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Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by hesdeadjim »

camhart wrote: post #2

I grew up playing this game, which is what eventually led to me learning to program. Jagex shut the game down a while back, but a group of dedicated fans have recreated the server and kept it going.

Asheron’s call is in a similar situation. The community has implemented, from scratch, their own servers and a huge amount of the game post Throne of Destiny.

Interestingly, the game was content complete for Throne of Destiny on the server side because apparently someone found a thumb drive of the server files at a conference long ago. I’ve been secretly hoping that someone from Turbine would leak the entire game source as a final fuck you to WB backpedaling on making the servers public.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by dandellion »

blamazon wrote: post #8

PSA - note the below quoted passages! If you played RuneScape between 2001 and 2012 and have any data archives or machines sitting around from that time, you might be able to help this project :) > Contribute to the RuneScape Archive [1] with any lost RuneScape data prior to 2010 and receive any obtainable item of your choice as a thanks! [1] https://rs-archive.github.io/index.html > Our goal is to recover missing ve…

Seems a bit dishonest to ask people to contribute without explaining what the files are actually used for anywhere in the site, just "they could be used by Jagex". C'mon, I'm not against piracy, but I don't think it's cool trying to manipulate people like this.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by lurker616 »

blamazon wrote: post #12
shpongled wrote: post #10

I just got a massive hit of dopamine from the nostalgia of seeing the classic homepage. So many hours of my middle school life spent playing Runescape...

I sometimes load up music from RuneScape on YouTube and it takes me back to the simplicity of that time like nothing else. Absolute time warp.

That's a great idea! Take me back to my best life - 10 years old spending my summer vacations playing RS with my cousins.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by bombcar »

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.

Yeah if Minecraft had been designed so each “world” was actually just part of a massive online one, really far apart it would have been similar.

There are some really old multiplayer servers kinda like that, where you can find ruins of ancient buildings from early betas

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by komali2 »

TrapLord_Rhodo wrote: post #9
eddsh1994 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I come back every 2 years for about a month and then realize I'm spending hours cutting virtual trees and leave again. But for that month... man it's so much fun & nostalgic!

I always come back to runescape every couple years and the things i do in game speaks volumes to my mindset. Back when i first started playing I never really did much of anything really... explored around, tried quests and never thought of looking up a guide, talked to alot of people standing in the bank, played alot of minigames etc. etc. Years go by and I come back and i was hooked on efficiency. What wierd methods…

Idk if this will break the economy, the WoW auction house survived auctioneer being available as early as vanilla.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by giancarlostoro »

blamazon wrote: post #8

PSA - note the below quoted passages! If you played RuneScape between 2001 and 2012 and have any data archives or machines sitting around from that time, you might be able to help this project :) > Contribute to the RuneScape Archive [1] with any lost RuneScape data prior to 2010 and receive any obtainable item of your choice as a thanks! [1] https://rs-archive.github.io/index.html > Our goal is to recover missing ve…

Are they looking at the RuneScape Private server scene? I remember some OSRS servers that provided custom clients from those years. I don't know how accessible some of those are now, but it wouldn't surprise me if you could find those old clients that way.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by DEFEC8ED »

dandellion wrote: post #22
blamazon wrote: post #8

PSA - note the below quoted passages! If you played RuneScape between 2001 and 2012 and have any data archives or machines sitting around from that time, you might be able to help this project :) > Contribute to the RuneScape Archive [1] with any lost RuneScape data prior to 2010 and receive any obtainable item of your choice as a thanks! [1] https://rs-archive.github.io/index.html > Our goal is to recover missing ve…

Seems a bit dishonest to ask people to contribute without explaining what the files are actually used for anywhere in the site, just "they could be used by Jagex". C'mon, I'm not against piracy, but I don't think it's cool trying to manipulate people like this.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you insinuating that people are being manipulated into unwittingly pirating software? The files alluded to are obfuscated Java byte code, so it's not piracy. It's useful for reverse engineering historical versions of the game for which no source or artifacts are known to exist. Perhaps you'd consider that unethical but I'd say it's ethically ambiguous at worst.

Re: Open RuneScape Classic

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Post by trynewideas »

Not related to Open RSC, but the https://runescape.wiki/ family (linked to from the Open OSC home page) is one of my favorite MediaWiki sites of all time. Jagex helped the Weird Gloop team split them from Fandom in 2020 and they've built up one of the best-looking and -working independent MW installs.

The tutorials are great: https://runescape.wiki/w/Help:Editing

They have an active and friendly community, including in-game cosmetic rewards for editors: https://runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:The_Wikian

They open-source a lot of their work: https://gitlab.com/weirdgloop

And the staff is looking for additional funding: https://runescape.wiki/w/Forum:Funding_the_wikis

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