I think the biggest problem is that Palidino still believes his target demographic should be pkers. Just take a look at the toplist of any voting site the majority of these servers are skilling/pvm servers. You have great PVM here, probably the best of any RSPS, so you should be trying to get players to join around your great PVM content rather than pking. You shouldn't just shunt out pkers altogether but by no means should they remain your priority when trying to gain players.
Regular mode should have a full item reset (except for untradeables & pets. Rings dont count as untradeables), Combat levels reset, slayer skill reset. Other skills should remain untouched on players accounts.
- Reduce coin drop amount on regular mode so it's the same as iron/hardmode. This is so that prices on items such as bonds which are used amongst all modes remain buyable for all game modes.
- Reduce well cost to 7.5m to activate (this would be 4x less since regular mode is currently 4x more coins than ironman).
- Reduce item trade guide prices by 4x
- Make wild barrows slayer only again
- Remove the barrows armor from the shops
- Change sinister key rate for barrows item to 35%
- Change Regular barrows to 75% chance for 1 item, 25% chance for 2 items, 5% chance for 3 items
- Change regular loots from barrows from 5k runes/bolt racks at a time to 100-200 runes at a time
- Reduce the amount of runes gained from Raids from 6k to 500-1.5k
- Change DWH droprate for regular mode from 1/2500 to 1/750.
- Change Sigil droprates for regular mode to 1/250 for Arcane/Spectral & 1/750 for elysian
- Change Demonic Gorilla's to drop Light & Heavy ballista instead of the seperate parts. Light on a 1/300 rate and heavy on a 1/500 rate
- Changed the shared drop system so that only 1 player per game mode gets any loot from the boss.
- Remove all the regular drops & statuettes from revenents. The only items on their drop table should be the PVP items.
- Change shark store price to 400 coins each.
- Change dark crab store price to 900 coins each.
- Remove Combat level setting
- Change Regular mode combat exp to 125x
- Make it so GE lists the lowest selling price rather than the average.
- Add an item searching feature for player owned shops
- Add a Seperate NPC for player owned shops (new players don't even realise POS exist)
- Make item prices at pest control 3x less than they currently are. It takes too long to grind items at pest control, ts a horrible experience.
- Put Void Set in vote shop for 40 tickets
- Put Fire Cape in vote shop for 15 tickets
- Remove Prayer Scrolls from the boss slayer shop
- Remove PK Supply Crates
- Change Mystery Boxes so the chance of a super good item is much lower (should be about 1/8)
- Remove all of the PVM items from the Blood Money shop
In a decent economy the PVMers are supposed to supply pkers with items. The problem with the blood money shop is it lets Pkers be self sufficient meaning PVMers have nobody to sell their items too. For example doing slayer for whips in the current game is pointless because nobody will ever buy them, pkers can just get them themselves through the blood money shop.
Pkers main source of income should be coins through statuettes which are used to buy items off of the PVMers
You also need to add things which make coins useful
- Remove item imbuing from the vote shop and instead place it in another shop which requires imbuing via coins (5m coins)
- Add trident/trident of swamp charging with runes
- Add barrows degrading
- Make Kraken whip degrade (1m coins repair cost)
Also need measures to prevent the main game mode economy being fucked up by the other game modes.
- Regular mode shouldn't be able to trade/stake with Ironman/HCIM/Hard Mode for the first 2 months (except bonds).
- Regular mode shouldn't be able to pickup items dropped by Ironman/HCIM/Hard Mode for the first 2 months.
- Regular mode shouldn't be able to pickup/attack other modes in the wilderness for the first 2 months.
- Disable the Blood Money shop for the 1st 2 weeks after reset
- Remove Blood Money from bonds (temporarirly)
- Temporarily disable mystery box feature
