RuneScape’s Dumbest Rules. AFKing Could Get You Banned! (OSRS)

[@ColonelloRS]

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[@Spotthewondercat]

clash of clans realized their game was super grindy and thought "what demographic enjoys grindy games?" hence why all the OSRS KZbinrs are getting sponsored smart marketing

[@VanBurenOfficial]

What ever happened to your Yanille locked Ironman?

[@bettertelevision968]

another shit like raid shadow get normal sponsors

[@TheGreyLineMatters]

Fuck no...

[@Thingsyourollup]

No thank you to P2W garbage.

[@spiritofnex]

Technically account sharing is against the rules, but Jagex has said multiple times that it's not enforced. It's only there to protect them if you lose all your stuff because you let someone else use your account, as they can go "It's against the rules, so we're not giving your stuff back". The anti afk rule did scare me as a child though, and I was very diligent to log out whenever I got up to do something, even if it was only for a couple seconds.

[@curtisss]

I'd assume similar applies to the no afk rule, if someone comes and drops all your stuff or gets you killed by a mob/pker then they don't want you asking for your stuff back

[@charliescene5150]

Back in the day, the anti AFK strategy was to limit the stress on the servers. Which back in the day, they were not the best.

[@d3m0n876]

It is enforced when the account is actually a high ranking one on the hiscores. The only one I’ve heard of getting banned is uloveme who was a husband and wife combo and they were ranked top page

[@coolbrotherf127]

I was paranoid for years about the afk rule. As a kid I didn't know that it wasn't really enforced so I would never do anything afk.

[@STR0SITY]

Tbf about the afkness, you should also have been scared that a chicken would ags gmaul you, then everyone could take your stuff.

[@kalyndyck315]

Remember the 1 minute logout timer coupled with dangerous random events? Coupled with death mechanics that dropped all your items including untradables... Runescape was the wild wild west

[@prof.finbarrcalamitous]

I remember that stupid fish that popped up and threw your harpoon. The first time that happened I literally was scared to fish after that. Lol

[@duewhat9815]

The dangerous random events were especially trolly because combat prevented you from auto logging so it was almost like it was purely out of spite like "ok you want to be logged in AFK? Fine you can stay logged in"

[@1God1Fury]

@@duewhat9815 I don't see what's big problem. It discouraged in a creative way to prevent players afk-ing or afk, but at their own risk. The vast majority who complained about it are lazy players, players with multi accounts logged in at same time and bot users.

[@duewhat9815]

@@1God1Fury Why would bot users complain about it? They could literally just set a parameter to run when they see a dangerous random event, and how is multi accounting lazy? Someone needs to get off their high horse.

[@1God1Fury]

@@duewhat9815 By lazy I'm not referring to multi account, what I meant is they just afk on some skill or activity. Random event messes up by forcing people to actually pay attention instead of doing something else. Bot users obviously don't like random events that messes their scripts and btw botting is against the rules.

[@NaughtyNina1240]

I remember an old RuneScape ad which showed something like: f2p 100 hrs of gameplay vs member being 5000 hrs. I genuinely thought that your acc would stop working after 5k hrs.

[@harxey]

"It's probably the only reason that half of you can even tolerate your jobs." I LITERALLY got sucked into OSRS because of the ability to afk. I don't go crazy with it.. but I am always working and being able to tab over and do a few clicks then tab back to my work is AMAZING. I feel like I get work done and I am playing a game at the same time. If that makes sense. lol

[@YuzaWasTaken]

"It's probably the only reason that half of you can tolerate your job." I felt this on a spiritual level.

[@Gelgoog]

"Couldn't have two accounts on at once" Yeah and thats why drop trading was a very risky, but doable thing. You'd typically find a low pop world or a area with no real foot traffic and then move your accounts into position. once done the one with the item drops their stuff and logs, then you'd log into the "bank" account and wait till the items appeared for you. Granted some people and myself would sometimes follow people who would randomly walk off to remote areas or to 2nd floor of houses typically no one would really have a reason to, in hopes of intercepting drops. This is how I lost my first red cape.

[@bloodbane93]

Man I'm getting flashbacks. Upstairs in one of the slum houses behind the Varrock East bank was my go to spot

[@Gelgoog]

​@@bloodbane93 2nd floor of varrock houses. top of the castle in falador. Draynor houses. Top of lumby castle (remember the bank wasn't always there).

