Oli

Dec 12 2006, 04:24 AM | Post #1

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Remember the days when you were a noob, just got off of tutorial island (Or maybe you didn't even have a tutorial island when you started, maybe you just chose what class you wanted to be without even knowing what would be the outcome) and everything feels so.. New to you? The days where you would just wander around, training skills here and there but not really thinking about "Gotta get to level 60" or "Gotta get 4 mill gp." Those were the days were you logged on Runescape simply to just experience the world of Runescape and what it has to offer.

Remember how much fun it was back then? You didn't have to worry about grinding to get ten more combat levels or whatever other tedious chores you had. All you cared about was finding some new places to go, getting some new armour to wear and show off to your friends. They were carefree days, days that I much miss and wish I could experience again.

But now when I log on Runescape, it's another story. It's almost as if I HAVE to go out and level up. It's not fun anymore, it's just grinding to get to that level of satisfaction. It's simply labor. Theres no more exploring the world and finding out new things. You know everything, now all you can do for fun is maybe the occasional pk trip or drop party. Don't you miss the days when you could just log on Runescape to have fun?

I sure do.

So, my question to you is.. Do you remember when Runescape was fun? Do you remember why it was fun? Tell your stories about when Runescape was fun, and when it stopped being fun.

This post has been edited by Oli: Dec 12 2006, 04:28 AM

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Cky

Dec 12 2006, 04:33 AM | Post #2

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I'll have to agree with you on the fact that it was VERY VERY fun, when you just started out, but now it does seem as if it was work.

I mean, back on RSC when I made my first account, I was loving I would walk around, sleep on occasion because I had to, meet new people, share skills, and make long-term goals.

Now all I see is people trying to crunch out some 99 skill from level 70 in 2 months, and THEY DO IT.
In RSC that would have been unheard of, unless it was to the likes of Zezima, not even, S A X, Zonghui, Robin Hood, TSC! Anyone remember TSC? I think not, Rs2 has shaped a new breed of Runescapers, who get level 90 within a few months.

I mean when S A X maxed out combat, and was the first person ever to do it, it was HUGE, it was the biggest thing to happen, he had a parade going for almost an hour. He just recently quit I believe, but when he got maxed out combat, and was first overall, I think he was just over 1k skill total. Zonghui was just behind him with 88 prayer, which it has remained at, for the past 3 years.

I miss RSC, when I saw Zezima get every 99, I knew, RS is going down, now that someone already beat everyone, theres no point to play.

Just my recollections

<Edit> ZOMGZ 420 POSTS <3 ME

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SupaPhat

Dec 12 2006, 05:00 AM | Post #3

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First half would be my story, second half would be RuneWebs.

Justin, Cherry Rthym

This is going back to crap I can barely remember, cause when I refer to the good 'ole days I often mean when I joined RuneNews. When I first played I created "Justin" (I was one of the first couple thousand to be playing) and I only played for one hour, so I lost that acc.

I looked for like two weeks when ever I had a chance trying to remember the name of the game I had played but "Rune" in yahoo search brought up nothing that seemed to match. I had later found it again about 3 months later in the sixth grade. We were celebrating something with Canada and I had sprayed my hair red, around this same time I created "Cherry Rthym" (it sounded cool, my hair was red as a cherry and rhythm was a word I had repeatedly failed to spell in spelling tests, I had a 8 month streak of perfect spelling tests until rhythm).

My first friends were Veteran69 and Maximus_2002. They made me armour up until steel. Levels 20-60 I had played with IRL friends because I had got them in on my favourite little game. After 60 I had found more IRL friends to play with and would spend upto 6 hours over the phone when we would pk. A friend "Fofi" talked about how much they liked RuneNews, so I joined but I preferred some other site cause of its calcs. 9/11 had been rather recent or atleast still in my mind, so I made an art piece of Osama and GW. People loved those, so I continued. I would not be skilled in graphic design whatsoever had it not been for this place. Twas the same time I first got members, the sound effects were awesome. I couldn't believe I could fletch, it was astonishingly fun.

