-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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

^ For those who think my statistics are wrong.

I'll keep skilling.

F2P people can use the duel arena, or the bounty hunter game. It isn't like people can't fight now.

They just can't make millions an hour by fighting.

I never really did like pking...skilling and making money were my incentives to play. :)

Have you seen how much f2pers love clan wars and duel arena? I'm pretty sure they are going to be entertained for a while.

I never really did like pking...skilling and making money were my incentives to play. :)

 

 

 

 

 

yep, i never staked, or pked. if i did, i probably would have quit. :)

F2P people can use the duel arena, or the bounty hunter game. It isn't like people can't fight now.

 

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.

erkid"]Have you seen how much f2pers love clan wars and duel arena? I'm pretty sure they are going to be entertained for a while.

 

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

Well, I was an f2p pker which played only to PK, but came back the next day. Like I thought I would.

 

 

 

Right now I'm going for 99 range in f2p. Just for the challenge, bragging rights, and MAYBE pking. But we'll see what December 18th says about that. A time consuming goal, I expect it to take 4-6 months as a rough estimate if I only range, bank, and go back to ranging again.

 

 

 

But first I have to get the 2m+ for the 400k+ bronze arrows I'll need to get that. Might be more or less, not sure if I'll be be picking up arrows or not.

 

 

 

So yeah that's the agenda for now I guess. :P

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So Jagex supposedly nerfed F2P PKing, and you're asking us what we'll do now.

 

 

 

I'll just be PKing.

Welllll the f2p updates looked kinda good at first. I tried to play BH with my f2p friend but we couldn't get into the same level cave and mine had an empty waiting room. I switched but all f2p servers were empty, too! Apparently no one there wants to play on the 100+ area. :roll:

I'm actually interested to see if group focused pking becomes popular, seeing as to how I am more interested in mining and smithing I feel that these skills would come in handy should I join one of these pking groups.

 

 

 

This would mean that I can build a strong bond with a group of friends and supply them with gear for battle that is easily replaceable for a heavily subsidised cost (I focus on skilling and not earning money, so I mine and smith everything myself).

 

 

 

Of course, this all depends on whether pking clans for bounty hunter and the dual arena become popular, that way I'll actually have a practical use and a good reason for levelling up my manafacturing skills.

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.

 

 

 

There's plenty left to do in f2p; I seriously doubt that 90% of players are that focused on pking. If anything, 90% of players are focused on earning gp.

 

As for me, as an f2per, I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing: skilling. Only now, it'll be so much easier without random pkers attacking me every few minutes, and those wuss revenants are hardly threatening. Or, if there are some that are, I haven't encountered them yet. But, at least they're still easier to identify as a threat than the lying pkers who said "Peace" then attacked as soon as my inventory was worth their effort.

 

So yeah, this actually made my life as an f2per easier.

I'd like to point out statistics from a poll run on Jagex's main page:

 

 

 

Only 12% of players PKed recently.

 

 

 

Only 18% of players planned on PKing within the next month.

 

 

 

Your claim of 90% people focused on PKing? If they're not PKing, they're doing something that makes them better at it? It's a lie.

 

 

 

Next time, back up your opinions with valuable statistics. Otherwise it's just a rant, and there is an entire forum for them.

 

 

 

There's plenty left to do in f2p; I seriously doubt that 90% of players are that focused on pking. If anything, 90% of players are focused on earning gp.

 

As for me, as an f2per, I'm going to keep doing what I've been doing: skilling. Only now, it'll be so much easier without random pkers attacking me every few minutes, and those wuss revenants are hardly threatening. Or, if there are some that are, I haven't encountered them yet. But, at least they're still easier to identify as a threat than the lying pkers who said "Peace" then attacked as soon as my inventory was worth their effort.

 

So yeah, this actually made my life as an f2per easier.

 

 

 

Not for me, Ive been killed exactly once by a pker in a year on this f2p account. I was zero-iteming. On the other hand, I have been killed thrice in 2 days doing my regular mining routine. One of them hit a 32 on me in F2p!

yeah those things owned me 2. I was at greater's and one attacked me and started hitting 22+...and it was only lvl 70 something (i'm 85). Put on range prayer and it still hit from distance...put on mage prayer and it still hit from distance :wall: #-o .

 

I was low food at the time so i didn't kill it...but apparently the drops are poor considering the damage they do they should at least drop rune items or lots of chaos/death runes or something decent.

 

 

 

Anyway about the update... i was training heavily to go pking and now i dunno what to train...im not a big skiller but i might start mining/smithing, or i might just train up range/mage and go to the bounty- "get owned by clans and end up with everyone 1-iteming and make the whole thing pointless" -hunter.

 

If dueling didn't have the stupid limit it be doing that but its kinda pointless for 3k... -.-

90% of people don't get stuff to PK with, stop pulling statistics out of your [wagon].

 

 

 

I'm F2P, and I'm just gonna keep on skilling, just like before. Nothing new here, except 8 bank spaces and the duel arena. :D

I'm actually interested to see if group focused pking becomes popular, seeing as to how I am more interested in mining and smithing I feel that these skills would come in handy should I join one of these pking groups.

 

 

 

This would mean that I can build a strong bond with a group of friends and supply them with gear for battle that is easily replaceable for a heavily subsidised cost (I focus on skilling and not earning money, so I mine and smith everything myself).

 

 

 

Of course, this all depends on whether pking clans for bounty hunter and the dual arena become popular, that way I'll actually have a practical use and a good reason for levelling up my manafacturing skills.

How will you supply armour and weapons for your friends come January? You won't.

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.

 

 

 

Where did you get this information? :-s

I'd like to point out statistics from a poll run on Jagex's main page:

 

 

 

Only 12% of players PKed recently.

 

 

 

Only 18% of players planned on PKing within the next month.

 

 

 

Your claim of 90% people focused on PKing? If they're not PKing, they're doing something that makes them better at it? It's a lie.

 

 

 

Next time, back up your opinions with valuable statistics. Otherwise it's just a rant, and there is an entire forum for them.

 

 

 

agreed, TC has as much mathmatical knowledge as a russian bordello girl that never recieved an education due to her "job".

90% of people don't get stuff to PK with, stop pulling statistics out of your [wagon].

 

 

 

I have to agree with you there.

 

 

 

This statistic is completely made up, believe it or not, PKing is not what most people do in RuneScape.

Well, I'm going to find a noob conversation to put into the Noob's say the funniest things thread so that we at least have that during these times of everyone turning into conspiracy theorists.

I am a f2p game player, but I don't like pking either, lol :P