OSRS / Old School Runescape - Medieval Cookie Clicker

[Korpon]

Ditto. For me it always follows a pattern. I'll get mems and identify some goals i want to reach, full of optimism and excitement to play again. A couple of months will pass and I'll realise just how much time I've wasted.

A good way of going about it is to play the game while multitasking (like AFK bank standing skills while doing studying/course work is what I do). That way you feel you were actually productive IRL and it didn't feel like a big waste of time. I finished off 99 Thieving and I'm about to finish 99 Crafting all while doing other shit which has been nice.

I think about the social element and how fun it was chatting to people and discovering new things in game, except I know about everything now and nobody bothers socialising any more.

The rise of Discord has effectively killed the game chats of nearly every game in existence.

It doesn't help any chats you do find are mainly sweaty fucks who are too obsessed with either Efficiency-scape and if you don't do the sweatiest tick manipulation method they look down on you, or PVM nerds who won't want to do any content with you if you don't have endgame gear/stats and experience doing the boss(es). I miss the old clan chats where it was dudes just chilling and sharing whatever level they gotten in the chat and everyone would go "Gz" or "w0000t". They still exist they're just harder to find.

Speaking of jumping to member straight away, there is Waterfall Quest. You can do it pretty easily on a brand-new character (just have to avoid getting one-shot when running past enemies) and it'll instantly give you enough XP to give you 30 Attack and 30 Strength, so you can skip some of the early grind. Personally, if you're going back to the game for nostalgia, though, I still think hanging around in F2P and doing stuff like Ernest the Chicken and Imp Catcher is more in that spirit. When I went back a while ago, the only real complaint I had about F2P was just how many bots there were. It made early game mining and such a real pain, since they're always swarming over the mines around Varrock and Lumbridge.

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Quest_experience_rewards is a wonderful page for this; you can skip so many early game grinds just by doing some questing and unlocking teleport/transportation methods while you do it. It helped a lot when I was going for quest cape and made it really fun, there's also a F2P version linked at the top of that page as well.

 

[Peasant]

Yeah I'm aware of the quest rewards, except for any that have been added in the past sixteen years. My goal was to play casually as though I were a brand new player and not necessarily go for max efficiency. Some skills like prayer and fucking runecrafting I will definitely not be trying to grind high at all until I unlock methods that don't feel like plucking every single hair on my body one by one.

 

[Gravemind]

Yeah I'm aware of the quest rewards, except for any that have been added in the past sixteen years. My goal was to play casually as though I were a brand new player and not necessarily go for max efficiency. Some skills like prayer and fucking runecrafting I will definitely not be trying to grind high at all until I unlock methods that don't feel like plucking every single hair on my body one by one.

Prayer's one of the easiest skills to grind to 99 especially on Member's, isn't it?

 

[Lammy]

Prayer's one of the easiest skills to grind to 99 especially on Member's, isn't it?

Prayer is fast, but a little expensive. The most popular method, Dragon Bones at the Wilderness Chaos Altar is about 5gp spent per xp, and about 500k xp an hour. Given a 99 is 13 million xp, it's about 26 hours from 0 if you have the money to spend up front.
If you don't have the money up front, an account with high combat skills and ~100m of gear can easily make about 3m gp an hour consistently at Vorkath, so for the ~65 million gp that 99 prayer would cost, it's an extra ~22 hours.
48 hours is definitely on the lower end of times to get 99 in a skill, especially compared to 200 hour slogfests like Mining or Agility.

 

[Peasant]

I'm sure glad Jagex added the agility helper so I can look at my lap counter and realize I've been running around in a circle for almost ten hours. At least I'm only about an hour away from being able to buy the graceful set as of the time of this post.

 

[Monk Amen]

Kiwifarms cc?

