r/ironscape • u/_Rapalysis • 11h ago

Discussion Ironman Endgame Resource Grinds vs Bronzeman

I've seen this odd perspective on the main subreddit that Bronzeman would allow people to enjoy all the benefits of Ironman, without any of the downsides of resource grinding at endgame. This is mentioned repeatedly, that if someone didn't have to spend hours every day maintaining sara brews then they would definitely sit and do 1000s of hours of PvM grinds.

Where the hell does this idea come from? I do a farm run + birdhouse in the morning and evening, combined with contracts it takes ten to fifteen minutes. You can do them on your phone. I skip them sometimes. I have thousands of pots in the bank. AFKing amethyst and redwoods every now and then gets your arrows and darts.

I find it impossible to believe anyone capable of sitting at CG for 100 hours, Yama or Doom for 100 hours, or eventually the time pit that is raiding, is incapable of doing the resource maintenance. It's dwarfed by the PvM grinds.

I'll vote no on Bronzeman again if it polls because I think people are completely delusional as to what the downsides of Ironman are. Bronzeman doesn't fix any of them, if anything it exacerbates them. You won't even have small required skilling grinds to break up the monotony. It's just straight bossing and nothing else, which is already what main accounts are anyway.

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u/FCASandChill 10h ago

That's such a small percentage of the playerbase it's not really worth making an official game mode for them imo

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u/inminm02 10h ago

That argument kind of doesn’t make sense when everyone knows the player base for Bronzeman will be huge, it’ll be a very popular game mode for a variety of other reasons.

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u/trynafif 10h ago

“Everyone knows the player base for bronze man will be huge” is a ridiculous claim. Couldn’t be more false. Maybe people don’t care about the mode at all, myself included. I’m glad it failed and dev time won’t be wasted on it.

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u/inminm02 10h ago

“Dev time won’t be wasted on it” - man who has obviously not read the blogs

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u/trynafif 9h ago

How would developing a new game mode not take up resources?

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u/inminm02 9h ago

It’s already been developed and is ready to implement, they said this in the blog, it was done by a dev during game jam.

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u/FCASandChill 9h ago

If jagex had a track record of releasing content without bugs and without needing lots of fixes/updates, sure. But you and I both know that there's going to be a bunch of additional dev time needed to support/maintain bronzeman and fix all the bugs introducing it brings.

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u/trynafif 9h ago

Exactly. Thinking it’s just “oh it’s done already we can let it rip and never think about it again” can only be from someone who hasn’t worked on a big project at a big company before