Seems like it would be better off just being melee exp in general

Because you guys would do so much better after only doing it like 4 times lold.

I would agree on the basis that magic and range only come up once per cycle but melee comes up three times as it currently stands.

It would not be hard to program this at all, but it would need to be decided on how it would go because as RS3 stands, defence is technically both range and magic, and pure melee is str/atk whereas this is not the same in OSRS.

This post was edited by Dontrunaway on Oct 26 2015 06:41pm

you can still get defense xp through range and mage..not sure HOW much rs3 has changed from the OS version but meh overall..i would just think that its all parameters and fetch-able "programs" to grab the right skill set to track. the terminology eludes me but that is what we used in our comp sci class to remake the game mastermind

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Ah I guess you can in osrs, but not in the same way.

In rs3 you can say "I'm using magic, but I want 100% def xp for killing this monster and 0% magic xp"

And I would argue that during a defence week you can use magic and range for full effectiveness of exp, therefore defence should not be part of "melee combat".

Unless it just became a strictly 'combat' week.
I get we aren't including mage/range, but the easiest solution would be just to group all the combats together.
This way pures, etc would have the potential to participate as well.

Could open some doors for the comp in the future.

That is one possibility, but I don't think it would happen. Maybe a combination of attack and strength would be possible or a combination of atk/str/def would be possible, but I doubt all 5 would be combined mainly because HP already exists and is effectively that.

Combat skills will remain in an individual tracking system
, for now. I can see the fact that some of the participant's choice to play as melee pures diminished their chances of winning in a week with a skill they will not touch, but that's their own choice and a risk they're willing to take. However if the system is able to track a combination of combat skills with efficiency and little effort for the host and if this is in a decisive demand from the competitors, I can see this happened in the future as I've always been opened for improvements and the fun that this competition provides.