Jagex spent trying to smooth out the rough edges of Runescape's online interactions to help noobs like me. They made the massive, sprawling Stronghold of Security and filled it with exceptional rewards simply to educate players about online safety, they eliminated free commerce to stop new players getting conned
buy OSRS gold into unfair prices, and made it so players can only lose a little bit of loot upon dying in the Wilderness.
The present model of Runescape was basically made for me personally. But while I liked spending a couple of days bumbling around its world and revelling in its clear familiarity, it's done nothing to satisfy the Runescape craving which brought me there in the first location.I recently decided to take a trip on to Runescape's website and log into the game to see what's changed. The game utilizes Java and C++ and has obtained many upgrades in the 11 years of my lack.
I, unfortunately, missed out on the first Runescape, joining in 2004 when Runescape 2 went live (which attracted 3D graphics and other substantial updates )back when I was a teen in school. I do not even want to know the number of hours and friends lost to Runescape across several accounts -- it would be well into the thousands.
The attractiveness of Runescape at that time was the very low system requirements and incredibly addictive grind-like
RS gold gameplay. The MMORPG makes full use of a skill system which needs experience points (EXP) to increase in amounts up to a total of 99 in each ability. Skills cover many areas, from combat to prayerwood cutting into fishing, and smithing to crafting. There was enough material to keep us entertained, whichever ability you chosen.
The neighborhood was massive. Servers were always filling up and mini-games had more than enough players for many rounds to be enjoyed. You could even hang out with different players and just discuss a load of nonsense while spending hours at a time mining iron for that juicy 100,000 gold coin for 1,000 units of ore trade. We appreciated PK'ing (
play kling), questing (at times), and general action grinding to see who'd be among the very first to hit 99 at a skill.
You can set up a new account called"magicdong400xXx" because that is the limitation of teenage imagination, grind resources, develop battle skills adhering to a specialist"pure" PK guide, make money, purchase cool-looking gear (black trimmed addy armor anyone?) , then lose it in the wilderness. Rinse and repeat, and yes that meant creating a new account since we wanted to check out new approaches (that sucked).
To me, Runescape is still going strong and there's even a mobile variant along the way. It is drawing tens of thousands of players every day with servers carrying countless people.So I logged in and selected a server to join.