"Hi everyone! At Jagex HQ we’ve watched the Ironman Challenge explode in popularity and have really enjoyed seeing players take on the challenge in youtube videos and livestreams!

If this is new to you, the Ironman Challenge is a community-craze where players start a new RuneScape character and have to play entirely self-sufficiently – you can only use resources and equipment that you’ve got for yourself and cannot get help from others. It’s a lot of fun and really tests your skill and game knowledge, as well as giving that feeling of being a wide-eyed newcomer to RuneScape who has to fend for themselves – even for grizzled veterans

As much fun as this is, there are some drawbacks at the moment: there isn’t an easy way to show that you’re playing an ironman character, and there is no way to prove that you’ve honoured the rules of the challenge (or tell if others haven’t).

This is where we could help! We’re considering adding a mode for ironman into the game, to support this awesome community-created gameplay. We’re treating this as an experimental project, and can’t yet guarantee if or when it’ll come out, and may release a very basic implementation before deciding whether it gets developed further.

(The Old School RuneScape team are considering an ironman mode too, which makes a lot of sense as ironman’s popularity really grew out of the OSRS community. If you’re an Old School player keep an eye on the OSRS dev blogs and forums to join that discussion when it starts soon.)

At this early stage, we’d love your feedback and to get some discussion going over the right ruleset for ironman. Here is an outline of the rules and game mechanics we’re considering so far:

- Ironman mode starts with a freshly created character.

- Once entered into the ironman mode, it cannot be turned off.

- When in ironman mode you:

-- Cannot trade with other players

-- Cannot use the Grand Exchange (except for buying Bonds – ironman your way to membership!)

-- Cannot pick up drops from players

-- Cannot pick up drops from monsters you have not killed

-- Cannot participate in multiplayer minigames

-- Cannot be affected by other player’s beneficial spells or abilities (e.g. Ice Asylum, Tele Group, etc)

-- Cannot be affected by group buffs (e.g. clan avatar)

-- Cannot use other player’s POH services (gilded altars, lecterns, etc)

-- Cannot acquire resources or equipment from Treasure Hunter

-- Cannot be assisted or accept aid.

-- Cannot buy items in shops which were supplied by other players

-- Cannot join a Dungeoneering team (only solo allowed)

-- Cannot use the grouping system when it launches

- Players in ironman mode would have a special chat badge, maybe a skull (like the mod crown or VIP star).

- We’ll need to find a way for ironman players to complete Shield of Arrav and Heroes Quest solo.

- As a stretch goal, we’d consider a hiscore table filter to just show ironman players

- And a final twist: an extended mode for the bravest of the brave - Hardcore Ironman!

-- Also requires a freshly created character

-- You only have one life – once you’re dead that’s game over!

-- Only your hiscore remains.

-- Hardcore ironman mode would show a different chat badge (maybe a red skull).


That’s what we’ve got so far. Please let us know if you can think of any other considerations or ways to make this even more fun!

Mods Easty, Philip and Pips. "



Just found this on the high level forums and found it quite interesting, definately sounds like a challenge and could be fun to do.

What are people's thoughts on this?

Yes I read this before & actually thought that I could join, but then realized that I only have 2 monthes until college starts again

Which means no time to do it, even if I started that account, I'll never get to the exact levels I want before college

Sounds awesome. I've done ironman accounts before and I'd love to do one where it's proveable you've not cheated like I'm sure people have.

Hard mode would be interesting but you'd have to avoid wilderness at all costs and be so careful but I think I'd chose that.

Sounds fun, I've done Ironman Mode on other games such as Crusader Kings II which, while completely different to anything on RS do prevent a great new challenge so this would definitely be something I'd give a go, hope they go through with it!

I think this is a fantastic thing to introduce

Back in my day it was called a D.I.Y account

Back in my day it was called a D.I.Y account

i remember gabe had one

Sweet this might actually be a nice and fun challenge to do

~Sean

I'm all for this. Not sure i'd actually try it but it's a cool idea. Miss people value the community too.

The skull or icon to distinguish other ironman accounts is a cool idea and I am totally up for doing one of these accounts. I would have to go with the hardmode version though but I wonder if when you died you would get force logged and would be unable to ever log back in.

Where did you find this as well?

The skull or icon to distinguish other ironman accounts is a cool idea and I am totally up for doing one of these accounts. I would have to go with the hardmode version though but I wonder if when you died you would get force logged and would be unable to ever log back in.

Where did you find this as well?

Hopefully it would simply reset you when you die, I'd doubt Jagex would want people creating dozens of accounts because they keep on dying

Quote from: Pluto on July 23, 2014, 21:22:32

The skull or icon to distinguish other ironman accounts is a cool idea and I am totally up for doing one of these accounts. I would have to go with the hardmode version though but I wonder if when you died you would get force logged and would be unable to ever log back in.

Where did you find this as well?

Hopefully it would simply reset you when you die, I'd doubt Jagex would want people creating dozens of accounts because they keep on dying

It says that your highscore remains though so it sounds like you'd have to create a new account if anything. It would really suck if you lagged/disconnected and ended up dying during a quest or something.

You'd have to be soooooo careful about every single little thing. xD But that would be fun.

Who's up for making an ironman hard mode skiller?

Where did you find this as well?

HLF

Quote from: Pluto on July 23, 2014, 21:22:32

Where did you find this as well?

HLF

Oh wow it totally says that at the bottom of your message. I wouldn't mind joining as a skiller Red. Would be interesting to see what 99s people can get and what the best account is that has died and things like that.