Hey all, there's been a lot of pointy pitchforks and torches in yell chat today with the removal of the free skip perk for slayer. A lot of overreaction, a lot of toxicity towards those upset by it, and a lot of arguing in yell chat. I'd like to make what I find a reasonable compromise between both parties here, since Omi has already stated they're talking about how to change it up to make people less angry.
To start, I'm not sure which side I stand on. Skipping every task I didn't want in order to kill the boss I actually needed drops from was nice, but it did seem a little OP (not that Uber shouldn't be OP, but increasing the tier to get the perk would be an even bigger PR nightmare). However, I feel for those getting Adamant dragons and not being able to skip because they just spent all their slayer points last night.
On to my idea:
Keep the free skip system in, but have skipping for free reset your streak. Basically meaning if you were $50+ donor you would still need to pay to skip if you wanted your streak to continue. This could be a second chat box option during it "would you like to skip your task?" "yes" "would you like to pay 30 slayer points to keep your streak?". Not sure how it would work for giving different donor tiers different options. Might need a new chat selection only visible to those eligible or something.
This would severely nerf the amount of slayer points you could accumulate per hour because you are missing out on the big point drops on key streak numbers. However, if you want 15% damage boost on Graardor for your tassy drop you can sit there for 30 minutes skipping for free until you happen to get one, only getting the miniscule slayer points for completing each task on its own and forfeiting the bigger bonuses.
This change would allow people to continue using a form of the older method (removing extreme tasks would be a fair compromise in this case), or choose to grind out some lesser desired tasks in order to profit off of slayer point shop purchases that may be rarer now that people will be getting less overall unless they want to do slayer the way Omicron would like (actually doing tasks you're assigned).
Please feel free to leave feedback or any issues you see arising from the suggested system.
TLDR: pay 30 to keep streak for those eligible for free skips