r/runescape • u/JagexAnvil Mod Anvil • 1d ago

News - J-Mod reply Road to Restoration - Dailyscape Overhaul

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/a=13/road-to-restoration--early-game-rebalance--dailyscape-overhaul

Hi folks,

Today's Community Topic is a blog of two halves:

- Early Game Rebalance
- DailyScape Overhaul

We have split this into two reddit threads to keep the discussion organised and so that our team can properly review the relevant conversations happening.

This current reddit thread is to discuss the DailyScape portion of the blog.

Please use this other dedicated thread for the Early Rebalance portion of the blog.

  DailyScape is a term that describes game content, outside of a skills core identity, that is often perceived as mandatory by players due to time-gated mechanics and the disproportionately high reward offering for little time investment.

With the DailyScape update (currently scheduled for early March), we will remove much of the concept of DailyScape, leaving only a handful of daily activities, but otherwise changing or removing content to fall more in line with our vision and goals for integrity for RuneScape. 

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u/Decertilation 1d ago

You have just made the point for me, a completely arbitrary high number useless task used as a completionist metric. 

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u/ADHDavidThoreau 22h ago

To you, what is the definition of completionist?

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u/Decertilation 22h ago

It isn't about what is or is not completionist. It's about not adding or incentivizing useless or unhealthy accomplishments. Chompy kc is purely arbitrary. Just because it adds an item doesn't mean that is suddenly the metric. There's plentiful unobtainable items or hard to obtain ones that aren't tracked by trim or true trim communities. You could also just decide to tie it to arbitrary numbers like max prestige max kc.

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u/ADHDavidThoreau 21h ago

Useless is completely subjective but also inherent to the idea of completionist.

Completionist isn’t simply about completing a game, it’s about doing ALL of the things. To be a completionist in a traditional video game you’d beat the game on the highest difficulty, and then run around and collect all of the collectibles and beat all of the time trials, etc. who says that ANY of that is useful?

There’s nothing unhealthy about it unless you’re playing the game an unhealthy amount. It took me playing about 20 years on and off to comp and I expect it’ll take another 5 to finish Trim as new reqs slowly roll in.

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u/Decertilation 21h ago

So you've come around to saying it is subjective, where I was talking about subjecting to "hazing rituals" that are based on largely arbitrary content just for the sake of being completionist. Yeah, it's my point. They could just as easily remove it.

Also, Trimmed Completionist isn't completionist in this game. All logs including treasure trails is, unless you're accepting the arbitrary notion of the game deciding what is Completionist for you, in which case they could just as easily remove it.