I personally have noted, after rather a few years of playing runescape and more years of expanding my brain ( :P ) that runescape life and the attitude of players has a lot of parrels to events throughout historty. This may sound absurd, but bear with me. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First thing we should I shall comment on is:

 

 

 

The Honour vs No Rules Wildy Affair

 

 

 

can be likened to the

 

 

 

Changing Face of Warfare in WWI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In World War I the modern era of fighting had dawned on the world, with machine guns, long range artillery, and the like. To some this was fighting without honour, but others saw this as simply a way to get the job done. Now, as we see in runescape we see the PKers who believe in fighting with honour and it's just not cricket when people teleport. And on the other side, we see those who just believe in getting the job done, no matter how they do it, ambushing, ganging, teleporting, etc. The whole concecpt of effectivenss vs honour was as rife in the first World War I as amongst PKer. Many of the old officers who had seen service in the Boer War thought that the way the enemy and face of war had changed was to a place without honour. Now we see many of the older (in runescape years, no age years) PKers complaining how PK had turned in a trade with out honour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second thing I think you may find even wierd, but make more sense:

 

 

 

The Life of your average runescaper

 

 

 

is a lot like

 

 

 

The life of a cattle rancher in America - Mid 19th century

 

 

 

The life of a cattle rancher was hard, working on the ranch them taking the cattle on the long rides to the cattle towns of the north. But once the drive was over, the cattlemen had time to relax for a few weeks before heading back down south and starting the whole yearly cycle again.

 

 

 

This is just like runescape, but on a smaller time scale. Many of us will spend around 1-3 weeks on "bulk" tasks, as in mining 2000 coal and 1000 iron for example. After this we make our wares, or sell them as raw materials. We then have to walk to market ourselves and spend the next day or so looking for buyers and wandering around the busy market places, Varrock, Falador, and area speficifc marekts Draynor for willows etc. . After are hard work we have made money to cover our expenses/save up, and then we have some time and money to go out and blow it on we want, a lot the ranch men. Then after a week or so of "time out" we go back to the grind and/or our goals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"We want X updates included!!"

 

 

 

...[you'll like this one : ]..

 

 

 

The Peasants' revolt of 1381

 

 

 

We hear us all calling for new updates, clan systems, new style banks, better items, better graphics etc. With the new player base Jagex has started to listen and included some neat new features, but to a lot of people this is still not enough. Sooner of later the cries of the peasants...I mean players will be herd, and Jagex will be forced to make some sort of agreement. However, in the peasants revolt, the king gave in, but following the collapse of the revolt, the king's concessions were quickly revoked, and the tax was levied. jagex makes promises but don't always delivery, how long were we waiting for player owned houses? :wink: (Though they have pulled there finger out since the release the PoHs, and the updates they have come out with have made the game better).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is all for now, I'll work on some more, and if you yourselves have any of your own ideas to share, 'twill be great. :)

Interesting links there. Might have something to do with human nature? :XD:

Quite interesting :-k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of my family have fought in almost every big war, and I remember my grandfather telling me about his father and how he was disdainful about "new age warfare" <- His exact words. He said it was inhuman and dishonorable, refering to such weapons as the flamethrower and mustard gas.

hehe, i like the wildy rules one...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

possibly you mean to compare them to the geneva convention?

Interested topic, I've thought of this myself from time to time. Another thing that often parallels Runescape is various motifs in literature, sorry to use a cliche but I guess art imitates life, and Runescape is in many ways a kind of snapshot of life.

interesting. but i don't think the rl events caused the rs events to occur...right? :-s

interesting. but i don't think the rl events caused the rs events to occur...right? :-s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's more likely than the other way around. :lol:

Interesting read. Those are some good finds :thumbsup: