let me first say that this is a long post, and that im not in any way complaining, ranting, or suggesting that anyone play the same way i do. im writing this to see how everyone else socializes and to get their opinion on socialization in runescape

 

 

 

when i first began playing runescape, i tried to make a few friends. after all, i didnt wanna be all alone through my adventures. i added a few aquantences to my friends list, and we did some quests, a bit of training, and some joking around. for a while, all was good.

 

 

 

after a few days, i ran into my first beggar. of course, i didnt know anything of scammers, beggars and the like, so i happily traded him my hard earned iron plate and watched him add me to the ignore list and walk away. i was devastated.

 

 

 

so as i walked north from falador, with my full iron, minus an iron plate, but with a brand new steel plate that another of my friends was so kind as to make me, towards goblin village, i saw a guy standing near a tree, shouting for someone to help him out. now, being the nice guy i still was back then, i agreed to help him, and off we went to the chaos temple for some zamorack wine.

 

 

 

i considered myself extremely lucky to open the door long enough to run out and get away from the horrible monks, and as i walked down through falador, i saw a person offering a free armor trimming. i know, i know, i must sound like a complete and utter noob to you by now, but this was about 3 days into my career as a scaper, and i hadnt heard anything of any of these scams. anyway, long story short, the guy got my steel plate and iron legs.

 

 

 

it was then that i decided that i did not know enough about this game. it was at this time that i found tip.it, and i began my research. i delved into quest guides, skill guides, and maps and learned my way into the game. i absorbed all the knowledge i could and strived to be the one who never had to ask for help.

 

 

 

i began with mining and smithing and made a few dozen k and made some armor. i began runecrafting and increased my mage level by myself. i deleted all the friends on my friends list, after figuring out that they all wanted to scam me. after all my research, all my reading, and all my observations, i decided that this game could be best played by myself. after all, i didnt have to type unless i wanted to, i didnt have to guide anyone, and i didnt have to withstand beggars and scammers.

 

 

 

now, its two years later, and i feel im a better person for all of it. ive got a combat level of 65, and im fairly good with most of my skills. i havent been scammed out of anything worth more than a few k(anything less than 1k in value is trivial to me by now) in about a year and a half, and im pretty happy. the only people i have on my friends list are my other family members, and a few tip.iters that i see sometimes, as well as anyone who im trading with, but those are only temporarily on there. my ignore list isnt that long, either. most of the names on that list are more than a year old and in need of deleting.

 

 

 

my point is, i dont feel the need to rely on anyone in this game. if i wanna talk with someone, i go and fish, or train in a crowded place, or find people in other areas. why, just the other day, i had a nice conversation with a couple of rangers at the moss giants near the gnome stronghold. sure, i still find the random scammers, beggars, and people who are out to annoy, but since ive learned that i dont need to rely on people, its very easy for me to ignore them and move on. sometimes, i wonder how people can feel the need to socialize so much on this game.

 

 

 

so anyway, yeah, thats my story. sorry it was so long. but i suppose im writing it to see what your opinions on socialization and interaction in runescape are.

omg wow....(let me stop there to say i should not trying to change you and that we all play differently)...i mean i got a short list nothing more then 50 friends, i dont make friends easily but out of my friends i have 1 true friend that i could give a over 50m+ knowing she would not scam me and i have like 10 friends i can lend like 5m to and not get scamed and i could probaly do the same with most of my friends. i relly on my friends for everything i do i always have parties at my house with them and play alot of mini-games together i alway try and orginze something with my friends

 

 

 

but like i said im not here to chagne you and we all play differently i hope you have fun playing like that i wouldn't but then again im not you :-$

zammy monks. :-# ... I never really fell for that. Ouch, sorry for your loss though. :|

Bloody hell! Heres a piece of advice- if youre going to have any friends, ANY AT ALL make them people you know in real life(how do we know this is real life? omg :-k ) then youre sure that if they do annoy you, it will be on the battlefield

I have like 5 friends on my friends list, which i sometimes go and trains with and maybe PK in wilderness, but i would never give them any money, for then I'm pretty sure that they would scam me. So I don't trust them so much, but it could be fun to train with them.

Wow I dont think RuneScape would be any fun if I didn't have friends. I have about 10 friends I trust with my life on runescape. Only 2 of them I know IRL. Yes being trusting and having friends in runescape will sometimes get you scamed or killed but in my opinion it is realy worth it when you have a friend that you can trust.

