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Opinion: Yama contract system and tradable contracts

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Opinion: Yama contract system and tradable contracts

Opinion: Yama contract system and tradable contracts
Type Opinion
Videos 2 (first 2025-05-09, latest 2025-05-25)
Main source Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS)

Opinion: Yama contract system and tradable contracts is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2025-05-09 and 2025-05-25. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey is concerned about how Yama's contracts would work in a duo: it is unclear whether both players need a contract or just one.1
  • Gnomonkey argues that if one player brings a contract, a teammate dying and wasting it would be toxic, and if both need contracts, both losing GP up front still creates toxicity.1
  • Gnomonkey compares the potential toxicity to Perfect Theatre of Blood attempts, where one player repeatedly wiping at Verzik or ruining a Verzik combat achievement attempt causes tension in the team.2
  • Gnomonkey asks whether a player holding a contract would be stuck in limbo waiting for an ironman duo partner to get the drop, even if the unlock became permanent after completion.3
  • Gnomonkey asks what happens if a teammate dies during a contract fight, whether they can still receive the kit if the other player clears it, and notes Jagex has said the system will heavily disincentivize boosting.4
  • Gnomonkey says the contract system does not feel like it works for a duo boss, though he admits Jagex may have a solution he is not seeing.5
  • Gnomonkey says he is wary of high-level content being gated by a GP barricade because there are so few such updates and he has been waiting a long time for one.6
  • Gnomonkey says the contract system gated the Yama kit bosses off from normal players, which was what he was concerned about, and many very good players gave up.7
  • Gnomonkey says the Yama contract system is far worse than Awakener's orbs, and he was amazed Jagex claimed it was better than awakened bosses.8
  • Gnomonkey says the best way to get contracts is to kill the trash mobs (Demons in the Chasm) rather than Yama, so even skilled Ironmen would sit at demons for thousands of kills, which he finds backwards.8
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex should stop mystery-style releases: the contracts were not even known to be tradable until Mod Goblin accidentally mentioned it, and he thinks the idea would have been shot down if polled.9
  • Gnomonkey says it was wrong not to poll tradable contracts, and especially wrong to have guaranteed tradable drops from contracts that may have bugged mechanics.10

Events

  • Huge bot farms were farming contracts from the demons, wearing granite, a black mask and a Saradomin sword, on every world, which he calls redistribution to bots' pockets.11
  • Mod Goblin replied on Reddit that Jagex heard the feedback loud and clear and did not foresee touching a similar system again unless worked through with players from the ground up, and that work on Yama contract rates was ongoing.12

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-05-25 Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History Added: 7 statements (event, opinion)
2025-05-09 Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS) Page created: 7 statements (opinion)
## See also

References

  1. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 10:25 ↩↩

  2. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 11:26 ↩

  3. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 11:56 ↩

  4. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 12:24 ↩

  5. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 13:23 ↩

  6. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 23:16 ↩

  7. Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History, 2025-05-25. ▶ 6:27 ↩

  8. Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History, 2025-05-25. ▶ 7:00 ↩↩

  9. Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History, 2025-05-25. ▶ 51:58 ↩

  10. Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History, 2025-05-25. ▶ 52:29 ↩

  11. Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History, 2025-05-25. ▶ 7:27 ↩

  12. Yama Contracts are the Worst Update in OSRS History, 2025-05-25. ▶ 7:58 ↩

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