[@EXITLlFE]

There was something oddly exciting about seeing your entire bank pop up during a drop trade and quickly spamming the floor to loot your own items.

[@Tyranzor64]

Anti-AFK rule was in place when server space and calculations were a lot more limited and expensive so it made more sense then

[@shanehunt4661]

Use to take so long just to get into the world you wanted.

[@simonbionary11010]

Yh i remember thatXD@@shanehunt4661

[@kingjames4886]

also when mods actually went around banning people manually and bots would just deactivate themselves when a mod showed up...

[@AnhNguyen-hn9vj]

dont think so. i have never played any game that is afk is banned. first time i see something like this. in the old days, they make all kind of accident like head of the axe cutting wood flying away stop you do anything. fishing spot moving to another spot. all kind of weird incidents.

[@toolittletoolate]

@@AnhNguyen-hn9vj 99% of minecraft servers have anti-Afk rules where you will be banned for making an AFK machine to avoid their timers. Why do they do it? To stop you from taking up spaces other players could use who actually are there to play. So yes it's exactly what this person is saying. You saying you've never played a game with banned afk is irrelevant.

[@ttuurrttlle]

The "no afk-ing" rule was 100% Andrew Gower. Back then, he really was into the idea of "the game must be played how I think it should be played". That's all well and good for some things, but if you design your game in a way that basically BEGS them to afk while chopping a tree or fishing, and then you ban them for playing that way then that's awful.

[@whompronnie]

It is absolutely insane. They could have literally just made you click something every 30 seconds instead of scaring kids with some ridiculous rule. I've been binging these videos, and so much of early Jagex sounds like they had absolutely no idea what they're doing. Take deleting inactive characters. Even in the early 2000s, there's no way a little array of data was taking up enough space to justify scorning your fan base. One of the lame images in their special folder probably took up a thousand player characters worth of data.

[@SioxerNikita]

@@whompronnie Let's see. A character could likely be around 100-200kb, maybe less, let's just say 50 kb... There is a lot of data to save overall for the charater, and a saved password takes up quite a few bytes, since it was likely hashed. We could even go down to let's say... 10 kb, 10 000 bytes... and it would still scale... Now that is not really a ton... but, now you have 1000 of them at 10kb. Now it is 10 megabytes... The price per GB in 1998, was 56.30$ (on average), and this is not necessarily a one time cost for servers. Each Harddrive you attach also increases your power cost, it complicates your server code further, and it adds more points of failure (You need backups, so it becomes more expensive), and you will need more personnel over time to maintain more the more HDDs you have. Costs add up suddenly... Year by year costs essentially halfed per GB after this, but that would also then be replacing the HDDs, which would not really be cost efficient, which essentially means with a trending down price (halved per year), when does it become viable to start replacing the hardware? It also costs time and effort to replace the hardware, which is significantly more expensive. And the whole point of the larger your database is, the longer it takes to search through it, which costs processing power, etc... so purging inactive characters makes your server run smoother. There is a lot more to it than "Oh, but it doesn't take much space"... Deleting inactive characters is actually something that was INCREDIBLY common back then, even for paid MMOs. It is easy to look at PCs today and conclude something, but I could likely run the entirety of early 2000s Runescape servers on a decent tablet today... Stuff has become significantly more powerful.

[@mattbrewerton6884]

The multilogging rule and IP restrictions was so annoying and it was in RS2 as well, not just RSC. Our whole family started RS in 2004 and we encountered this exact issue. Only one of us could login at a time. My dad contacted Jagex and they actually allowed us to login at the same time. The restriction didn't last long thougj

[@brodesseus3904]

I remember having to click the login button with PERFECT timing to pull off multilogging back in the day (regarding rule at 7:20) - felt like a hackermans every time lmao

[@BioMasterZap]

My guess is the anti-AFK rule was more of a guideline for player safety than something they were actively banning players over. Back in the day, while you could in theory AFK splash or such for 6 hours, I doubt anyone managed since Random Events were not optional and would surely interrupt you, if not kill you. So they probably encouraged players to log out when leaving the computer to avoid/reduce the number of players who died AFK. Think the Stronghold of Security even has/had some dialog saying as much too.

