What Do You Miss Most?

[elucin8er]

When RuneScape was a dangerous place and people weren't babied by Jagex.

 

This. More than anything :thumbsup:

[shinedownkid]

as im sure most people do, No Trade Limit & Old Wilderness

 

think those are 2 of the highest missed features of the older years.

[Motherduck1]

Remember how busy all the banks used to be with people trying to buy and sell items. That was before the grand exchange of course.

[Dbzruler72]

RuneScape Classic's early community is one of my best memories.

[Rock Hard]

I do miss the old wilderness, but bh is pretty cool too

 

seem to get a lot more kills and generally more loot these days than before, especially in f2p - with corrupt KOs

 

oh and drop trading, i miss that

[Orc]

A smaller tighter community, practically the classic community, but that can't really be helped when the game is constantly growing.

Also trading with actual people and not a grand exchange clerk, although i couldn't live without the g.e for simple quest items etc. and there's no way i'd wish for it to be gone.

Apart from that, the game has moved forwards in leaps and bounds.

[vidioot]

Having members. ;o

Not much really, F2P has only got better. The only other thing I miss is the feeling of excitement that RS gave you when you first started, it was massive to me as a noob. Varrock? Dear god no! And how the hell do I get to Draynor? Oh those were the days.

 

So True:)

[Alg]

But other then that i miss being new exploring and having a sense of adventure. Now adays its all about getting lvls exp and rank.

 

Its not runescape thats changed either its me.

THIS.

I've been everywhere on the map. I have average-high skills all around. I've fought most higher level enemies and finished every quest. I can't get the feeling of exploration back because the only things left to explore relate to what I can do with my skills.

[Psi_Kia_Kai]

I miss not knowing how to play when everything was new lol...

[Lielac]

I miss the feeling when I was new; when Varrock being SOO FARR wasn't because i'm on my latest pure and it's a hard slog, but because 'ZOMG NEW PLACE' and there's all this wonder and excitement and getting lost and almost getting killed by dark wizards in Draynor when I overshoot going back to Wizard's Tower when doing Rune Mysteries. I got some of that back when I got members, and I have a very fond memory of going "Ohhh quest icon! ... OH GOD IT'S BIG CHOMPY BIRD HUNTING" during one of my wanderings, but it's not the SAME since the new things are built upon the impressions the old things left, and having a comparison makes my view of the world different. And watching fights from the safety of just a little bit south of the invisible line and then venturing forward just one more square, then rushing backwards as soon as the first arrow wings its way towards me... all that stuff just isn't the same.

[Norriie]

I definitely miss when runescape seemed huge.. When I would log in and not know what to do because it seemed like there were too many choices.

 

I miss when general stores sold other people's junk for low prices, pre-grand exchange. I remember when I first started I used to hang around the general store and buy beads for that one imp quest. I could get them at the store for 1gp, then I'd run to the bank and sell it someone for 300gp. I thought I was making tons of money XD

 

Oh, and I miss when I barely needed any exp to level up. When 400 exp til my next level seemed like a huge amount.

 

I guess I just miss being a newb. XD

[Star_Fox]

never pk'ed in my life haha, so definitely not that.

 

i missed drop parties...and the infamous "free st00f pl0x".

[Aeon_]

Not being able to do quests again...sudden urge to do WGS again...

[OrMockHim]

I miss the overall "magic" of old rs. It was fun, people didn't know anything about the game, Zezima was on the top.. Ahh, good times.. I remember talking with a guy at school who had smithing level to make full steel, if he could make me a set for free :grin: He did it.. and well, i was a jolly dude for the next few days!

[jsboutin2]

I miss the time when I had 4 or 5 friends on my friend list that would actually be online quite often.

 

Now, I only see one really often, the others almost never login....

 

Nowadays, I'm staring at a lot of red when I open my friends tab....

 

(Yeah I find it hard making friends IRL, and even harder ingame)...

 

 

EDIT: I also miss the time when I'd walk around in iron or steel wearing a red cape, thinking that I looked oh-so strong.... Cool sets with gs's are nothing to me compared to what that set was.

 

Moving from Lumbridge to Varrock getting through Falador (Yeah, I thought the only thing on the other side of that bridge was only to Al-Kharid (Where I had to think a long time if it was really worth 10 gold to get in there....))

