Jagex announced RSPS (Project Zanaris)

Announcing Project Zanaris - Old School Community Servers

Fresh from the Summer Summit: Project Zanaris! Wait, whats that...?

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nice

 

Why is this an announcement lol

 

Why is this an announcement lol

he's ready to retire from rune-server owner

 

Wow!
didn't see this coming honestly

 

What do you think of this guys?? where will this lead the rsps community? What are your reactions on this??
Will they let us make our own custom servers like minecraft or what

 

in my eyes this will kill rsps

 

in my eyes this will kill rsps

community server are diff from rsps but we will see in comming years

 

in my eyes this will kill rsps

Depends by what you mean by kill and what you mean by RSPS. It won't kill open-source RSPS because that is it's own niche. RSPS will still always have certain advantages over the official custom servers, like if players want dueling/staking, they still can't have that in the official custom servers they need RSPS for that.

 

Finally, been waiting for this

 

"Do you want NPCs to deal 5x the damage? Do you want to make everyone an Ultimate Ironman, or turn PvP on everywhere? All of this, and more"
Doesn't sound like there will be much customisation.
Think it will be good for those who want to learn bossing/enjoy having end game gear and that's about it.

No doubt its going to be P2W asf Jagex will want to profit off it somehow.

 

Well it still aint a 2011 or 2010 server I think its a great idea for the old school community but. I feel like its an idea that should have been made years ago, having a sandbox sort of server where players can still play with each other but practise pking like a spawn server. Cool that they are trying new things like this.

 

Why on earth is this an announcement post?

Anyway this is blown way out of proportion by most casuals. The first version of Project Zanaris will just be rentable servers where you have a configuration file that you can adjust based on pre-defined knobs and dials. This has already been confirmed (both in the blogs/videos as well as by Mod Sarnie in discord).
While they are looking for avenues of allowing content creation by the people renting it, the reality is this is probably never going to happen. There's a reason the blogs were kept rather vague - and Sarnie confirmed that as well. They don't want to over-promise in case it isn't possible, and it most likely won't be possible to go beyond that.

The way I see it, there are five possible "levels" at which this concept could come to life. Note that each level is significantly less likely than the one before it.
1. Just some dials and knobs on a configuration file to enable, disable and modify pre-defined aspects of the game (xp rate, disabling specific bosses, etc). This has been confirmed to be coming in 2025.
2. Ability to use their in-house tools and create novel content that does not touch the existing codebase. So literally just build a completely stand-alone map with your own objects and models, add in creatures, brand new items etc. Cannot use existing models, locs, items etc. This is what they're looking to support in the future, but it is far too early to make any promises. Reality is this most likely requires #3 & #4 alongside, which are extremely unlikely to ever take place.
3. Access to data files (configs, animations, models and so on)
4. Access to the runescript codebase, allowing modifying any existing content.
5. Access to the engine code (Java, C++). Not even most of the J-mods have access to this.

So tl;dr is, when the first version of community servers drops, it will just be #1. The issue is this will completely kill any hype people have over it and likely significantly hinder the future development of this concept in the future. I wouldn't give it very high odds of ever reaching #2, though I'd like to be proven wrong. Until then, however, at #1 it does zero harm to current RSPS. At #2 it will hurt emulation-based servers, although OSRS-emulations don't really exist, so the overall impact is fairly negligible. #2 would additionally result in the tooling reaching current private servers and potentially help this scene out alongside.
At levels #3 & #4 however, servers should start to become worried. That would mean the end of a lot of servers, namely anything oldschool based. The probability of it ever making anywhere close to this stage is slim to none though. There's too much at line to be putting out 1.5 million lines of code built over decades. It would never get past the higher ups.

 

This sounds cool and all.... but absolutely will turn out to be a waste of development time, and $$ - Kris pointed out valid reasons.

 

Cool concept
No so cool announcement

 

What do you think of this guys?? where will this lead the rsps community? What are your reactions on this??
Will they let us make our own custom servers like minecraft or what

I think RSPS will go exactly nowhere, simply because the game owners won’t be able to make any money from it. Also, considering the restrictions on adding custom content, it’s highly unlikely that they’ll provide access to the code or anything similar.

 

 

 

lol with your own custom content, restricted in the jagex formats, and they steal it also form you

 

They should make it like Counter-Strike servers in which you have to download a bunch of their customizable files before joining. If they only allow their own options then it is gonna be very limited and all servers will be too similar. If it is fully customizable then the servers success will be based on mostly orginality rather than luck and chance of being first with money to spend.