Honestly, it went a lot better than I'd anticipated. It's definitely made the game look a lot more populated. I was definitely in the wrong about it being an overall bad decision. I found myself running into a lot more people than usual, which for the most part isn't all that bad of a thing. The wilderness (beyond edgeville) also seems to be more populated, which is nice. Certain resources are going to enter the game at a slower rate, which is also better for their value.
I do think some things should be done to compensate for w2 being closed. When doing my daily tasks I often find someone already taking up the resources I need to get. I mean sure that whole 'resource competition' is back now but it's incredibly frustrating for newer people to have someone just adze spec away all their ores/logs. Certain monsters can also be somewhat impossible to do slayer tasks for due to their low amounts of spawns. It's mostly bearable, but improving on it would definitely prevent needless frustration. Certain training methods also got affected by w2 closing. Black salamanders in the wilderness are a lot more risky now. Stall thieving at higher levels took quite a big hit in exp/h due to not being able to hop. The fact that you had to do that to get good thieving rates is a problem on it's own to be honest. Generally you have to share a lot more training spots, which I don't think is all that great.
I'd like to see certain improvements done in the future to combat these issues, they're not a big priority but should be taken care of. I can give examples if necessary, but I overall just wanted to get a topic open about it.
