So... do any of you play the MMORPG RuneScape?

I know, I know. It's not as good as many other games, like World of Warcraft, but it's free, so that's why I play it.

Please do not use this topic to explain how much you dislike it; rather, say if you play the game or not, and if you wish to, go ahead and give your username. Maybe anybody on these boards can be your friend.

My friend showed me it. I've seen people playing it at my college as well.

I'm afraid to devote some time of Real Life™ to it, but I think I might be willing to try it out, at least.

It is an alternative to many other MMORPG games, due to the fact that it is free, and membership is optional. It is getting better every year, and currently, they are saying that RuneScape is going to get a major graphical update within a few months. It will also be playable in FULLSCREEN.

So it's a pretty good try. But please bring your good grammar/spelling with you. Seriously. Barely anybody on there uses good grammar, so please be one of those who actually gives a care about having great English skills.

Don't worry; that's one of my pet peeves, actually, even when I play stuff like HL: Deathmatch.

Heck, I've only seen one other person who's got good grammar when playing. Everyone else abbreviates everything.

Two years ago I had the same grammar and spelling as every other loser on runescape. Then I came here. Instead of using my usual typing I brought that grammar here. I got screamed at until I started typing like I do now, about five minutes later. I then brought that grammar back to Runescape and haven't really played for three months. I've logged on every once and a while, but I'm just sitting in Varrock. As far as I've seen since I came here I'm the only one with good grammar.

I don't really play that much because I have no skills besides combat, because I don't play that much. I've been playing with my current account seven months longer than a friend of mine and he's level 90 somethin opposed to my 43. Seriously, all my skills besides combat are around 2-3. Magic 23 and combat skills around 40.

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You've got a higher Magic level than me, and your combat is pretty much around mine, except that I'm level 51. Yeah, I quit playing for a while, but then returned. My highest skill, other than combat, would be my cooking.

i was a member for 1 month when i was waiting for smash bros brawl, and colosseum.
i've been playing since fall 06 on and off. my username is 4545dude
i stopped playing when they took away the wily because i lived just sitting in the wilderness with a rune battle axe waiting for someone to come and kill me

ah good times.

"wily"?

In any case, do you still play? I do, and I have a rune scimmy.

If you want to get killed, try going into the duel arena.

wilderness. i typed that. and somtimes i play.

Alright, then. Seems as I have a new friend for RuneScape. What world do you frequent?

i dunno.

When you're about to play RuneScape, after the 'Choose Quality' screen, they'll ask you to choose what world you want to be on. Each world only hosts 2000 players, so there's over a hundred worlds for you to choose. What is the world number you visit most often? I play on World 30.

I have been on Runescape (pronounced, "Run! Escape!") on and off for quite a while. I got to the point of having 7.8mill and above average members gear. Then a "friend" scammed me out of 5mill, a cannon and ranger boots I got from a treasure trail. about a 10mill loss. Since then I left my membership for dead and I only go on for holiday items. I do sometimes like to go on and check up on my bank account (2.4mill, abby whip and alot of other cool junk) but I'm currently waiting for Jagex to work out their issues before I commit to a time consuming member ship.
If you look me up on the high scors tables you can see all my levels. I'd also be happy to help you out at all if you need it.

Membership account:
Two_Jacks55

Free to play account:
Two_Jacks

You sound like a really good player, from your comments. Do you still play as a non-member, or did you just quit?

(EDIT) Just saw your high scores. You are good. What's your combat level?

Two Jacks55's combat level is 93.

Just saw that Jagex pretty much got rid of the wilderness. Ouch.

Nice.

As for the Wilderness, I don't think it is as good as you wanted it to be. However, there's some minigames there, and the most profitable one is Fist of Guthix. That one gets you special equipment it would take thousands of GP to buy.

Yeah I heard about them torching the wildy. Shame. I came really close to almost killing someone once.

Hehheh, Nsword showed me that it looked like that when he first showed me Runescape. We always pronounced it "Rune-scape" though.

