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^2 days before removal of the wilderness ftw! Runescape Classic Fact Sheet Disclaimer This fact sheet is open to submissions. Not all, but 98% are, "facts" here are fact. If you find one that isn't, please post. This fact sheet was made to accumulate the most information about RSC possible, not the flamed by if "yea, nice fact sheet.. except it isn't a FACT SHEET, noob!". Perhaps if you contribute we can make this the fullest topic with information about RSC. Also, if you ever played RS1, please review the "Still looking for..." section at the bottom (above the Contributors list)!! :D If you wish to add or correct any information please post :D. Please give your opinions on anything too :D! All of the interesting stuff is in "Interesting Stuff" & "Fun Stuff" Latest news July 29, 2008: Added 2 highscore pictures of when Halw-Gnun and LtAngel got their 99s. Also added an ingame picture of LtAngel achieving 99 crafting!! Contents [*:uup2v4zt]Highest levels around the popular times [*:uup2v4zt]Famous & Legendary players [*:uup2v4zt]Famous pkers [*:uup2v4zt]What is "RSC"? [*:uup2v4zt]RSC Info [*:uup2v4zt]Stories of how RSC first opened [*:uup2v4zt]"Official" Runescape Classic Firsts [*:uup2v4zt]Interesting stuff [*:uup2v4zt]Fun stuff to look at [*:uup2v4zt]Still looking for this [*:uup2v4zt]Contributors Highest levels around the popular times Gearshifter (lvl 123. First player to level 123) Zonghui (lvl 122) Ladykilljoy (lvl 121. She never really got pass 121. First to 99 strength) S A X (lvl 120s) Lilyuffie88 (lvl 113 to lvl 120s. wasn't very famous until she reached some high prayer lvl) Famous & Legendary players Random order. Names in bold mean that the player was also famous. Names not in bold mean that player was first to a skill Rab: Apart from being the first player to sign up and being one of the alpha testers, he created 4 quests, and moderated RS on the name "Moderator" for a year. Had a huge influence in early Runescape. Bluerose13x: First to 99 Smithing, first/second to 99 Magic. Controlled Runescape. L6vi: Was ranked #1 overall for a while. Later on, Tks passed him/her. Overall hiscore picture of L6vi #1 here Lilyuffie88: She was famous after achieving a high prayer level. First to 99 prayer The Old Nite: I don't think he was known as the mentioned above but he was known for his kindness and his levels. Tks: She was ranked number 1 overall for a very long time until she requested Jagex to lock her account for security reasons. First to 99 fishing and 99 cooking. Bonebreaker6: Ranked #1 overall after Tks requested for her account to be locked. Never moved to RS2, that is when Zezima and Lilyuffie88 passed him in ranks. Ezarc: First player to reach 85 mining. Supplied the ores to Bluerose13x. Gearshifter: First player to level 123 combat. Was famous because of his combat level. Ladykilljoy: First player to 99 strength. Was famous because of her/his combat level mainly. Famous pkers Due to the controversy of famous pkers, various users will have to recommend a famous pker for a pker to be added. What is "RSC"? RSC is means "RuneScape Classic". RuneScape Classic was the previous version of Runescape 2 (the game 99% of people play). RS2 was released in December 1, 2003. RSC remained open to everybody (f2p and p2p) until Jagex changed it to p2p only. Then, sometime in mid 2005, it was changed to "you must had played RS1 within the last 6 months to be able to play it AND be a member". There are currently very few people tht are able to play RS1. Runescape Classic is also called Runescape 1 (RS1). RSC Info News: Section about Runescape being bought removed. I wrote it on Dec 8, 2007. When I didn't know as much about RS1 as I do now. The following facts are from when RS1 was first opened to when RS2 was launched. 1. The member version of the game was launched on February 27, 2002. 2. The maximum combat level is 123. Prayer did affected combat level but not as much as in RS2. 3. You could only gain exp after killing the monster. 4. When your fatigue reached 100%, you had to go "ingame sleep" until it lowered. This was not in the game in the beginning. It is an addon ;). 5. You could (still can) duel/stake anyone anywhere. When you died, you only lost your STAKED items and you spawned in Lumbridge. 6. Click here to view the original "planned" RS layout. This is not confirmed, so you can believe it or not. 7. Crumble Undead was 98exp per shot. 8. Al Karid (as it was originally called) was added a week or 2 after the game opened, before that it was just ocean. 9. There was no Adamant armor in the beginning. It was slowly released piece by piece. Same thing with rune. After Rune armor was integrated into the game (but no-one had it since no monsters dropped it or no-one could make it). 10. Beer could be drunk infinitely to raise your strength to level 99 which was promptly changed after word spread. 11. There was no buddy list at first, you used to have to type "tell (enter name)" then type your message and it would send your message. 12. Click here to see a picture of the RS highscores as of 2002, very old ^.^ 13. Click here to see OOOOLD highscore stats (official). 