[@ColonelloRS]

Very good point! I read that some players were able to avoid randoms by splashing in banks or PvP worlds, but that’s pretty dangerous too.

[@wasteoftime2187]

I completely forgot about attacking randoms I remember the start of 07 some guy died to a plant with 80m😂

[@ownage11445]

I remember those days with the tree spirit, ent, evil chicken, water troll, and the exploding rocks. Seeing a bot dying at sharks or magics was pay day for some.

[@cceproductions8435]

@@ColonelloRS what bank has a npc u can splash that won’t kill u 😂

[@TheHandsomestMale]

@@cceproductions8435 Gnome Stronghold comes to mind

[@Przymiot]

The force-auto logout despite being in combat was indeed much longer, or just downright did not exist. I remember back when barrows was released people who had enough cash for full guthan's set used to just afk on desert bandits for like 12hours in a row.

[@jasebas9941]

Did that but in NMZ back in the day making bank off of the reward shop. 😉

[@GlobalGhostsTeam]

Got 99 defense like that back in the day. Id sleep for 8 hours still be logged in, gg if u died to swarm or evil chicken and lost your guthans helm

[@Real_extra_1]

​@@jasebas9941 what do you mean by back in the day?

[@RossBoomsocks]

@@Real_extra_1 Bro NMZ is 10 years old this year

[@The2006Scaper]

U can still do it for 6 hours which is solid

[@harrylane4]

honestly with some of the decisions jagex makes sometimes it feels like runescape got popular in spite of itself

[@LPcrazy_88]

When I played Classic RS I never considered using another person to transfer stuff to my second account, I simply drop traded in various places. The only times someone walked in on me doing drop-trades was when I thought I was smart trading on the 2nd level of buildings, but I never lost anything substantial. I did find a lot of people drop-trading but never saw anything crazy. The most expensive stuff I saw was full Rune sets, which were expensive back then but not game-changing.

[@cceproductions8435]

Lost a guthix helm in lumby back in like 04 crazy to think I played this game since I was 6 years old

[@Mrtyjr]

The FAQ of the macroing rule indeed simply says 'don't AFK' but if you read the first paragraph of this rule it said something along the lines of that you're not allowed to circumvent the mechanics that are used to auto log off inactive users. So that implies you're only breaking the rule if you leave the computer while having made sure your character can't log auto log off after 5 minutes of inactivity. So that would have been splashing or what some people did in the past in the desert Bandit Camp where they could also leave for hours while their character stayed online in combat.

[@Scribblersys]

just gotta put a weight down on one of the arrow keys and you're set

[@SirThuggleS]

I was so proud as a kid when I figured out how to log into two accounts at once by resizing the game window, putting the login buttons right next to each other, and clicking one after the other as fast as I could.

[@NickRgibbs]

In early RS2 it was still difficult to login to multiple accounts at the same time from the same PC. The max my brother and I could do was 2 each per computer. I was young and didn't know much about how the Java client worked, but my dad worked in IT (98 and NT networking for businesses) and it was much easier to build 4 computers per screen with a KVM switch to play 8 accounts each. The lag on DSL back then was extreme but we were fishing lobbies F2P to pay for D Chain and infinity robes on our mains.

[@solocanaanite4655]

7:44 The amount of proxy accounts I made just to get safety question gold 👌🏽

[@thatonneguy]

If you put the AFK timer on screen, you can see that you just have to scroll over the game these days to stay logged in. Don't have to click anything.

[@erubianwarlord8208]

no you still have to click something

[@OneManFlashMob182]

When i played in 2005/06 a lot of players would assume anyone who didn’t talk was botting and get mass reported by everyone around. My guess is forbidding AFKing would prevent legit players from getting reported if they didn’t respond to “wc lvls?”

[@Demorthus]

Honestly, even the 5 minute logout is absurdly outdated... Most online MMOs are around the 30-minute mark.

