Remember the days when...

[Dark_Yeng]

Remember when the Runescape community wasn't completely and hopelessly wrapped up whining about botters, and wasn't blinded by the botters?

 

Neither do I.

 

Fixed.

[jamesgoh]

We must look to the past to learn lessons for the future

 

Lesson learnt : Jagex always screws me over.

[GuidesForScapers]

Remember the days when Jagex fixed bugs, banned rule breakers and produced good quality content? No. Me neither. I think they should start though.

[Unknown_Warrior]

Remember the days when people just played games for fun instead of [bleep]ing about them on the internet?

I'm finding it increasingly harder to remember, sadly.

[GuidesForScapers]

Remember the days when people could legitly post on one of these threads without a smarmy comment after the question mark? No, nor do i.

[WeatherMatt]

2001 time:

 

Remember when banks only held cash, and most players had at least 1-2 mules to hold excess stuff?

When the cash stack limit was 65,535? I believe Gamesfan (miner/smither, he high alched stuff) was the first to publicize this.

When the best magic spell in the game was Fear? This can be replicated now with the Spirit Wolf's special. A level 14 spell, cast it on any monster and it's gone, poof. (Until it came back a minute later, of course)

When "new" runes were all the rage? (Nature, Cosmic, Chaos, Law, Death, released with the mage/pray update May 2001) Bluerose traded rune stuff for 250 "new" runes at one point in time.

When there were no defense requirements to wear armor? This coincided with the old PK rules before the wilderness was out, so pures would get a set of addy/rune from their mains and camp outside of Lumby. At the time, Lumby was a safe zone, but once a PK character walked outside the zone they could be ganked.

When Rune meds were released with the release of Karamja (June 2001)? Combat rules at the time dictated that anyone maging or ranging were not technically in combat, so any number of players could use mage/range on a monster. Furthermore, the character that dealt the killing blow to a monster got the drop, not whoever dealt the most damage. For weeks, the lessers in Karamja were camped, where one poor meleer got stuck tanking the demon until it got to about 1/3-1/4 health. Then, a ton of players would mage/range it until it was dead, hoping to snipe the drop.

[FooK-A-Ji]

hehe speaking of new runes there was this one guy named Lord Me who posted on the old official forums that he was buying ALL new runes (including cosmics) for 1k each. I couldn't believe it so I contacted him ingame, had about 300 mixed new runes only since they were hard to come by and we were only a few days into the release of them. Anyway he bought all of them for 300k and I nearly creamed myself. There was duping going on at the time and I was 50% sure that I was recieving duped cash, but I saw no reason to ask given the fact that I would never find out anyway.

I than offered to become his sole supplier in order to make sure that he wouldn't post any more ads about buying new runes for an utterly obscene price on any forums.

I still don't get why or how he could afford to buy them at 1k each. The only runes I didn't make much money off of were laws, since people sold them high due to the fact that everyone was getting into teleporting.

Anyway I than took up to buying from other ppl at my own "obscene" price, doubling what they were asking if they could meet immediately etc (500-600g).

This other dude named Bankrobber2 also bought new runes for 1k each. Coincidentally they both disappeared within a week of our first transaction and I've never heard of them since.

I still get sad when I think about them disappearing, and I'm pretty sure those 2 dudes were up to something with new runes since it would be physically impossible to make a profit given the price they already had paid for the rune. Unless it were natures and they had figured out how to dupe addy plates (14k or 16k high alch value back than). But they bought ALL new runes hmm.

 

thats some hardcore nostalgia right there that u brought back for me matt, lol

 

ill never forget these 2 ppl since they made me so damn rich at a time where owning millions were reserved for people like skone751, bluerose and her steel corp affiliates, mysticsmagic and some other uber elites. even dudes like alchemon and sandytrain had to camp greaters to make cash for food

 

i love you bankrobber2 and lord me :thumbup:

(used to lol about the fact that a guy with seemingly infinite cash was named bankrobber)

[WeatherMatt]

thats some hardcore nostalgia right there that u brought back for me matt, lol

 

Glad to be of service. Say hi to the Falador bar maid upstairs for me. :thumbup:

[FooK-A-Ji]

thats some hardcore nostalgia right there that u brought back for me matt, lol

 

Glad to be of service. Say hi to the Falador bar maid upstairs for me. :thumbup:

lol, oh you! i swear to god we weren't cybering..

[WeatherMatt]

Well I have a nice AFK slayer task, so I think I'll explain the background information behind Fook and I's obsession with the Falador barmaids.

