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Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by AlwaysRock »

Aardwolf wrote: post #104
nojs wrote: post #62

Haha, Runescape story time. I made a sizeable sum of GP in the early RS2 days by writing a bot that automatically bought items from underpriced general stores. To find the store operator NPC, the script would move the mouse randomly over the game window and detect the yellow text in the top left. I wrote a cool function to count the number of letters in the text, as a kind of rudimentary OCR. This defeated a lot of t…

I got scammed once in Runescape, selling a rune shield or something and my trade partner put up the right amount of cash, but also a bunch of random items. This bunch of random items distracted me from the fact that he decreased the cash amount by a factor of 10 and I accepted the trade. It's good to learn such life lessons in a virtual game rather than real life! That was definitely not the only life lesson though,…

Bought a hammer for 80k because someone 5 minutes earlier had said they wanted to buy one for 100k and I thought I would make a 20k profit. Little did 14 year old me know that the buyer and seller were working together, or were the same person, and I had been tricked into buying a hammer worth 40k for 80k.

That has to be a scam as old as time. Glad I learned that lesson on runescape instead of in real life.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by AlwaysRock »

insanitybit wrote: post #6
rpmw wrote: post #3

It's impressive the amount of effort the Runescape community puts into these projects. It's amazing how many people have abandoned the game at one point in youth, yet come back and contribute as an adult. It makes me wonder what current games will still exist in 20+ years.

I've never played another game like runescape. It's pretty insane. 1. Tons of free content. I didn't get a membership for a long time. When I did it was something like 5 dollars a month, which I could scrape up as a kid. 2. Massive world. You could wander around for hours and find new stuff. Even just little things like some cool empty building, all of it was so fun to explore. Staying up late and exploring the wild…

Yeah didnt have a lot of money growing up but runescape ran fine/well IN BROWSER on our old terrible computer on rural wifi. Brother and I were also able to $5 a month together for members.

We probably would have played WoW if we could afford it and our computer could run it but for a lot of folks like us that just want realistic.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by alach11 »

rcme wrote: post #5

Cheating in RuneScape is what got me into programming. There was a program called SCAR (I believe) that let you write automation scripts in Pascal. That was a lot of fun.

Me too! I was active on the SRL (SCAR Resource Library) forums and got my first exposure to programming in middle school by tinkering with scripts I found there.

I wonder what this generations "gateway drug" to programming will be? Roblox?

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by soared »

synunlimited wrote: post #37
soared wrote: post #34

FYI it’s the glory days of RuneScape (old school) private servers. The big ones have teams of developers and they’re even better than Jagex in some ways!

It's funny to read this now given I was a mod on RuneLocus during what I would consider RSPS's heyday (2006-2012ish range). It felt like the scene died off a bit especially when Jagex finally brought back OSRS in 2013. That said it doesn't surprise me that certain servers have continued to grow and thrive over the years.

Id be very curious to see player counts from then compared to know, but at least in the quality of servers they feel comparable and even better than osrs in some aspects!

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by soared »

TheBaconGuy wrote: post #38
soared wrote: post #34

FYI it’s the glory days of RuneScape (old school) private servers. The big ones have teams of developers and they’re even better than Jagex in some ways!

Any suggestions? I've been looking for any to play on the side while I grind the main game but all the popular ones seem sketchy in terms of monetizations and stuff.

Anything in the top of the top lists is good, ikov is probably best for pvm comparable to osrs with a little bit of uniqueness, while runewild is the best for pvp and has absolutely incredible ui/ux. Unfortunately all servers have some aspect of random boxes/currency for getting items and gambling, but the major ones make donating easily avoidable. They do all let you but the donor ranks with in game gp so donating definitely isn’t required.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by GaryNumanVevo »

rcme wrote: post #16
insanitybit wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never played another game like runescape. It's pretty insane. 1. Tons of free content. I didn't get a membership for a long time. When I did it was something like 5 dollars a month, which I could scrape up as a kid. 2. Massive world. You could wander around for hours and find new stuff. Even just little things like some cool empty building, all of it was so fun to explore. Staying up late and exploring the wild…

Minecraft probably comes pretty close for today's younger generation.

