Runescape Requires... Time or Skill?

[Toad]

Do you think its Skillful? Or its just time dependant? Why?

 

 

 

My view is its mostly time, although some strategys you do need, eg how you do things like drop certain herbs, or how you merchant..

 

 

 

But most is down to skill, Right clicking and attacking doesnt take much skill..

 

 

 

Rs is a game any age group can play because anyone can understand it and its not a game you need to have quick reactions for etc

[Ash6110]

The only requirement for runescape is decent math skills and the ability to think laterally

[koddo1]

Most of the game is just time, but you can do things that take skill if you choose. Minigames, some quests, it depends on what you do in this game.

[rm2k_champ]

Time, there's almost no skill involved.

 

Pking and merchanting are the most skill and theres no thinking in any of these, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to pk.

[Lord Diddy]

The only requirement for runescape is decent math skills and the ability to think laterally

 

 

 

I think some people failed there application :XD:

 

 

 

Well for me its mostly time dependant, Hell i could craft 1m nats, tho i only need time to do all of it, sure some things like barrows kqing and everything have skill but Rs is mostly time, fishing, fletching, smithing, mining, ect.

[queenbee3110]

Let me pause to think about that...

 

Err... time.

 

Sorry, no contest. So many skills are time dependant. There's no skill in mining, although there is a small amount in making the most efficient use of your time.

[Silu]

Both.

 

 

 

With only time you could train more than usually but without any skill, almost all of that time would have been wasted.

 

 

 

With only skill in the game you would know all the best training spots, how to train that and how do this... But with but without time... You get the drill.

[Esper_Jones]

Time and patience for most skills, but some minigames do require skill, as others have said.

 

 

 

Also, finding out the BEST ways to do things requires thought, but RS can be played without it.

[Umega]

RuneScape is time orientated, really no intelligence required. However like WoW you really need to think a lot in team battles (although I have played very very little of Wow :oops: ).

[wakka102]

the only skillful things in this game are the fight caves, mini games, and merchanting. everything else (skills) is just time based.

[reich1337]

Runescape is 95% time, 4.9% skill and .1% Monty Python.

[Zyx]

Rs is a game any age group can play

 

 

 

Over 13 that is :-w

 

 

 

or the age where you can understand english :

[cotamatias]

Both..I can guarentee you that you need both.

[darkblade986]

While I agree that most things in Runescape need skill, Time is a bigger factor. I'll even take that a step further and say that patience is needed... As someone said before, he could craft 1m nats but only needs the time. More or less, he needs the patience so that after he's crafting 100 nats, he doesn't go "this is taking to long" and quits.

 

 

 

I swear, I need this quality, and I'm doing my best to work on it. I'm trying right now to make 4.2k Magic Longbows and nats to alchemy them with, all from scratch. That means picking my own flax, chopping my own logs, mining my own pure essence and crafting my own nats.

[Stilev]

skill helps reduce the time needed :-k so both are needed, but if you had infinte time skill wouldn't be. needed but noththing is infinte :-w

[petey]

My view is its mostly time

 

 

 

But most is down to skill, Right clicking and attacking doesnt take much skill..

 

 

 

typo? my thoughts are its all time, hardly any skill involved apart from a few tasks, merching, jad? pking, scamming... :XD:

[Adamfostas]

Incorrect post. How do I delete these things?

[n64jive]

there is also the abilty of how you react to something. There is a lil skill involved, and also common knowledge. How else would there be the rich, the middle class, and the poor.

 

 

 

The rich, ussually merchants, know prices, how to use skills to their full potential, or how to make/use great pking strategies.

 

 

 

The middle class, are experienced with the game, and might still know pretty great stratagies.

 

 

 

The poor, make poor decisions, would rather sit around and beg, then go out and make their own money.

 

 

 

There are also certain decisions that you can make in stressful situations. Will you panic, or will you stay calm and do the right thing.

 

 

 

but yes, with that said, there is a lot of time involved.

[The_Mercenary14]

Neither, it takes being on the right holidays at the right times, and selling the items that are littered on the ground for insane amounts of money.

 

 

 

 

 

:wink:

[Greedom1]

mostly time. "Skill" only can be considered in terms of trading and choosing the right inv or equipment to fight monsters...

 

 

 

Given that the almighty fire cape (about the -only- skill-based reward in the game) has caused so much consternation and stress, I'd venture that most RS players are mosly time-oriented.

[frogact]

Primarily time, however, managing that time effectively does require some skill.

[archimage_a]

Its Luck, Time then Skill

 

 

 

You spend 5 years getting 99 everything doesn't make any difference you still need to actually work at things to make money to buy stuff to make money.

 

 

 

If you are lucky then you get the breaks like 200 tears in that minigame, or lots of high hits that make it fast to lvl combat. Or lots of crop to lvl farming.

 

 

 

If you are skill full you can adapt ,not die when you can't kill something using prayer. Or when you are on a quest and the guide your using isn't working or they missed something. Or when you see that an item can become more valuable.

 

 

 

 

 

Mostly though its about having an attention span longer than a minute...

[Giordano]

Time.

 

 

 

Cutting trees: click................click click.............click......click.............

 

 

 

Mining:click.......click........click.............click....click........click...

 

(iron is click..click..click..click)

 

 

 

Fishing: click...............................................click............................

 

 

 

 

 

Merchanting and min-games require some skill (math for merch)

[l0rd]

i thinks its like 95% time dependant, the other 5% is just things like understanding clues and quests and basic arithmatic

[Kondor]

It all comes down to how much time you have to actually play the game, I mean sure theres skill in mini games, but on the whole times the bigger factor.