#and to me stackable clues are more tedious and stupid

[imunbreakabledude]

I see people arguing on the osrs subreddit about stackable clues again. I'd be interested to hear what you think because as a primarily rs3 player nowadays i do think there are a few qol upgrades that osrs could yoink and use for their clues. namely a low amount of stackable clues, like 5 or something that you unlock by doing clues. Because in my eyes the hour timer on clues is just a much more annoying way of doing it and adding in a low amount of stackable clues is still the same amount of gather and solve time, you can just choose how you wanna divvy it up

Also i didnt even realize osrs got a new boss recently, the royal titans look pretty cool and seems like their drops are pretty useful for irons. its kinda getting me to want to play osrs again. It might make me ping pong back into playing osrs for a bit

ahh i didn't see much & haven't played the new boss in OSRS yet because i've gotten very sucked into a pokemon nuzlocking hyperfixation lol but I AM meaning to log on and go check out the giant bosses... saw positive sentiment around them and i do need/want those prayer unlocks on my iron. just been very locked into other gaming for a while lol...

i hate to say this but since you asked... here comes my rant (of personal feelings! no hate to those who feel differently! i have strong feelings on this game bc i love it, but also do not see it as a life and death issue!)

i hate the idea of stackable clues in the maingame! I am 100% against it. not in an "i would quit" way but in a "heavy sigh, this is adding to the slow accumulation of things changing about the game that make it feel not necessarily worse but undeniably DIFFERENT than the nostalgic beloved game I've played for 20 years" way. but the main reason i'm against it isn't nostalgia or easyscape - it's 1) it feels that it fundamentally changes the type of activities clue scrolls are, and 2) i think it actually makes clues WAY LESS FUN to do. I feel insane when i see people demanding it after we have leagues. because, like, the clue scroll rush in leagues is fun for an hour maybe, then you start to get sick of it, because doing clues all in a row is like... not fun? they're fun when they're once in a while as a diversion. if we could stack them up in the maingame, i think the people who put them off would still put them off, and people who do them immediately would still do them immediately.

the only "problem" stackable clues solve is the dilemma of "i got a clue while on a slayer task, do i interrupt what i'm doing to go do it immediately, or do i finish my trip and risk 'missing out' on another clue drop?" and to me that is not a PROBLEM. this is a really unique factor of clues vs. everything else about osrs, and the cool part is you are not fucking losing out on anything no matter what choice you make! you can decide whatever is more fun for you and it makes very little difference in efficiency (bc if you are actually 'efficient' you are either specifically targeting clues OR not doing them at all).

this whole thing is also wild to me because people don't seem to remember that what we have is already "stackable" clues compared to how they used to be. on osrs launch, i am pretty sure, you could only have one clue scroll at a time. not one of each tier - ONE SCROLL. and it didn't even tell you what tier it was so you had to remember what monster dropped it / look up the clue to find out what tier it was. like, not to be like 'back in my day we walked uphill both ways in the snow' but imo clues are already so much more accessible than ever so I really don't get why the fuck people are such babies about only having one at a time. that's like... the sole thing that makes it unique.

imo, with the 1 hour timer, i kinda see it as a good compromise allowing people to "stack" or juggle with extra effort, if they WANT, but without fundamentally changing the nature of clues. personally i still interact with it more or less the same way i did before: i might juggle clue drops on a slayer task if i feel like it, then do them all after the task; or i might not if i don't feel like it. and the world keeps turning either way!

I DO see why some people are saying 'well that's basically stackable' -though i disagree with it. I mean, if it's 'basically stackable' why are you then demanding we get actual stackable clues? if this is 'basically stackable' then how are impling jars not? you see what I mean? we all know the degrees make a difference here; let's not pretend going from the current system to stackable (even a few) wouldn't be a significant change. but if the options were to revert the 1 hour timer back to 3 minutes or whatever it was before, vs stackable clues? I'd say revert it, easily.

also this whole 'what if they stacked just up to a few' proposal that always gets tossed around: i do prefer that over infinitely stackable, for sure, but it feels arbitrary and weird and also feels like it still doesn't solve any of the complaints. people would still whine if they get a "sneaking suspicion" or get more than 3 or 5 clue drops in one slayer task or whatever the fuck the limit is. it's just moving the goalposts a bit. and i feel like why move them when 1 clue at a time has been like, a notable trait of clue scrolls as an activity since the start.

stackable clues are an example of a perk that is PERFECT for Leagues, but should not come to the main game - just like unlimited run energy. it streamlines something that would otherwise be incredibly grating in a limited time mode, but something that is designed for a certain amount of interactive tedium that forms the identity of OSRS as a slow-progress MMO!

tl;dr - i am very very against it not really because i think it will sink the game but mostly because i think the complaints about clues are stupid and stackable clues is a stupid proposal.