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It's impressive the amount of effort the Runescape community puts into these projects. It's amazing how many people have abandoned the game at one point in yout

by rpmw 4y ago

It's impressive the amount of effort the Runescape community puts into these projects. It's amazing how many people have abandoned the game at one point in youth, yet come back and contribute as an adult. It makes me wonder what current games will still exist in 20+ years.

eddsh1994 4y ago
Honestly I come back every 2 years for about a month and then realize I'm spending hours cutting virtual trees and leave again. But for that month... man it's so much fun & nostalgic!
- insanitybit 4y ago
  99 wc crew
- TrapLord_Rhodo 4y ago
  I always come back to runescape every couple years and the things i do in game speaks volumes to my mindset. Back when i first started playing I never really did much of anything really... explored around, tried quests and never thought of looking up a guide, talked to alot of people standing in the bank, played alot of minigames etc. etc. Years go by and I come back and i was hooked on efficiency. What wierd methods were there for getting insane xp per hour like sitting in lunar island, cannoning the trolls, while woodcutting the trees and high alching the logs. skip to my early 20's when i first started programming for my day job and i would come home and write runescape bots for all sorts of stuff. One of my favorites that i wrote would have around 20 bots with gmauls sit in multi-wildy and hive mind spec poor souls who walked by. I haven't touched RS in years, but funnily enough last weekend I found out the OS buddy and the runescape Wiki post grand exchange data. Was spending some time learning rust and decided to build a grand exchange analysis tool that looked across a number of factors (Volume, stability, beta) to determine the best items to flip. Don't really want to post it on github cause it'd probably fuck with the economy but if anyones interested, hit me up at rhoades.lorenzo@gmail.com
  - eddsh1994 4y ago
    You could put it as a SaaS API or behind a paywall as a web app - you genuinely could get paying users and wouldn’t have to break the economy while you do it!
    - donutmonger 4y ago
      No idea how many people are paying for it, but there is https://www.ge-tracker.com/ https://www.ge-tracker.com/ for $2/month. I did the free trial a while back, but it was more fun to write a similar app that just uses data from the OSRS Wiki API (https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:Real-time_Prices https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:Real-time_Price...).
  - komali2 4y ago
    Idk if this will break the economy, the WoW auction house survived auctioneer being available as early as vanilla.
  - wswope 4y ago
    What sorta gp/hr are you making while flipping with your tool?
    - TrapLord_Rhodo 4y ago
      You can usually make around 8-10% a flip but doesn't scale very well past around 750M. Also, i never wrote an actual bot to make the trades.
insanitybit 4y ago
I've never played another game like runescape. It's pretty insane. 1. Tons of free content. I didn't get a membership for a long time. When I did it was something like 5 dollars a month, which I could scrape up as a kid. 2. Massive world. You could wander around for hours and find new stuff. Even just little things like some cool empty building, all of it was so fun to explore. Staying up late and exploring the wild with a friend was legitimately thrilling - and horrifying when you'd see a little yellow dot show up on the minimap. 3. Tons of quests and content, new content came out all the time. Whoever pushed RS3 greatly misunderstood all of this. Graphics improvements were appreciated but not super necessary - otherwise, the game was basically ruined by having tons of random shit and an extremely cluttered UI. Really bad mobile game vibes. I played against a year or two ago, just for a week or two, and it was still super fun. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a time sink, and I just can't spend time on it anymore. But it was a hell of a lot of fun.
- rcme 4y ago
  Minecraft probably comes pretty close for today's younger generation.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    Yeah if Minecraft had been designed so each “world” was actually just part of a massive online one, really far apart it would have been similar. There are some really old multiplayer servers kinda like that, where you can find ruins of ancient buildings from early betas
  - GaryNumanVevo 4y ago
    Which was originally available as a demo in browser as well!
- tjbiddle 4y ago
  RS3 is terrible, but they released "Old School RuneScape" (OSRS) which is a wonderful re-release of the old RS2 '07 version. They still update it regularly with new content! I got back into it a year ago and it's nostalgic and fun - but yes, definitely a time-sink. I'll often have it in a spare window though doing some AFK skill such as fishing or woodcutting - helps keep me sane when I need to do some more mundane work tasks, lol.

