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His Lordship
Posted: January 8, 2009 06:05 pmTop
   
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 Post your pathetic complaints to JageX here.
Make them trivial like the niggles one.
Mine is below

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I was wondering around Runescape and recently came across a piano in the upstairs section of Juliet's house. HOW DARE YOU!. Judging from most other things, such as the clothing and general architecture, JaGeX is based largely on early Baroque architecture. Of course there are slight anachronisms everywhere, but its understandable when considering a game this size.

Lets assume the dates of Runescape are 1600-1650 or somewhere in that vicinity. I realise that Runescape has its own ages, of which we are in the fifth age I believe? In any case, though Runescape is rather timeless and is supposed to give off a fantasy vibe, the inclusion of a piano BLATANTLY defies this aesthetic.

In this era, pianos had not even been invented! Cristafori invented the first piano in the early 1700s, and even then it was very similar to a clavichord. The piano in Juliet's house is not just a piano, it's a CONCERT GRAND! And it has a steel frame for the strings, a sustain pedal, an UNA CORDA pedal (WHAT THE HELL), and even the full length of keys.

Don't see the problem with this? Pianos like that were'nt manufactured until after the industrial revolution! Mankind did NOT have the power to make them until about 1850 and onward... I would go so far as to suspect you based the piano off a Steinway too, meaning turn of the 20th century.

This is in CLEAR violation of the fantasy aesthetic. It is understandable that a few dates can get muddled up, but post-industrial revolution is unacceptable. That it the age when people stopped believing in magic, and it bore the seeds of modernism. A grand piano is a signal of the end of the era of myth, and the height of enlightenment. You cannot get away with that crime.

This totally DESTROYS the fantasy feel of Runescape for any knowledgeable musician. I suggest if you want to keep in the medieval flavour, change it to a clavichord or a harpsichord, or better yet, to suit Juliet's character, a harp (as long as its not a lever harp. They didn't come into popularity until the Romantic era). I do not suggest an organ since organs have religious connotations and are not found outside concert halls and churches.

JaGeX, this is a serious issue that causes significant clash with your fantasy style. It must be changed.

 
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Quikdrawjoe
Posted: January 8, 2009 06:06 pmTop
   


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Elize
Posted: January 8, 2009 06:06 pmTop
   


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 I started the niggles complaint and they actually took it seriously and changed the sentence in the news thingy! rofl.
 
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George
Posted: January 8, 2009 06:07 pmTop
   
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 You do have a point about that piano tbh.
A harpsichord would look sexeh biggrin.gif
 
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Dilz621
Posted: January 8, 2009 06:08 pmTop
   
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 My complaint is that the men of Runescape's nutsacks aren't accurately represented. They should be biggeR!!
 
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Tnuac
Posted: January 8, 2009 06:10 pmTop
   
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 Hahaha nice
 
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His Lordship
Posted: January 8, 2009 06:10 pmTop
   
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Narita
Posted: January 8, 2009 06:14 pmTop
   
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 you have no life
 
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Tnuac
Posted: January 8, 2009 07:22 pmTop
   
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 Well that was fun
 
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Kiwi011
Posted: January 8, 2009 10:44 pmTop
   
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 That Caption Spik was banned.

he was 1 of the people way back who I always chatted to in the TS, then they banned him =/
 
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