Lodestones, and free teleports in general, do the same to other traveling methods. But if the gas station ran that promotion all the time, they would suffer and the grocery store would suffer. Walking costs time and money, teleporting costs money, and lodestones are free. To compare in Runescape, walking to a location would be like going to the grocery store, buying at the gas station would be like shopping at the gas station, and lodestones are the freebies with the gas. Well well, how convenient! You’d be stupid NOT to go in and get the things there. Now, imagine there was a sign in the gas station window that read “FREE MILK AND BREAD WHEN YOU BUY A TANK OF GAS!”. There’s a grocery store a ways down the road, but you’re already at the gas station anyways, so why not just pay a little more to pop inside and grab them here? Most people would probably go ahead and get what they needed there. While you’re pumping gas, you remember that you need a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread at home. Put it in this perspective: You stop at a gas station to fill up your car with gas. What’s the price of convenience? Ultimately, when a new convenience comes out, other things will suffer. No doubt that wouldn’t stop people from using them. At the very least, you should have to pay a fee to use them, much like the carpets in the desert. At least make them a reward after doing a quest or an easy/medium task set! With the addition of the second batch of lodestones in more previously remote areas, places that I have struggled to get to and spent many collective hours running around to get to before is now time wasted. I touch a platform and now I get to travel there endlessly for free? Not only does it not make sense with the lore of the game (why do lodestones work without the use of magic of any kind?), but there is no requirement to use them. Free convenience should not exist and it cheapens the game. I personally don’t like the idea of the lodestone network or even the home teleport (not that it stops me from using them). It’s mindless, it’s easy, and it’s free!Īnd that’s the problem – there’s no cost or effort needed. Sure, it would ultimately be faster to teleport straight south of the GE, but I huff it from Edgeville’s lodestone or south of Varrock every single time. Convenience pays a major factor in this decision. I’ll sacrifice the five seconds of my life for the extra inventory space. It just is so easy and I don’t need to be burdened with remembering to bring runes. Nine times out of ten, I use lodestones to get where I need to even if there is another option closer. Lodestones killed law runes and teleporting in general. You had your free teleport to Lumbridge via the Home Teleport, but unless you wanted to fiddle with the hassle of using fairy rings, you were shelling out for law runes and teleporting to the closest town and then running the rest of the way. Most of you are experienced enough to know what life was like before lodestones. Runescape just feels so small and cramped now. After that, it’s teleport here and lodestone there. What gives? I’ve had some great memories traversing Gielinor, like climbing through the rocky cliffs of Trollheim, trekking (and dying in) the difficult Underground Pass, and taking the dangerous, winding path to the Elven Lands, but you do that once and then never have to again. As I was turning in my task, I stopped and thought “… I just used a lodestone to go a 10 second walk – Am I really that lazy?” It’s an interesting thing to think about, are players getting lazier or are updates like the lodestones making it too easy to get around? I sometimes find myself not wanting to do something, like the desert area task sets, just because there is no easy access to it and I have to walk. Every time I get this, I take the lodestone to Taverley, make the pouches, and then take the lodestone to Burthorpe right after. Take some yak hide and some crimson charms and you get mondo free exp for a few seconds of work.
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