Combat vs Total

Old question: which score is more important? This topic is never getting old, and here is the latest blog post about it.

It actually prompted me to revise my thoughts about it. Apparently my opinion has changed since two years ago when Runewise's Score was invented. I still think that Runewise's score is the most "fair" indicator out there which takes in account both "F2P/P2P" and "buyable skill" factors. But obviously it is not going to be accepted by wide population of Runescape players. Which leaves us with Combat and Total. Combat, of course, gets more attention just because it is shown to other players. But is it relevant? Why was it implemented in the first place? My guess would be that it was needed for pking. Players had to know each other's Combat levels in order to see who can attack whom. But how many players still PK? Not that many. Plus pking has changed a lot recently anyway. Total level seems to be more relevant for majority of the players now, so why wouldn't it be shown?

What I think would be an ideal solution is an option for each player to choose what he/she would like to see about other players in the game. This way pkers can still see Combat and skillers can switch to seeing Total. What do you think?

Total Score. Is it a good score system?

My article on RS Haven about Runescape total score system, associated problems and Runewise's attempt to introduce an additional score for skillers and F2P players. I hope (or rather dream) Jagex would stumble across this article someday and maybe add a few metrics for skillers, pures and F2P players into the game.