Getting deja vu reading some of the replies in this thread.
Although I understand some of the concerns regarding the realism game mode, I can't help but discuss some of the replies to this thread below.
Ps: I'm not gonna go back and fix up any mistakes I may have written below. If I misunderstood you, my apologies. These are simply my thoughts that I wrote down as I read the replies. Don't take it too harshly.
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"I personally would instantly quit the server as the last challenge game mode for me is gone at that point. I feel like a lot of people just vote yes because they want to max realism from the bank buying out all normie supplies and just max easily." - @Realmungard
I doubt people are sitting with their client open ready to transfer over a load of supplies and spend 1000 hours maxing on an RSPS. Sure, you might have some people that will go hardcore. The whole point of merging the economy is to allow Realism to be more accessible to newer players. I've had so many conversations with people that said they don't want to play realism because everything is hoarded by all 20 players of the realism community. Many people want an OSRS-like experience, but on an RSPS. Needing to establish connections with other realists and joining private discords in order to trade with others just doesn't sit right with me. There's nothing stopping me right now from swapping over 2b normie for realism and hoarding everything and then selling it for higher prices.
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"We already got a low exp normie mode being classic." - @Realmungard
Classic is hardly a low exp mode when you can enable 300 different bonuses and get a x10+ experience rate. The whole point of Realism is that it's extremely close rates to OSRS while still having an RSPS feel to it. At the moment playing a Realism account is like playing an OSRS ironman. There's hardly any midgame supplies in the trading post to help you get your stats up because they're all being hoarded by a select few. Needing connections to get half of the items in the game is extremely lame in my opinion. If you take a look at the trading post right now half of the items are either overpriced or there are straight up none for sale in the trading post. If I was a new realism player and that's what I saw I would be worried.
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"Doing the realism merge will only result in 95% of realism community quitting the server cus it pretty much completely deletes all incentive to play the mode, and they’ll just end up leaving alora. And I love how not a single yes vote is someone with a realism account." - @Realmungard
An assumption. I doubt that would happen. A select few might move on, but it would be for the better of the game mode anyways. Also the reason this thread was made in the first place is because there are people that want to play the game mode but are deterred by the fact that everything is hoarded. Every realist saying "Only realists should be able to vote in this poll" are not understanding the reasoning behind this topic in the first place. Saying that statement is like asking an eco-holder if we should reset the eco. Obviously they'll say no.
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"If you see who voted for yes, 99% of them are not maxed on realism." - @Smackingthat
"No point of merging ;;shops for pots or whatever because then all Phannys hard work with EVERY single skill goes to drain, and all the blessing going to waste, if u wanna repay then do it.
And with 1 year of being part of us you want to destroy alot of Veteran realism hard work?
Ruining realism economy means - all people who was grinding items for a years they just will quit, because its no reason to play that gamemode, if you can instantly donate 100% and you can buy a TBOW or other stuff.
P.S. - If you cant buy everything in tp, grind it and try to get by yourself :P" - @HoldinAP
"If I had to do this cancer method to get anywhere on this game mode, so does everyone else!". Reminds me of people on OSRS that vote no to new content because it would devalue their account (See GOTR, new gear, etc.). We might as well not touch anything in this game at all to make sure nothing is devalued. Sure, it will suck for some if this goes ahead, but it was never meant to be like this in the first place. The release of realism was meant to be an OSRS experience on RSPS with its own economy. But the economy has shifted to hoarding because of the lack of players so what has happened is realism has turned into an ironman game mode and in my opinion that needs to be fixed.
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"Classic players havent even hit 4.6b and they got merged with normie a long time ago." - @Selenagomez
"We already got a low exp normie mode being classic. And that mode is completely devaluated by being able to buy uncuts/herbs/seeds and so much more and spam 200ms in a super fast and easy way." - @Realmungard
Contradictions... contradictions...
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"When you embark on the Realism journey, you're essentially signing up for a marathon. Walk the walk.