[@gibble7863]

i think its important to point out that when people are "afk training" they arent actually afk. they are just not paying attention. the only truely afk training i can think of is nmz and splashing. everything else youve got like a minute max before you need to check your still doing the thing

[@anabolicino]

This isn’t true at all lol most monsters have a 15min combat timer, if you go to a multi cb and auto retaliate you get 15 mins of uninterrupted combat until they de-aggro or you move X tiles away

[@Streammzzz]

Some other skilling methods with longer than 2 minutes afk - Star mining (7 minutes) - Redwood trees (minimum 4.5 minutes) - Afk GOTR (Play 2 min, afk 8 min) - Karambwans with fish barrel (3 minutes) - Combat/slayer at aggressive monsters (10+ minutes) - Mining amethyst (2+ minutes avg w/ expert mining gloves) If you're interested in other things, you can also consider these: - AFK castle wars with an alt (18 minutes) - Trouble brewing (18 minutes I believe) - Easy bosses like kraken (start fight and walk away) - Fishing trawler (3 minutes) - Soul wars taxi games - Forestry ent calls for evil chicken outfit (play 1 min every time a call gets made)

[@tronza87]

if I remember correctly it was not restricted to one account per ip address in RSC, rather per client executable or mac address (which I doubt). It was very common to have 10 people in a computer class at school logged in at the same time in 2002/2003. also trading between your own accounts was done by going somewhere out of sight and dropping the stuff on to the ground and logging out and in. good times...

[@vahn_legaia]

Back in RS Classic you could multi-log by changing Java versions on your second instance. I think there were 3 or 4 different Java options: one was Sun Java. I would always transfer using this method.

[@MattS-ig2br]

Ah a man of culture, nice to see

[@MmeHyraelle]

I was doing the "log in on the same tic" method, personally. Or worse, drop transfer in an innocuous spot.

[@nCSirloin]

@@MmeHyraelle ah I remember the good ol drop transfers lol, the anxiety of spam clicking the spot hoping nobody comes up the stairs of the random house you found

[@nedopking]

The 6 hour timer didn't used to be a thing from what I remember and from what I've heard. I'm sure you remember Cursed You, the first person to get 99 construction. He wrote about how he became one of the richest players in the game. What he did was he spam clicked the charge spell (back when there wasn't a cool down period after casting it) to go from 80 magic to 99 in a few hours. He then purposely did not log out so that his hiscores data was not refreshed. This allowed him to appear on the hiscores as having 80 mage, while actually having 99 mage. He then began mage box staking people, where he had a massive advantage against people and won hundreds of millions. He says he kept his account logged in for around a week without logging off so that he could keep doing this. I did something similar to this back in 2014 on old-school, albeit with the 6 hour timer in place. I leveled up my range by about 5 levels in 3 hours, then staked people for the next 3 hours until I hit the 6 hour log out timer. I turned 1m into 20m in those 3 hours.

[@nCSirloin]

I only ever did whip/DDSd or naked melee boxxing because to me it was so obvious people were getting finessed like that. I remember cleaning out so many sweaty stakers with "minmaxxed" stats getting so mad losing to my weird ass 81att-86-str-83 def or some shit. At least with melee you could just gauge based on combat levels. I even remember encountering a few with slightly worse accounts with the same name but 1 letter slightly off like a zero instead of an O hoping you would accidentally look that one up in Swiftkit or scythe or w/e but you could always tell because even the clients back then could calculate combat level.

[@flysart]

If the Wiki wasn't a thing I wouldn't have come back to OSRS.

[@AndyGamezoldschool]

Used to work 12 hours come home to my full Guthans and some juicy exp :)

[@Mr_German]

I think it’s hilarious how Jagex said they can only post the images from their folder of strange 3D renders, but as a kid(and even now)images like the ones from the folder give me the most nostalgia and feeling of excitement. The images felt so magical.

[@Sicaughtik]

"Colon Mule," sounds like a drug smuggling tactic.

[@moonman88]

I was once banned because using a autoclicker some years ago. ''Botting'' But they right. They did good to ban. Otherwise it should be unfair.

[@moonman88]

I had over 90 magic in just 2 days lol

[@BunniBuu]

I think I remember the no afking rule was explained as there being a big problem with walking away from the game and a sibling or friend would come along and steal all the person's stuff.