Upto here everyone pretty much knows the story, if not the rest is in archive.org

Odd note: thought you might find it funny I had to use a spelling check to spell Rhythm even now, I was spelling it Rythm :|

Enter RuneWeb

MadCoder jumped ship, RuneNews had a page up similar to a 404 Error it killed our community, I motioned a splash page when he came back almost 6 months later (but only for 3 days) and we got it. The community had people staying when they visited this time but we still lacked access to important parts of the community. We collectively decided to move and create RuneWeb.

Ill throw up pictures of my part I took in designing RuneWeb later.

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Nawzlew

Dec 12 2006, 05:10 AM | Post #4

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QUOTE(Oli @ Dec 11 2006, 09:24 PM) [snapback]82045[/snapback]

Remember the days when you were a noob, just got off of tutorial island (Or maybe you didn't even have a tutorial island when you started, maybe you just chose what class you wanted to be without even knowing what would be the outcome)

Oh wow, those were the days.

Let's see. I remember I started out by choosing the warrior class. I use to play everyday, for at least two hours. I found the game at the time to be extremely fun. Like a habit. RuneScape almost became part of my life. Back then, playing the game would just be like hanging out with your friends. You would take things in your invetory and go out to the wilderness and PK, just for the hell of it. Because it was fun to do so.

That's when it began to get boring. I remember maybe in the winter of 2004, I just stopped playing the game. I lost my love for it. People would be getting on just to raise their skills, and play almost the entire day. My friends and I would never play for fun, they basically maxed out their skills. So while they were in the 100's, I was still in my 40's. It was crazy.

Now, I do think people play the game to be the best. It's not like the old days anymore.

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BluEz

Dec 12 2006, 06:30 AM | Post #5

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Theres no mystery or excitement to Runescape any more. I can remember times when my friends and I(RL and ingame) used to just explore to see what was actually out there. One of the times that still stick in my head to this day is when we were exploring around edgeville and got killed by the scorpions, that feeling that I had cannot be duplicated now. I can remember standing in varrock surrounded my tons of people waiting for S A X to become 123. As Cky said when Zezima reached all 99s the last little bit of fun in rs left.

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Makoto

Dec 12 2006, 07:52 AM | Post #6

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Before I ever showed up on the scene of RN/RW, I was a bangin' level 30 who was quite content with being someone's coal bitch worker. This was my best friend, and I owe the "D" part of my nickname to him today. (He's cool and still around the state, but he quit RS a long time ago.)

Before my real life friends left, we hung around and played RS in the computer room after school. Man, that was some fun times. All we did was mess around. I was to mine whatever ores I could, and was paid quite a handsome sum for it.

I believe I got up to level 60 mining for my friend, who has 59 mining and 53 smithing to this day (and no he has NEVER touched RS2 to my knowledge). He disappeared, and left me kind of trapped/alone in this world. The nostalgia of talking with my friends about something we did together kind of faded.

Then I met Hydrabeam. He was an awesome guy, helped me out with everything. Then the nostalgia factor perked up a fair bit.

Around this time, I joined RN at #5302. A lot of things were happening already, such as the omnipresent MadCoder gone AWOL, and Roth/Rath were at each other's throats. Either way I still stuck with the community, and helped where/when I could to make it what it is today.

(And to think...all I said was "firenimmo, all I want is the mod for the PK forum")

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Dilbert26

Dec 12 2006, 12:47 PM | Post #7

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Oh boy, the good old days. How can I forget them? I remember when Crayoneater first showed me rsc and I made an account, though I did not want to, and began playing. I had no idea what I was doing at first and was sooooo lost but once Crayon showed me as much as he knew at the time (which was not much as he just began playing), and gave me some sweet armour and other items (iron armour if i'm not mistaken), I was loving it. I didn't have any goals to get, I would simply venture through the world of Runescape killing random things for experience. I would not work on one skill for weeks on end...I wouldn't even work of them for a day on end tbh. There was so much to explore and do in rsc, I had to try it all. I NEVER got bored of rsc to this day then rs2 came out which changed everything.

