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I'm glad you're doing fine, but my argument isn't that things are mandatory, but rather just the existence of them devalues the experience since people CAN just swipe and progress faster than you.

@@TheoryWiseOS I agree you can. I can also swipe for gold in WoW and progress faster. Same in GW2 and many other mmorpg's. I do hope you treat these mmorpg's the same way and that it devalues your experience with these games just as much.

Oh and you can of course swipe to get bonds in old school runescape and sell these for gold to progress faster as well.

Lets just call it Theory Run

Thanks!

One billion dollars.

It was worth the copyright strike :)

Thanks, glad you enjoyed!

A lot more to come shortly. Currently working on the big video essay this was all about + a full series upload for these leagues videos.

It's just the regular stat boost tracker plugin I just adjusted the size and placed them on the side pillars :)

I think an appreciation is perfectly reasonable. My main point of concern is that the people it turns off (new players) are the ones we should work on retaining to keep the game growing. I'm personally okay removing a feature I appreciate if it means more consistent growth for the game I love! Speeding things up wouldn't be the same as it is currently, because it would still be reactive while currently it isn't. You'd need to react quickly (think Leviathan) rather than predict or just take random chunks of damage.

@@TheoryWiseOS so if its not sped up to be at parity with current "on anim" speed it would make for a fundamentally different game. Worth mentioning is that it would be a total overhaul of every mob in the game that doesn't currently use damage on hit (the overwhelming majority don't use damage on hit). Not only is that an unfathomably large amount of dev time but you'd be losing an incredible amount of depth from what are considered to be some of the most engaging pieces of content in the game explicitly because of how it currently functions. I don't mean to belittle your experience but its a bit telling that you think the current system is unreactable. The point of the current system is that you are not always meant to be reacting, you are meant to be planning and anticipating at times, this is a deliberate design choice, even within it APM plays a massive part of a player success. If you could simply react to everything so much depth would be lost in PvM not to mention PvP. This discussion reminds me of PoE1 skill tree. The skill tree is massive, complicated, and keeps away players who otherwise might enjoy the game from being able to get into it. Yet it would not have the player base it does if it was as boringly simplistic as diablo, torchlight, last epoch, grim dawn, etc. GGG is well aware of this as can be seen from the long past GDC talk Chirs Wilson gave on 'designing PoE to be played forever' suffice to say, its a deliberate choice. In the same way the Old School Devs understands that while complexity might scare some off, a lack of depth will bore those who intend to stick around. I'd be curious in a few years once you start to get into and complete colo and inferno in the main game if your perspective might change as mine did.

@@Jigoogly I agree, it would make for a fundamentally different combat experience, but I believe it would be a better experience both intuitively and for new players to understand and engage with the combat system more freely, while also opening up the opportunity to more readily and confidently learn new content without resorting to guides. Again, I empathize with players valuing this content as it is, and I'm coming in as almost a third party and pointing out what I have no enjoyed, but it's worth mentioning nonetheless. Personally, after having done so much difficult content in the game, I not only do not particularly enjoy this older style of damage, but I find it actively frustrates. The depth it offers is that of demanding timekeeping in your brain (or via an external plugin like the metronome), which is depth that I do not find compelling. I rather have reactive, intuitive (yet difficult) design, but that is just my taste. I recognize that the game is balanced around taking unaccounted damage, but somehow Jagex has managed to strike a balance without this. Look at ToA -- everything there is something you react to and the baseline mechanics are not only intuitive, but the raid itself is far, far, far harder than say, CoX. The difference between this and the PoE1 example you gave is that I'm not advocating for simplifying something, I'm advocating for clarity of purpose/design. I do not support over-simplifying.

