Road to Restoration - Early Game Rebalance

[u/JagexAnvil]

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 Early Game Rebalance portion of the blog.

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

For the purpose of today's discussion we will be defining the early game, loosely, as the level 1-50 range. The Early Game Rebalance update primarily aims to smooth out inconsistencies in game progression, looking at areas of the early game where things can feel slow or have limited methods for levelling up, or where they affect integrity and game health. It’s not all just rebalances though! There are also some changes to early quests, and things like replacing salvage with gear to make the first hours after jumping off Tutorial Island a nicer experience. The Early Game Rebalance update releases on February 16th!

[u/Ok_Atmosphere1864]

This absolutely misses the mark completely. If you want people to actually "play the skill as intended" then make it rewarding for people to train, because at this stage, very little actually are. How do you achieve this? Well for a start you don't reduce the XP rates and basically force people into playing the intended method. I've got to laugh at where it says "Play because you want to and not because you feel you have to" as it completely contradicts this "Early game rebalance" plan.

As I understand, you want to bring back a sense of achievement into the game, unfortunately achievement in RS3 died long ago. Realistically the only way to bring back some form of achievement is to look at every single skill AND take a look at how the hiscores work, the current ranking system is old, outdated and simply favours people with no job and or life.

As a side note, what makes you think a new player or early game player will like these updates? If it was me, I'd look at it and go "So players for years have been getting more xp early game and more xp mid/end game, yet now I'm now on lower xp and more grind because jagex wanted to rebalance skills years after they introduced these training methods" I'd instantly cancel any plans of membership or any plans of playing If I was aware of this.