Wondering if anyone played on the RSPS 2speced back in the day? it was really popular
Open RuneScape Classic
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Re: Open RuneScape Classic
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool to see our site show up on HN! Thanks for the kind words :)
I concur this site is very well designed! Might I make a suggestion? I am completely new to Runescape (as in, this HN post is the first time I’m engaging with it), and I was hopping around your lovely wiki trying to find some kind of intro / “about the game” section with a bit of backstory. Perhaps I missed it? (I’m on mobile) Either way, looks like a project of love! Well done ^_^
There's [1] for an encyclopaedic overview of the game. For actual gameplay for new players, there's [2]. There's also a mobile game client if you wanted to give the game a go.
Re: Open RuneScape Classic
#73Haha, 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…
Great story. Thanks for sharing. Took me back to my own young coding days.
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#74Not 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…
Cool to see our site show up on HN! Thanks for the kind words :)
Cook! If you're who I think you are, I bet you don't recognize me under this name, but hi from an old b'crat :)
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#75Uses this apparently: https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm
"TeaVM is an ahead-of-time compiler for Java bytecode that emits JavaScript and WebAssembly that runs in a browser."
Re: Open RuneScape Classic
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I concur this site is very well designed! Might I make a suggestion? I am completely new to Runescape (as in, this HN post is the first time I’m engaging with it), and I was hopping around your lovely wiki trying to find some kind of intro / “about the game” section with a bit of backstory. Perhaps I missed it? (I’m on mobile) Either way, looks like a project of love! Well done ^_^
There's [1] for an encyclopaedic overview of the game. For actual gameplay for new players, there's [2]. There's also a mobile game client if you wanted to give the game a go. 1: https://runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape 2: https://runescape.wiki/w/Guide_for_new_players
Thank you!
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#77It'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…
RS3 is terrible, but they released "Old School RuneScape" (OSRS) which is a wonderful re-release of the old RS2 '07 version. They still update it regularly with new content!
I got back into it a year ago and it's nostalgic and fun - but yes, definitely a time-sink. I'll often have it in a spare window though doing some AFK skill such as fishing or woodcutting - helps keep me sane when I need to do some more mundane work tasks, lol.
Re: Open RuneScape Classic
#78Not 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…
Cook over at the OSRS Wiki was a massive help in helping myself and the team I worked with fork the Path of Exile wiki away from Fandom.
He’s a great guy.
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#79Haha, 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…
Love the story. My first exposure to programming was through automating RSC. All I was doing though was writing scripts for SCAR. I think maybe in… pascal?
I remember trying to learn some Java at the time, but could never make the leap between building simple CLI app’s and primitive string manipulation to integrating with the RS client and actually doing something ‘useful’. However, I was only 8, so I’ll cut myself some slack!
Re: Open RuneScape Classic
#80Haha, 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…
this is so sick. Runescape was such an amazing game. I loved how high stakes it was. If you died, you lost your shit permanently. When I was 12 my mom didn't want me to play and wouldn't allow me to use her credit card to buy a membership. I ended up mailing a ten dollar bill to Jagex HQ in the UK for two months of membership.