​@@TheoryWiseOS This might sound semantical and a bit of a retreading of the discussion but I have to say that the very concept that damage is unreactable is in and of itself an inaccurate representation of the state of things. If enemies and their damage output was truly unreactable lazy flicking would not be possible, the inferno would not be possible, the coliseum would not be possible, many of the GM/M combat achievements would not be possible. "I am not compelled by... do not enjoy... and am frustrated with the combat of osrs" your words exactly. Homie it sounds like you'd prefer to be playing something with an entirely different combat system. Lets not forget why this game exists at all, Jagex fucked with the combat. You are asking them to mess with the combat again except this time its turn every encounter into a hyper simplistic darksouls roll simulator. This isn't about the 'poor fools who like things how they currently are' this is about why the game exists at all. At its heart OSRS is a rhythm game not a reaction game, it always has been due to the nature of the server ticks. I find it very odd you mention TOA as an example because TOA is a raid filled to the brim with damage sources you can do absolutely nothing to avoid: Kephi rangers chip, Baba chip (unless you consider red-xing an intended game mechanic), P1 warden balls, P2 Warden chip, P3 Warden Akkha attack chip, lvl2+ Zebak blood barrage, and unless you can butterfly perfectly and don't get unlucky Akkha chip, the entirety of the Quite Prayers invocation. The game is not balanced around taking unavoidable damage that is categorically incorrect. It has become balanced around chip damage ever since the edition of the blood fury/other sources of pseudo passive healing that make it so easy to sustain with perfect play- so much so that new encounters post blood fury release have had so much chip damage built into them that BF is almost a neccesity- thus your confusion. Keep in mind these older encounters are ones you would call 'unreactable' yet people can do them perfectly hitless. But lets do some math. Right now the game has content that requires anticipation, planning, and reaction. You would prefer it be only reaction based. On a mathematical level that is a two thirds reduction in the types of encounter mechanics. That is an objective and measurable loss of depth. Don't pretend that removing the parts you don't like and replacing them with more of what we already have wouldn't also equate to a loss of depth and complexity, you cannot have one without the other. Alas I had more written up but youtube comments are hardly the best place for longform discussion. If you'd like to continue this feel free to hit me up at jigoogly on disc, its nice having discussions with people who have well formed non-native perspectives that don't degenerate into slur slinging ad hominem bouts.

@@Jigoogly When I say damage isn't reactable I mean on targets that, at random, alternate between damage types (Olm, Tanz Zulrah, etc.). I do not mean mobs that can be lazy flicked. Similarly, I don't think cherry picking words and cutting all context (or surrounding words) from them is an accurate representation of my enjoyment. OSRS's combat would not substantially change if damage calcs were standardized, because most modern fights have standardized this. And again, I do not think doing this would simplify things conceptually, and if anything, it would open the way to more complex encounters. Clearing Olm is not difficult. At all. It has a very high skill ceiling, but doing decent solo or group CoX runs is substantially easier than even a 300 ToA, particularly because the fight's difficulty is tuned around taking unavoidable damage -- that is an aspect of its difficulty that is far less driven by mechanical engagement, meanwhile ToA feels like the opposite. Chip damage is not the problem here. My argument isn't to avoid all damage, but rather to mitigate large sources of RNG burst damage that obliterate resources at random. Chip damage isn't the ideal of every fight, but it's a cleaner solution to that. ToA is by no means perfect in this regard, especially at high invos, but I much rather have that than randomly getting clapped by back to back 40s on a fight as simplistic as Zulrah. As I said above, the game is balanced around unavoidable damage on content back when this kind of mitigation wasn't standardized, such as CoX. Most of CoX is finding janky workarounds to the unavoidable damage the raid was intended to dish out. Whether it be glitching out Mutta, glitching out the tightrope, glitching out the skeletal magers, glitching out Olm himself -- I think there is undeniably a depth here, but depth doesn't always translate to quality to me. Whether a fight has unavoidable burst damage or not doesn't really remove anticipation or planning, it just mitigates burst damage. Modern boss fights which do not have RNG bursts of unavoidable damage are no less planning or anticipation centric, it's just what you're planning for is more so fight complexity and less so back to back Jadding from Olm. I'm pretty sure Phosani's has more intended mechanics than the entire CoX raid, and you can quite literally mitigate just about everything other than parasite chip and sleeper phase chip.

i do want to add, youre really good at the game, and i respect your opinion, especially as someone familiar with more than one game.

I think Jagex should likely speed up animations that rely on the older form of calculation. So, for example, Jad attacks every 7 ticks but I wonder if the actual landing of the spell effect is at 9-10 ticks. All they essentially need to do is shorten that to still keep the rhythm/timing the same, just with better visual tells for animations. I think it's worth doing this only because the MMO is still growing and having this needlessly confusing element is a huge turn off for new players. A great example is actually my GIM partner who was unbelievably frustrated with learning these differences (he came from WoW with me). It's not guaranteed to be a quit moment, but it certainly doesn't help because the rest of the game can also be overwhelming. OSRS, I think, is known for its simplicity and intuitive design.

@@FoodIsCrack Appreciate it!

I just wonder whether it's a fun kind of difficulty to just get RNG-checked by certain bosses. Is it hard to chug food on zulrah if she decided to keep swapping prayers and hitting 40s on you? Eh. Is it fun? Not really, no. I don't really think there should be extra time in the reaction, but rather the animation speeds up to facilitate the speed it was before.

Haha, we'll see!