2 years + not much talking = 65 combat.. how does that work out, you must have like a lot of lvl 80+'s in other skills.. for that low of combat doesn't make sense to me :oops: :-s

2 years + not much talking = 65 combat.. how does that work out, you must have like a lot of lvl 80+'s in other skills.. for that low of combat doesn't make sense to me :oops: :-s

same because i would think someone that talks all the time would be lower leveld but he doesnot talk, well i guess it might have to do with he can be inactive forever without caring.

2 years + not much talking = 65 combat.. how does that work out, you must have like a lot of lvl 80+'s in other skills.. for that low of combat doesn't make sense to me :oops: :-s

same because i would think someone that talks all the time would be lower leveld but he doesnot talk, well i guess it might have to do with he can be inactive forever without caring.

 

yea... I guess (though i didn't understand what you wrote) someone that played for 2 years should have an easy 80-100 combat level.

yah im mostly a loner myself, never work w/ ne1 else. Just talk to my old old old friends from like 2 years ago when ppl actually helped eachother out...So yeah, stick with your old friends, say your list is full, and rise through the ranks :wink:

Bloody hell! Heres a piece of advice- if youre going to have any friends, ANY AT ALL make them people you know in real life(how do we know this is real life? omg :-k ) then youre sure that if they do annoy you, it will be on the battlefield

 

 

 

and NEVER tell your friend you play when they all started and were lvl 20... phr33 m3mb3rz t0ur pl0x?

2 years + not much talking = 65 combat.. how does that work out, you must have like a lot of lvl 80+'s in other skills.. for that low of combat doesn't make sense to me :oops: :-s

 

Are you kidding me? I just hit my two year mark and I am at lvl 87, barely. No skills in the 80's, the reason why is some people dont play as much as others.

 

 

 

Well with my friend list it is just a ton of TIF people and I have a couple people that are from my school but one got hacked, one lost the pass, one left, and the other is still on. It is easy to make friends, you just gotta talk.

Last year I would have answered this question with a "yes I do rely on people." This was because I spent most of my members time just woodcutting magic trees. Since my computer was not in the same room as a television, talking to my friends was my only source of entertainment.

 

 

 

After quitting for 6 months and losing a bunch of friends due to my inactivity, I've found that I can survive without them. I mostly only talk to a few close friends that I've known for a long time (in-game and real-life) now.

 

I do talk to people in-game but don't rely on my friends as much anymore.

i don't rely on them, I just have "fun" with them

2 years + not much talking = 65 combat.. how does that work out, you must have like a lot of lvl 80+'s in other skills.. for that low of combat doesn't make sense to me :oops: :-s

 

Are you kidding me? I just hit my two year mark and I am at lvl 87, barely. No skills in the 80's, the reason why is some people dont play as much as others.

 

 

 

Well with my friend list it is just a ton of TIF people and I have a couple people that are from my school but one got hacked, one lost the pass, one left, and the other is still on. It is easy to make friends, you just gotta talk.

 

big difference between lvl 65 and 87... =;

2 years + not much talking = 65 combat.. how does that work out, you must have like a lot of lvl 80+'s in other skills.. for that low of combat doesn't make sense to me :oops: :-s

 

Are you kidding me? I just hit my two year mark and I am at lvl 87, barely. No skills in the 80's, the reason why is some people dont play as much as others.

 

 

 

Well with my friend list it is just a ton of TIF people and I have a couple people that are from my school but one got hacked, one lost the pass, one left, and the other is still on. It is easy to make friends, you just gotta talk.

 

big difference between lvl 65 and 87... =;

meh, not really. i dont play all the time. maybe an hour a day, if im lucky. there will be some days where ill be on for three or four hours, and sometimes ill go for a week without being on. mostly, my skills are at the level they are because id go and do an activity for fun, not for levels. the only time ill ever seriously level a skill is for a mission with a big reward, or because i want to reap the benefits of that higher skill level.

 

 

 

for example, i recently got my construction from about level 22 to level 42. i did this A. becuase i wanted a nicer house than the shack i had, and B. because because i was trying to achieve a skill level of 50, but i got bored, like i usually do when i try to level a skill. a short attention span isnt always a good thing. at least all my levels are pretty even. i cant keep on one thing long enough to get it much higher than the others. :P

if I hadn't met my best friend in the game oh.. lets say 1.2 years ago I probably would have quit 1.2 years ago. I don't know him irl but I know he would never scam me. He's trusted me with hundreds of thousands of gps in coal, iron, and steel bars. So he wouldn't take anything from me as I've taken nothing from him.

