Dilbert26

Jul 6 2006, 10:07 AM | Post #16

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Of course runescape will have evolved greatly from the good ol' rsc times. When "rares" were just being dropped and there were maybe 5-10k ppl on at once. IMO the only reason you may think scamming/hacking/cheating etc has climbed is because of the incredible amount of people playing Runescape now. Back in rsc due to the small amount of players, rule breaking was at a minimum.

Example:

Say 100/10,000 people of rsc were rule breakers. (10,000 is the number of players on at once) That means 1/100 of players break rules that are online together.

1/100 of rs2's online popluation would be around 1,800/180,000. (180,000 players online at once, around the average amount)

So percentage wise, rule breaking has not risen at all, we simply have more players playing. But of course those figures are far off, that's just an example.

There are also other factors that may affect the numbers. In rs2, we have far more items to scam, more ways to scam and more people to scam. In rsc, if you scam a few people, it is not too long before most people discover that you are a scammer. In rs2, scammers practically have an endless supply of people to scam.

With Runescapes great popularity, it's all about going for rank #1 now and being "famous". Everyone wants to be known and liked, and in most cases, they get this by having a rich character with high stats. Some player are so competitive, they turn to scamming to support their characters.These people may try to do everything themself to make max profit for themselves, call it greedy or call it smart.

They could care less about friends. Friends could either slow down or increase their money making and character building. Most skills are easier and faster to do yourself, so that's why that do it. They try to maximize their lvling and minimize their time/money spent on the skill.

A lot of players are ignorant towards other players possibly because they were once scammed or hacked themselves and don't think anyone is trustworthy. When this starts, others follow and it's a big chain. If someone tries trusting a few friends and they are stabbed in the back, then that's a good excuse to no longer trust anybody. It may also lead to THEM stabbing their FRIEND in the back, just to get their hard earned money back (or maybe it wasn't earned).

Bascially, Im blaming this increase in scamming and false representations of friends on the amount of players we have now. It will happen to any rpg that becomes over populated. Players just want to become #1 any way possibly, which is why friends scam friends. There is really no excuse to be ignorant to players, even if you were hacked or scammed a billion times. Would you go around in real life being ignorant and robbing ppl if someone robbed you? People always say "It's just a game!" For some that's true but to some people runescape IS their life. They may be loners in real life and come to rs to escape their bad life. When these people start being scammed and made fun of in rs too, they can't take it anymore. They think the whole world is against them, even people they have never literally met before. This is how we get players commiting suicide and trying to hurt themselves. I know a majority of us dont take name calling and rs real but for a majority of people, they do. They may take rs more serious than rl.


People always complain about the bad players in runescape, why not compliment on the small percentage of kind and honest players of rs. Dont look for the bad in things, be optimistic. There ARE good people on rs, but we are just to carried away with all the bad players. Don't get me wrong though, it is hard to trust anyone in rs, im just saying there actually are players that you can trust.

Well, that was my rant, I could be miles off the main topic but w/e. I got carried away. Please no flaming.

This post has been edited by Dilbert26: Jul 6 2006, 10:10 AM

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£kirai

Jul 7 2006, 01:37 AM | Post #17

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True, there will always be good players on RuneScape, it would help the community more if Jagex was more present in the game. As with other games where they have the administrators on the game at least once a week. Most of what you said was true, since RuneScape has become so popular, we're bound to have some bad people in the community. I just haven't met any of those nice people unfortunately, RuneScape will never be what it was, but let's be happy that we still have some parts of it left and that we still have it at all. RuneScape is a truely fun game, if only people realized that having friends and talking can be just as fun as skilling, pk'ing, and making money.

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8o8thekiller

Jul 7 2006, 02:36 AM | Post #18

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joining a clan certainly helps bring back the fun and the community (for a group of people).

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Nawzlew

Jul 7 2006, 03:16 AM | Post #19

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I bet everyone has broken a rule at least once during their play on RS :\

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