Introduction
We’ve loved watching you all get stuck into Group Ironman and enjoying the many ways you’ve all been working together. We’ve also been listening to your feedback and have a number of proposed changes, some of which will also apply to non-Group Iron accounts.
The proposals cover:
- Group Storage Expansion
- Emergency Teleport Shards
- Enter other Player Owned Houses
- Teleporting to the homes of other group members
Let’s dig in deeper and see what they’re all about!
Group Storage Expansion
The Group Storage is a highly popular feature for both regular and Hardcore Group Iron players. The feedback we’ve received the most is that you all want more of it. We hear you!
We want to offer increased storage space as a reward for completing tasks that are specifically tailored to groups, ensuring that your path feels different to when playing as a non-Iron character. We would therefore like to offer a group task list consisting of things such as:
- Hitting certain individual and group levels
- Completing Combat Achievement tiers
- Completing Achievement Diaries tiers
- Obtaining Quests Points
- Various Combat achievements
Achieve enough of these goals and your Group Storage could expand from 80 all the way up to 200 slots!
You’ll probably accomplish a lot of this through normal Group Ironman play, but with the new system in place, doing so will feel all the more meaningful. Remember that time your group yelled at you for staying at Wintertodt to get to 99, even though you had all the supply crates you wanted? Well, that 99 may now unlock you some storage slots – so it was definitely worth the grind!
Emergency Teleport Shards
Life in Gielinor is scary – but luckily you can always respawn if something goes horribly wrong. Of course, one particular group has it worse than the rest… we’re looking at you, Hardcores!
The following encounters have always been considered ‘safe’ for regular Hardcore players, but are dangerous deaths for Hardcore Group Iron players:
- Chambers of Xeric (including Challenge Mode)
- The Inferno
- TzHaar-Ket-Rak’s Challenges
- Pest Control
- Barbarian Assault
It’s become apparent that these encounters can be quite brutal, and it can be hard to escape if you’re caught in a bad spot. Perhaps a teammate is not pulling their weight, or someone tripped over a router cable. Regardless of the reason, there’s a need for a quick way of teleporting out of such situations.
One solution to this already exists in the Theatre of Blood – namely, Verzik’s Crystal Shards. Currently they can be bought for 75k gold and allow you to instantly teleport outside of the theatre. They also let other players use their shard on you to teleport you out, and there will be a setting to toggle whether or not other players are allowed to do this.
We would like to expand the Crystal Shard system so they can be used in other places – specifically, those named above. This means that extremely dangerous places such as the Inferno would have a one-click instant teleport to safety. Additionally, the Crystal will likely be renamed and purchasable from a more accessible location.
Note that these teleports will be usable for all types of accounts, not just Hardcore Group Iron players. However, seeing as there’s no punishment for other accounts when they die in these spots, we would like this to be polled only for the affected players.
To those of you who have already conquered these dangers without this safety net – we salute you! No-one will ever be able to take that accomplishment away from you!
Player Owned House Additions
Enter another player’s house remotely
Currently, you can only enter another player’s Player Owned House if the owner is home. While that’s usually how it works in real life as well, we’d like to offer you the ability to visit a friend’s house when they’re out and about. Consider it the same as having a spare key to your friend’s house! This can only be done if the owner is online and in the same world as you (this is entirely down to tech restrictions).
Our hope is that this makes accessing other player’s homes a bit smoother. Of course, as a house owner, you’re completely free to lock your house so that no one can enter it without your permission!
We know that a lot of Group Iron players would love a shared house that they can build together. Unfortunately, the tech requirements for this are huge, and we can’t really justify the resources when we have so many other projects we want to deliver to you. Many of you have said that you’d like to see Construction level for just one of your team, so this change will at least make it more viable for your team to have one dedicated ‘builder’!
By allowing Group Iron players to visit other members’ houses while they’re not at home, we’ll also be able to offer this functionality for non-Group Iron players. Should you be allowed to visit your friend’s house if they’re not at home? Let us know what you think.
Teleport to group member’s house
As a Group Iron player, you may have read the above and wondered “What good is my friend’s house if I can’t get there easily?”. Well, we have the answer!
Because there are many different locations where your house can be, it’s unlikely that group member’s houses are conveniently grouped together. We would like to offer a way for both regular and Hardcore Group Iron players to redirect their house teleport to a group member’s house.
The teleport will likely be accessible via a right click on the Teleport to House spell, as the regular spellbook doesn’t have space for any more spells.
As always, we would love to hear what you think of our proposed additions to the game. Once your feedback has been addressed, we’ll be ready to poll them.
We’d love to hear your feedback so please let us know what you think via our official forums, on the 2007Scape Reddit, the Steam forums or the community-led OSRS Discord.
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