 

In early 2001, one of the larger groups within Tip.it was known as Steel Inc. This was, as you could probably guess, a sort of smithing clan. The three leaders were:

 

Lightning (early Tip.it mod)

Bluerose13x (first 99 smith) and

Dmonik (beast miner). I believe he was the first to 70 mining and "discovered" addy ore's existence, which was basically going around to the "empty" rocks in Edgeville dungeon and the Al-Kharid mine and finding out that they weren't actually empty after all.

 

One of the requirements for Steel Inc was 50 smithing, which I tried very hard to get. I applied for Steel Inc 3 times, and Lightning never responded to me. :( In doing so, I camped the dwarven mine, the Falador forge and Dorik's anvils for a time. Sometimes I even conned a friend or two into mining with me, so I could smith more bars per load.

 

What does this have to do with the barmaids? In order to make more lucrative items (especially at levels like 47 smith, to boost to steel plates) I needed dwarved stouts. Lots of them. Since only one person could talk to NPC's at a time, I would monopolize the barmaid on the lower floor of the Falador bar, forcing Fook to move upstairs when he, er, needed time with her. What Fook did with the barmaids, I do not know. *shifty eyes*

[Brood_Abyss]

How about the terrifying 'null' ?

[I_am_Not]

^

 

And guys cared more about boobs than exp/hour or exp/gp ratios. :rolleyes:

nothing on this planet is going to make most guys stop caring about boobs, don't get ahead of yourself there. myself included :thumbup:

 

ot:

when a tree would break your axe, and a rock could break your pick axe. pickaxe handles erased from the game when the update came

there was no such thing as a brew.

your hybriding talent wasn't measured by how many items you can switch

[Saradomin_Mage]

Out of curiosity, can anyone list all of the old spells from the good/evil magic books? I only seem to recall something called Shock Bolt.

[Ambler]

Out of curiosity, can anyone list all of the old spells from the good/evil magic books? I only seem to recall something called Shock Bolt.

Some them were used in the arcanists I think, but im not certain whitch one(s)...

[K4ylan]

Magic in RuneScape Classic was significantly different than its modern incarnation. Very early on, the Magic skill was made up of two separate skills, GoodMagic and EvilMagic. The Evil Magic spells were Confuse, Thick Skin, Shock Bolt, Elemental Bolt and Fear, and the Good Magic spells were Chill Bolt, Burst of Strength, Camouflage, Rock Skin and Wind Bolt.

 

Taken from RSWiki.

[Dormado]

Remember when herbs were called unids and you could sell then 1K each at falador because people buyed them, and since they went into diffirent piles at bank i would sell unindentified guams 1K each. All. the. Time.

[Fittyfive]

Remember when RS had the really old loading screen with the pillars of fire on the side?

[jamesgoh]

Remember when RS had the really old loading screen with the pillars of fire on the side?

 

Remember staring at the fire as the shapes of runes came out of it?

[JeremyM]

remember when this topic was posted 2 weeks ago....and 2 weeks before that...and 2 weeks before that.

Remember when this joke was posted on those topics and you stole it?

 

Remember castle pking in RSC?

[spooferfish]

Remember when RS had the really old loading screen with the pillars of fire on the side?

 

Remember staring at the fire as the shapes of runes came out of it?

Thought I had a pic of that.. Heres the closest I have..

 

After looking at, I guess they are there behind the animals..

[Junkmutt]

I miss the old log in screen, wish it was an option.

[ixfd64]

Lightning (early Tip.it mod)

Bluerose13x (first 99 smith) and

Dmonik (beast miner). I believe he was the first to 70 mining and "discovered" addy ore's existence, which was basically going around to the "empty" rocks in Edgeville dungeon and the Al-Kharid mine and finding out that they weren't actually empty after all.

 

I think S H A R K was the first player to mine adamantite. Dmonik was definitely the first person to mine mithril ore, though.

[TrueBeaver]

RIP Atlas and Meridian.

[Flodder450]

Could anyone post old (<2008) pictures of runescape?

 

i know there was an entire thread dedicated to classic,pre-2007 and current varrock

[FooK-A-Ji]

Could anyone post old (<2008) pictures of runescape?

 

i know there was an entire thread dedicated to classic,pre-2007 and current varrock

 

I made a post, but I can't post the images here as it says "thsi image extension is not allowed on the forums", so I dont know where to post the images :)