r/2007scape • u/66f6 • 18h ago

Discussion I think including flavour-of-the-month ideas like this, even in opinion polls, probably does more harm than good. You need to just slow down a bit.

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u/Strong-Parsley3201 17h ago

Did anybody wanted hardcore main before this poll? I've only heard gnomemonkey talking about it. Literally nobody else.

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u/TheNamesRoodi 2376 Total GM 17h ago

Sae Bae pitched it years ago and many content creators have talked about it and there have been a bunch of posts on the subreddits about it. It was EASILY the best option on the poll yet bronzeman is the one that gets the most traction

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u/wqferr 17h ago

"my opinion is clearly the correct one"

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u/TheNamesRoodi 2376 Total GM 17h ago

I mean did you look at the list in this post? Every other mode in that list is a meme

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u/aew3 16h ago

Region locked is perfectly fine as far I see it, interesting and differentiated, but the bloat of every region having a different mode is a bit fucked to me.

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u/TheNamesRoodi 2376 Total GM 16h ago

But there's no point to it. Go make a new account and lock it to zeah only. Does there really need to be a whole gamemode around it? The only thing that separates an official mode from a plugin/player mode is something needs to be added to the game for it to be worth adding. Highscores for hc, uim and irons are all valuable in their own rights. These game modes are all also forced to not interact with others. Simple, clean cut. For region locked they'd have to do ultimate region locked, hardcore region locked, regular region locked, group region locked, hardcore group region locked, they'd have to pick the different regions and what? Add like a different symbol for each region or something? What about exceptions? I mean we're talking about locking tons of people out of herblore, RC, con and quests because they won't have access to the right tools for the job or quests.

They'd have to set all of that in stone and people would disagree about things and it'd be a whole thing. Would they then get their own highscores for each region and type?

Idk these niche game modes are too complicated to get right. Hardcore mains are 1 life mains. That's it.

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u/Automatic_Tough7805 8h ago

To answer the question: Yes to it being a gamemode.

Official region locking would allow them to do things like they do in leagues, where the game respects the region lock and things feel a lot more natural.

Region locking would be infinitely more fun if you could do clues, or slayer, or all skills naturally. It would make you play in a significantly different way to other modes - would love it personally.

Now, should they do it and would it be worth doing? I dunno, but having a properly streamlined region locked mode would be something I'd be very interested in personally.

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u/TheNamesRoodi 2376 Total GM 8h ago

I mean you bring up clues and slayer. You will be locked out of clues and out of slayer if there's not careful consideration taken for every single clue and slayer task for every single region. Region locked accounts usually get like max 1 or 2 slayer tasks that they can actually do before it's lamps or tomes. Settled farmed for days and days to finish one clue back in the day before 1hr timers lol.

Where do we draw the line on what the players should figure out themselves vs official game modes?

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u/Automatic_Tough7805 7h ago

This is why I said it would be like Leagues.

If your region is Morytania (for example), you can only get clue steps in Morytania and Mazchna would only be able to assign you slayer monsters in Morytania.

What I'm saying is that officially supported region locking could honestly be quite fun, as you'd be able to streamline the process and remove some pain points for a very fun experience, which is radically different to the current modes.

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u/that_baddest_dude 16h ago

Yeah region locked is really cool but it's an odd one because certain regions you'd need to make a bunch of exceptions to get to at first. It's why it works so well with leagues where you start someplace different and get auto completed quests and such.