Hi. im not that old skool to have an rsc account but jagex has announced pking everywhere on their pvp worlds which will come out soon. im not too sure how this will work. so i am asking u, who have been in the game and know wat its like to kill or die to that noob just outside of lumbridge. how did this system work?

it was cool to pk everywhere...i miss disturbing varrock miners and shoppers in town...it was more tactical because of different obstacles and stuff...noob pking was good when pking was everywhere and not just in level 1-5 wildy like after wilderness.

 

when wildy was added, it killed my fun and i started to focus on skills ;)

I wasn't back then, but I heard that guards and other NPCs attacked players who were doing PvP in cities. Am I right? How did this work? Were they just normal level 21 guards?

Here's my article about it which I posted to Zezima's forums some time ago. Enjoy.

 

 

 

As some of you have heard and few us have seen, there used to be no wilderness at the dawn of RuneScape. In this thread we'll take a peek at how the grim arts were.

 

 

 

To kill someone, you and your enemy had both need to have set the pk mode on. This meant you could only be killed if you wanted to kill the others. To avoid abuse (switching from pk to non-pk at 1hp), the amount of switches were limited to few. In few cases this caused problems as people tend to be stuck forever either at pkin or nonpkin. With a lack of item banks, training skill was really hard if you had the skull over your head. Below there's a picture of this method to switch into a pker or stay non-pker. Note that there were level cabs to avoid people being massacred from a lot stronger players and Lumbridge (but not the lumby basement for example!) were safezones without the ability to attack others. In cities the guards also had an important role: When they "saw" someone being attacked, they stepped to the arena and joined the action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course the top pkers were recognised even back in then and rivalries were born. Down there's few pictures of the best of the best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robin Hood2 (aka Robin Hood) and Erixson were not just the top pkers. They were also ranked really high in combat skills. Because of level limits, they couldn't massacre anyone. The low number of high level pkers caused rivalries to be born. In that pic their armours (adamantite legs, mithril plate, steel long, steel kite, etc) look noobish, but it was the best possible set to get back in then. The lower pic is from the same battle but from a different view and doesn't show unfortunately any names.

 

 

 

 

Rab, Lightning and Erixson here. Rab and Light were not just top players, they also were literally one of the first players ever. Note that Lightning also is the heart of Tip.IT forums and the first player moderator ever.

 

 

 

 

Here's RH2 again.

 

 

 

 

Legendary Sunjon and some Jagex staff. Sunjon was one of the feared pkers and highest leveled characters in whole game. Unfortunately he stepped to the dark side and got caught in the first massban ever, the [Caution: Jagex Rule Violation] massban.

 

 

 

Of course the big things are the most important ones. Who cares about the single fights when you can get wars. Here's few pictures from a legendary clan Gladz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not as big as current wars with at tops hundreds of players smacking each other. Not as many different armour variations. Not same kind of organized groups. Still, this was the fun part of rs pkin. In current world of RS2 it wouldn't work as well as it did, but that sure was fun. Of course time makes memories golden, but with a hand on my heart I can swear that having my first newbie before level requirements and pkin people with it at cabbage fields, luring them to Lumbridge basement and tanking against groups were one of the best memories I got from the early days of RuneScape.

they could make private server with old pk system...i think it would be possible if there were client files available from that age...that would be real oldschool runescape :P

they could make private server with old pk system...i think it would be possible if there were client files available from that age...that would be real oldschool runescape :P

 

They already had those, if I recall r3n1 had one until the guy who actually made the server didn't got paid and screwed the server over.