14. Runescape Open Beta was released on Jan 12, 2001. Click here to see pic. From the Internet Archive, search "http://jagex.com" > dec 5 2000 > "runescape coming soon!" =) 15. In the really early stages of RSC (before the wilderness), The Sabres had a huge influence. This is a pretty cool quote: Largest War: Barbarian Village Debacle (Mithril Clan and RPKers versus EARTH Alliance, Syndicate Alliance, Dark Syndicate Alliance, NKKA Clan, and Sabres) this war filled up an entire server, almost 75% of the approximately 1200 users signed in were fighting this war. - Taken from this website 16. The Wine trick. This was when you drunk wine down to level 8 or below and attacked dummies. They gave 5 attack experience and no hp experience. You would see level 13s with rune 2hs. 17. If you stood in one location for too long, it gave you a warning, saying that you needed to move or risk being logged out. So if you were say, waiting with your general store screen menu open, you had to close it and take a step and reopen it in order to not be logged out every little bit. If you didn't move, you would be logged out and have to type random text to be allowed back in. 18. Player names were case sensitive at first. Proof can be found by clicking here. Stories of how RSC first opened First Cyberwars, a game Andrew created, closed. Soon after, Runescape was opened. The majority of Cyberwars players moved to Runescape. Second Runescape opens up for the very first time publicly on Jan 4, 2001. RS was very different back then. When you made your account, you would select what you wanted to be: Wizard, Warrior, Ranger, Adventurer, or Necromancer. When you had made your account, you would select to be a "Pker" or a "Non Pker". Back then, you could attack anyone anywhere (except Lumbrdige) 5 levels above or below you. Third DeviousMUD, a game created by Andrew Gower, is shut down. It was never released to the public. Only Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, Constant Tedder and some of their friends (Lightning, Rab, Merlin, and Gugge) were the only ones to play it. It is also commonly believed that DeviousMUd is where Andrew & Paul got their ideas for Runescape and that it was the "basis" of RS. "Official" Runescape Classic Firsts Here are the players that were first to something in Runescape Classic. Though, there is a similar list down the fact sheet, that one was made back in Sept 2002. NOTE: All pictures *next* to names are HISCORE pictures. Scroll down for the ingame pictures. First player to achieve a 99: Everdred - August 28, 2001. First to 99 Fishing: Tks First to 99 Cooking: Tks First to 99 Crafting: LtAngel - Picture here First to 99 Woodcut: Everdred First to 99 Herblaw: Halw-Gnun - Picture here First to 99 Agility: Thehate First to 99 Firemaking: Cowchicken First to 99 Thieving: SwedeMike First to 99 Fletching: Chilipeppers First to 99 Smithing: Bluerose13x Second to 99 Smithing: Krest** First to 85 Mining: Ezarc First to 99 Mining: Joe Bill64 First to 99 Prayer: Lilyuffie88* First to 99 Range: Snake-Slava First to 99 Magic: Bluerose13x First to 99 Strength: Ladykilljoy First to 99 Hitpoints: Zonghui First to 99 Attack: Zonghui First to 99 Defense: Zonghui First to 100 Combat: Alchemon First to 123 Combat: Gearshifter First to max out melee stats (99 str, atk, df, hp): Zonghui First to 80 Hitpoints: Alchemon First player to be banned: Boot Alleged first to sign up: Rab First to 1000 Skill Total: Tiwi First to 1100 Skill Total: L6vi - Picture here First to 1200 SKill Total: L6vi First to 1300 Skill Total: L6vi First to 1400 Skill Total: Tks - Picture here First to 1500 Skill Total: Tks *Lilyuffie88 achieved 99 prayer in RS2 but since prayer is also an RSC skill, it is still counted.\ **Krest gave his account away and because of this, his smithing was lowered from 99 to 89. -Pictures- Ingame screenshots of players achieving the 99s or skill totals 99 Crafting - LtAngel | March 30, 2003 99 Woodcut (first 99 achieved, also in fun stuff) - Everdred | August 28, 2001 Interesting stuff @red@ produced red text @blu@ produced blue text @gre@ produced green text @whi@ created white text @cya@ created cyan text @ran@ created rainbow text Black Partyhat: It is rumored that some players saw Andrew and Paul wearing what looked like a Black Partyhat. This is a rumor so you're free to believe it or not. [hide=Pink Partyhat Dupe]The Legendary Pink Partyhat dupe. Many argue that this never happened but they are very wrong. This did happen and they are not the same item as Purple Partyhat. So here it goes. From Jut's website. Enjoy reading Evidence that this DID happen. Page 28 (as of april 19, 2008) *PAUSE*.. go wash your face.. done? ok continue reading: [/hide] [hide=The Knife Bug]-----THE KNIFE BUG----- This is nothing new to ME.. I have read before.. but yea it has "faint" away into my memories.. and I just forgot to add it to this topic until Meili started posting lolz. Here it goes. Enjoy -.