Most players are casual players, they just don't tend to use fan site forums.

 

This is a pretty unsubstantiated claim - I mean, as I said earlier, TET flew in the face of that.

 

The busier areas of the F2P game aren't necessarily skill areas. Lumbridge courtyard, the grand exchange, Varrock Bank, Al Kharid, Daemonheim, to name a few. Any area where players tend to congregate, really. Just make sure you check a busy world. Just like all things, there are occasional dead periods where no one is really doing anything. However I just quickly rushed through those areas all on my homeworld (which is not even busy, really) and there were lots of people talking about a variety of things. Also trying checking out Botany Bay on a busy world, but be prepared for lots of spamming :P

 

I shall have to take a look at these places. The problem is that I don't neccesarily want to stand around doing nothing but talking: and with P2P (which I currently am not) you can fletch or whatever in the bank or al karid or whatever, but in F2P there isn't much like that you can feasibly do. Except crafting, I guess.

 

I think there are a lot of casual players left. Also, a lot of your casual players maxed since the game has been out for 10 years. I'm not sure if I'm considered casual, I have 400m xp but also 380 days played. Which is a lot of days of no skilling and just chilling. But I'm not sure if you mean casual in the sense of just goes on RS for 30mins once a week.

 

I think it was mentioned earlier, you're more likely to find your casual players in less efficient spots. Such as Magic trees. Lava flow mine is a great place to meet people imo. Even though it is highly afk, you actually get a lot more talkative people than Living Rock Caverns.

 

Yeah, I think I'd probably consider that casual - you're the same as me in terms of amount of time played/levels, or at least in a relativeratio.

Thanks for the advice though - I'll just have to have a look around, I guess!

 

Still, I think it's an interesting topic to discuss and other people seem to have agreed.

You can now add logs to the same fire over and over (it eventually goes out but still), it's called bonfiring. You could do that just outside of a bank and be able to train and talk to people that way.

I shall have to take a look at these places. The problem is that I don't neccesarily want to stand around doing nothing but talking: and with P2P (which I currently am not) you can fletch or whatever in the bank or al karid or whatever, but in F2P there isn't much like that you can feasibly do. Except crafting, I guess.

World 1 Grand Exchange is a great place to bonfire and cook, seeing that there is always a fire going. I spent nearly three months straight bonfiring or cooking there.

I think there has always been a more "serious" side to RuneScape, but in my opinion, people seemed to start caring more and more about efficiency after Dungeoneering was released. I think it really caused people to reevaluate and change their gameplay styles.

 

Whether that's a good or bad thing, I won't get into. :razz: RuneScape has always been more of a solo thing for me, and I've never really focused or worried about how other people play the game.

 

Solo as in you skill alone or solo as in you don't talk to people?

To each their own but I can't imagine enjoying RS myself without meeting other, social, players.

 

Solo as in I never really do group activities, other than Evil Trees or Shooting Stars. On a day-to-day basis, when I'm running around skilling, I hardly ever talk to people I see, unless they're an acquaintance or they say "Hello" to me. I've also never really been concerned about other people's levels, wealth, etc. I'm happy for friends when they reach certain goals, but I've been very good about not letting it impact how I view my character - your skills/wealth are yours, and have nothing to do with mine. Perhaps "solo" wasn't the best term.

 

I run HYT, Tip.It's "Official Unofficial" Friend Chat, so I'm very social in that regard. I'm also very active in the Clan I'm in, as far as talking in the chat goes. :-P

World 1 Grand Exchange is a great place to bonfire and cook, seeing that there is always a fire going. I spent nearly three months straight bonfiring or cooking there.

 

I'll bear (bare? not sure which) this in mind, thanks!

 

Solo as in I never really do group activities, other than Evil Trees or Shooting Stars. On a day-to-day basis, when I'm running around skilling, I hardly ever talk to people I see, unless they're an acquaintance or they say "Hello" to me. I've also never really been concerned about other people's levels, wealth, etc. I'm happy for friends when they reach certain goals, but I've been very good about not letting it impact how I view my character - your skills/wealth are yours, and have nothing to do with mine. Perhaps "solo" wasn't the best term.

 

I run HYT, Tip.It's "Official Unofficial" Friend Chat, so I'm very social in that regard. I'm also very active in the Clan I'm in, as far as talking in the chat goes. :razz:

 

Ah ok, I understand now. I was going to say if you played this long without talking to people I would have both respect and concern for you :P