My opinion on the RSC scene as a whole, at the minute is a bit all over the place. I've enjoyed myself more in the 4 weeks I've been playing RSCR again than I think I ever have in RSC / all P servers put together. It really has been fun however I worry for the overall future of RSC. What with the other server about to die, I think some of them are stuck in the stone age and think that RSCR is still no life rates which might effect people coming, I personally don't think the XP is too bad for combat, x10 skulled in wild with no sub, it's not much different to over there. That doesn't mean I can't see the benefits of raising things slightly to eliminate competition, though. The only big difference is the rate for skilling, but if we had a higher skilling rate, the economy wouldn't be so clean and famous for being so clean.
Overall, I'm excited but slightly nervous to see what the future holds for this game which we've all known and loved for 15 years now, I don't think the ''new'' server will pop off, yeah there's a few people who love the 3x XP grind but the VAST MAJORITY don't want to regrind again. The other server is 100% about to die and I think there's a high chance more players (more than the 40-50 who already have made the switch....) will come. Border PKing picking up on this server (33s) I think will be a HUGE plus one for a lot of other server players.
Those are my thoughts
PS: I'd love it if the turnip'ers did come but even if they don't it's still fun without them. A lot of them think they're superstar PKers and that they shouldn't have to skill, farm, stake or do anything to get their supplies and GP because they're too used to being spoonfed. Those people need to understand, it's really not difficult to get a foot in on this server and get a nice bank and a few accounts. Also that you don't NEED 500k airs and fires to PK. You also don't NEED flats to pk (90 90 90 can beat flats).
you have some of very good points in your post. first of all, this game can still be enjoyable if you're not that known among the community. you can find the nostalgia factor pretty fast, maybe set a goal for yourself to have a decent bank with PK'er or two and that's it. unfortunately it ain't like that for most of us. we've played through all the possible servers during the private server era, we've made all the accounts 15x, we've farmed more than one person ever should and we've spent so much time to this game, to have absolutely nothing left in 2017. it's pretty hard obstacle to overcome, to actually do it once again, don't you think?
i'v always said PK'ing rates should be "more player friendly" than skilling. it creates way more possibilities to PK, way more different PK levels to PK at instead of just couple two(i.e border 33s and maybe flats). we can agree on 1ip, it would make people to PK on 1 account and that's it. if he wants to PK on his 46, let him to do so instead of making him to make another 54 because couple guys had it and he doesn't but because he doesn't want/don't have time to train it, that 54 PK'ing is basically dead. we can't expect people playing this game like we are 15 year olds, we're getting close to our 30s and our playing will become more and more on-off type of playing and when the community is about 100-150 people, it won't work too long. should just generally make this game way more easier for a people, considering their IRL responsibilities and such. most of us have played this game 15 years through multiple private servers so don't say we don't deserve things being little bit easier. if i wanted to start this server, it means automatically atleast 100 hours of work before i even get into PK'ing and that's out of question, as it seems to be for so many people as well. i'v always said, there has to be a way to give everyone who played in the past an account or two and let them play. this is still a same game they trained their accounts for, server is just different. it's like if you went to different country and out of sudden, your dollars would become irrelevant but you still would have the money so there's a chance to switch the money for their currency. don't be so 2000s kids, this game is still good and can have a decent playerbase but when it's literally made for certain group of people, it automatically reduces the amount of potential players by a mile.
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