At first rs2 came out, it was like a whole new game. The cities were so different looking, I couldn't even navigate from point A to B anymore. When the BETA was out, I went on, walked from Varrock to Falador, killed a guard, got some strange thing called a talisman and never played it the BETA again. Unwillingly, I began playing rs2 when they gave us the option of transfering the items between rsc or rs2. It took me the better part of a month for me to be able to navigate through rs again and know the majority of the new items. It was still fun even at this time but once I finally discovered everything new on rs2, I began training again. This time, the levels were so easy to lvl and training paid of fast, I began setting goals. I realised that if I set goals I would get them training faster, which was true. Eventually, I starting setting higher and higher goals, sitting at one place days on end, not having any fun at all.

I don't know why I continued playing if it wasn't fun...could you say i'm addicted? Even though Runescape is not fun, it's rewarding. You acheive lvls which stay with you forever and most of all, you can meet some really interesting friends. That is what makes Runescape great: You can acheive lvls that stay with you forever (of course if you're hacked or w/e) and you can meet some very nice people.

I always think that playing games like Thr Sims (which my step-brother plays all the time) is a waste of time. You just create a house and you don't really gain anything from it or get any lvl that will help you with other skills. You cannot make friends on it (atleast in this one) and overall, you gain nothing out of that game. Of course, it's fun to play games like that every now and then, but it's not for me. I like games that you work on something and achieve it and it will stay with you as you get better at the game.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4774534.stm

That is an article on Runescape that has been posted in the past and I kept it because I always think it interesting to see Runescape on the news. Runescape is all work and no play, but you gain knowledge from it and the feeling of gaining a very important/high lvl is great.

Now, I think I missed the bus so i'll be off on my hike to school.

This post has been edited by Dilbert26: Dec 12 2006, 12:47 PM

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Twilight Ray

Dec 12 2006, 02:07 PM | Post #8

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Lolz, wai 2 steel jaysunz tawpeek awlee!

Anyways.

Yeah, old old times were hotsex, started playing 4+ years ago, came to RN, read all the posts and never posted (had about 200 posts when we made the transition to RW, was member number 25** something.) but it was all fun. R00NWEBZ EFF TEE DOUBLE YEW

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hoggen69

Dec 12 2006, 07:40 PM | Post #9

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yea, the good old days are way behind us like 4 years ago basically, and I do remember tks stopping at like 1535 skill total which was sad, and also I remember gearshifter being the other hardcore combat enthusiast, also the best days of runescape were probably when Alpha Wave was on runenews and he showed us all his pk ownage trips

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Samhomie

Dec 12 2006, 07:55 PM | Post #10

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the good time was for me when i was a low level i new few friends like only my best friend james me and his was pretty much the same he was always higher then my then i had matt and sam who was my ideas for being so high.
i first started my friend james made me full bronze as he introduce the game to me, after that we always went same worlds and trained together then my high friend sam gave me full steel and i was so proud as i look so good i would mainly explore as i was intrested in the map and i loved doing quest as the joruneys was long and always found new towns. i can recall when i first went fally i was amazed at the place i stay there for ages exploring round the town seeing what features it had and if it was better then varrok.

as i got higher my friend james had a mith helm i like steel much better as it look more real like but then i decided to get addy and from there i moved on to the addiction going on my own training levels to get rune doing quest i was only f2p at the time and i had complete nearly every quest but dragon slayer that i stuggle on i die a few time then i manage to do it (borrowing james rune legs) but i didnt have enough cash for rune only enough for the legs. then i court a drop trader and got 300k from it (dont have pic this was long time ago) then got all my rune stuff then i started to get bored of f2p...

til then i made pures till i managed to get my man on p2p and then i started exploring all over again enjoying all the new skills and quest but eventally i got bored and now feel i am froced to play to do the levels and quests make cash as i am held by the addicktion...