 

The time when mining through Falador was dangerous because of scorpions.

 

The time when I thought an xp lamp would give me a level.

 

The time when I mined ore in Rimmington, smelted in Falador, and sold at the general store to make money...without banking the ore or anything...Doing that over and over again. Got 40 mining and smithing that way, along with a rune pick.

 

My Rune (g) set, a bit later, when I could wear the platebody because I hadn't done Dragon slayer.

[Skeptical]

I really miss selling to other players, with all of the arguing, cheating and potential that made it feel just so real.

[Shelby_Polo]

I miss the days when money wasn't everything. Now a days, every time the community figures out a future update, the price of a certain item inflates (or vise versa) even if it's a small or useless update; and people do this just to make more money. Just about every skill can be trained with money and sometimes it seems you need to spend a lot of money just to get a fair amount of experience.

I don't even want to mention merchanting clans and their chat spam....

 

All the greed has gone on in RS for a very long time and continues to grow, but I still do remember, and miss, the days when money wasn't everything.

[Drakrono]

I miss the times when noobs and spammers were the exception, not the rule -.-

[The Dark Lord]

I miss running around in Lumbridge in circles because I didn't know how to leave the city and travel to Draynor Village in order to access the bank (and I had to use the Lumbridge Guide in order to find out this information about Draynor and the bank). I used to think that Lumbridge was a large city confined within huge walls with a large castle at its center and several communities lying on its outskirts. I remember being freaked out by the Lumbridge Cemetery because of the ghost in the mausoleum. I remember getting lost in Lumbridge Swamps (and indeed trying to find it!) and trying to find the Wizard's Tower. I remember taking an inefficient route to Varrock after being killed by White Knights in Falador. I remember literally going to the highest point in Varrock and feeling proud of myself. I remember the Christmas 2005 event and trying to sell a Christmas Bauble for an extortionate price in Zaff's Shop (top floor) to another player and thinking that I was clever and would get rich (little did I know that it was a so-called "not tradable" item!)... I remember a friend giving me a key to Edgeville Sewers in order to kill hill giants (and thinking that it was a top secret club on RuneScape). I remember delivering gifts to the man at the Member's Gate by dodging the guards because I thought they were aggressive. The Dwarven Mines and Dragon Slayer and the Rune Platebody were all huge achievements! So was the Mining Guild and level 60 woodcutting. I used to sell willow logs that I cut to the general store in order to make 3k a day. Then, I was hired by a higher level person in order to cut yew trees, and he would reward me for my efforts with runite items and other things. I was getting ripped off, but I didn't know that, and it made me appreciate the mithril/adamantite/runite items that I was getting paid with. He was also one of my first friends on RS. I remember meeting a friend after helping this stranger travel from south of Falador to Varrock (going through Draynor Manor). We used to make money by mining rune essence and selling our wares in World 1. He bought a set of gilded adamantite armor, and I was extremely jealous! I eventually saved up 400k and thought that I was set for the rest of my RuneScape career. I even managed to buy an adamantite(g) shield near Varrock Bank in world 1, and I was happy. I paid about 90k, I think.

 

When I got members, I mailed my subscription and logged on with anticipation everyday for a few weeks until it finally arrived to England, and Jagex turned my membership on -- for the first time! I was giddy with excitement and quickly accessed the Member's Gate, explored every inch of Taverly, and learned about a new town called Catherby on my map. I remember feeling dismayed that I had to cross over the White Wolf Mountain in order to reach this city, but I made it (although I thought I would die)! I remember buying an amulet of glory as the first item I ever bought on a members' world because it was my favorite item that I read about in old Tip.it guides. I paid 140k for my first amulet of glory (they were worth that much then. Probably was 240k, I don't remember...)

 

I was especially happy after the unexpected release of Construction.

[AgentEarl]

i miss when jagex didnt have to make stupid rules bc ppl dont have common sense. half the fun was exploring and getting scammed or dying in the wildy. you learn from mistakes!

[onedaysoon]

I miss so many things, World 2 fally park, World 9 and 18 Seers bank, the actual Hit points skill and of course the days before the trade limit, when you could actually help a friend out.

[MyCalmSkills]

Trading Before The Ge, Back When You Traded In Banks, Laws Were 1k Each And There Was No Trade Limit :thumbsup: