[Suggestion] You should auto-pick pocket twice every time you knock out someone with a black jack
Black jack is simply too much precise click work to be enjoyable content. I've been playing video games for 20 years, and the first time I EVER got carpal tunnel from anything in my life was black jacking (yes, this whole thing is going to sound like a euphemism for masturbation, deal with it). Having to click a ton of very small text boxes precisely in a huge menu 3 times every 1.5 seconds without rest will kill your wrist in five minutes. I took a year long break from the game, came back, black jacked for a bit, and got carpal tunnel again within an hour. For reference, at 78 thieving, black jacking is more than twice the xp/hour for me than Pyramid Plunder (I don't have access to Pharaohs staff though so my numbers could be a little off).
It is not bad for content to take a long time to complete. It is not bad for content to be non-afkable, and require constant attention. It is bad when the user interface is frustrating, hard to use, and you sit there half the time being like NO STUPID GAME I CLICKED KNOCK OUT, NOT LURE. Working to grind a skill in Runescape should feel good, not like trying to see how long you can hold a hot iron to your balls.
A few things that would still make this content require decent attention: Failing the knock out means the guard will attack you, which as many black jackers know, you can fix by quickly knocking him out or pick pocketing him again. Not doing this and having to run out of the tent to de-aggro the guy kills your xp/hour so much that you might as well be doing pyramid plunder instead.
A compromise would be to make you only auto pick pocket once, which would allow players to further their xp by manually clicking pick-pocket for the second time, but as stated previously, the need to cancel the guards aggro on a failed knock out pretty much means you need to be keeping an eye out the entire time, so it's not like someone could afk it that much anyway.
Let me know what you guys think! This is especially relevant with the new ruled regarding AHK, as there isn't really a "wrist-friendly" solution anymore.
Posted Feb 16, 2017, 11:14 PM UTC