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No, it is not true that 90% of RSC players botted, this is absolutely false. This was a rare event back then which is why the picture taker, Fook a Ji, kept this pic and showed it off.Ĭheaters have always been around. Here you have a picture of a clan pk, specifically Brotherhood of Steel, an old Russian clan from Runescape Classic. Clans were also fairly small, a 30-member clan would already be considered large. Very large groups like 20+ almost never pked, they would only be found during clan wars. The most common would be solo pkers while there were many pairs and groups of 3. The pk community valued soloing or solo kills rather than group kills. You might wonder if people would just pk with huge groups 24/7 then but this is actually not the case. Only one person at a time could attack with melee but if you had a group, all of you could attack the same player with range and magic at the same time, provided the wilderness level allowed it.
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The entire wilderness was multicombat for range and magic. well just imagine what it would be like to die with armor worth as much as everything in your bank. It was very possible to get a kill worth 1m or more. Kills were very exciting then because of the value of the items players dropped when they died. Since they were not sold in shops, rune was very valuable. While dragon was a rare drop or a quest item, rune items had to be player smithed. They could also survive being hit a lot since they had more hp than other chars.ĭuring RSC, the armor was rune (and dragon in p2p).
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This meant they could hit higher and more often than other pkers their own combat level. Of course, with their 1 def, they would be hit a lot but since they had higher hp than other types of pkers, they had much higher str and att. With these stats, the PB could pk cheaply, without risking losing any valuable items and yet get a lot of kills. This is a pure pker type with 1 defense and 13 magic (so that he could protect item). There was even a special kind of character, called a Prayer Beast (PB).
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Yes, 1-iteming was also a problem in RSC. Then they would make a pure which no magic but high melee stats and a lower combat level. This also led to the creation of what are called "mains" and "pures" since people like to have magic (it's always been good for doing skills) on their main character, typically a high level char. Sometimes the pure chars would also have low defense for their combat level. These were characters that had high strength, attack and hp for their combat level but low magic. Players would therefore make "pure" characters. It's hard to believe now, but back then magic was considered weak by many, especially in f2p. When RS had more servers, players could now avoid combat simply by running away,logging out of that server and then logging onto another server. This led to some pkers just waiting at that spot for the character to log back in. Apart from the basics of the old RSC pk system, there are also some other things that are of note.Īt first Rs only had one server so even if a character logged out to avoid combat, they would eventually have to log back in at the exact same spot.