So you've been around the block?

[un4given]

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Just thinking about how runescape was several years ago compared to today and the events that happened through it's history i guess you could say. I started playing a year or 2 after rs2 came out but here's some events that happened that made me feel as though i've been around the block (you're only oldschool if you've played since classic).

 

 

 

-slayer released

 

-farming released

 

-construction released; oaks jumped up from 30 to 300gp for a few days which i made my first million with the oaks i powercut

 

-wildy without a ditch

 

-crossbows firing faster than shortbows

 

-autoers with the generic clothing

 

-sharks dropping down to 500 ea due to autoers

 

-fally massacre

 

-when climbing boots pwned

 

-zezima and more i can't think of

[spooferfish]

I believe I started just after the Dragon Slayer quest was released. So I also got to see level 3's wearing rune armor, dueling anywhere, drops of pumpkins, masks, santa hats, crackers (phats), only the normal 'cape' int eh game, then the release of Legends cape, no running #-o , and a lot more that I forgot while typing this out..

 

 

 

Ahh the memories.

 

 

 

ahaha, just remembering walking up to a yew tree behind varrock castle (i think thats where it was..) and seeing a bunch of pale white, bald level 3s in green shirts chopping. So I say something and they ALL DISAPPEAR. I loved that, lol. Silly bots.

[Toad]

topics like these have been started before, every update changes the game bit by bit, for me i loved monkey madness quest as it was one of the first added in rs2 and it really started to use what jagex were talking about in changing the game from classic and more was possible

[Storm9117]

ah, I remember being excited by the prices of phats and christmas crackers going up to 3k each. I sold all of mine because at lvl 15, 60k was a lot of money.

 

 

 

Another part I remember is the release of the R2 beta.

 

I was mad that only members could try out the beta.

 

Weh nI tried the beta for the first time, I tried runescarfting, and hated it so much!

 

 

 

I also remember not being able to kill the guards (i had forgetten the password to the other account so I had a lower lvl) so I could not get any santa hats. They were selling for 2k each, but I only had about 400gp^^ shoulda collected more bananas on Karamja.

 

 

 

Then I quit after about two months into RS2.

 

 

 

I came back and played off and on.

 

 

 

Pking was the best! I loved in rsc where you could cast spell while you fouhgt. such ownage. Now in rs2, pking was fun because it was so challenging. I remember stocking on swordies, running to the black knights castle and waiting for noobs 20 lvls lower than me to try and kill my friends and I with our rune armor vs thier addy.

 

 

 

 

 

Those were the days^^

[jimmy_jim]

 

ahaha, just remembering walking up to a yew tree behind varrock castle (i think thats where it was..) and seeing a bunch of pale white, bald level 3s in green shirts chopping. So I say something and they ALL DISAPPEAR. I loved that, lol. Silly bots.

 

 

 

That was brilliant. It's sad they got their act together and stopped doing that -.-

 

 

 

Also, I'm pretty sure the wilderness always had a warning? Maybe I'm just not remember correctly :oops:

[Master_Smither]

I remember...

 

no bank in lumbridge

 

no tutors

 

"Egg me"

 

when rune plates had the realy long arm pieces when seen in your inv

 

when the general store had a pot with flour as the symbol

 

when slayer was new

 

when farming was new

 

when construction was new

 

and when merchanting actually required skill

 

 

 

Eh....a lot more but it's late.

 

 

 

 

 

This is classic :D

 

 

 

[RsArrow]

 

ahaha, just remembering walking up to a yew tree behind varrock castle (i think thats where it was..) and seeing a bunch of pale white, bald level 3s in green shirts chopping. So I say something and they ALL DISAPPEAR. I loved that, lol. Silly bots.

 

 

 

That was brilliant. It's sad they got their act together and stopped doing that -.-

 

 

 

Also, I'm pretty sure the wilderness always had a warning? Maybe I'm just not remember correctly :oops:

 

 

 

Yeah the wilderness always had a warning. It was a black box in rsc.

 

 

 

I remeber when the quote "I killed a black knight" was impressive and something to brag about.

[un4given]

Also, I'm pretty sure the wilderness always had a warning? Maybe I'm just not remember correctly :oops:

 

Now that i think of it, there was a warning that only came up once before you entered the wildy and only reappeared once you logged and logged back in i believe.

[Toad]

I started around Jan 2002, which isnt that old compared to some I know, the first few months where are blur since I was completely lost, the lumbridge tutor before tutorial island, one type of bow, one type of arrows, one type or pickaxe, one type of rocks (before hard/soft).

