I think this answers it. I completely agree with that. It took forever for me to get to level 58 mining before i quit. Then when i finally came back, mining (and a lot of other skills) were pretty much automated. Mining was easier in RSC than it is now... In fact, it's one of the few (maybe only) skills that was easier (based on using the same methods now as then e.g. Powermining iron), since when you mined a rock and your inventroy was full, you'd mine the rock, and the ore would drop to the ground. Not necessarily. As of now, you have to click the rock once until you obtain an ore, but before you had to keep clicking til you finally obtained the ore. Another example is firemaking. Back then there was only one type of log, so it took a ages to increase your firemaking level.