don't feel they should be deprived of the minigame. However, I understand a large portion of the playerbase won't play LMS if there is no prize pot. This is why I suggest that we have two game modes running side-by-side, a prize-pool LMS, and a no-prize LMS, for the players without the funds to play LMS along with the players looking to practice before the prize pool LMS.

 

EDIT: Additionally, in the future this could be a cool way to have "tiers" of LMS, 1m entry, 10m entry, 100m entry, ETC.

[Rape Van]

i support this topic! not everyone has 1m to play each time, expecially when theres lot there now with games going on 1 after another, if you dont have like 10-20m sitting around you cant have fun, people play minigames to be able to play them for awhile and enjoy, if you have for example: 1-2m you play 1-2 games you dont even have time to learn what your doing/how to play before you die, then there goes your gp, and you dont feel to happy after, because you now have 0gp and werent abl to have any fun, just my opinion

[Isekaii]

I support there being 2 modes but then again seeing there needs 24 people for LMS as it is might show a increase on how long people have to wait to get in a game since theres a split on whose going to what mode.

 

Maybe if this is added they should make the free mode need less people to start a game than it would for a person going into the competitive mode that should help fix the problem.

 

In all I support the idea

[Nk xazr]

I support there being 2 modes but then again seeing there needs 24 people for LMS as it is might show a increase on how long people have to wait to get in a game since theres a split on whose going to what mode.

 

Maybe if this is added they should make the free mode need less people to start a game than it would for a person going into the competitive mode that should help fix the problem.

 

In all I support the idea

I like this idea as well, if it wouldn't be hard to do, the "free mode" could be played in a smaller area so that 12 players doesn't feel... empty.

[MT]

Splitting the game into two modes means that there may be longer queue times to start a game. Although it would be nice to have a no-fee mode, I think it’s fine to just leave it with one mode.

With that said, I’m neutral.

[Nk xazr]

Splitting the game into two modes means that there may be longer queue times to start a game. Although it would be nice to have a no-fee mode, I think it’s fine to just leave it with one mode.

With that said, I’m neutral.

You and Isekaii definitely bring up good points here. Perhaps instead of creating two modes that run all the time, there could be time periods during the day, or a few days out of the week where the free mode is active. People will then have the opportunity to practice/try the minigame for free, but it shouldn't leech players from the prize pool mode all the time.

[Omicron]

I could make the lobby free once an hour, or once every 4 games and announce it to the world? Also, keep in mind staff members can make it free to join at any point, so you will see @king purple hosting free LMS lobbies.

[Nk xazr]

I could make the lobby free once an hour, or once every 4 games and announce it to the world? Also, keep in mind staff members can make it free to join at any point, so you will see @king purple hosting free LMS lobbies.

Omicron, I didn't know that staff members could make free lobbies, so that's exciting. I think Free once every 1-2h would be a great compromise personally.

[Rape Van]

i really like that idea aswell tbh ^^ ! it gives everyone more of a chance of have fun

[Zach McCoy]

I think what @Omicron said about having a free lobby once an hour is plenty and still hosts an opportunity to players with not as much money to enjoy the minigame.

[Codybm]

no support for a free version it takes 10 minutes to make 1m

 

I do support rewards being added maybe skilling supplies for iron and small items for mains

[Clawsclues]

I could make the lobby free once an hour, or once every 4 games and announce it to the world? Also, keep in mind staff members can make it free to join at any point, so you will see @king purple hosting free LMS lobbies.

 

1 time every hour would be perfect...even though their is MANY ways to make a quick 1 mill if u wanna play a game of LMS JUST saying..:) it honestly doesn't take long. even for skillers lol 

[Nk xazr]

no support for a free version it takes 10 minutes to make 1m

 

I do support rewards being added maybe skilling supplies for iron and small items for mains

There are rewards currently, it's a 65%/25%/10% split currently. 1st place takes 65% of the pot, 2nd place takes 25%, and 10% goes to taxes. I don't know if there's a way for irons to take part in the pot currently.

 

1 time every hour would be perfect...even though their is MANY ways to make a quick 1 mill if u wanna play a game of LMS JUST saying.. :) it honestly doesn't take long. even for skillers lol 
 

 

I agree personally, I know it's trivial to make money for most people, but for some people they're making to money to buy their next upgrade, and really want to play LMS but don't want to spend money. I personally feel they should be able to play still.

[Rape Van]

above to, that its easy to make 1m, yeah for one game, if theres an event going on too, im sure people would be enjoy to play multiple games, in your first coupple games your still learning where everything is/how everything works, i hope omi uses his idea above, because it is a really good one

[Omicron]

@Codybm 1M isn’t much for most people, but I feel like a casual game every 90 minutes is a nice break from PvMing even for players who don’t PK much, and it’ll help to keep the game mode alive. We do have plans to add a leaderboard and somewhat of a reward system, but I feel that this would still be a nice plus.

[Nk xazr]

@Codybm 1M isn’t much for most people, but I feel like a casual game every 90 minutes is a nice break from PvMing even for players who don’t PK much, and it’ll help to keep the game mode alive. We do have plans to add a leaderboard and somewhat of a reward system, but I feel that this would still be a nice plus.

Just another idea I had earlier for LMS. Though it may be too overboard, and I'm not sure how often LMS games start. Regardless, the idea is as follows.

The pool is currently split 65/25/10. With the 10% going to taxes.

 

50% of the taxes should go to funding a monthly LMS event. Perhaps something that requires 50 players to start, as in theory the stakes could be pretty high.

Lets do some quick maffs. If we assume that 10 LMS games are played a day, with 24 participants each. This works out to 2.4m per game, or 24m/day in taxes.

Now, this isn't a big pot, however over the course of a month we'd estimate 720m is going to taxes. 50% of this as a prize pot would be 360m prize. Obviously this could fluctuate if more or less players play LMS daily.

If it'd be best to create a separate topic to get community input on this idea, I can gladly do so. However since you were here I figured I'd throw it out here.

[Omicron]

@Nk xazr Not a bad idea, but @king purple is already hosting a few 50M reward games this week with free entry for all players, so we are pretty much giving back the taxed GP through that.

[Nk xazr]

@Nk xazr Not a bad idea, but @king purple is already hosting a few 50M reward games this week with free entry for all players, so we are pretty much giving back the taxed GP through that.

Yeah, I saw that minutes after I posted this idea haha

[A Lynx]

Good idea, i think it would be nice so that people can practice and have fun pking with no cost or penalty.

 

I support this idea.

[Duckstep]

Don't support this one, the lack of players willing to play for free. I don't see it happening :/