 

 

 

I remember introduction of many skills, agility was madness, not sparta, around 1000 people on the gnome course doing laps, thieving came with ardy, I remember members being introduced, 2 seperate clients for both members and free to play, the first site i could remember it was a pale blue background, and the client took you to worlds list not the runescape main page.

 

 

 

Herblaw not herblore, first dying my cape to purple, 3 rounds of combat, sleeping bag introduction, starting classes, rune prices being insane, rare prices seeming insane but not really, knife glitch, fally castle glitch (closing castledoor spam clicking ladder going on 2nd floor but on the other side of wall roaming scape on the air), the dupe in november 2003 getting home from school and trading noobs pieces of rune armour for phats.. Jagex saying no more rare drops then dropped the first untradeables.

 

 

 

Legends release and getting the cape, looked hot in classic with the gold trim, the mage arena update and wanting one of the staffs, old inventory pics I used to love, quests only one person could talk to the npc, had to hope you got lucky, same with picking up drops from quests such as dwarf remains you had to hope you were the one picking it up, otherwise wait for 5 mins waiting for respawn to try and get it before everyone else... I could babble on all night.

 

 

 

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[salim123]

I started in 2002, i remember i "discovered" the secret room in edge dunegon, stayed there for about a month and with the coin spawns made a good 10,000 :D

 

 

 

I also remember buying a mask for 100k and full rune for 1mill

 

goood times!

[Diego]

haha I remember trading a dragon baxe for a santa hat, and when red phats were 2.4 m i counted all the things I owned and figured I could get one but i told myself it wouldnt go up much and id be better off just saving

 

 

 

rs2 beta was so sick too, it pretty much made me come back to the game.. there would be drop partys with phats and crackers and just about everything (when they copied the items over) and i remember my friends leveling their runecraft and bragging about it, although it was pointless cuz they were just gonna get wiped

[SGTWASSER]

*Thinks back*.

 

Classic. Hmm.

 

 

 

 

 

All I remember is walking around in bronze like a nob. My dream was to eventually get full black armor. Most gold I ever had was like... 200-300GP. I'd constantly get lost between Falador and Draynor, would get good samaritans to guide me back to my "house".

 

And that dark, fateful day when I got killed in the wilderness and lost all my armor.

 

NEVERTHELESS. Real men walk from dragons when retreating.

 

 

 

Today:

 

OKAY RDY 2 RS. FIRST TIME IN A MONTH.

 

LOG ON.

 

COLLECT GE EARNINGS.

 

BANK IT.

 

LOOT WILDERNESS.

 

RUN FROM GAY GHOSTS.

 

(If dead) FUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCetc.

 

RUN BACK TO GE.

 

PUT ITEMS FOR SALE.

 

LOG OFF.

 

(If process= complete, then repeat).

[Junkmutt]

I can honestly say I have been playing a while, not long enough for rsc but I guess shortly after RS2 started.

 

 

 

List of oldness:

 

1. Spending hours trying to buy or sell something in worlds 1 or 2.

 

2. Messing up bots who were automining.

 

3. Full rune at 500k gps.

 

4. Simple yet awesome dragons and demons.

 

5. KBD = Hard as heck!

 

6. KQ = Harder than ^

 

7. Less than 100 quests.

 

8. You actually MADE gp by turning raws into products.

 

9. Smithing was super money maker.

 

10. No ditch wilderness and simple brilliant pvp.

 

11. Looting clan wars with noob accs for the heck of it.

 

12. No GE.

 

13. Clan PKing.

 

14. D chain, med, legs/skirt, and sq. shield made up full dragon.

 

15. Intro of Construction.

 

16. No bank in Lumby unless you did RFD.

 

17. None of this make-x stuff...too slow.

 

18. Gifting between friends.

 

19. RS came in two modes, low detail and high detail. Not high detail and High Definition.

 

20. Only guide in RS was the lumby guide, and the beginners map was a few words and a star.

 

21. Preparing runes etc. for running from pkers while killing green drags.

 

22. Warning noobs that they were going to die from green drags if they didn't have anti-dragon shield. And they get 1 hit. BTW to add, selling anti dragon shields for 2k ea.

 

23. In non membs, having colored gloves and hat was the [cabbage].

 

24. Tzhaar didn't hurt your eyes to look at for a long time.

 

25. Blue phat was 50m

 

26. Giants looked like man eaters and not the BFG. Ogres weren't fat tubs of lard.

 

27. Whip was the pinnacle of all weapons.

 

28. Pking (might have said twice, miss the old pking but oh well it had to be done)

 

29. Rune pick was 21k and rune hatchet was called rune axe and was 25k.

 

30. All ores of the same type looked the same, the only oddball was The stronghold of security ones.

 

And the list goes on and on...

