Thoughts on Jagex reverting Death Mechanics?

Just the other day, Mod Ash tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/JagexAsh/status/711653336148283392

As I'm posting this, apparently the servers are being ddosed for the DMM tournament.

Thoughts on it being reverted and losing items on death again?

 

You're correct on saying the worlds are getting ddosed, can't log into any world, or join any clan chat. My thoughts are it should stay 30 minutes until the servers are fully stable.

 

I agree it should stay how it is right now. As for the servers being 'fully stable' I think up until this point everyone believed they were pretty stable which is why they were starting to talk about them being reverted. My opinion is that the people ddosing just had no reason, or less of a reason, to ddos until now. There's $10k on the line and here we are. If they revert death mechanics I believe we're right back again where we were when worlds were getting ddosed so people could loot others.

 

They were pretty stable or at least the servers haven't been attacked these past few weeks from my knowledge, this is the first time I have dced in weeks and I play 15 hours a day, maybe they thought the servers were stable enough now and that's why they decided to change it back to two minutes?

Hopefully once they notice what happened they change it back to 30 minutes.

 

It was bound to happen lol.

 

Didn't another official tournament get DDoS'd a while back? Anyways I don't know how I managed to cope with the old death mechanics; feels much safer now which I enjoy but thinking back at it, the current death mechanics remove that fear of losing your items that runescapes had forever now. If it were to be polled judging by how the community has reacted to polls such as NMZ, I wouldn't expect them to be reverted. I wonder if people would support bringing back graves

 

damn its pretty serious now huh

 

it was expected

 

I miss the days where when you died your look was free for anyone to pick up... Never liked the 1hr timer.

 

Same. It was fun to see what they had in their inventories too, haha.

 

Not reverting it back for this long has had a significant impact on the economy. If it's not reverted, it just gets worse, and the idea of having an hour long timer completely undermines what the oldschool feel was about.

 

I think they should leave the timer for untradables but make it like 5 minutes for items lost

 

I wouldn't mind some sort of compromise like this, maybe 10 minutes for items. As for untradeables an hour still seems too long, maybe 30 minutes.

 

I'm confused can someone explain to me what these changes mean?

 

They're not in the game yet, but when you die to a monster right now all of your non tradeable items are kept on death, and your tradeable items stay on the ground for an hour. Nobody can see them but you. These changes would mean when you die, you have 60 seconds to get back for all of your belongings, and after that they would appear to other players to loot for 60 seconds. After 2 minutes they would disappear for good.

 

Ah man that's such a bad change.. Is there 100% going to happen?

 

It would seem so, but with the most recent DDoSing of the DMM tournament they might reconsider, or they will try to work on some sort of compromise.

 

Difference back then you wouldn't have an account on every world at godwars bosses waiting to spot a pvmers to hit the world offline, loot tab and repeat.

 

Exactly, my thoughts on it. Or people who wait outside of corp and run in and loot karils sets and berserker rings.

 

The reason 07 was getting hit was due to the DMM tournament. A group/clan was caught doing something and disqualified from the tournament. They then decided no one deserved to play runescape for 12 hours lol