by rpmw 4y ago

eddsh1994 4y ago

Honestly I come back every 2 years for about a month and then realize I'm spending hours cutting virtual trees and leave again. But for that month... man it's so much fun & nostalgic!

insanitybit 4y ago
99 wc crew
TrapLord_Rhodo 4y ago
I always come back to runescape every couple years and the things i do in game speaks volumes to my mindset. Back when i first started playing I never really did much of anything really... explored around, tried quests and never thought of looking up a guide, talked to alot of people standing in the bank, played alot of minigames etc. etc. Years go by and I come back and i was hooked on efficiency. What wierd methods were there for getting insane xp per hour like sitting in lunar island, cannoning the trolls, while woodcutting the trees and high alching the logs. skip to my early 20's when i first started programming for my day job and i would come home and write runescape bots for all sorts of stuff. One of my favorites that i wrote would have around 20 bots with gmauls sit in multi-wildy and hive mind spec poor souls who walked by. I haven't touched RS in years, but funnily enough last weekend I found out the OS buddy and the runescape Wiki post grand exchange data. Was spending some time learning rust and decided to build a grand exchange analysis tool that looked across a number of factors (Volume, stability, beta) to determine the best items to flip. Don't really want to post it on github cause it'd probably fuck with the economy but if anyones interested, hit me up at rhoades.lorenzo@gmail.com
- eddsh1994 4y ago
  You could put it as a SaaS API or behind a paywall as a web app - you genuinely could get paying users and wouldn’t have to break the economy while you do it!
  - donutmonger 4y ago
    No idea how many people are paying for it, but there is https://www.ge-tracker.com/ https://www.ge-tracker.com/ for $2/month. I did the free trial a while back, but it was more fun to write a similar app that just uses data from the OSRS Wiki API (https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:Real-time_Prices https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:Real-time_Price...).
- komali2 4y ago
  Idk if this will break the economy, the WoW auction house survived auctioneer being available as early as vanilla.
- wswope 4y ago
  What sorta gp/hr are you making while flipping with your tool?
  - TrapLord_Rhodo 4y ago
    You can usually make around 8-10% a flip but doesn't scale very well past around 750M. Also, i never wrote an actual bot to make the trades.

insanitybit 4y ago

I've never played another game like runescape. It's pretty insane. 1. Tons of free content. I didn't get a membership for a long time. When I did it was something like 5 dollars a month, which I could scrape up as a kid. 2. Massive world. You could wander around for hours and find new stuff. Even just little things like some cool empty building, all of it was so fun to explore. Staying up late and exploring the wild with a friend was legitimately thrilling - and horrifying when you'd see a little yellow dot show up on the minimap. 3. Tons of quests and content, new content came out all the time. Whoever pushed RS3 greatly misunderstood all of this. Graphics improvements were appreciated but not super necessary - otherwise, the game was basically ruined by having tons of random shit and an extremely cluttered UI. Really bad mobile game vibes. I played against a year or two ago, just for a week or two, and it was still super fun. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a time sink, and I just can't spend time on it anymore. But it was a hell of a lot of fun.

rcme 4y ago
Minecraft probably comes pretty close for today's younger generation.
- bombcar 4y ago
  Yeah if Minecraft had been designed so each “world” was actually just part of a massive online one, really far apart it would have been similar. There are some really old multiplayer servers kinda like that, where you can find ruins of ancient buildings from early betas
- GaryNumanVevo 4y ago
  Which was originally available as a demo in browser as well!
tjbiddle 4y ago
RS3 is terrible, but they released "Old School RuneScape" (OSRS) which is a wonderful re-release of the old RS2 '07 version. They still update it regularly with new content! I got back into it a year ago and it's nostalgic and fun - but yes, definitely a time-sink. I'll often have it in a spare window though doing some AFK skill such as fishing or woodcutting - helps keep me sane when I need to do some more mundane work tasks, lol.