 

[Monk Amen]

dude i cant wait for the new skill to be over designed and ultimately shit.

just add fucking summoning or dungeoneering, literally fucking something

 

[Pringles Can]

dude i cant wait for the new skill to be over designed and ultimately shit.

just add fucking summoning or dungeoneering, literally fucking something

I always liked summoning, but problem with it returning is that you have spergy fans from the community who cry "EOC is coming back" any time jagex adds any update that brings even the smallest stuff from RS3. that community has gotten slightly less annoying, but they still are there.

 

[Peasant]

I dislike how summoning is essentially mandatory for efficient play regardless of what you're doing. It's a bit like agility and the graceful set in OSRS, except worse because expanded inventory capacity is so fucking massive a game changer that you're compelled to grind the skill regardless of whether you like it or not.

 

[Nick Gars]

dude i cant wait for the new skill to be over designed and ultimately shit.

just add fucking summoning or dungeoneering, literally fucking something

That's my main worry as well. I know coming up with something simple but enjoyable isn't exactly easy given the skills we already have, but I was around during the days of farming/construction/hunting/summoning being introduced and still to this day I can't stand how convoluted they are. Hell the only reason I can tolerate them at all is because of how streamlined the efficient loops have become. Every skill can't be as simple as "slap tree for 600 hours" though.


But on the other hand if we get something as painfully fucking tedious as RC (I've yet to try the mini game, but Ouriana or whatever crafting was still too fucking tedious), I'm lynching some Al Kharidians in Falador Square.

 

[Peasant]

That's my main worry as well. I know coming up with something simple but enjoyable isn't exactly easy given the skills we already have, but I was around during the days of farming/construction/hunting/summoning being introduced and still to this day I can't stand how convoluted they are. Every skill can't be as simple as "slap tree for 600 hours" though.

Farming is neat in that it's a mostly passive skill that produces a lot of historically difficult to obtain resources. Hunter largely exists for its own sake and doesn't produce much in the way of valuable goods.

I do appreciate the attempts at making skills more involved, but they need to fulfill some niche that isn't already covered.

 

[Korpon]

Summoning was meh but it really shouldn't have been a skill IMO, it sucked to train.

But on the other hand if we get something as painfully fucking tedious as RC (I've yet to try the mini game, but Ouriana or whatever crafting was still too fucking tedious), I'm lynching some Al Kharidians in Falador Square.

Guardians of the Rift is ok, it's absolutely worth doing for the Runecrafting outfit which gives 60% extra runes when making them which is just obscene (RIP rune prices tho), and the needle for the colossal pouch which is a great upgrade. You can kinda turn your brain off while doing it if you don't give a shit about placing the cells/making guardians, which in turn makes some people there seethe which is funny. It also gives a great amount of runes for an early Ironman so it's great for that too, but the xp an hour isn't all that great. For ZMI/Ourania altar it's best to mine Daeyalt essence at the vampire place which is pretty AFK, it gives way more xp than normal essence when Runecrafting and it's best for ZMI. You also have Zeah bloods at 77 which is also relatively AFK and chill, I plan on doing that for my Ironman and doing true blood altar for my main for the money.

Farming is neat in that it's a mostly passive skill that produces a lot of historically difficult to obtain resources. Hunter largely exists for its own sake and doesn't produce much in the way of valuable goods.

Farming has become one of my favorite skills because of how chill it is, I'm almost at 99 on my main just from daily tree and fruit tree runs which only takes like 10 minutes and costs me 500kish a day, and for Ironmen it's great for the herbs and the Farming Guild is super comfy and one of my favorite places in the game, contracts help a lot with getting you seeds. Hunter is also much better for helmies for the imps that give all sorts of shit, like medium clues, alchs, glories once you get to dragon imps, etc. Chins are also very good Ranged xp to boost your levels up for Jad (using them on temple spiders for the keys will give you restores, brews, etc.) and good to bring to Armadyl at GWD, and for mains it's a good money maker (around 80m from black chins from 73-99, a roughly 60ish hour grind).

 

[Extremist Frank]

Is there a CC?

That's my main worry as well. I know coming up with something simple but enjoyable isn't exactly easy given the skills we already have, but I was around during the days of farming/construction/hunting/summoning being introduced and still to this day I can't stand how convoluted they are.

