I wish there was a millenial version of "too old to click around for 99 hours" where they just allow bots. Maybe they can be certain servers or certain account types, like ironman. We can call it botman.
In theory you could make a game where you’re max level everything from the start, but I think the pointlessness of that is obvious. The journey is the game to an extent, and the low attention requirements allow us to dream of all the possible efficiencies.
A lot of mobile games do auto-grind and auto-level you, so you have the endorphine spike of "number go up" without having to work (or possibly drop the game due to difficulty.) Some people really don't like the journey, it seems.
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There are many private servers on which this is allowed! I play on vanilla where it is not allowed, but there are others where it is. I love logging on to vanilla every few months and grinding some skill. It really isn’t dozens of hours - with the adult level of cognitive focus and executive function capacity you can get to level 40 attack in maybe 5-6 hours
Leagues fulfills this by ramping up to things like 16x exp rates and 8x drop rates. It is a limited time game mode however
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I'd much rather just not need to grind instead of throwing compute and time at it?
Honestly it wouldn’t be the same. You had to earn a 99.
And how would you earn it with a bot?
Different value prop. Playing on a bot server I imagine my goals would be different since the computer handles all the drudgery for you. Maybe I’d just quest or something idk.
Why not simply remove the skills levels, or make them depend only on the time since making the account? That would be almost the same as allowing bots