What was so darn good about classic?

[highlanders]

Everything! :)

 

 

 

People were generally nice, there was lots of drop parties and inn parties, there was no frivolous items and equipment, the gameplay was more relaxing as opposed to Rs2, no randoms (but sleeping ugh), a lot less people, to be rich you needed a skill (smithing) rather than money tricks (gambling/merchanting), being a high level meant something, the rares were affordable so no big rush for money, a lot less kids, there was a good vibe/atmosphere, rune items glowed :D pretty, real pking, dueling everywhere, smaller maps = less moving around or rubbish about energy.

 

 

 

It wasn't extraordinary, but it was without a doubt better than Rs2. Rs2 in it's begginings was pleasant, the Jagex staff even came in-game sometimes (I saw Paul and Andrew talking to newbs in lumby :D and the people were very civilized in their ways to talk to them). Now, the community is just rotten, it killed the game.

[Capone_Sabre]

Also there wasn't any bank at the first part of RSC, just your inventory, am I right?

 

 

 

Yep, but that was at the prehistoric period :P Item banks came at pretty early stage, before it turned to year 2002. However I can guarantee that 95% of people who call RSC hard didn't even play back then :P

 

 

 

I did. Can you remember the names of all your mules too? :P

 

 

 

Reading this topic makes me miss RSC. :( I often go back and play old computer games when I think of them, but that's the one game I liked the most and the one I'll never get to play again.

[d3nic]

The only reason I have good memories about RSC is because all of my friends used to play...

 

 

 

We'd get home from school, log on rsc and just play play play.

 

 

 

I remember fishing trout and salmon, getting 5k for them and thinking how rich I was lol !

 

 

 

RSC was truly a fantastic game, I wish my old friends still played RS.

[bizzyboy]

pking system ... at start when everyone could "catch " . 3 hit fight .. range an independent skill dont give hp exp .

 

 

 

been 2-3 years i try to find out the pking fun i had on rsc ...

[HellsBells]

In RSC, your teleport failed, you didn't always get the ore out of a rock, no tutors, no ditch, no Pest Control...the list goes on.

 

 

 

In my opinion, we should still have RS2, we should just bring back the elements of RSC and take away Pest Control (maybe). The Pest Control thing would cause a lot of outrage but the veterans will be very contented.

[The_Kuniva]

You couldn't trade items in notes. If you wanted bones, bow strings etc. you had to trade them 12 at a time (yes you couldn't even trade a whole inventory at once.

 

Trading large amounts of cash was annoying, you used to get the 5 min rule (log out if standing in the same place for more than 5 mins) just trading 500k).. I bought my First rune battle for 650k worth of steel bar certificates, and my first rune kite for 550k cash.

 

 

 

There were no "Do X/Do All" options everything was done one thing at time.

 

 

 

Only one person could talk to an NPC at once, so in a crowded bank, it could take several minutes to get a banker to talk to you, Same goes when a new quest came out, trying to talk to the quest NPCs was a pain.

[ShadowSam19]

It was definetly alot harder back then, in almost every aspect...lving, money-making,, etc.

 

 

 

I remember when rune pics came out...took forever for everyone to get them, sine there was only one npc selling them, and he could only talk to one person at a time...the dwarven mines were as crowded as varrock world 1 for a few days.

 

 

 

And fatigue...the most annoying update ever

[drgnslyer_15]

I started out on classic and to me some skills seemed easier on there than here.. fishing and mining are just 2.. Also the fact you could actually power train a skill was fun lol.. Only thing about PKin i like more than here was 3 rounds.... also duel anywhere owns duel arena anyday... Lol Lumby was the dueling hotspot... Duel anywhere was soooooo useful when training melee lol.. I don't like you get out... No duel for spot... if you lose you can't come back lol

[ShadowSam19]

It was definitely alot harder back then, in almost every aspect...lvling, money-making, etc.

 

 

 

I remember when rune pics came out...took forever for everyone to get them, sine there was only one npc selling them, and he could only talk to one person at a time...the dwarven mines were as crowded as varrock world 1 for a few days.

 

 

 

And fatigue...the most annoying update ever

[Dork]

Also there wasn't any bank at the first part of RSC, just your inventory, am I right?

 

Yep, but that was at the prehistoric period :P Item banks came at pretty early stage, before it turned to year 2002. However I can guarantee that 95% of people who call RSC hard didn't even play back then :P

 

I personally think it was much harder :P 10-15k combat experience per hour compared to the 60k that's easy to get now? :P Plus all the make x's, and new ways to get zp insanely fast in all skills compared to how it used to be :P I think the only skill that's harder now is mining, because you have to drop the ores, lol, the xp per hour is still higher now than it was then though :P While I do agree RS2 is a much better game on the whole, RSC was alot harder to level in.

