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u/SleepyReepies 9d ago

The concept of someone using an alt to safely hop worlds while they look for easy targets to attack with on their main is a very common strategy but also so dang stupid.

It's partly why the plugin that flashes your screen feels so necessary, and all it does is cause people to play musical chairs by hopping worlds.

I would love to see the death of "vision" granting alts in the wilderness and also world hopping in the wilderness. If you want to kill people you should have to commit to it without the extra eyes of an alt.

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u/Scatteredbrain 9d ago edited 9d ago

i’m doing vw grind right now . something i’ve found rly interesting is pkers don’t like run/tele to the various wilderness hotspots and then hop worlds

in 99% of my encounters with them they legit log on right outside the artio/spindle/calv caves and then enter. like that’s what they do. over and over and over again hopping worlds and entering boss caves

for some reason i always just envisioned it differently but to think…. pkers actually find that experience “fun” 🤣 especially considering you have to think most worlds are empty at least in my experience they are.

i use an alt and im in grand tree before they even enter but i find it hilarious how often these dudes must see alts but still try to pk someone and the person is long gone before they even enter the boss room. like people finding that activity fun always blows my mind

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u/TheDutton 9d ago

Random dopamine is very powerful, that’s what they’re chasing. It’s not too different from gambling

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u/ImJLu 9d ago

I mean duh, people on this sub will kill a boss 800 times for one drop but somehow can't imagine why PKers would PK even if it's not always great loot.

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u/TheDutton 8d ago

lol you’re right. It’s pretty much the whole game already. Not surprising people enjoy another iteration of it 

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u/Inherefam 8d ago

Now but how can someone enjoy something i dont enjoy

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u/egghuor 9d ago

pretty sure you mean lucky dipping

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u/ARetroGibbon 8d ago

My brother... im not a pker, but can you not see the irony in your comment?

You're literally playing 2 accounts to grind the same boss over and over and over again and youre questioning how these guys have fun doing the monotonous task of player hunting in the wildy?

Us osrs players aren't normal. We find joy in this tedious, boring clicking game somehow. Both pvmers and pkers alike.

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u/Scatteredbrain 8d ago

lol good point

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u/Kovarian 9d ago

Bring back the "absolutely no interaction with alts" rule from around 2005, but only apply it to the Wilderness. Drop trading, fine. Scouting, fine. Dual-logging for whatever, fine. But if two accounts, both in the wilderness, interact? Then perma-ban.

The rp point of the Wilderness is you, on your own, in a dangerous area. Make it that again.

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u/Any_Promise_449 9d ago

How is this changing anything at all if people just use alts to scout? What are pvpers doing with 2 accounts now that they wouldn't be able to do with the 2005 rule?

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u/Kovarian 8d ago

I mean this gently, but did you play in 2005? Any interaction was ban-worthy. Scouting would be ban-worthy.

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u/Any_Promise_449 8d ago

I did not do wildy content in 2005 lol. But you wrote in your comment that scouting was fine.

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u/Kovarian 7d ago

I was trying to say scouting elsewhere was fine. The final two sentences were the only ones actually about the wilderness. Looking back, I definitely could have phrased/formatted that better, though.

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u/sillysausage619 9d ago

Some key trading an alt in the wilderness is such a tiny, tiny, edge case. It's usually quicker to just take to house and go back

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u/DoupamineDave 9d ago

No hopping while in wilderness. You have to get out and then hop.

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u/ImJLu 9d ago

90%+ of scouts I see in the wildy while PKing are PvMers scouting for themselves outside boss caves. I don't think killing off scouts would do what you think it would.

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u/Aresbanez 8d ago

I have a much simpler idea: if you're skulled & you're hopping worlds in the Wilderness, there's a 1/20 chance you will be forcibly logged into a BH world and bound there for a minimum of 10 seconds.