- From Meilis website (link in contributors list). [/hide] [hide=Runescape firsts]Runescape Firsts! These are the people who were the very first to do a certain thing. Some may no longer appear on highscores because of many reasons. Some are: account deleted - not logged in in over 4 to 5 years, stats too low, never moved to RS2 = stats don't show, and many others. All are real. Enjoy! From this website (added to contributors list) - If it doesn't appear, it was taken down (if you are reading this some years/months later). Some may already be in the fact sheet but many more are not [/hide] [hide=Second RS fansite EVER]While reading the Gower Archive forums, I saw a topic that was named "Second RS fansite ever" or something similar. The oldest file I found was uploaded on their website on 24-Jan-2001 23:29! I have also found some information on previously totally unknown or not much information available. While on their "Get Started" page, I got the following You may be wondering: "What does this mean...?". I will explain. At the very very beginning, you could choose what type of player you wanted to be. This quote gives us more information on this. Click here to access the website.[/hide] [hide=Banker killing fest]-NOTE: This happened BEFORE the pink partyhat dupe- Somehow, some players were able to kill bankers using the same program that allowed item duping. The pictures with the name of the program that allowed this, have had the program named blacked out. The website where I got this from cannot be credited to because it contains some links to autoing websites. This bug didn't last very long =p. The last picture is another picture of the black hole (very few pictures around). All pictures were "linked" into one picture to save "picture space" (50 picture limit). [/hide] [hide=The Carpentry Skill]This skill was never *fully* released in Runescape Classic (though, was released in RS2. Named "construction"). For some time, it appeared on the stat window but there was no way to level it. Andrew sometimes talked about player-owned-houses that he was trying to add to the game. At one point, he added some houses on the east side of varrock. Though, you could do nothing there. Here are some pictures: In this picture, you can see the "Carpentry" skill. There was no way to level it. Also, you can see Zonghui achieving 99 strength. The world map picture of the POHs. Later on, the POHs and the inexistent skill "Carpentry" were both removed.[/hide] [hide=The shemale bug]Using the same program that allowed the banker killing fest and the pink partyhat dupers, players found a way to use female-looking items on male characters and vice-versa. So for example, a female character would be seen with facial features only a male character would have. The following picture is a reunion of players with accounts that were shemales. [/hide] [hide=All newsletters until Oct 5 2001. VERY INTERESTING]So, I was looking around the Gower Archive forums and found a very interesting link linking off to a post made on the Tipit boards back in 02. To see it originally click here From NEWEST to OLDEST. Extremely very extremely interesting information. I have read it all and it was very much worth it! Enjoy! [/hide] Fun stuff These are pictures that are interesting/fun to look at. This picture was taken before the introduction of p2p. Its really cool to look because it shows how those who are now millionaires were just simple aspiring millionaires -_-. It shows how they just used to be very friendly, they still are but yea, and open to everyone. Picture of the thing where you could select to be a pker or non-pker. Very old! Thanks to Hohto for the pic. Pk system before the wild was added. Notice at the top right. This is the famous black hole from the banned person view. The way a visitor saw it was the same. You would buy a Disk of Return it from Throndor in the Dwarfen Mines. There was an 'Spin' option on it. You would spin it to get to the black hole and out of the black hole. How it looked when Bunny Ears and Scythes were dropped Old 3d renders of RS1. Again, these are old 3d renders, I think before the wilderness came out. So not everything that is currently in RS1 is in these pictures. Truly a LEGENDARY picture. Everdred, the first person to 99wc and 99 in any stat! He achieved 99 woodcutting on August 28, 2001 L6vi fighting Andrew in a duel (first picture). L6vi kills Andrew (second picture). L6vi is the first player to kill a J-mod. This is some weird bug and I do not know much about it. Though, it was not a J-Mod. Still looking for this content If you have any information, pictures, or anything about the following please post. These are stuff I'm currently looking to find / know more about - Pictures of when Christmas Crackers were dropped - Pictures of when Pumpkins were dropped - More facts about RS1 - Pictures demonstrating the huge differences between no-wildy-classic and wildy-classic. or in a simpler thing: a very old picture in no-wildy-classic - ANYTHING is always welcomed! So post :D Your name will be added to the contributor list if something you said/suggested/posted is being used in this fact sheet! Contributors Italic names mean from another fansite. Bolded names = user has made very important contributions. Nordic Rage 3 K E Y Bardg Zantetsuken0 anoob 41 Bclayj2 Ajpablo Jason - Tidus UK RS fansite 1 RS Wiki Xx Jut xX's website Meilis website Hohto Fisher Mark Samppa's website A.G. website Ekim Rekcier RS History Page Lord Adib "Runescape 2001" Jords Master 4 Yaketysax2 GeneticFreak Punk4ever LtAngel's website NOT DONE ~~Remember to post!! =D~~