It can be whatever dogshit skill the community votes for, just give it a todt style minigame where I can get 320k+xp/hr with minimal attention. Jagex seems to recognize this is the path forward for skills which gives me some optimism

 

[Monk Amen]

its time i tell you all a story.

from like 10 minutes ago.

I'm training attack and defense in NMZ for the fuck of it, also get imbues so big +. So, to fill the 10+ hours to get 84 attack im watching whatever gets into my feed when i see this video from a prominent RuneLite contributor named iydl about obscure plugins.

The first couple minutes are fine until...

(fucked up the editing but i dont care)

damn got him, owned him hard, the pure virtue of this flaming faggot is beaming off the charts.

Seeing his absolute sperg out over a guy who went homeless for OSRS hiscores, I run to Twitter to see more of his dime-a-dozen tard takes.

Damn chudbros, he owned us all

Another brave tweet about British Hitler herself (JK Rowling)

(the short in question)

 

[Slap47]

Odablock - RIP

Watch Odablock's clip titled "RIP"

clips.twitch.tv

Streamer made fun of trans women (AKA Real women) and was banned for offenses from 2 years ago. Jagex effectively taking away streamer privileges to break rules if they speak against the bravest among us.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Was wondering if somebody was going to mention this on here. Never heard of this guy before, but it's interesting to watch the anger at Jagex basically saying "If you break the rules, we'll ban you (unless you are a popular streamer who gets us money [except if you say something bad about troons or gays that might lose us money.]) It's not really a secret, but having it so brazen is funny.
Between this ban, the addition of Ruinous Powers prayerbook, and the skill poll, the community is particularly worked up recently. Probably not the majority, but a decent little chunk. Hell, prices on some gear falling due to expectations on Desert Treasure 2 is also bothering people, seeing them standing at the GE complaining about losing 50m in value our of their bank over a few days.

 

[RollingRock2]

Another year, another gay pride event, another protest, another temporary mute

 

[TheArtilleryman]

A couple of minutes in I realise how weird the second guys voice is and also how he won't stop fake laughing at everything, it's very grating. I check the comments and sure enough there was one to the effect of "Wow, look at all the disgusting transphobes emerging to comment on this" (I can't find said comment any more).

The funny part is there's also some comments that are seemingly completely unaware and just heard a guy.

I'm no statistician, but I believe roughly 60% of the comments are blind praise and affirmation messages for the tranny, complete with the excessive punctuation and gleeful tone of either a teenager or some form of alphabet degenerate (funny how similarly they write...), 20% are calling out the choice in guest because apparantly his content is trash anyway so he must have been chosen for some ulterior motives (no shit) and the remaining 20% are actually discussing the update.

Anyway I now have a runescape troon all over my recommended. Maybe it's finally time to get one of those alternative YT frontends.

 

[Extremist Frank]

Another year, another gay pride event, another protest, another temporary mute
View attachment 5155612

41% of trans players don't respawn in Lumby is pretty good

 

[DootSkeleton]

Time to let my autism shine! I started playing RuneScape in 2004 when I was in 5th grade. My account is about 19 years old. I've been consistently subscribed to membership for so long that I'm grandfathered into a $6 per month rate instead of the current $12.50 per month. Had I not briefly quit when they updated the combat system to be like WoW and removed the option to use legacy combat I'd still be in at $5 per month.

My total in-game time on my RS3 account is about 266 days. My total in-game time on my OSRS account is about 176 days. That's a total of 442 days, 1.21 years, or 10,608 hours.
Percentage-wise, since I started playing in 2004, 6.37% of that time was spent playing RuneScape.
Percentage-wise, I have spent 3.84% of my entire life playing RuneScape. I'm halfway through 31.

If Null or anyone else here on the forum ever wants to dick around in OSRS feel free to pm me and we can exchange RSNs and grind something out. I also have a group Ironman that I haven't touched in a while due to being the only person in the group that really played for any amount of time.

Here's my current stats: