Persian Tom

Ascent #1 since 2k12

Fi has been dead since 2016 lmfao

youre 32 with 4 kids still playing runescape bro meanwhile im en route to become a doctor lmfao
 
never quote me again youre actually a pathetic fucking excuse of a human

Regardless she lead some random dude on the internet for months she’s prob a sperm whale who lacks any social attention irl so does this instead. Just crazy to what lengths people go in 2019 for clanning lmao

Fucking weirdos kys retards

Nobody cares to see this. Why don't you just hold it against the person rather than sharing? Your life is just as low + rahtarted.

nice suprise but that flag and shirt was probably made 20 minutes down the road from slush

Big yikes 

He's obvs a mad loser who cares lmfao

Rarely browse these forums and this nigga fudog still makes these stupid topics lol

TIME TO FAKE CANCER YIKES

That nigga dull still clans?? LMAO he needs to move on

That nigga dull still clans?? LMAO he needs to move on

I taught you well @Moe

Ah yes, welcome to the dark side Kim 

Lol @Couck is 28 and still tryharding smh

Are you guys always re-making p2p mini teams everytime you lose 1? 

I was with Ascent for the entire trip we didn't bring a single tank. I was ragged by multiple tanks get out of here with this fake propaganda lol 

L0L Imagine Persian Tom replying to your topic.
He back from the graves just to kyp'd

My man Elmir bending the knee to women. tsk tsk

Problem
What is the problem?
The current update polling system is bias and broken.

disclaimer: This is not solely my idea. I know many players in the PvP community are aware of this (and are frustrated) and have potentially raised the issue in other forums.

As it stands in order for a concept to make it into the game—it first has to pass a poll. 
The requirements for passing a poll is to reach a 75% majority vote of acceptance.
A person can vote on a poll ONCE on EVERY ACCOUNT they own as long as it has MEMBERSHIP.

This basic form of democracy comes with many flaws—two of which seem to be working simultaneously to give us our current flawed/unbalanced polling system.
summarized below as:
"Lack of education"
"Voters may not be educated enough to exercise their democratic rights prudently"
There seems to be two examples of this happening:

Firstly—Very few of the players, if any at all, are game designers. This role exists within the industry for a reason, designers/developers have experience in what makes a game fair/balanced/not too easy/not too hard, how the addition of certain items/effects can change a games meta for the better or worse.
I don't have anything to back up the following claim but I would put money on the 'fact' that less than 10% of the voter base actually consider the wider effects that an item or an update could have on the metagame. Most players vote solely on the 'cool factor' of an update ie. How much ridiculous damage can I hit, or what ridiculous amount of xp/money can I get.
This results in power creep and the degradation of games difficulty—these two effects impact the game negatively in that it discourages diversity of play style and equipment (see 126 edge bridding aka. "ags/maul/tabbing") and the devaluation of achievements (see Runescape 3 aka "get 99 rcing by afking for 2 weeks"). The game becomes repetitive, boring and unfulfilling.

Secondly—We have players voting on content which they are not engaged with/do not understand/in no way affects them (This leads quite nicely into the next polling flaw of "Mob rule"). If a PvMer is asked (for want of a better example) if teleblock should extend to f2p they're obviously going to vote no. Their whole goal in this game is to NOT die.
This doesn't mean that extending teleblock to f2p is a BAD idea. It just means the majority of voters are acting on their own impulses rather than considering what makes for a balanced game. There is currently no way to output enough damage in (singles) wilderness to PK someone skilling before they're able to teleport—this is not balanced. The wilderness is supposed to be high risk, high reward and particularly in f2p right now it's low risk.
Another example (don't quote me because I may be wrong) but it sounds like the off hand ranged "Bolas/net" isn't going to pass vote. These were in no way overpowered considering the operate effect would use spec bar... But because the majority of players are voting impulsively due to their aversion to dying, they vote no. These would have been a great addition to gear/build and strategy diversity without breaking the PKing meta (and tbh probably would mostly have been used by Nrangers in clw in conjuntion with acb/elder maul)
Yet here we have uneducated (or at the very least uninvolved) PvMers seeing the addition of a PvP specific item and instantly voting no because "I don't want more options for players to kill me in the wilderness" (even though the majority probably ventures into the wilderness < twice a week)

  "Mob rule/Oppression by the majority"
I'm not sure what the actual statistic is but the PvP community is clearly outnumbered by the PvM community. Players who are given the right to vote about content they don't care about tend to push false opinions to entertain themselves (see every meme about voting, pking and skillers on r/2007scape)
Players are drawn into the idea that it's an 'us Vs them' situation and that everything must be done to oppress the otherside—including voting maliciously and or/creating polling propaganda topics to sway others to 'side' with them and vote against the 'opposition'
Rivalries between different groups of players can be entertaining and fun but it becomes detrimental when one side has the majority of the votes and is essentially determining the outcome of future content without considering the wider effects these updates could have. How does it affect clanning?
We as a community of clans are deprived of potential, positive updates to osrs PvP, due to thoughtless voting and the ongoing 'rivalry/hatred/dislike' between players who engage primarily in PvM and those who engage primarily in PvP.
Additional effects and notes