Runescape isn't even good enough for trolling, much less playing.

I play on and off, i had a member, with the normal members stuff, but my membership ran out, and I stopped playing on that account, I started playing on my other, non member account, got his ranged to 42, then started mining. username is V_Cheezy_V, I normally play on the most empty worlds, you can PM me ingame when I'm on. I don't play a whole lot, but i still like the game.

I used to play a lot, but now... not so much. I have about 2m with Dharok's set. I remember being level 92 when I stopped. I've been sober for about 4 months

Hmm... ever hit over 100 damage with that? With Dharok's, your account sounds like you've played for years.

(EDIT) Interestingly, today was the release of a heavy graphical update for RuneScape. Members got extra graphical benefits that free players didn't have, but still, it looks really good now. Fullscreen, however, is also members only, so that's something you can only look forward to if you subscribe for membership.

I was a runescapes expert.... I played it ALOT.


I've made over £250 from runescape (amazing what people do for some pixels).

The max hit i've seen hit is 82 (you can't hit 100 because your HP only goes up to 99 like every other skill).

Look up:
Redd Death (something like that. it got hacked off me)
Lynsayrules
Liams great
Eaglerange1
blaze slay30

the above are just a few of what i've created and built up. eaglerange1 was my first "pure" man I loved that guy. lvl 43 or something hitting 12s


Don't play it anymore because they've taken away the wildy (practically the only fun bit to the game and my main way of making money). Plus they've messed up trading so even if I killed people I can't sell the stuff....

No, the most people can hit with Dharok is like 70. And the people who can hit that are about level 126 and use potions, prayer, and have 1/99 HP (I think the max level is 138 now, but it shouldn't affect your max hit) But I have about 75 strength. And with 15/74 HP I could hit 36 or 37 without potions and prayer.

Didn't you read what I just put?

It doesn't matter what your prayer is so long as you can do the strength prayers...

As long as your strength is 99 it doesn't matter what your combat level is (99 strength can be achieved at like 72 combat... i've seen it done).

The max lvl is 117 maybe 1 or 2 above or below (unless some new pots have been released?) ... (for actual skill lvls... cmb lvl is 126 and will not change).

Dharoks works best when your health is lower then 10% it's max value (But you need a very good defense because 1 good hit and you're dead anyway...).

I'm going to jump right in here. I do play Runescape. I have played it now for a long time now. Around 3-4 years I'm guessing. I got involved because kids at my school were doing it and it looked fun. I got on about the time of the rubber chicken Easter holiday. But, I've always been non-member and have stayed below 1000 total level (though I am moving up slowly). I'm more of a skiller, but my combat is decent. I have a combat level of 69 and a total level of 913 right now. My highest skill (which you may all laugh at) is Firemaking at 76, closely followed by 75 cooking. Runescape is fun every once in a while. But as far as I'm concerned, it's better than getting addicted to World of Warcraft or Oblivion.

RuneScape is free, so therefore, I can't play World of Warcraft or any pay-to-play kind of games. And no, I find it interesting that you have a Firemaking of 76. I probably would have those kind of levels if I didn't quit for a few years, as during those few years, I began to think that RuneScape was getting boring.

for a non member those are pretty decent levels....

Be a member for just one month and I guarantee you'll be addicted (if you like skilling that is...)

No, you'll be addicted anyway (I was)

I'm afraid I already got addicted to Oblivion. I've played the Elder Scrolls series before. When I bought my Xbox, I sought to buy the third game. Unfortunately, the store was sold out. I've played Oblivion on the computer at Storms once before. He deleted my file then we all laughed afterwards.

I just recently started Runescape again. And I mean recently. Last week, a friend introduced the game to my brother. He's the kind of guy who needs help with everything, so I've decided to train my lame smithing skills to get him armor. I'm currently at level 11. For a combat level 49 it's a wonder how I got all my armor with no way to earn money. Well I knew at first.