[@redtsun67]

I actually almost fell for one of those banner ads on runescape. I was 9, didn't have internet, and my family was pretty poor. I would go to the library to play. So when I saw "CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE OUR 1 MILLIONTH VISITOR! CLICK HERE TO CLAIM A FREE LAPTOP!" I was ecstatic. The only problem? It needed information I didn't have. All that pesky information that only adults have. So I went to get my mom, panicked, thinking if I left my computer someone else might swoop in and steal my free laptop. Funny enough, my mom almost fell for it too. We never had internet so her understanding of those things was just as limited as mine. It was actually the guy on the computer across from me who mentioned that it wasn't real. I was so disappointed lol

[@PrestonGraff]

Been here since the earliest days of Runescape, and man, people always say that Mod MMG was like a bad/greedy CEO, but Andrew was SO overly strict. Terrible rules, absurd chat filter, always fighting against fan-sites & toolkits, punishing players that play fair based on a smaller group of cheaters. I know he made the game, but a lot of the decisions that he made early on were just unnecessary. It was actually nice in a way when he stepped down and took his focus off of Runescape. If he was still around stuff like runelite would not even be close to existing.

[@Dr.Frasier_Crane]

6:00 you forgot to mention that you were logged out within 1 minute or less. The 5 minute limit wasn’t a thing until years later.

[@XxJustinxx88]

I lost a "safe" account due to the drop trading rule... My main account I still play on had nothing done but my safe account was permanently banned. I'd like to get It back because of all of the rares on It. It was banned In 03 or 04. I can't remember the exact username but something similar. Great video Colonello! Been waiting for another upload.

[@justkev6277]

Still remember the 1 min afk timer. When I got into OSRS I still had the habit of just randomly clicking the screen to make sure I wouldn't get logged out

[@jeshegames]

8:42 I love finding workarounds like this. The problem is that people want to share the method and then it gets patched. It’s a great talking point when someone else does the workaround and you can point at it and go “hell yeah! I figured that out independently too”. I think it happened in the scientific community more than a few times

[@pan0mees]

I love pictures and videos from early runescape 2, keep up the content year 2005-2007, best era of runescape

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you, will do!

[@ingydegmar2060]

I didn't log out because those were the rules, I logged out because the evil chicken killed me for my full rune set once.

[@ferrariramsgobrrr]

i remember having to climb the parapets of falador to find a secluded spot to drop trade items and stuff over to my pure to train it up back in 2006. I'm not sure if it was because I knew multilogging was against the rules or because of potato pc or both!

[@petitjul1]

for me it was on the second floor of the arrow store in Varrock

[@atcJ]

Back in the pre-OSRS days I remember someone in the GE talking about how he got banned for saying “I’m going to AFK some bonfires”

[@The1Helleri]

Wasn't just security concerns that made mules survive past the update that gave banks the ability to hold items. Because that update only gave banks 48 slots. Mules were extra space too. Which wealthier players definitely needed. But because you did have to train them.

[@UKNOWWhatitis]

Is there a plug in that will add the ad over the game. I forgot all about that and once I saw it so much dopamine flooded my head

[@tophersadvice]

First 5 mins in I was going to comment how I got banned with all but a blue party hat for multi logging but then you mentioned it. Absolutely crazy! The party hats were about 43M for all but back then that was A LOT

[@12Prophet]

Gotta love when devs try to ruin their own success.

[@qevon1901]

Is there a way to find these original concept art images in the "approved images" folder? Love the weird graphical design style of them and would love to take a look. Thanks for the video!

[@Knuffeldraak]

5:50 you're ALMOST right. Back in

[@whompers6160]

Clash of clans just paid all of the osrs content creators rent

[@jurgnobs1308]

there was quite a bit of time when you could logg into multiple worlds with two accounts without issue, but logging into the same was blocked (except if you timed it right)

[@D0P1C3]

didnt there use to mechanic that monster spawned and attacked you while you were doing some semi afk skilling like woodcutting etc? its been years like 17-18 years since i first played as kid in school i cant quite remember if it was real or not at this point :D

[@ColonelloRS]

Yup! Random events would show up every so often. Some were dangerous, others were not :)

[@D0P1C3]

@@ColonelloRS evil tree or something like that? :D

[@JSym92]

I'm sure those rules like AFK training not being allowed were there to promote account security rather than actually being enforced as rulebreaks. It's no longer considered a rulebreak, but the question has been put into the security stronghold instead. And back in 2004-2006, the average player was like 13-14 years old. Nobody really cared about best practices to keep your account from being compromised, but when it's listed as a bannable offense, at least most people will try to do their best to not risk it.

