“It’s not taking away resources from other updates” → of course it is, the money for the team that was hired could have been used for a team for new updates, like Sailing
Is this the price we pay for not getting MTX?
Just like bonds did for RWT: if you can’t fight private servers, take a piece of the pie!
Player-created content almost unilaterally increases the longevity of a game

Good example: plugins!
But does any other MMORPG have moddability on the world level?
Cireon: I’m all in favour of creating a sandbox environment for player-created content, but how long are people going to remain interested in servers with low population?

Would it be better long-term to support a quest creation tool that just instantiates in existing servers, similar to quest speedrunning?

Given that the GE won’t be shared, only big existing communities - which tend to only exist around content creators, with some exceptions - will really create any economy appealing to non-ironman.

What if it ends up only really allowing to change a few parameters. Are the expectations too high?
“Eventually” they want to support player creations, but they’re focusing on MVP now. If the MVP ends up allowing little customisation, it may be dead before the powerful creation tools are ready to launch

But what if we decouple it altogether from community servers being a “mirror” of the main game, and use the server as an engine to enable specific activities?

In general: faction based combat where different factions control different regions
World events!

General sentiment (Cireon): besides sailing, another big bet with a huge investment with a high risk of not paying off

Loving the graceful outfit override. Probably going to be my override of choice for ironman
50 agility & 62 agility → the latter sits right on top of seer’s village course, which is some of the fastest xp & graceful tokens in the game (with hard Kandarin diary). The former sits on the Falador course which makes it potentially even less relevant, since people like to stick with Canifis for more tokens.
Low intensity may make it popular, but it’s still not afkable and just puts it in this awkward afk space.

Biome variety and leaning into OSRS look and feel!
Master quest finale: puts it right alongside A Kingdom Divided for them to merge the storylines in an ultimate grandmaster
No city of bards? 😢
Doom of the Mokhaiotl - Low-intensity boss, but also enrage mechanics?

One of Shane’s biggest things the OS team can do to evolve and advance the game.

Defender of Varrock changes were pretty minimal → hard to know at this point what “with an OSRS twist” really means
Interesting that Missing My Mummy is also part of this tie-in
Rewards: Zemouregal Fortress & Zombie Helmet

Realistically, this is PvP clan content. Large enough clans will be able to prevent individuals from participating (except maybe in single combat).

Having forcing functions for PvP clans going head to head, vying over control of the Wrathmaw spawn locations, actually sounds like a good thing.

Area unlocks were fun, but would’ve liked to see divisions along different lines

Show Data

Title: To The Moon!
Teaser: Summer Summit 2024 brings news on Project Zanaris and community servers. We discuss why they’re on the way and what the game may be losing. Also, Varla-MORE brings 2 more expansions plus Wrathmaw, Leagues V, and an update on HD mode and plugins!
Recorded Date: September 8, 2024
Release Date: September 8, 2024
Hosts: Shane and Cireon
Duration: 1:04:41
Editing Notes: Discord drop out during final dawn