I used to sell Anti-Dragon shields for 300gp each but stopped since I got them from the Duke. That's technically against the rules. Not even technically. Now that I don't do that, I don't have any way of getting money. Most of my armor was given to me by some overgenerous friends. I just need more money. I'm working on smithing and not getting realy far.

I just recently started again, like I said previously. I'd stopped for a real long time, only logging on for a few seconds at a time. I've been playing for almost 7 years and am only level 49. I need to play more. It got boring for a time, but then fun again.

Try doing the Knight's Sword quest. It'll give you over 10,000 XP in Smithing, so you'll reach level 30 Smithing in no time. With that kind of level, you'll be able to make some steel stuff.


The faster way to earn money is to get Cowhides from cows and sell them. You get over a 100GP for just one cowhide, so it's a good idea to get them and sell them at the Grand Exchange.


Glad you think so.

I tried that, but I can't seem to get ahold of the pie.

A friend did give me one, but then he killed me in the wildy and ate it. We laughed after that.

You need level 10 Cooking, a redberry, a pie dish, flour, and water. You mix the water and the flour into pastry dough, stick the dough into the pie dish, and then use the redberry on it. Cook it, if you have level 10 Cooking, and you'll have the pie. If not, PM me your username and I'll help you finish it.

Mines 16 so I'll be alright.

I like the Grand Exchange. Just got several dozen K off of selling my old stuff. Got a Rune Scimmy and pick now as well as the Addy kite I've been trying to replace for months. It's amazing how fast you can get money selling iron ore and stuff.

They implemented that in the game after players complained about stuff disappearing from their banks, I think. Then again, I wasn't around when the Grand Exchange first appeared, so what would I know about its history (not in game)?

*shrugs*

How would stuff disapear from their banks?

I think Jagex manually took stuff out, somehow. I wouldn't know.

So what's your guy's highest skill?

Mine quite lamely in fact is mining with a total level of 44. The close followers are my combat skills. With a 42/43/41 rating of Atk/Str/Def.

In that same post, you repeated this phrase twice. Oh well.

It sounds strange, I know, but my highest skill is Cooking, which is level 48.

Why does this keep happening!

Hmm... perhaps you might be pressing "Add Reply" twice.

What I heard was that nooby players were getting scammed a lot ('cause it's easy to do ) and they wanted some way to trade without the risk of being scammed.

I was about lvl 70 when the GE came about and I did have 50k at the time but after an hour i got 300k.

A lot of people are mad at the GE [because they can't "merchant" (more reasonable way to scam) anymore], but I love it.

Well, with the new trade limits (which I really hate)/trade modification settings, scamming is almost impossible now. And yes, the Grand Exchange was one of the best things to implement into RuneScape.

The only part I really dislike about the trade limit is that you can't give items to friends anymore. They should really put in a "give item" function in the game that requires your bank pin and five conframation screens.

On that note, party petes sucks now that it's nearly impossible to throw a private drop party.

So I couldn't give rune to my brother or my friend? That's lame.

Though the Grand Exchange is pretty cool. Buying can get very expensive, but selling you can earn a lot of money. I sold a lot of the stuff in my bank account and got plenty of money. If you mine gold ore you can get 500gp each. You can even sell iron ore.

It's great.

As far as scamming people, it's not really a scam if they offer you the money right, and not you asking for it?

I sold my mith platelegs to a guy for 8K.

I believe the lending feature actually has been implemented. It allows you to lend stuff up to 24 hours anytime you play. I think almost all items are included in that, so no worries.

There's a lending feature now? Sheesh. They're gettin a lot of stuff done.

Members can hold drop parties in their houses somehow, right?


Yes, it has. Unfortunately, out of the possible thousands of items you can get, barely a hundred of them can be lent. For instance, you can't lend any armor under rune.

I used to play Runescape, but I quit because it was craptastic. I don't play MMOs much because they're highly addicting and many of them involve large amounts of grinding. I want a little more excitement. Having a 400Mhz G4 never helped any either. If I want social interaction with my gameplay I fire up Tremulous.