Don't try to sneak a motorcycle into the marathon. The whole point of the marathon is to do it on your own 2 feet with other people playing by the same rules.
If you want a normie game mode with slow xp rate, go suggest fresh start Alora world with 1x xp that merges with normie in half a year.
Start a new competition and see how many people are interested.
Don't go around trying to change the pre-established marathon rules and fucking it up for all the other past, present, and future marathon gamers." - @Real Alan
I assume you played OSRS and voted yes to some new content. If not, I apologize but I guess a few in this thread have played OSRS so in that case they can relate.
When you(people in this thread) joined OSRS, you're signing up for a marathon. Walk the walk. Don't try to sneak a motorcycle into the marathon.
Slayer exp rates have gone from 25k exp/hr to 100k exp/hr on 07. Lets see what Malt Lickeys thinks about these changes after he got 200m slayer. Maybe we should ask what Lynx Titan thinks about various skills being made 2 or 3 times easier as the years go on. With your logic, 07 would still be stuck in the 2007 era.
I played classic mode when it was released and it had its own economy and it later got merged. That was a very beneficial change in my opinion and I think Realism would benefit too.
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"2. 'A few people basically run the economy'
Uhh... another baseless claim...
To those that think a few people basically run the economy, please provide some actual evidence. Especially if you're current or ex-staff.
I'm one of those people that sell super restores in the TP for 100k each. If you think it's overpriced, don't buy from me.
Why don't you go sell the same product at a more affordable price then? That's how an economy works." - @Real Alan
All it took was 10 seconds to search the official Alora marketplace.
https://i.imgur.com/eNOkyzR.png
https://i.imgur.com/pbMUOQF.png
https://i.imgur.com/o6v7V6s.png
https://i.imgur.com/7z3dkBr.png
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"why don't you go sell the same product at a more affordable price then?" - @Real Alan
That's the point of this thread... People that want to play a slower experience mode shouldn't have to spend 300 hours to have access to some potions, or gear. It's a ridiculous argument if we're being honest. At the end of the day, we're playing a PRIVATE SERVER.
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"3. 'Only a few people are keeping it alive right now, because new people don't want to join it.'
Perhaps the real reason new people don't want to join is from lack of support from the server.
The server has been pushing leagues -> gim -> HC gim. There hasn't been ANY staff leadership in the realism department.
Perhaps the real reason, there aren't as many new realism players... is because the staff team does a terrible job at encouraging it." - @Real Alan
We shouldn't be begging people to choose realism as their game mode. People should want to play the game mode. The whole point of this thread is to see if people want a normal eco and realism eco merge to make the game mode accessible. No one is advertising Ironman or Elite Iron modes to people. You didn't see me beg people to make an UIM. People thought it was fun, and joined those game modes. Perhaps this would be the same if realism eco wasn't so bad.
Also, the reason other modes are being pushed is because they're new lol. Realism game mode had a $1,500 tournament on release. HCGIM was recently released so obviously it will get the spotlight for a bit.
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Just to give my own thoughts, I'd like to see a realism economy merge with normal economy. Perhaps it would entice me to play realism. I don't like the idea of having to join private discords and trading that way to get supplies. Some stuff being WAY overpriced because of hoarding is really lame too IMO.
In my opinion, what should've been done from the start is having game modes, and then choosing an experience rate that's the same for every game mode.
E.g Pick HC, choose x40, x20, x6, x2, or pick Elite Iron, choose x40, x20, x6, x2. If I remember correctly, I believe this is possible but it's not something that has been requested.
Also, on the topic of game modes. The fact that GIM exists in the way it does right now bothers me more than realism eco at the moment. Making a Group IRONMAN and buying a twisted bow for it is very weird. Perhaps going the OSRS route and having a few different GIM modes(ranked/unranked or whatever) would be sick.
Thanks for reading.
Edit: The fact that some individuals are voting on several different accounts to influence an opinion based poll tells me everything I need to know.