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Axis Of Evil

Dec 12 2006, 08:13 PM | Post #11

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Ahh...RuneScape. What is there to say that hasn't been already said? I still remember the first day after I came off of tutorial island. I remember some guy called Zachman something who was calling me a noob. I got members at around level 5 combat, and I loved to thieve. I was around level 55 thieving at about 31 combat, then RuneScape started to become more labor then fun. A lot of my friends from school were non-member, and then I started playing for 4+ hours a day. By then most of my good irl friends has stopped playing, and I was stuck, addicted to it. Then I remember joining RuneWeb, I was one of the first few hundred members, I think I'm 120 something member #? Everyone was so friendly, most of the people here were still playing RuneScape...Then I remember people like Data, and Twi quitting. I have just recently quit RuneScape, I don't know if it's for good or not, but it'll do me some good to get away from it for a while. I recommend all of you who are playing around 3-4 hours every day or every other day to take a break for a month or 2.

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J-Roc

Dec 12 2006, 08:25 PM | Post #12

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i play rs maybe an hour a month because its not fun anymore. Why bother playing when I need 100k, 200k to the next level? And whats that level get me...nowhere, just keeps draining $7.50 a month (CAD).

The only fun on RS is on the early levels with skills below 60. After that its all too much work to the next level.

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Slim50

Dec 12 2006, 08:43 PM | Post #13

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ahh rsc and the days where it wasn't so much as work and goals and more of friends and fun and discovery..Runescape now, is more of goals and work to me. I set a goal, I try and keep track of that goal, and I do a certain amount of work daily for that goal.


But back in the day...when I started...I chose to be a warrior. The first town I made it to was Draynor, and I was so happy...I think i nearly died on the way there. I honestly can't remember. in the 5-ish years I've played...RSC was best...I was still learning everything. I didn't know where places were, I didn't know how to do certain things. It was all a mystery.

My skills? not so important back in RSC...I remember having 40 mining because that was basically my means of currency. I remember getting my first set of full rune (no plate, but a chainmail) I was sooooooo proud and happy. Shortly after, Members came out and I got it for my birthday...And then my friend Luckk13 helped me get to Elvarg and beat that dragon to the ground. I was excited, nervous, maybe even a little scared? I didn't want to lose my items I had worked so hard for, but ya know what? Elvarg wasn't hard at all...I beat him and finished the quest.

Things like that don't really happen for me anymore...there aren't really challenges like that coming around for me...mind you, I'm 40ish levels from where I was back then, but still..no monster is hard to beat, and no quest is too nerve racking.

I will admit though, my favorite quest, The Underground Pass, I did it after RS2 came out and I really enjoyed it...so that at least is something in RS2 that made me feel like i wasn't still really good, which is cool because it gives limitations.

I think I may go get on RSC later and while I'm on RS I may not use teles for a while, just because I could only ever tele to varrock and lumby and fally in rsc...teehee

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Stress Free

Dec 12 2006, 09:12 PM | Post #14

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Aww the good old days.
They were fun.
I used to wonder round the world for weeks without ever leveling up.
I actually remained a noob for ages cause i used to always be making thing sup to my friend from school who was lvl 72.
i would be on runehq and id send him pms sayin stuff like lol i just found a fire cape or lol i just found a legends cape n he wud be dont lie .
n then i started lvlin combat after a while ma frend dint believe me when i said i was killin lesser demons .
Then i was like lvl 30 but i had 40 fishing so wot i did was i fished lobs cooked em then went n killed lessers on karajama and i got like 93 combat i think n 71 fishing before becoming a member lawls

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Urahoe

Dec 16 2006, 02:27 AM | Post #15

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Having tasks that are tedious can be fun if you want them to be.

I believe runescape is as fun as you make it. If you cant have fun doing the things you love doing then how are you going to get the initiative to do the things you loathe?

I suggest sitting back and instead of needing or having to get a certain lvl or amount of cash work out what you want out of the game, set small achievable goals and progress from there. By setting small goals you are more likely to achieve them thus feeling like you have actually done something you wanted to do and not have to do..

Other than all that i suggest finding a skill or pk clan where you can do some of the more mundane aspects with someone else. It helps pass the time and you will find you do what you need to do, more efficiently.

Thats my 2c.

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