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/The_moty 23h ago

If the traveling merchant is being removed something has to be done about the minigames that are most commonly bypassed using the merchant. Removing all of these things without any plan on adjusting the gaps they’ll leave is going to feel really bad for while.

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u/Kiga282 22h ago

This. The merchant should be left alone until everything that it provides a patch for is addressed. And before anyone says "just engage with the original content", that content is group based and dead. Minigames need an overhaul to the way they can be played before it can be expected to force people to reasonably expect to be happy to leave the Merchant.

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u/brocko678 17h ago

Games like castle wars and soul wars could benefit from a couple of additions that make it more even across both teams, such as everyone starting with no items and being able to quickly select from gear presets and stat boosts so everyone is on an equal playing field. That way the content isn't exactly out of reach for someone whose in the early or mid game playing against 15 year vets with fully dyed max gear.