[@alexandreduhaime8622]

I'm not AFKing, I'm King AF

[@YGOLimburg]

i just want to know if you can get banned afking nmz while putting something on your spacebar so you dont log out

[@Furry_Wall]

Is there a way to see all these old 3D renders? I love them!

[@ColonelloRS]

Yup! Here’s a Reddit post that has all of them: www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/3mpz3p/some_forgotten_ancient_20012003_runescape_assets/

[@jeremyellmer3925]

Did you know that in 2006 you could be perm banned from the forums for suggesting a skill that was then added two years later. "Suggestion: Add a skill allowing players to SUMMON creatures and maybe ride them" Jmod reply "We're never going to add this feature, it's a dumb idea please don't suggest it again, this isn't World of Warcraft" "okay but its not dumb, don't be a jerk. it has nothing to do with world of warcraft" Perm banned. Yes, I was perm banned for that exact conversation. I tried appealing it for almost six years and eventually gave up. Forums are dead anyway.....i wonder why

[@myrusEW]

Clash of clans??? I ain't seen a sponsorship for that since like high school! Didn't know it still existed dayum!

[@myrusEW]

I realized what type of video game I'm watching and realized why....targeting old, nostalgic players...osrs players. im really struggling with this dilemma. I am gonna download it, don't get me wrong. but do i use ur link...ur a decent guy hm..

[@JamesLard32]

At one point there was no timer, or it was at least longer than 36 hours. I remember back in like 2007 I set up to splash and went to school. Then work and sleep. Checked my progress after getting home from school the next day and was still logged in.

[@blinkanddie3397]

0:02 guild wars 2 currently has a similar policy, if your character is near an in-game activity and gaining rewards without you at the screen you can get banned

[@blinkanddie3397]

but the odds are pretty low unless you're doing it for long periods of time

[@scottwickwire-brock4736]

Imagine having to do quests without just following a blue arrow like it's tutorial island.

[@hydrafreakosrsmobileonly9446]

Before runescape wiki it was RUNEHQ or lunagang 😂😂

[@meow_a_cat]

Does anyone have a link to the fansite images folder from the start of the video? I love the old style of rendered art they used to make!

[@thegamemaster2000]

i was banned long ago for AFK training. My monitored died right before school and i thought the computer had died. I was gonna look at it when i got back from school and band practice. i left for school at 6am, computer died at like 5:55, i was splashing air strike in the varrock bank i think, and i got back home at 9pm. I tried to trouble shoot the problem and i could not figure out the problem. it turned on fine, did the awful hdd spin check fine, and i even searched out the debug speaker from my closet (had to clean my closet that weekend because of it, thx HP!). I had a spare monitor that i had JUST bought and thought i'd try that one. it worked fine so i logged back into runescape at like 6pm the next day. banned for afk training. I tried to appeal and they said i did it intentionally because i was clearly in the bank to avoid randoms and they knew i was botting afk splash training. ( i still don't know why you need a bot to afk splash train, it's literally the one thing that does not need a bot to do!) it's fine, i created a new account. AND I BOTTED THAT ONE TILL IP BAN. botted like 40 accounts and even created a small bot farm using a multi login script. it's cool, ive changed IP's numerous times since then. muhahaha lmao

[@WeasolVonDiesel]

I got banned backed then for telling someone about osrs wiki in game.. Banned for advertising websites lol. 29-Sep-2010 Website Advertising Major

[@zimbu_]

Well, when the afk rules were last around the logout timer was 90 seconds. Also, account sharing rules are enforced for races to 99&200M on new skill releases in RS3 and presumably in OSRS.

[@Dustpetro]

Mann I remember finding out about being able to log into multiple accounts if you log in at the same time when I was in 5th grade lol. You unlocked a core memory I completely forgot about haha

[@joemaxpayne]

i remember jmod comment on afk training back then. its not splashing, splashing is a mordern thing. back then runescape players are mainly school kids/dorm students and siblings, if one friend plays runescape it is possible everyone in a friend group plays runescape. so playing in group or sharing one computer is common. so jagex didnt want someone to take or drop your item in a grudge or as prank, and there was so many reports back then as someone they know dropped or stole their item, so they had no afk rule.