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Read this topic. Yea, they hit crazy high for their levels. Please read my topic, it's a suggestion to have a reason to kill them rather than run from them.. read.. :D!

It was used ALOT during mid 2006.. since then.. it has disappeared.. I have seen absolutely no-one using "pl0x".. what happened to it -.^? let me gain 2.3m xp for lvl 123 pl0x!!!

Some days ago me and my friends (122 me, 119, and 115) went out to kill a couple of these ghosts... A level 105 one came out and we dragged it to multi area. It was very hard to kill it (we had the best armor and food for f2p). It did 28s frequently. After finally killing it, it dropping nothing. We did this on f2p. These monsters were designed for p2p, because of their high hits or.. perhaps not. If they hit the same on p2p and f2p.. p2pers have better armor so.. im suggesting this: [*:13rta6k4]Make the new ghosts hit lower in f2p OR increase how high they hit on p2p Also, after all of our hard work.. and seeing it dropping *nothing* for all of our effort. I'm also suggesting this: [*:13rta6k4]Make the new ghosts drop various rune items at once (1-2 items) on f2p! and maybe better items for p2p There has to be a reward for killing them.. Adding the second suggestion would give some high levels a reason to play.. Support me ftw?

Seeing that 100k+ of players have already quit, it needs to happen soon or many more will quit already. Why haven't those "many more" quit already? They are waiting to see what Jagex does, if they don't like it, they will quit. So, if Jagex wants Runescape to be one of the most actively played MMORPGs, and also make alot of money, they will have to return the Wilderness.

A clan chat can only hold 100 people. It doesn't matter what world they are on.. 100 people in all is the max. So a clan can have 50 people on a world, 20 on another, and 30 on another.. dunno if it is possible to have a war (same clan) on world 1 and a war on w3 (same clan).

I haven't seen any clan pass 96 players. 100 players is the maximum because a clan chat can only hold 100 people, therefore 100 players is the maximum. Channel: Rarez v2 Amount of people: 96 We really werent this huge always. Before that fight we fought a 51v93, we had 51. We won, believe it or not. We are very organized and have our little secrets (leet Clan War guides and other things, not guides). We had had many battles where the numbers were obviously not on our side, but we still won. If you have seen a clan with more than 96 people playing the Clan War game, post the screenshot. We are aiming for 100, we would be the first to reach it.

If you want the Wilderness to return EXACTLY like it was before these updates, please post saying "I support" or something alike, include your RSN also please. Bounty Hunter and Clan Wars would be moved to an area accessible to f2p players and outside of the Wilderness. Support list 1. Rarez v2 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Yea.. I loved to train in the Wild.. I was always training at Ice Plateau. because if anyone came to disrupt my training, I would kill them.. ^-^

Some of these updates are controversial. The following update was beneficial to everyone, except cheaters. - The future trading update Choose an answer and say why (for all polls) OVERALL poll. These new updates have made my gameplay funner: 0 These new updates have made my gameplay worse: 1 They have not either made it worse or funner: 0 Undecided: 0 The rest are controversial. So, let's make a poll and see. Updated: December 13, 2007 Did Jagex made a good update by removing the Wilderness and introducing Bounty Hunter? Yes: 0 No: 1 Was changing Duel Arena to F2P a good "move"? Yes: 0 No: 0 Undecided: 1 What do you think of Clan Wars? A fun game: A "mid-level game", not fun or boring: Haven't played it / Undecided: 1 Now, lets vote on FUTURE updates. The trading update. I think it's super (good update):0 It will affect my playing in some way(s): 1 Don't know / Undecided: 0 Summoning. It will be a good/fun skill: 0 I will wait until it comes out: 1 It could be an over "advertised" skill: 0 Undecided: 0

