Your RuneScape Stories

How I found RuneScape:

Back in 4th grade a few friends told me to try this "awesome game". I remember being like..."Yeah right.." , used to play Mario on my Gameboy back then. Eventually, they convinced me to try it out. Problem was, when I tried to make an account, it asked me for my age. I was much younger than the required age of 13 to play. I just said..."I'll wait 'till I'm older".

Curiosity eventually won out and I decided to fake the age and make an account. Slight problem again...couldn't find a decent name. So eager to play that I decided to just make up a 12-digit number "name" to just start getting in the game.

Played for a bit, beat Tutorial Island in about an hour (I know, wasn't the best of players). Once I got to mainland, I just walked around asking questions. Was ignored most of the time, but a few players gave me some gear and some money (200gp or so). Then I ended up buying a few axes and just started Woodcutting. Got to level 30, was a huge accomplishment for me.

An classmate at school told me a similar thing as to what Dsun experienced. He told me that he could level my account to Combat level 50 in about 10 mins. Me being a newbie said "Sure, why not?" Gave him the info he needed and that was the last I heard of that account. Looted all the logs and I kinda said to myself "Meh, needed a better username anyway". So then began my journey on a new account.

This time around, I beat Tutorial Island in 20 mins. Searched for "RuneScape guides" and found "Sal's Realm of RuneScape". It had absolutely every guide on every possible thing you could imagine about RuneScape. So I began reading a few guides while having RS opened in another tab. Learned how to finish Cook's Assistant, Rune Mysteries and a few others. Started Woodcutting again and Mining. Made decent profit. Played from late 2005 till around the end of 2011. Started playing on and off from there. Then EOC came and I just quit. Tried out a major RSPS after looking at the top-list on RuneLocus. It's still in the top 2 now actually. Had about 4K players in it's prime. Now, less than 1,500. Played that for a while when I heard about the new 'project': 2006Scape.

Didn't really think much of it though I did watch every video that "Rs2006pk" and "Lmao Jake" put out, major 2006Scape / Project RS06 players. Seemed like a fun game but I didn't really try it out. When Jake made a vid about the 2006Scape shut down and Project RS06 and said it was free to join up, I went right ahead. As soon as I logged in....it was an amazing feeling.

Watching the servers on a video is a totally different experience than actually playing the game yourself. It felt like I was going back 8 years. Played it for the 2 months that it was in existence. It had it's ups and downs, players leaving, random bannings, and even rumours of this being a "JaGex conspiracy". One day, the site was gone and redirected to "RuneFort". Read the post about how PRS06 was done on there.

Lmao Jake had also made a vid about "Project Destiny", a 2007 remake. I joined that, it was online all the way till a few months ago. A good year and a half. Played that for a long time but I really missed the 2006-feel of the game.

So, I typed in "2006 remake" and saw a vid of Rs-Remake. Played for a bit, wasn't much of a remake so I stopped, went back to PD07. A few months later, I went to the site just to see the old school-style website again. That was the one thing that I liked about Rs-Remake, the old school-style site. Looked at the Announcements section and saw that Plural had started a new project, this one.

Went to the site and signed up, the server had been online for a week or so. Soon as I logged in, Plural appeared next to me. Asked me how I liked the server. Told him it was nice and we chatted for a good hour through PM. We became good friends. Lots of drop-parties, over 30 people online all the time, peaking at 60-70. Lots of fun. Invited a close friend from Project Destiny to check it out. Summer came and went and we saw a steady decline of players and Plural's activity. We rarely saw him on, and when he was, he was mostly afking. Still, he always had time to chat with me and it was fun.

Quit for a bit, got kinda tired of playing 2006. Joined OSRS for about a month. It was okay, but I really wanted the 2006 feel so I quit again. Didn't play any server for quite a few months. Came back here 2 days ago. Everything had changed, new players, lots of players gone. That's it.

Thanks for reading my story, I have a lot more to offer but it'd take too long to read.

Peace guys.