 

 

 

As for pking, does p2p pking even exist anymore? :P A bunch of people fighting each other in level 3 wild, apart from that there's nothing :?

[anonymouse_]

You must have played it to understand...

[Lt_Wolfe]

Noob was a word unheard of

 

Quote for truth...

 

 

 

I still have my Scythe!

 

 

 

I just remember when Santa Hats cost 200k each (I still have one on my RS1 account). Back then, people liked them for their looks, not their worth. Not you have a bunch of greedy 10 year olds autoing everything in sight, and you look back to when you could take a glance and see a good friend of yours at any point in time? Yeah, RS1 was MUCH better than RS2.

 

 

 

Granted, when RS2 came out, the community was split. My friend hated RS2, I loved it. How wrong I was.

[vppunkrocker]

Less people, no macros.

[Cazwise]

Leveling sure was a lot harder, but enjoying yourself and having fun with friends was crap loads easier.

[gotbling]

1. Community was a lot better, friendlier etc.

 

2. It was harder. Combat 100+ was legend usually.

 

I remember i had pure with 40attack, 40def and 57str and i owned.

 

 

 

I dont really know.. I like rs2 but i liked rsclassic more.

 

 

 

Lol, back in the old days i had santa hats(100k each) and even a white partyhat(2.7mil). I miss them. :

[Dragonlordjl]

In RSC:

 

 

 

The community was far more helpful and mature.

 

 

 

Jagex Mods frequently made visits in-game.

 

 

 

There were not nearly as many scammers, and macros did not exist.

 

 

 

All skills except mining were more difficult in RSC.

 

 

 

100k was the equivalent of 1m, back then. I remember when I traded 400k + a red party hat (which was worth 100k at the time) for a Rune Battleaxe, and I was so proud of myself.

 

 

 

Pking took skill, and pkers had honor and respect for one another. None of that "z0mg safer nub" bullcrap.

 

 

 

Rune armor actually looked nice. It had a unique glow to it, particularly the Rune Large Helm. I hate the dull blue look that Rune has, now.

[spooferfish]

It had the feeling that kept me, and others I'm sure, coming back for more. The graphics weren't awesome, but they worked, and gave you the feeling I'm talking about.

 

 

 

The feeling. Can't be duplicated, doesn't even come back if I log on to RSC..

 

 

 

Sigh.

 

 

 

 

 

The best thing about RSC hands down.. *points to avatar*

[salim123]

it was much harder

[Ilovesd90mac]

RSC was way different. As others have said, you had to play to really know what it was like. I joined in fall 2001. Mining was my favorite. Auto-dropping was great for training mining. It was also great for picking up the oh-so-rare iron that made me rich (so I thought). I forgot about the icon appearing above your head. This thread has brought up many memories. I remember when RS2 first came out for beta, as soon as you logged out you would be back to lumbridge. I remember wanting to go see what the new karjama looked like, but I had the internet cut out before I got there, and lost all progress. :roll: I decided that I didn't like RS2. It was like a new game, and I didn't feel like learning all over again. I didn't pay much attention to the whole item switching thing. So when I logged in one day, only to find my items gone, I freaked. I went to RS@, and there they were. I read about what happened, got mad, and quit for 1.5 Years. :ohnoes: I hated the Sleeping bag, but ya know, that may be the thing for Jagex to bring back to kill the macroers.

 

 

 

I just thought of another memory. Raw material trading was rare, especially to those who didn't know where to look for it. (Me.) One, while I was mining coal in Barbarian village, this dude named canadaguy100 or something comes there and says: "Buying coal - 50 ea". The mines went crazy. Everybody running over to trade him over and over and over. He kept running up to edgeville, and coming back. I got so 'rich" from that.

 

 

 

Ah, good times in classic.

[9jonathan9]

i was an early 2001 player. It was a lot funner because it was unknown. you had to figure things out like "does magic use up your runes when you fire it?" The kb kills such fun as does tutorial island and such. RSC was fun because there was no babysitting of newbes. I first logged in after choosing a class (i had zippo idea what that did for me at the time) and tried to move with my arrow keys. After a bit of help from my bro we walked past each other twice before finally meeting. gosh those were good times.

[JoshThaGod]

solo pking was possible in RSC......nuff said.

[laxman]

I may not have the character to prove it, seeing as I never obtained a high combat level due to my constant quitting, but I've played since right after they installed the banking system.

