Originally Posted by
Eyeownyew
Hm, this couldn't have come at a much better time. I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
I think one of the biggest issues we face (or at least me personally) is choosing which features to prioritize. Some clients have fullscreen/resizable, some have better (HD) rendering engines.
The biggest issue is finding a level of customizability within a quality client. Runelimited was a great client, but it lacked fog and some other aesthetics. It also didn't have ondemand cache loading, which seems like a very nice feature IMO. I'm not sure of what else it was missing, but those are a few things I've never learned how to do myself.
From a different standpoint, I think that if we had a type of OpenRS for 317 clients we'd have a lot more tools available for modification. Map editing seems to be one of the biggest struggles right now. Not many people understand the structure of the cache very well.
I think people might think I'm lazy for not learning the cache structure and ondemand protocol and all of that, but I've never really had the resources to learn it (like a solid explanation of how it's used with programming examples). Maybe less material release and more theory?
Edit: Also agree that you swapping to a 530 or something would be even better. If I had a more renamed 530, the tools already exist, like OpenRS and a lot of other cache tools. That also eliminates the issue of HD, because god damn HD looks incredible compared to the 317 client