The Vastness of the New Skill

naphtali14 · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 9:40 am

It's hard for me to think of how huge summoning is going to have to be. Jagex has said various things like "Summoning will offer you a familiar for every occasion..." and etc. They keep on making refference to the fact that summoning will be helpful for every skill. This is amazing to me! This is not going to some small skill like firemaking, mining, or even runecrafting to an extent, it's going to be huge. This, in my mind anyway, could be the biggest most complex skill yet released by Jagex. What are your thoughts?

Adbot · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 9:40 am

blethorskite · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 9:49 am

It certainly sounds huge and as such is likely to have a massive impact on the game. We already know it will effect combat levels and that in itself is possibly the biggest change to the game since I started playing 18 months back. More and more it's sounding like we might end up with a version of petscape. Pet bulldogs - really, what's the point. Time will of course make this clearer, but I'm getting more nervious about what's to come and wish they would just get on with it and introduce it so can can make up our minds. I really doubt, at times, that Jagex staff actually play the game, as they certainly don't seem to understand those who do play.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 10:04 am

I think Jagex has a nasty habbit of over hyping all there updates and they never turn out as grreat as everyone thinks. XD

blethorskite · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 10:12 am

That was certainly the case with Hunter.

Southrend · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 10:59 am

I doubt it will get as complex as Construction. That's one huge skill.

blethorskite · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 11:14 am

It's impact on the game is likely, from todays information, to be far more reaching across the game than Construction. You could take or leave that if you wanted.

Adbot · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 11:14 am

distroyer36 · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 11:42 am

well if you look at the other amounts of time it took to make the other skills compared to summoning. Summoning is taking like twice as long to make, so ya it is going to be big. I hope it is worth it though :roll:

Magicking610 · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 2:38 pm

Well, it's going into all the combat skills, hunter, and i'm not sure buti think it might have a weak relation with herblore. I'd say it's pretty vast...

colinsoccer123 · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 3:27 pm

distroyer36 wrote:

well if you look at the other amounts of time it took to make the other skills compared to summoning. Summoning is taking like twice as long to make, so ya it is going to be big. I hope it is worth it though :roll:

Maybe they're just lazy?

I'm excited for summoning but Jagex has made everything a huge deal lately. I Know that I'll enjoy summoning but I doubt it will turn out to be everything jagex said it would be.

whitedragon · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 6:55 pm

blethorskite wrote:

That was certainly the case with Hunter.

And everything else *cough* grand exchange *cough*

imac · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 7:47 pm

hmm i dont read there stuff usually so it connects to all skills im pretty pschyed for this then

naphtali14 · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 8:26 pm

It was made pretty clear today by jagex (this info came out after I started the thread) that this will be the biggest skill so far. They also mentioned that because its so big they will be releasing in phases. The initial phase will be released next week. Then a whole new set of creatures will be added in February. This sounds huge. I'm thinking that this is going to really good.

Warren · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 8:40 pm

Yeah, but many of the familiars are probably going to be variations of the same thing, and probably have no use except one or two of them. Well, by no use I mean it wont be that useful, and no one will use it. Summon the woodpecker for 100K and he will cut you 3 extra yew logs an hour! *Stays summoned for a maximum of 80 minutes, has a 5 day recharge period. Don't forget to recharge your summoning points on one of the 4 inconveniently located summon-altars in RuneScape, or your creature will die if you run out. Drains as fast as prayer.

Fun.

naphtali14 · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 8:49 pm

Warren wrote:

Yeah, but many of the familiars are probably going to be variations of the same thing, and probably have no use except one or two of them. Well, by no use I mean it wont be that useful, and no one will use it. Summon the woodpecker for 100K and he will cut you 3 extra yew logs an hour! *Stays summoned for a maximum of 80 minutes, has a 5 day recharge period. Don't forget to recharge your summoning points on one of the 4 inconveniently located summon-altars in RuneScape, or your creature will die if you run out. Drains as fast as prayer.

Fun.

Mmmm have you read the new devolopment diary? It sounds much more in depth that. Take for instance this quote "Each creature has unique Summoning requirements, special moves, abilities, distinct personalities and hidden chat options, so no one could possibly experience them all as they rise through the levels," says Mod Osborne" I'm casting my vote in favor of jagex this time. I really think that they have got a good thing going here..

Warren · **Posted:** January 9th, 2008, 8:57 pm

They say similar things to that for every update. I doubt it will be like what they say it is.

For example with another skill:

Quote:

Hundreds of new objects and large areas of the map will now be opened up to you to explore and lay in wait for these pesky varmints.

^From hunter- I can't think of more than 15 hunter items. Not close to hundreds. And hunter came with only 3 new areas, and they weren't exactly large.

They also went on about many more animals to hunt there would be, and after it was released, most were just variations.

Everything has the best use ever in Jagex's eyes. To the players, it's not good, and isn't used. Them saying it has a good use, doesn't make it true much. Didn't it take them three (?) updates to crossbows saying they were really good after each update just to get people to use them?