 

They put fatigue in, some sort of skill, to stop the auto'ers, yes there were auto'ers back then too. You could only do a skill so long till your character became fatigued and you had ot find a bed. They realesed Sleeping bags to make this simpler.

 

Its been awhile and the combat training system was different because I believe it was more similar to how slayer is now. You got a certain amount of xp. per monster instead of how much HP they have.

 

When I joined rune battle axes were 1.5m and rune 2hs were 2m...that was a goal to work towards.

 

Runes were insane, enough said.

 

Party hats were 10k for awhile...I even bought a yellow one which in my infinity genius sold for 10k and bought a rune med. Yes RSC was amazing though. Everything took forever and you felt that it was an acheivement to obtain a rune item or make even 50k.

 

Certs...holy...I hate certs and I never want to talk about them again.

 

I'll always remember "killurdad" pk'd me 3x and I lost full addy everytime.

 

THe dragon from the dragon slayer was a monster back then. I was lvl 50 and scared for all my glorious items.

 

The market at varrock was actually in the market

 

THe rune sales eventually moved to the courtyard in front of Varrock Castle.

 

Everyone griped when they couldn't sell sycths.

 

Masks were ridiculous too, just like recent updates everyone hated them. "Masks How ugly...i don't want one"

 

Now there millions upon millions of GP.

 

Now im unsure of but I do believe before I joined there were no requirements for any weapons and they installed them later. Any character weilding a weapon beyond his capablities had there levels raised to those requirements.

 

Overall it was much much much harder to gain xp. Those who gained a 99 skill deserved far more than a silly cape. They deserved to be enshrined as runescape greats. Bluerose13x man...I remember wishing I could smith like that.

 

I do remember you couldn't even tell a persons combat level. Me and my friends would run around in Bronze and pretend to be lvl 5s...

 

And you could pick what you wanted to be at the beginning of the game

 

a warrior, ranger, mage, etc. and you would be given a leg up in those certain skills.

 

 

 

RSC great game..As you can see I've rambled but It was a good bit of my life when i was younger. :)

[hohto]

Can you remember the names of all your mules too? :P/quote]

 

 

 

Only my bank mule's, which currently has like no stuff :( Phree st00f?

 

 

 

In RSC, your teleport failed,

 

 

 

Only at lower levels and everyone who were planning to tele while pkin, had high enough magic level not to fail varrock tele. Of course that doesn't include lvl 23 steel pkers.

 

 

 

I personally think it was much harder Razz 10-15k combat experience per hour compared to the 60k that's easy to get now? Razz Plus all the make x's, and new ways to get zp insanely fast in all skills compared to how it used to be Razz I think the only skill that's harder now is mining, because you have to drop the ores, lol, the xp per hour is still higher now than it was then though Razz While I do agree RS2 is a much better game on the whole, RSC was alot harder to level in.

 

 

 

Yea, combat training was a lot slower. However, I don't really see that it was a mistake to make this game "easier". We still got so many things to work on that faster xp in some skills is more than good. Just take a look at the amount of people with all skills at 99: it's still low.

 

 

 

There were not nearly as many scammers, and macros did not exist.

 

 

 

Have we played the same game? First big massbans happened in 2002 and it wasn't the only massban for autoing :P Macroing was a big problem at the last times of RSC before we got RS2 and definately got into worse after that.

[Happysniff]

It was harder because:

 

 

 

You only got xp for when you've killed the monster

 

No PC

 

No Pyramid Plunder, just good ol fashion pickpocketing

 

Only 3 or 4 agility courses

 

No cook x

 

No fletch x

 

No smith x

 

As a matter of fact, no x at all

 

Xp an hour was like 10-20k xp lol

 

Limited armour choice there was only bronze, leather, wizards robes, iron, steel, black, mith, addy, rune and dragon, and even then the dragon set was no where near completion

 

 

 

It was fun because it was hard and exciting. One thing I loved most was the guy whop changed your armour from female to male and vise versa, that guy was awesome.

[Zantrax]

I love classic a lot more than rs2, for one, back then my lvl wasnt as nooby as it is now, I remember in classic, i saw a lvl 105 in varrock and nearly crapped my pants :lol: . It was harder, there was only 15 inventory spaces if I remember correctly, and like other people said, you had to figure things out for yourself, but for some things you could go on tip.it and get information lol.

 

 

 

 

 

In rsc u had 30 inven spots, but since ur armor stays in ur inventory u had less space when fighting.

 

 

 

 

 

In rsc things were harder because of the continuous clicking, mining and fishing for example. Now u click once and u just wait. Back then u had to keep clicking and clicking till u had a full inventory.