Dude. You totally just wrote Killy's biography right there. I'm at level 7, and I hope I never go further. But if I do hit the dreadful 8, I'll probably go member. Bam. Another 5 years, easy.

I'm at stage 6/7 and hope to never reach 8/9. I love this game .

Between 6-7

Nice theory, I'm afraid I'm in 8 and have lots of times when I'm about to step to 9

I reckon I'm 6-7

I think I'm on step 6 and may be starting step 7 as I have just volunteered to become a journalist for the Gielinor Tribune.

I'd say I'm right on stop 6 ...

 

 

 

Although I've already passed through 8 and 9, then restarted with a new character.

 

Now the sense of new-ness is gone, and only the urge to be superior remains.

 

 

 

Notice everyone just lists about what step they're on, they don't try to dispute your

 

theory, because what you described is 99% accurate with 99% of the RS community.

 

 

 

Well done, by the way.

I guess 5 - 6... One thing doesnt apply for me, I don't strive for fame \

I'd say I'm right on stop 6 ...

 

 

 

Although I've already passed through 8 and 9, then restarted with a new character.

 

Now the sense of new-ness is gone, and only the urge to be superior remains.

 

 

 

Notice everyone just lists about what step they're on, they don't try to dispute your

 

theory, because what you described is 99% accurate with 99% of the RS community.

 

 

 

Well done, by the way.

 

 

 

Thanks for the compliment. :) I do, though, have some individuals who think some stages should be changed, but generally all runescape players follow through all nine stages.

 

 

 

I've heard a couple people claiming to be stuck on stage 6. Usually this is the longest, if not one of the longest stages in a player's life. It's a big step from 5-6, so the player really has to settle in with the maturity before he/she can start thinking about leading something.

I think I am at stage 7 too, but sometimes..once in 2 months. I'm so bored of this game, then when I don't play it for 1 day. I want to go back making money and hanging with my friends. So runescape controls my life. :uhh:

 

Don't make it angry, it's alive. :ohnoes:

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i think im still at stage 4 =P~

Been through them all, although I did retain 6 all the way through my rs career. I'm just back from a 8 month quittage, and jumped straight in at 7.

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Wow that's alot of digits, is that the stage where you die in real life, go to heaven, play runescape, and quit again? :shock:

nice reading though i must admit that,being a loner, i couldn't find myself in most of the stages ...except maybe from 1,8 & 9.

 

Currently i am on 8(btw, awarness and denial can coexist) moving (again)slowly but surly towards 9..

i'm in the middle of 6 and 7...

 

 

 

though i doubt i'll ever get bored of rs. just too good of a game, and the Tip.it community keeps me here as well, knowing there are many others who are mature and enjoy the same thing i do

Stage 6 or 7 here...

I'm in denial, and I don't want to be.. :(

i'm on stage 7 i think but the stuff about grammar and spellings and sentence in step 6 doesn't always apply. i'm the leader of saradomins army, i've led other clans they all collasped tho. i'm also on abit of 9 tho. i don't play as much as i used to and i just nortmally am on forums sometimes i'll get back into game for awhile but most of the time its castle wars with clan members. by the way this has remnded me to set up a castle wars clan event thank you been meaning to for a while.

I'm around 8-9, I've retired but I still log on occasionally

I think I'm pretty muchat 7-8 I go back and forth alot. For example yesterday I was borred so I decided to go back to the mage bank and get the last two god spells. Only about once or twice have I almost gone to 9.

An interesting read and I'm sure these stages are correct for a lot of people. I have been through a lot of those stages, but in a totally different order and never the complete description your stages have.

 

 

 

Stage 1:

 

I have ofcourse been through stage 1, but only the first part.

 

Skills are just something that he uses, he doesn't necessarily train them. Other players are just other players to him, he does not consider they are real people with real feelings.

 

 

 

I haven't gone through that part. I have always seen people online as real people and I have always tried to treat them as I would like them to treat me. As for the skilling part, within 2 hours I began my noobie quest to become the best woodcutter... :oops: It didn't really work out, since I stopped around lvl 50, but I did have the ambition to go up in the ranks, so here the order is already starting to change.

 

 

 

Stage 2:

 

I don't know, I guess stage 2 for me was already part of stage 1. In stage 1 I went exploring, somehow found my way to falador and started woodcutting there. The real exploration happened a while later when I started seeking new things to do besides woodcutting and mining.

 

 

 

Stage 3:

 

In this stage, he might make some great friends and use, if not already, the private messaging system.

 

 

 

This is the only part of stage 3 that happened for me, I never tried scamming and already knew the world (world in general, not just rs) was full of peeps that break the rules. I have never seen the runescape community as a 'complex community' and I don't think I ever will, so that doesn't really apply either.

 

 

 

Stage 4:

 

Like I said, I began my quest to become the best woodcutter on the very first day of playing.

 

 

 

As the player reaches out to more places he realizes there are guilds and quests- and so many other things to compete with other players.

 

 

 

It took a while for me to realise there were guilds besides the mining guild, but I became aware of quests very soon. That's how I met my first friends.

 

 

 

I was just walking around, exploring the land around falador when I found a woman outside a mansion. She asked for help, so I started ernest the chicken. I didn't realise it was a quest untill after I completed it and got that nice 'quest completed' screen in my face. Anyway, I had a hard time getting through that maze in the basement, but I remembered the order of switches and stayed down there for 5 hours helping other people who were having difficulties with the maze. That's how I met some great friends, although all but one have quit rs a long time ago.

 

 

 

Stage 5:

 

The only part of stage 5 that I went through was the finding of tip.it. I never had the urge to let my voice be heard, so I became a lurker and remained a lurker for a couple of years.

 

 

 

Stage 6:

 

The whole maturity thing never happened in my rs career, since I had already gone through this stage before I began playing rs.

 

 

 

Stage 7:

 

Never happened. I wanted to climb in lvls and ranks to brag a bit, to feel superior to others, everyone has that to a certain extend, but I never aspired to become some kind of leader.

 

 

 

Stage 8 & 9:

 

For me these go hand to hand. At a certain point in time stage 8 kicked in, but only the feeling of having done everything. Thanks to tif I feel I am very knowledgeable about runescape, I know a lot about almost anything you can find in rs and so, I started missing the noobie days of exploring, when there were always new things to discover. Then I decided to quit, which turned out to be a long break instead of a permanent farewell.

 

 

 

The first time this happened it was my intention to quit the game, not coming back, but after a month I started feeling like playing runescape again. I resisted the urge and kept myself busy with others things, but that rs urge was always present. Then after about 6 months I started playing again, kept playing for about 6 months and stage 8 kicked in again. And so, the cycle started to repeat itself.

 

 

 

I am now in my third long-term break, but I think I'll start playing again in a week or two, since the summer vacation is starting soon. In all my breaks I always kept lurking around tif, but that is happening less and less. Somehow I feel the quality of the topics here has gone done over the years. I think I'll keep playing runescape for a long time, with the regular breaks, but my time spend at tif will become less untill I finally stay away from the forums and just use tip.it for the guides.

defently a mix of 7 and 8, been on 7 for last 3 years, but slowly slipping into stage 8, i'll most likely fall back to 7, but life has really been pulling me away from the computer, and its starting to be "i've done all that"

This is a cool list of stages, I feel I am about between 8 and 9 right now.

looking at that list, i think i can be safe to say that ive been through all those stages