"As many of you know, since the opening of PvP Worlds, ‘76k’ing has become a very common practice. We’ve never been happy about this as we believe it spoils the game experience for players who want to play on PvP Worlds as intended and exhibit their PvP skills, with high rewards for high risks, rather than it being a safe method for earning large amounts of money. Looking at our forums, it looks like many players feel the same way.
Designing and developing a solution to this issue that worked, but which did not lessen the rewards for legitimate kills, turned out to be rather tricky. We’re hopeful that the solution we’ve come up with will reduce 76King without having too significant an impact on legitimate PKers.
Players who trade kills will find that the drop they receive is lessened in value. Legitimate PKers might find that some of their kills will result in smaller drops (e.g. when getting revenge on someone who has just killed you), but since you’ll still only lose as much Earning Potential as is used for the drop, your average drop will stay the same."
-http://services.runescape.com/m=news/newsitem.ws?id=2362
I agree, Jagex explained this horribly. I, myself being an avid 76ker got to the bottom of this, so here you are.
'76king Fixed' Update explained.
-If I kill anyone more than once in a row (Not sure of the timespan, probably a few hours) I only get a 2 ep worothy drop (Which is just really rubbish, not worth the EP going down).
-If I kill someone. Then they kill me afterwards; same thing. They only get a 2 ep worothy drop. (Once again, rubbish.)
Ways around it:
Simple. Get three people, each person kills another person with 76k once, voila you just did the trick. Usually after one kill for full EP it goes down 25%. So it's pretty convenient. You get yourself and two friends to do the trick, go and chill for 30 minutes and get another 25% ep then repeat.
Good game jagex.
Hope this helped!
-Dalton
Designing and developing a solution to this issue that worked, but which did not lessen the rewards for legitimate kills, turned out to be rather tricky. We’re hopeful that the solution we’ve come up with will reduce 76King without having too significant an impact on legitimate PKers.
Players who trade kills will find that the drop they receive is lessened in value. Legitimate PKers might find that some of their kills will result in smaller drops (e.g. when getting revenge on someone who has just killed you), but since you’ll still only lose as much Earning Potential as is used for the drop, your average drop will stay the same."
-http://services.runescape.com/m=news/newsitem.ws?id=2362
I agree, Jagex explained this horribly. I, myself being an avid 76ker got to the bottom of this, so here you are.
'76king Fixed' Update explained.
-If I kill anyone more than once in a row (Not sure of the timespan, probably a few hours) I only get a 2 ep worothy drop (Which is just really rubbish, not worth the EP going down).
-If I kill someone. Then they kill me afterwards; same thing. They only get a 2 ep worothy drop. (Once again, rubbish.)
Ways around it:
Simple. Get three people, each person kills another person with 76k once, voila you just did the trick. Usually after one kill for full EP it goes down 25%. So it's pretty convenient. You get yourself and two friends to do the trick, go and chill for 30 minutes and get another 25% ep then repeat.
Good game jagex.
Hope this helped!
-Dalton
