Jennifer Sun

As someone who loves Al Kharid (and all desert worlds and landscapes basically), I'm glad to see it finally getting a good visual update. And I'll miss Prince Ali Rescue too. :(

I'm still sort of compartmentalizing the whole SoF/Solomon's stuff, but that Java/HTML5 comparison is pretty striking. I'm still looking forward to seeing Runescape's technical side grow; I remember having my mind blown back in 2001 when I found out Runescape was all Java. (Those were the young and naive days, I tell ya. :cool:) The stance on bots finally comes out swinging, too; was just on and the U.S. West Coast servers are all down to ~80 players each. Hilariously, a good 25% were cutting yews. :razz:

Many cows died for the honor and glory of my 50 ATK in RSC. Training Crafting before the GE was rough stuff. Oh, hah, cows died for that too. *hurriedly types in 'there is no cow level', presses enter, hopes not to die a slow and painful death via cow udder* I was never very good at Mining, either. I don't think I ever settled on a place to power-mine until I could access the Guild. I also just mined and banked every rock in the joint because, hey, I could use the clay for Crafting! (This is after I found out I could craft things other than leather and thus reduced my cow massacre rate by about 25%.)

Kind of odd prizes... but not as terror-inducing as I was imagining, so, cool.

It's silly, but 200 million accounts is as good a reason as any to start up a blog here on TIF. My first ever account was a bald guy named Lance20101 (I had learned my lesson already; there are no guarantees when you choose a name) that I made way back when RSC first went live for the public in 2001. I got the basics down, but then school got ahead of me, so I let him rot for a while. When I was ready and willing to come back, I had forgotten the password. Oops? By now he's been wiped from existence. During the move to RS2, maybe? I dunno. All I know is, he's long gone. So I made the account I have now, Jennifer Sun (who, fun fact, was also a male character at creation), and I ran through the F2P quest gamut. At the time, I wasn't able to afford members, so I just didn't worry about it and made the most out of the F2P game. Over 10 years and 200 million accounts later, that remains my primary objective as I continue to play. I did try out my free trial membership, and it was a fun two weeks, but I think I'm much happier staying largely F2P, getting members only for a single month at a time to play the quests (I do quite enjoy the lore of this game and I wish F2P had more of it to play with). I remember toggling PK options and fatigue. I remember the first time I logged into RS2 and marveled at the new graphics. I remember when I slayed Elvarg, a satisfying end to the current F2P quests if I do say so myself. I remember all the time I put into my skills, though it never seemed enough. I remember TipIt's skill calculators and the discussions of combat level formulas. And I remember Lance20101, for though he is no longer a series of ones and zeroes here or anywhere, he was my first RS account. So he was either a push in the right direction or, well, a mistake. 10 years later, still sussing that one out. Cheers to 200 million accounts and over 10 years of pure digital insanity.

Soon as I noticed the bar in my browser window I switched to client. I'd rather have the ads. The Gielinor Games should be fun, but once again it's an update of Varrock Square wherein my FPS drops dramatically when I'm within the vicinity. Had to switch to low-res fixed-width just to do the tasks. I think I need a shortcut to the GE. Ja-joy. Ah well. It's the Olympics! But with... gnomes! I'm game!

My name is not Jennifer Sun, it is just the name of my character. I've been playing on and off since the public release of RSC back in the time of dinosaurs and 56.6k modems (which, if you think about it, are really the same thing). With the exception of the two week free trial membership, I've been f2p the entirety of my character's existence. Even though I've been playing for so long, I was never really interested in talking about the game (its mechanics, lore, etc) until very recently. I think a lot of it has to do with the RSOF's strong reactions to the recent updates like SoF and EoC; it led me to reflect a bit on my own experiences with the game, think some things through a bit, and come to some conclusions that I quite liked -- chief among them being "bring on the EoC!" Unfortunately, trying to have a discussion on the RSOF is akin to the experience of trying to have a casual phone conversation whilst falling off a cliff to your death. I've always been fond of this place, though, so here I am. So, uh, hello! I'm here at last!