[Da_Latios]

I was too noob to face the KBD on this account until 2005, and I was too young to even know what the hell the KBD was on my old account.

 

2003 was when I rejoined RS, and I've been playing a lot since then.

 

Construction being released, Farming and crossbows all seem quite recent to me.

[walka92]

when i started, there was noone over 85 runecrafting

 

dragons and demons had very simplistic graphics

 

santas were only a few hundred k each

 

i remember when elemental workshop 1 came out

 

thinking having full iron and steel mace was an achievement

 

no ditch on wilderness

 

i remember the addition of every single skill from slayer onwards, and even that was when i was like level 80 or 90

 

when people would try to scam people by trading a rock hammer, saying it was a grantie maul, when they were very expensive

 

i remember when the rs main page was just 6 icons for different things arranged in a rectangle

 

remember kq being released

 

remember dag. kings being released

 

trying to solo general graador the day godwars was released, and getting rol'd just as he died -.-

 

remember the tzharr area being released, and seeing a firecape made you almost stunned in awe

[Mdeoxys]

I became a member just before the farming update (don't remember which date it was), after I got a few lvl's I quitted for a year or so.

 

When I came back, everything was changed (but I didn't know back then) so I trained a pure (not a pure any more now xD) and I went to the 'wildy'. Too bad I couldn't find the attack button anymore :x

 

I'm not a very old player compared to most of you guys.

[the_korny]

I remember:

 

 

 

-failing a spell and waiting 15 seconds or so to try again

 

-having an item called "pickaxe"

 

-mining 8 coal at barb village, then resting in edgeville

 

-mining a chicken nugget then smelting it into a gold bar/sheet

 

-being super mad that I missed the scythe drop, but got it later

 

^ I was mad, but I never posted any complaints

 

-having 116/116 quest points (RS2)

[UserOnRS]

 

23. In non membs, having colored gloves and hat was the [cabbage].

Buying canifis gloves "cheap" from a friend and selling hundreds of them for 5k each.

[All_Is_Great]

I remember running back and forth between the varrock mines - lumby furnace - varrock anvils - varrock sword shop, making 100gp each run and training my smithing to the lvl 30s. There was no guide to help me :( NObody told me about cowhides!

[Kevin_]

Started in 2002, remember struggling to kill Elvarg at 65 combat -.-. Losing my full bronze to a giant rat, god those were the days, not to forget the obligatory flaming towards the person that killed you while pking :lol:. I don't know, eventhough the graphics and the gameplay weren't the best, the game still had something special. I hated myself for not being able to grab bunny ears because my parents punished me :(. Unfortunatly i lost all of my rsc pics, i'll post some rs2 ones though.

 

 

 

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Realise the staking pics aren't that old, but staking was the most fun thing on rs for me, that's why i've inserted them.

[Weiyao]

I remember running back and forth between the varrock mines - lumby furnace - varrock anvils - varrock sword shop, making 100gp each run and training my smithing to the lvl 30s. There was no guide to help me :( NObody told me about cowhides!

 

Haha, same. I orginally sold them to the general store though.

[Kill_Life]

I've started playing shortly after the release of RS2.

 

 

 

Some things I remember:

 

- The Rubber Chicken-quest.

 

- The Tzhaar (+ Fire Cape)

 

- Release of Barrows

 

- Release of Slayer / Farming / Construction / Hunter / Summoning

 

- Bought my second Santa Hat when Construction came out since prices were dropping.

 

- Old website

 

- Keldagrim

 

- 1 millionth member.

 

- Highscores being top 500k.

 

- And so much more.

[Mil]

I also started playing just after the release of RS2. However, I remained f2p for a very long time!

 

 

 

Some of my earliest screenshots, with my clan back then, the Templar Guardians. (I must have started playing at least a year or two before this):

 

 

 

Earliest bank pic

 

 

 

 

Saving up for 60k to buy enough death runes for a PKing trip ;)

 

 

 

 

Some early screenshots of when I got members, I think this must be from a TET CW event.

 

 

 

 

 

I was such a noob...

[Bauke]

I remember:

 

-No wilderness

 

-Pk'er vs. non-pk'er

 

-City of Falador just released

 

-Mining was an important money maker

 

-No P2P

 

 

 

Somewhere in 2001.

[yurpsie]

Bug:

 

 

 

 

Pre-Slayer:

 

 

 

 

Old whip: