Are there any "old school" players still out there?

[tjd123]

Before I start I just wanted to say hey, i have used this help site for years but never really bothered to sign up because i was on other RS forums. Anyways on to the topic.

 

I've been playing this game for years, on and off since 2001 or 2002, can't remember really. My stats are that impressive but I just wanted to know who plays from what i consider "legit", not saying anyone at the tom is illiget. What i mean by "legit" are players that do practically everything themselves. I rarely buy raw materials. If I want to work on my smithing, I mine my ores and smith the bars myself. The GE kinda took this away from us. With that, anyone can buy raw materials in bulk and do it themselves. The only time im in the GE is when I buy stuff that i cant make(Runes, Weapons, Armor, etc.) and occasionally a few raw materials.

 

Stats that can be essentially bought:

 

Cooking

Smithing

Crafting

Prayer

Fletching

Firemaking

Herblore

Runecrafting

Construction(I disregard this as you practically have to buy this stat anyways or you cant really do it)

 

Pretty much every other stat has to be done with a lot of work. Im not saying "buying" you stats is not legit. It is a lot easier, yet you still do have to work to rank it up. I just want to know if anyone else out there does everything themselves.

[Mirror]

There are a few Do It Yourself (DIY) players. I think there is a blog here or there on these forums. You could read up on them and cheer them on. :)

[xxshady]

Been playing since 2001, so I tend to DIY whenever its practical. For example, farming for herbs instead of buying them, doing drags instead of buying the bones, etc. I find its more fun to actually obtain items and then sell them or use them rather than merching (essentially making money out of money) and just buying skills.

[3hitm4g3u]

im old school babe

[warlordsagan]

Please use the search button for 'old school'

Please I'm begging you, not another one of these posts

 

and old school players still bought skills so....

[Dbzruler72]

In classic, I did everything myself. For the first few months of RS2 I carried the same tradition through, but over time, as level gaining became more tedious, I found that buying raw materials produced the quickest results. With infinite shop stocks, the Grand Exchange, and the sheer amount of players providing raw materials, most players don't want or need to do it themselves anymore.

[xpandax]

In classic, I did everything myself. For the first few months of RS2 I carried the same tradition through, but over time, as level gaining became more tedious, I found that buying raw materials produced the quickest results. With infinite shop stocks, the Grand Exchange, and the sheer amount of players providing raw materials, most players don't want or need to do it themselves anymore.

 

anyone who was anyone in RSC didn't DIY, sorry m8. And as far as old school? I still have my first account ever, # 58 to ever register for runescape I don't use it anymore and haven't since 01, but i've still got it ;D . So yes, i'm old school and I still play, but i'm efficient.

[Profins]

These legit players adapted themselves to the times. Sure, there are still such players, Drierrain for example, but that's rare. The whole concept of MMO is destroyed if you do everything yourself - that way it's just an RPG with a chatbox.

 

But sure, back in RSC it was often more work to cert/uncert items than it was worth, so of course everyone did everything themselves.

[Triquos]

'legit' to me sounds like people who don't use bots, rather than people who train skills properly instead of buying the materials.

 

But anyways, I started playing rs in 2002, and to date, I still only have 9 skills to its max level, and buying the materials for 99's is far easier than training the skill properly. If you have the patience, good on you, but not many people will care or believe you unfortunately. An example here, would be someone who got all melee 99's before pest control came out. Today, no one really cares, because there are much more efficient training methods for it anyway. It's sad, but true.

 

The only skill I will probably get to 99 without buying all the materials for it, would be herblore. I refuse to save up to 400M+ for that 99.

[Deltaer]

In RSC and early on in RS2 I did everything myself, more because I hated having to go to world 2 or wherever to find deals or buyers/sellers. Found it easier to just do it myself.

 

However, now it's kind of stupid and economically inefficient to follow such a method. With the g/e, transaction costs are now practically 0 (no opportunity cost of taking time to find buyers/sellers yourself which could take a while before)... It's called specialization and trade; get up to speed. :P

[noble_aloof]

Most old school legit players, by your definition, have long since quit playing when they realized they could not play the game as competitively and completely as those who chose to take advantage of the many key elements of an MMORPG

 

edit: runecrafting is essentially a bought skill? what has the world come to? runescape is a bought game.

[xSxqPowerx]

...been playing since classic too. The [bleep] does that have to do with being DIY? I buy everything I can, and never do gathering skills.

[Utopia]

This way of playing seems more stupid than legit.

[Obtaurian]

...been playing since classic too. The [bleep] does that have to do with being DIY?

 

This, basically.

[Leyenda]

This way of playing seems more stupid than legit.

[ccesssu]

Why would you do everything yourself? It's an MMO ffs.

[lordkafei]

The game surely has changed. Most of the products nowadays spend their time hacking & slashing for income, then turn around and spend all their income on buying skills.

 

They then smugly declare that their way is the best way, and tell you you are playing the game wrong if you don't do it their way. Of course, they don't consider that if everybody played their way, there'd be no skill buying because there'd be no raw mats.

 

:roll:

[Persi]

I'm from 2005 on RuneScape.

[Sublexation]

I've been playing since a couple months after the christmas cracker drop (March I think and not on this account). I don't think "old school" quite equates to "Do it yourself". I try to play in the most efficient manner but I also try to make money with most of the things I do so not quite DIY but I don't throw my cash around just to raise a skill as quickly as possible.

[hiddel]

um i started playing some time in early 2003 on this account. i had another one named archerboy2 that i played at school in late 2001-2002(before they took away pvp-nonpvp toggle). still playing off and on.

[jessy87]

um i started playing some time in early 2003 on this account. i had another one named archerboy2 that i played at school in late 2001-2002(before they took away pvp-nonpvp toggle). still playing off and on.

 

 

and like, i started in 05... or 04? i dunno eitherway. Its been a few moments of time lost in the gaps of reality.

 

 

anyway, yeah i no longer play to do skills really, i just play to DO things. like i used to play castle wars alot. I feel things game is meant to be enjoyed a bit more then what i once played like

[zotto]

The game surely has changed. Most of the products nowadays spend their time hacking & slashing for income, then turn around and spend all their income on buying skills.

 

They then smugly declare that their way is the best way, and tell you you are playing the game wrong if you don't do it their way. Of course, they don't consider that if everybody played their way, there'd be no skill buying because there'd be no raw mats.

 

:roll:

 

 

I guess most "efficient players" who buy skills are dependent on the existence of bots.

 

I have gotten most of my raw income from slayer, MTK, farming herbs, and daily shop runs. I have purchased skills such as prayer (passed the 45 level) and herblore (past the 70 level).

 

My first 70 level was mining and it gotten me around 60 smithing as well.

 

But for instance mage I never really trained. I tried to, and always got bored with it in less than an hour. I actually gotten past 80 by just teleporting for 5 years and high alching drops during slayer tasks. And recently I just started maging during slayer tasks and during testing out which monsters could be maged without much cost. Highly inefficient though, because you lose money like crazy maging slayer.

 

I have tried some of the efficient ways of playing, but I am coming more and more to the conclusion that they do not give me much fun. In that sense I am still old school.

 

I fondly remember training slayer to level 80 without the benefit of guthans or summoning. Just food and around 75 slayer I trained to gain the ability to do bones to peaches. No potting, no praying. That's habit that was adopted by the community on a massive scale only much later on. And then I finally got my guthans and I almost got efficient. Except that I wasn't. Still picking up all coins. Still alching all steel battleaxes etc. Still not using prayer except for protection prayers. Started to pot because I finally leveled my herblore quite high (old day standards) with slayer (herb drops and farming)

 

I got my 99 slayer without all that piety cabbage. I sometimes flashed piety when i could bother. That was usually only at iron dragons or something similar with a high defense. Never had it on full time. I tanked most tasks that most others just protection prayers on, just because I am old school and didn't see the point in wasting prayer pots.

 

I actually never purchased a single prayer pot in my runescape existence. All the p pots I have used came from ranarr herb drops which I turned into p pots myself. I only started to buy herb pots when I went for the race for extreme pots. When i joined the fashionable thing to do.

 

In conclusion I have not been self sufficient in my runescape career, but probably more than most. And the main reason is that I never spend much time on high income activities such as tormented demons, gwd, etc. I have done them, but not as a main activity or just to try them out.

[Dbzruler72]

In classic, I did everything myself. For the first few months of RS2 I carried the same tradition through, but over time, as level gaining became more tedious, I found that buying raw materials produced the quickest results. With infinite shop stocks, the Grand Exchange, and the sheer amount of players providing raw materials, most players don't want or need to do it themselves anymore.

 

anyone who was anyone in RSC didn't DIY, sorry m8.

Bah, no need to be sorry. I was a nobody back then. Just an elementary school kid having fun, eh?

 

 

I have tried some of the efficient ways of playing, but I am coming more and more to the conclusion that they do not give me much fun. In that sense I am still old school.

Over the years of playing RuneScape, I came to hate grinding. I'd rather buy materials to grind only once than grind one skill just to get the materials to grind another.

[Tim]

'legit' to me sounds like people who don't use bots, rather than people who train skills properly instead of buying the materials.

That was my thought too.

 

I dont have much money for my level so there are times I will self-gather, but there are also other times where I wont do it because I refuse to spend hours grinding one thing, JUST to grind another. I rarely grind as it is and as such, try to minimize it because its a huge turn-off for me.

 

EDIT: Another thing I hate is players telling me "You should do it this way because its fastest and most expensive, your doing it wrong"

Im doing it the bloody way I want to, go shove your Godsword where the sun doesn't shine. <_<

[Howie101]

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