Note: I understand that polling was introduced post EOC, due to the backlash JaGex received after making game-breaking decisions behind closed doors. I'm not saying that a polling system is a bad idea. It was a good idea. It was a big step in the right direction... however after 5 years of OSRS (or however long it's been) the game (and the polling system) is beginning to mature. We are seeing trends in the way in which updates are introduced into the game... some of which have a negative impact on the meta-game and should be addressed.
Note: It is obviously an impossible task for the osrs team to please every single one of their players with every update—however I believe someone somewhere must have (at least an idea for) a better system than the one we are currently subjected to.
 

Solution
Identifying the problem is the easy part and I'm not necessarily attempting to propose one single solution... I'd rather try to encourage brainstorming ways in which the problem could at the very least be lessened (maybe this isn't the correct board/forum for this conversation...idk)

My own thoughts on the matter would be to segment the game into it's different aspects (they managed to do this for the 2019 content poll... something along the lines of PvP, Skilling, Bossing, Raiding, questing, minigames etc).
After these game aspects have been segmented JaGex could utilize their current (mostly unused) facilities like the official forums and player moderation. 
Each game aspect could have its own dedicated board on the forums where future updates are discussed and evaluated. There could be ingame/forum representatives (essentially pmods) assigned to each game aspect who would be in charge of facilitating constructive discussion, feedback and criticism in these boards.
There would be a minimum requirement to participate in the discussion of each game aspect ie. Skilling might require 2000+ total, Raiding might require 100kc CoX and 100kc ToB... maybe these are too high but you get the point (the aspect facilitator mods may have to have higher reqs and/or be known and trusted in their respective communities. Maybe they're voted in?).
PvP requirements would be a little more difficult to measure but we have BH kill trackers... It could be as simple (or difficult idk) as adding a PvP world kill tracker and wilderness kill tracker.

It would be within these forums that ideas are proposed, debated and then voted on to be implemented into the game. Obviously a player could participant in the discussion and voting on update ideas across different game aspects so long as they meet the requirements to join the forum/board.

The biggest challenge: This is not a perfect solution as none of these game aspects operate within a bubble. For example, a lot of skilling/bossing takes place in the wilderness... and bossing/raiding affects PvP in that it usually provides the equipment players use to PK. So there would be overlap. Boards/forums may potentially have to collaborate in the discussion/voting process? and I'm not sure how this would work (or if it would work at all)
Maybe this is where JaGex needs to step up as the product owner/game designers to make the executive decision.

A second challenge in implementing a system like this would be transparency.  One of the plus sides to the current polling system is the addition of poll booths in game. Any player can (without going too much out of their way) click on a poll booth in a bank and have their 'say'. Relocating this decision making process to a forum would definitely reduce the amount of player participation in the development of the game. TBH I don't really see this as a negative—if someone can't be bothered taking a few minutes out of their day to browse what's being proposed to happen in the aspects of the game they are interested in, are they really going to have anything constructive to say in the first place?
Maybe the polling booths could be replaced by something that provides an in game view of the discussions that are taking place in the forums, thus prompting the user viewing them to go and get involved on the forums.

I feel like this would eliminate the two main  issues ('lack of education/involvement' and 'mob rule/oppression') our current polling system creates—PvMers/PvPers wouldn't be able to maliciously sabotage an update which barely affects them if they aren't actively involved in those communities.
It would potentially allow a less biased discussion and voting system which may then allow some of the other great ideas being proposed on this board (That would never pass if they were voted on in our current system)

Any and all feedback welcome.
(Been thinking about this a bit lately and I've rushed this post on my lunch break so it may not be particularly coherent or complete)


TLDR:
Problem:
Voting is flawed because of malicious and or thoughtless voting

Proposed solution (Constructive feedback/criticism welcomed):
Segment the games development into the different categories discussed in the 2019 content poll.
Provide forums with minimum requirements to participate within which ideas relating to that game aspect are discussed/validated/voted on.
Each forum would have a team of player facilitators/moderators who are trusted/experienced members of the community they represent
For a more in depth explanation, including some challenges this idea would have to overcome to be viable read the full topic
 
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rsn: OCCULTlST
clan: Misfits

Your clan has been dead for the past 4 years. This guy is trying to better the community and all you're trying to do is flame. You are named after the male body part in which urine comes out of so I wouldn't expect any more from you.

Looks promising. Gl

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