[@adamhugo8901]

When the AFK training rule made sense is was in Classic you had to perform a separate click for every action in things like mining and fishing. There was no 'click once and watch your character continue to perform the action', you had to spam click the rock or fishing spot back then. Saying no AFK training was another way to say no using of auto-clickers or other things to perform for you while you weren't at the keyboard.

[@saphired02]

I splashed longer than 12 hours. I think it was close to 24 hours and never got logged. I started around mid day, went to sleep, woke up and I was still splashing. Didn't finish till close to 12. I was really surprised I was still logged in.

[@JJohnston4Life]

When Classic was the only way to play, my browser crashed and it took several days before I could get online again because it said I was still online.

[@BlazeIsBOSS]

if andy gower had his way the game would of never been popular lmao

[@devinegamingtv3427]

I remember reporting people writing foreign language thinking it was breaking the rule. I was 11 years old, and barely spoke English. I also didn't know how to change attack style, so I was an attack pure for like 2 months. My main source of cash was killing Dark Wizards for their runes and selling it to the general store saving up for the Adamant 2H at Taverly. Saved up further and got full mithrile, one slot was adamant, maybe the legs. Anyway, a guy told me he would make me member so I typed my password with a "7" between each letter. Well, my trust in people stopped there. Of course I was robbed of everything I had. Told my friend I had lost it all, so he told me that his friend also played and they shared their accounts.. So we hacked him, I got gold bars and some wood. Sold it all for 30k (I swear I had items worth of 100k + + but I didn't know it's value). The girl we stole all the items from cried her eyes out "All the chickens we killed together and sold all the feathers from". Lol fucking golden times! Sorry for the block of text, all the memories just came flooding back when I started!

[@BeastFable]

I like how pretty much all of your RS history videos nowadays have some RSC footage :)

[@zacklemore]

7:08 Mod Steve W absolutely dismantled that dude and stayed classy and professional while doing so. a true king deserving of the W in his name

[@Wdfdude]

Our pvm clan (about 300 ppl) had our forum deleted from proboards TWICE because of a Jagex DMCA request. It killed our clan.

[@imagicy0u]

Back at the local library we would be doing a countdown across the building to get everyone on the same world lmao, we got scolded often for being too loud those poor old people.

[@GaybrohamStinkton]

It genuinely baffles me that you have an ad shilling for an anusy game. Then comment on disabling ads. When everyjuan uses adblocker and revanced o,O

[@andipatel5044]

You should know that I had a bank account that I used to keep some items, but after the tutorial island was released I logged into it and found it was not available my bank was erased and it had to be deleted right in front of my eyes 😢

[@rokka7188]

The AFK bandits is more so the go-to methods for actual AFKing back then. Runes were too expensive to go do AFK splashing. This is why Nightmare Zone was also overpowered with early OSRS. You could do this with Rock Crabs and other monsters to certain extend as well.

[@azazeldeath]

Here is an odd rule from way back in the day. You were NOT allowed to kill the mods, or attack them. Seems pretty self evident right? But it also included fighting back. Admittedly this was in the era of the jmods just being called Mod ingame. And unless you were one of the very few lucky people, any interaction with them usually resulted in you saying cabbage for awhile. There is a tonne of random "classic era" stuff i remember, some not perfectly i mean i was very young at the time....and stupid oh so stupid. I got pretty high level in a lot of skills due to getting lost between Lumbridge and Falador (kept finding varrock but had no use of that place especially since everything seemed to happen in Falador).

[@Xhomer367]

Bring back the evil chicken random event and make OSRS always 1% dangerous 😎

[@Timmy2Tough]

In 2004-05 when RS2 came out you could log into two accounts by putting one on high detail and one on low detail

[@AshnSilvercorp]

I have a feeling I had my account deleted in one of those waves back when RS 3 came out. When that happened I just quit. My brain didn't understand TOS then, and tbh, Idk how much I'd want to go back to a place like that with rules to that level. Heck, I play FFXIV on Linux, yet still vanilla, but their enforcement against stuff is loose enough now that you have to INTENTIONALLY say something wrong to get banned for it. And when they do, my money walks.

[@mcstoney1251]

If you had two different computers. Even with them on the same network, they should have different IP addresses. Is this not how it used to be, or do I not understand the internet and protocols work?

