Friday, May 25, 2007

Wilderness Pking Poll

The current poll by Jagex on the main runescape site is focussed on multi-player actions. There are 3 types of multi-player action that Jagex are considering expanding within the game. The areas in the poll are:

  • Quests
  • Skills
  • Pking
Jagex are trying to figure out the view of the runescape community and whether or not more multi-player quests, skills or wilderness events (eg Team Pking) should be introduced.

It is a nice idea to think Jagex may be considering the role of runescape clans, although it does seem they consider groups of friends rather than clans. In this instance, clan support in runescape will not be any closer after the poll has finished.

In my view, there have been enough problems in the past trying to find quest partners and so I would be opposed to any multi-player quests being introduced. With regard to skills, it is likely Jagex considering new multi-player mini games that would help raise a specific skill and in that instance it would be ok. Although clans will gain from working together, it would depend on the number of people required whether it would be useful to groups of friends.

Finally, on the pking side of things, if enough people have voted in the opinion of Jagex, they may consider introducing multi-player pking events. This would likely have a direct affect on the wilderness and could take the form of additional group monsters or new locations whereby teams of players can fight each other under wilderness rules - last person standing wins kind of thing.

It does open the possibility of a battle arena within the wilderness and make it more useful to clans who could possibly organise tournaments, leagues and wars more easily without having to guard over the possibility of outside interferance.

I am optimistic on this poll and hopefully something worthwhile does eventually come about from it.

If you haven't voted and want multi-player activities within runescape then don't miss the opportunity to cast your vote now. Remember only members can vote.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Latona,
Perhaps the only thing I really would like to see in the Wilderness at the moment is a feature where anyone on your friends list would have "Walk Here" as the default action if you clicked on them, rather than "Attack". Many times, trying to walk to somewhere and having a friend get in the way caused a small squabble, and I've become rather surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. I've had a lot of fun reading through your blog, though perhaps the information I was most interested in was your opinions on the Wilderness. Keep up the good blogging,
-Drayk

Latona said...

Hi drayk, I do agree that a lot of things can be done - Jagex felt they tackled the attacking friend option through using team capes on member servers. However, that is way short of what is really needed.

Regarding the blogging, I am quite new to it really as never get doing it as constantly as I want - so generally just experiment on the style used. Maybe one day I can get good :P