Wow, I'm the almost complete opposite of you. I have been scammed a lot, but I always managed to this point to pick myself up and make some more friends. There was this one friend I lended something to, I didn't really care if he scammed me or not, I wanted real friends that I could trust. I rather have a friend I could trust than all the money in RuneScape. He took it but the next day he gave it back, he said he felt bad about it, we're good friends, but we try to not lend items to each other much, since it's hard to resist for some people. I spend times with friends a lot, I would stop almost anything that I am doing on RS to do something with them. My list is full :( Lol, I have to temporary delete friends to add buyers or sellers on the forums.

I've been ever so cautious for whatever I'm doing. Which explains why I don't PK. I've accrued over 1 mil, and yet, I don't have the urge to spend it on anything (no, don't ask). Truthfully, I've never been scammed, thanks to Tip.it and the community for giving me the knowledge. Without them, I'm sure tons of my valuables would go down the drain.

 

 

 

Just always keep in mind that "triple-check the 2nd trade screen" tip and others. You'll have a hella good time.

erm 65 combat after 2 years? i dont think not having freinds benefitted you, either that or you totally stink at runescape ^_^

erm 65 combat after 2 years? i dont think not having freinds benefitted you, either that or you totally stink at runescape ^_^

 

Maby he works on other things besides combat. Or, he has a life outside of RS :wink: btw, I don't trust other people much either. I have about 10 freinds, 3 or 4 of which I would trust with anything. I have "loaned" people money, and never gotten it back, and I've been betrayed in the wilderness also. I was also kicked out of my former clan because they thought that I cheated them. I didn't of course. Anyways, freinds are pretty ove if you ask me.

erm 65 combat after 2 years? i dont think not having freinds benefitted you, either that or you totally stink at runescape ^_^

hi, its so nice that you can take the time to read all, what, 20 posts that came before yours? if i may, let me direct your attention to post number 16.

 

 

 

meh, not really. i dont play all the time. maybe an hour a day, if im lucky. there will be some days where ill be on for three or four hours, and sometimes ill go for a week without being on. mostly, my skills are at the level they are because id go and do an activity for fun, not for levels. the only time ill ever seriously level a skill is for a mission with a big reward, or because i want to reap the benefits of that higher skill level.

see, im happy having my combat level where its at. im high enough to be at respected a bit by the low levels and low level enough not to be challenged to much by anyone. i love hearing about all these hardcore runescape fanatics that are all like "man, youve been playing for more than a month and your combat is stillnot above level 45? noob!"

 

 

 

ill enjoy the game my way, thanks. :thumbsup:

I don't rely on anyone. Period. If I can't do it myself, then it's not worth doing. There are some exceptions; I have two rl friends on my friendslist who I will give just about anything to, and I know they'll give me in return, but that holds true irl for the three of us; we lend each other movies, games, toothbrushes, whatever. Well, not toothbrushes, that's nasty, but you get my point, we trust each other.

 

"Trust" is not something I give out easily, and I haven't encountered very many people in-game who have earned it. I can think of a few who I would trust, but none of them seem to play anymore; one told me she quit and the others just don't get on when I do. As for everyone else, I generally regard them with a level of suspicion, because I never know who is playing me just to scam me later down the line.

 

Yeah, I'm paranoid. It's kept me safe and clean for 21 years, so don't try to make me stop now.

erm 65 combat after 2 years? i dont think not having freinds benefitted you, either that or you totally stink at runescape ^_^

hi, its so nice that you can take the time to read all, what, 20 posts that came before yours? if i may, let me direct your attention to post number 16.

 

 

 

meh, not really. i dont play all the time. maybe an hour a day, if im lucky. there will be some days where ill be on for three or four hours, and sometimes ill go for a week without being on. mostly, my skills are at the level they are because id go and do an activity for fun, not for levels. the only time ill ever seriously level a skill is for a mission with a big reward, or because i want to reap the benefits of that higher skill level.

see, im happy having my combat level where its at. im high enough to be at respected a bit by the low levels and low level enough not to be challenged to much by anyone. i love hearing about all these hardcore runescape fanatics that are all like "man, youve been playing for more than a month and your combat is stillnot above level 45? noob!"

 

 

 

ill enjoy the game my way, thanks. :thumbsup:

 

:-s :-s ok.....so i'm a runescape fanatic?......hmm.....thanks for that random assumption of yours but for some strange reason....i dont care

Well the only people I rely on are the people purchasing my items or the people I'm PK-ing ^_^.