This week's show featured a rant which has been doing the rounds for some years now- the ability to hide our combat levels in non-combat areas and replace it with your total level, which is supposedly more relevant.
I'm not so sure about this. Sure, we're not stabbing and firing arrows at each other in Varrock west bank, but surely the combat is still more useful, or at least of more interest than someone's total level. When was the last time you needed to know someone's total level? Never. However, combat levels are extremely important, and even when you're not in a combat situation, it tells you more about a person than the total level.
It was said that the combat level represents less than half of the skills in RuneScape, which is true. Total levels on the other hand are a combined representation of all 24 skills. But think about it- how useful is that. The total level tell you that someone has, say, a combined level of 1368, but you have no way of knowing how this is distributed amongst the 24 skills.
So in fact, on the contrary, a statistic that tells you less about a player actually tells you a lot more. Total levels may be nice to show off to other people, but in reality they're utterly useless to anyone. Combat levels on the other hand are extememly useful in combat situations, and in non-combat areas, what does it matter that people can see them?!
Please discuss and express your views on this matter.
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