Besides. using double experience tickets doesn't give you any advantage over anyone else. unless you are having a levelling contest.
Right, because using half the resources and/or spending half the time isn't an advantage of any kind.
And let's be real. most ironmen are alternative accounts, with main accounts who have been through the levelling process before. by allowing them to transfer membership and scrolls you don't ruin the experience in any way.
Just because they're an alt doesn't mean the gamemode should steer away from it's core philosophy. It's a gamemode about earning stuff, gifting yourself stuff from another account is not earning stuff.
What i meant about an advantage is that the double exp doesn't offer you anything besides faster levelling. you don't get to train skills to level 120 because of it. and you don't get bonus stuff from doing skills (more herbs from farming, (4) potions from herblore. etc). all it does, is making it easier to progress through the skills. and honestly, that's a good thing. because a lot of the skills are boring and mostly irrelevant.
What are you going to use fletching for? except for runite bolts.
what does thieving give you access to? except for the farmers, you only get a low amount of gold.
and let's not get started on firemaking.
Most skills have so little impact on the game, except for some special snowflakes in each skill.
The scrolls help people get through the skills faster. not easier. unless you see "time consuming" as a difficulity factor. and i know you don't, since you were the one to often talk about getting bosses with mechanics. i feel like this is getting a bit off topic though.
If you think it should be harder for ironmen to get the scrolls, then why aren't you mentioning the EC shop? it's literally the source of the scrolls. it's a place where you can buy as many scrolls as you want. i could add in enough EC for 500 scrolls and then start grinding. Is that not an unfair advantage either? again. if "being time consuming" was a difficulity factor, these items would just be straight out unbalanced and pay-to-win. but because they are not impacting the game in any other way than faster progression.
I can see where you are coming from here. but not allowing them to be tradeable "to minimize gifting and easy access to fast levels", while leaving them open in the EC shop seems weird to me.
I think that they should either stay the way they are now, or they should be made equally harder to get. both for rich kids with moms credit card, and for poor bastards like me. i suggest putting the XP scrolls into the EP shop for ironmen. just like the old exp scroll system. and then make the new scrolls untradeable to ironmen. anything else would seem unfair.