Which was originally available as a demo in browser as well!

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by insanitybit »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #132
insanitybit wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never played another game like runescape. It's pretty insane. 1. Tons of free content. I didn't get a membership for a long time. When I did it was something like 5 dollars a month, which I could scrape up as a kid. 2. Massive world. You could wander around for hours and find new stuff. Even just little things like some cool empty building, all of it was so fun to explore. Staying up late and exploring the wild…

Yeah didnt have a lot of money growing up but runescape ran fine/well IN BROWSER on our old terrible computer on rural wifi. Brother and I were also able to $5 a month together for members. We probably would have played WoW if we could afford it and our computer could run it but for a lot of folks like us that just want realistic.

Same here - even Runescape was pushing the limits of our computer, but it worked.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by pizzeys »

rcme wrote: post #128
pizzeys wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting to see this story here, I didn't know enough of that info was public to even end up here. (You have to be someone I know/know of, right?) Basically true, though: - Aryan wasn't the first clientmod, not even the first to deob - probably the first to go fairly 'mainstream' and end up being well known outside the circle of people using it, though (being free probably helped here) - No legal action, tbh. Well…

> (You have to be someone I know/know of, right?) Doubtful. I was just a kid at the time who lurked on forums. Were you involved in the scene? If yes, do you mind if I ask what you ended up doing professionally? RS cheat developers were my role models growing up. I’ve often wondered what members of that community are up to now.

Yep, I used the nick 'Mopman' then, if you remember that name at all. Kind of appropriately for the name, I was mostly a janitor :D Admin @ Moparscape and the public Aryan channels, there's a few commits of mine in the bot but I definitely can't take credit for most of the bot itself, that was other peoples work. I did make few releases of it after the banwave incident you mention, though quickly passed that torch on (it was a lot of hassle, tbh).

Professionally nowadays I'm a pen tester/security consultant.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by rcme »

pizzeys wrote: post #138
rcme wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> (You have to be someone I know/know of, right?) Doubtful. I was just a kid at the time who lurked on forums. Were you involved in the scene? If yes, do you mind if I ask what you ended up doing professionally? RS cheat developers were my role models growing up. I’ve often wondered what members of that community are up to now.

Yep, I used the nick 'Mopman' then, if you remember that name at all. Kind of appropriately for the name, I was mostly a janitor :D Admin @ Moparscape and the public Aryan channels, there's a few commits of mine in the bot but I definitely can't take credit for most of the bot itself, that was other peoples work. I did make few releases of it after the banwave incident you mention, though quickly passed that torch on…

That's so cool. I'm star struck. I haven't thought about RuneScape in a very long time, but this thread has made me overcome with a bitter sweet sense of nostalgia. I knew so little about programming back then, so people who could manipulate this game I loved with their own code were like gods to me. The whole experience made a very strong impression on me. Thank you!

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by misiekman »

rcme wrote: post #61
gurchik wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Would they move your mouse based on the GUI, or directly send packets? Depends on the client that was used. AutoRune was a popular client that sent direct packets. The game client gathered metrics on mouse movement though, so if you used direct packet injection you still had to fake the mouse movement to some extent so you could escape this rudimentary detection. Or your bot could just control the mouse in a somewh…

An interesting bit of trivia: the first bot (that I'm aware of) to use deobfuscation of the game client was called Aryan. It was quite revolutionary for the cheating community because using the true game state worked so much better than the screen state. I don't know the specifics, but apparently the developers were threatened with legal action from Jagex. As part of their agreement with Jagex, the develoeprs release…

That later turned into iBot, and then rscheata https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/jagex-vs-ibot--anti-bot-...

Worked on contributing a lot to that project, became my first (semi) open source contributions, and the scripts were my first forays into selling my work :)

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