[@Goose-wedding]

"D.A.R.E. program fighting against Advil" is genuinely an amazing metaphor I hope I find the chance to use in casual conversation.

[@Surf456]

"Jamflex can't do anything right, WOW!".

[@Excendre]

I remember getting muted when I was younger for saying I was gonna go play a better game, which at the time was PSO1. I still have the ban reason page and I go back to it occasionally to laugh.

[@Charkel]

I think there was a limit of 5 logged in per IP on rs2 We used to play RS LANs

[@verloser]

heck even when i started in 2007 the double account log in wasn't allowed so you did the classic small screen log click to the big screen log in and boom, 2 accounts XD and the ad thing above if youw asnt member you opened the tool box and made the advert black, god i love the nostalgia in this video.

[@HempDragon]

I actually was banned in RuneScape 2 for drop trading from one account to another. Sadly I don't have screenshots but it did happen however they only banned one of my accounts and it was sadly the main account. So when I got banned it was almost right away and they banned the account that got the items.

[@RevBombRR]

I actually did receive a 3 day ban for splashing several years ago despite TONS of other players doing it all the time with no issues. And No, I wasn't botting. I bought tons of runs and armor to set up splashing and went to bed and woke up the next day to a 3 day ban. I think it was around 2015 or 2016

[@TheDirtymikenation]

we used to drop trade as well, just go to a private area drop your items log into your other account and pick em up when they spawn in a min later, had to get your low level pker a ruby ammy and some str pots some how

[@DeeGeeG]

I had an account banned for multi-logging. Had it following my main for some reason, think to do Arravs Shield by myself. The secondary account was banned. My child self didn't even read the rules so I didn't know.

[@jrj1325]

Recently I tried to start playing runescape again. I do not have a computer, but luckily it is on mobile. I played for maybe a total of 4 hours getting my woodcutting and firemaking up to 50 and bought a bond so I could do thieving and get cakes to do wintertodt at a low hp. Come back two days later permanently banned for macroing and third party software. Appealed the ban and was denied. Now I will never play again myself.

[@happyrefund]

I was hoping the ad blocking would come up. I used to break that rule all the time as a kid. Some of the ad's were SUPER resource heavy. For my crappy family potato computer the ad's would actually slow down the game so much it was unplayable so I had to right click the ad and zoom in like 10x till it was just white space so the ad would stop eating the ram. Then I also had a program that cleared out the ram, I would just click the button in the taskbar every 10 or so minutes and the game would speed back up. Got to love janky work arounds. How come you didn't bring up "Misuse of jagex features" (Or whatever it was called) Back in the day if you were doing something you didn't think was against the rules and someone told you they reported you you could just report them right back for misuse of jagex features. It was the most childish thing and jagex eventually removed the button because EVERYONE was doing it haha.

[@---kr3zg]

I always thought when I was a kid that the random event npcs were bot detection and would always dismiss them because I would think I would get banned for ignoring them lol

[@jayhawk184]

5:17 thats my buddy in a nutshell he quit a better paying job, (not by much only $2) to go back to his old job where he had downtime to play OSRS

[@pulsefel9210]

after 24 hours the client says fuck no and disconnects hard, still does today. if you dont close and reopen the client at least once a day it will kick you even in the middle of a quest boss fight....

[@soranibrahim5334]

The reason jegax was against the AFK xp farming back in 2006 was because of how many players wanted to log on but were unable to due to how many bots were online I remember back in 2006 I had a 3 hour wait time to get into world 2 because there were so many bots online and it was basically like this for every world back in 2006 where you had a wait time before you were fully logged on, (they upgraded their servers from back then so it's not a issue anymore but back then thousands of actual players were unable to access the game until after the wait time was up, infact one time I had to wait 20 hours just to log on back in 2006-2007 bots basically owned the game and there was nothing us normal players were able to do about it besides complain to jegax.

[@soranibrahim5334]

Another interesting thing back in 2004 players were allowed to stay online for up to 14 hours (thus brought in bots which ruined the game but the bots never truly kicked off until the end of 2005)

[@XelnasTV]

Video idea Ban Smackdown history and best examples Super easy/simple video once you get the content but finding all the content and collecting it under one video would be SICK

[@ColonelloRS]

Sounds like a very fun idea, definitely adding it to my future videos list :)