This is what I think Jagex should do asap :D. If you want anything added please post and why.. give your opinions also, please Changes [*:ea1ansqw]Change the Wilderness to what it used to be. [*:ea1ansqw]Move Bounty Hunter to an area outside of the Wilderness and maybe keep it f2p [*:ea1ansqw]Move Clan Wars to an area outside of the Wilderness but accessible to f2p players Keep [*:ea1ansqw]Clan capes accessible to f2p players [*:ea1ansqw]Trading & dropping changes Add [*:ea1ansqw]A Clan Wars highscore for the world you're playing on (channel with the most victories) Remove [*:ea1ansqw]The new Wilderness ghosts/covenants [*:ea1ansqw]The Gravestones (after changing the Wilderness) Gehackte :)

People who PLAYED Free-to-play and KNEW they weren't going to get pay-to-play ANYTIME SOON all pked. F2P skillers (most) skill until they get p2p or skill because they enjoy it but those are VERY few and I'm seeing there is a high concentration of f2p skillers on Tip.it :-X And like I said.. people who knew they were stuck on f2p forever and their only reward for training was pking, pked. and these were the 90% of ACTIVE F2P PLAYERS. Those other f2p players were: - New players who later converted to p2p after lvl 60 (or sometimes 70s) - Players who were f2p for a short period of time till they got p2p back - "Stuck" f2p skillers, wont be p2p in a long time. So yes, I'm right. THE 90% OF PEOPLE WHO PLAYED F2P, PKED.

Which one do you use and why? I use Leather cuz they look pretty and classic (h)

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Yes. Low levels. 60-80s.. :D

I'm assuming you only read my title. Duel Arena: Only people with similar or better stat than yours will duel you. No fun. There is no "randomness" like used-to-be wild Bounty hunter: Like Duel Arena, except there is a bigger range of levels but.. it is still extremely different from used-to-be wild.

-NOTE: Topic made on Dec 12, 2007 so please don't close- Before the Wilderness Updates F2P players could do very few things. They were: PK, skill (very few did), adventure (for new players), skill/pk until he/she receive membership. Very few, indeed. Now, there are more things you can do while being f2p but there is the most important thing, that 99% of f2p players love, that Jagex has taken out - PKing. Why train anymore (for those who wont be getting p2p anytime soon)? Yes, there is the Bounty Hunter game.. but the area is quite limited to what it used to be and you can only pk levels around your range. For the high levels, pking in 36-47 wild was a blast. You could attack players way lower than you and have fun. After the Wilderness Updates After these updates there are more things you can do except doing the funnest thing. With these new updates comes good and bad. So, if you are f2p, what will you do? Nothing much is left to do on F2P. Converting to p2p won't give you many other things to do (except new skills, items, and minigames but overall, 90% of players, skill to make money for pking supplies, obtain items to train & be better at pking, and play minigames to release the stress from pking) either. ^ For those who think my statistics are wrong.

k i get what you are saying, you are flaming me :@ -.- Idiots you spend more time skilling, while i train and then go pk and have fun, you skill skill skill and waste more time than i do :)

It's plain !! STUPID jk lol

If anyone remembers me.. I used to pk ALOT on hills.. in f2p.. in rs2 rsn: rarez v2 :D

I have read the past 2 articles, and I want to answer -.^ The story of almost every RS player: ~ Finds RS ~ Meets people and makes friends ~ Goes pking/finds something he really enjoys ~ Becomes addicted ~ Levels that something hoping that when he/she reaches his/her goal it will make the game funner ~ Reaches that goal, it feels null, so he sets himself to keep leveling it ~ Gives up with his past goal, finds something else to do ~ After 1-2 years he gets bored of rs, and it isnt as fun as it used to be. ~ Clicking is becoming too much ~ Starts thinking: I have wasted too much time on rs to quit ~ Sees RS with null eyes, nothing is fun anymore ~ Quits RS for good I found rs, meet people, had alot of fun, did quests, discovered pking, started exploring areas, pked, trained all the time then went pking with friends, when i reached 100 i found that every1 was lower than me so i couldnt pk like before (at hills), train train train :(, no fun, cant quit

Nice guide ;) Gnome place seems like there is too much walking/running, even though it saves time.. its too much clicking.. :( Letvia seems perfect :o