@@pimdewitte7031 I remember it was so big at a point where people were saying things like "fight me in soulsplit." as they were too low level to even consider pking in osrs, and whenever someone had a screenshot of lots of rares or valuables everyone would assume it was taken in soulsplit. I sort of miss those days, I loved it while it was around and for some reason assumed it was forced to shut down back then when I eventually couldn't find it anymore.
bro yes played soulsplit 2 so much i had the kree ara boss as my pet after killing it like 5,000 times and using the bonecrusher thing on it, just rememberd my account was the 1x or 10x xp rate that gave you the untradeable longsword as a weapon
No you do learn how to program by writing code... That is how it works. How do you think you learn how to ride a bike? By actually riding the bike you silly goose...
Literally this, the best way to learn how to program is not by taking classes but by the drive to make something and figuring out how you make the thing you wanna build.
You need to learn and know control flow, methods, datatypes, programming paradigms like OOP, etc if you want to actually make something good and not just copy and paste.
True statement, you can learn coding by yourself it is a skill noweone else can teach you. Schools learn you the basics but learning to program is gained by expierience in coding.
Watching this is reminding me of how weird the transition phase of runscape was from when EoC was added and other combat changes to create what is now current Runscape. So much stuff was constantly changing between 2007 to 2012, it was litterally a completely different game entirely from the two versions we now have today. I wouldn't personally want to play it but I can see why some people would create a 2010-11 private server.
This was a really inspiring video! I am currently a second year Electrical engineering major (an incredibly broad subject area) who has a lot of programming experience, and this made me realize that I should really focus on honing in on one specific type of thing and become good at it in my prime instead of trying to be the best at everything. Keep up the great videos.
Soulsplit was so good, the tiers of difficulty, the daily rewards. I was one of the richest in that game an loved every second of it, was maxed on the hardest difficulty and would flip barrows items.( no g.e) in soulsplit.
4:30 "How do you learn to code by coding? It doesn't work that way" But it kinda does tho... It's like learning a language. You learn to read by reading, you learn to write by writing and you learn to speak by speaking. Sure it's not that simple and there's a lot of trial and error involved, but that's the bottom line
Exactly, okay I doubt he went from “Hello World” straight into writing a fully fledged server, however diving into your projects is the best and only real way to learn how to program, you can watch as many tutorials and read as many books as you want but until you actually sit down and work through your first problem you’ll never get anywhere
You need to learn and know control flow, methods, datatypes, programming paradigms like OOP, etc if you want to actually make something good and not just copy and paste.
I loved playing soul split... had hundreds of millions of GP, logged in one day and I was cleaned :/ definitely was one of the best private servers out there. Rip you legend
I’ll be answering questions on and off throughout the weekend here and on twitter: twitter.com/pimdewitte - it’s pretty late here so might not get to a ton of them tonight, but will answer a lot more tomorrow.
Hahaah held, dankjewel voor het interview met crumb. Veel van geleerd voor mijn persoonlijke leven enzo. Heel veel succes met medal, ik ga zeker even checken man!
Pim de Witte Hey man, would love to have a talk with you if I can. I’m going to college for networking and administration and security. I would love to talk to you about my future.
damn this brings so much memories, i still remember to this day playing soulsplit when there was 2k players on it. played the game for couple years, one of the best servers that there was at that time, hands down. i wish private server would be such popular now as they used to be
I WORKED FOR THIS GUY!!! I'm not even kidding! During RS3, SoulSplit was getting so much traffic because it was "old school". I genuinely have no idea what made them grow so much, but what I do know is they got an office in my city. I applied there to do customer support. In the interview they gave me the assignment to write a letter in English. I can't remember what it was about, but it was something along the lines of rejecting something that a user asked. The other last thing I remember is that they gave me a couple pictures of RuneScape items. I remember dragon boots, whip and 2 other items, one of which I don't remember what it was and the other was I THINK one of the spirit shields? It was a real chill company to work at and everyone was real nice, but I left after a very short while due to not being able to commit enough to college Edit: I even got an email from 2014 about applying for the job, as well as the job description and how much you'd get paid hourly. imgur.com/a/ufk81jY It's in Dutch and I don't want to translate all of this, but if you want to; Google is available.
Was a huge pker on soulsplit back in the day, talked to PIM back then and can say he’s a very humble guy, he and his staff worked their ass off on that server, it was great while it lasted
I remember soulsplit so well. I was a staff member in his team (just a lowly moderator) and it was an incredible experience. I have some screenshots from that time, like getting a refund for someone hijacking my staff account (with credits worth over $600 USD equivalent to the items I lost)
I discovered a dupe on this server, video recorded it and sold it online on a black market runescape website for hundreds of dollars to a few individuals back then which eventually led to a reset of the server. The video is private at the moment but if enough people are interested in seeing it, I can make it public.
Crumb, myself and my friend created a privet server when we was 14. It was so simple back in the day and we learned coding by making mistakes. And then running it, I had my laptop on within my bedroom 24/7 keeping the server live.
I played soulsplit for years, Loved it! I even interviewed Pim back in the day myself. It is uploaded on this channel. I made many good friends over soulsplit, even met a few in real life from it. Still in contact with them today! Thanks for the memories Pim, And thanks for the upload Crumb!
The best private server ever made since 2008 was BattleScape ran by palidino, it was lagg free, the economy was similar to runescape pre 2008, and was ran 24/7 with 1000-2000 players online at the time everyday. I tried soulsplit ofcourse, logged out after 10 seconds
Holy fucking shit. I used to be 'Super Admin' of Sousplit back in the day (Username was 'Umadpro').. recognised Pim's face in the thumbnail straight away man jeeeeeez
This guy is my far away cousin believe it or not... my grandma and grandpa were together at one point when both our parents were born... lost touch with him after age 15/16... He used to be a great laugh and a killer hockey player (and no not the ice hockey variant)
Having been on the staff team of a fairly popular runescape private server way back before SoulSplit, I can say that its not always just a business venture, a lot of people start it because they want to learn more about it, then keep it going because of the relationships built. I have been friends with the people I met there for over 10 years now. Bonds I wouldn't get rid of for any amount of money, fellow staff members and normal players of said private server alike.
6:40 I have exactly the same problem now im 27 years old. i use to run private servers for 2moons, silkroad and minecraft. i was on benefits (im slightly autistic) so no one really cared, and i love to learn so the way i looked at it was more skills = you get a better job. never really looked at jobs tho scared of the unknown i gess. Now 3 months ago when i really started looking for a job cos i wanted to move on in life, no one wants to hire someone without knowing if someone can work at a workplace they all want at least 2~3 years of work experience. and are not willing to gamble on it. now 2 months ago i got Really lucky i found a place just starting up with some really nice people that wanted to take a gamble and also train me and help me really get the basics done and all that stuff. So I really got lucky! and from here the future's looking bright.
I remener playing Alotic which was a 2010 style server ran by the soulsplit team. If this server still existed,i wouldn't even play OSRS. Maxing was actually hard and felt rewarding.
I remember getting put into a Skype chat with pim and a few others and spoke to him a few times. Never really spoke to many people online so says alot to say he's one of the few I did speak with.. He was a sound chap👍
"How do you learn to code by coding, it doesn't work that way" I know this video is old but I can tell from 15 years of experience that it very much does work that way!
2:00 haha that’s me. Hands down best job I’ve ever had working at Soulsplit. Very nice video, brings back some good old memories. Hope all is going well Pim!
Ff heel eerlijk, weet je hoe professioneel jullie dit hadden aangepakt op die leeftijd? Hele nieuws updates en community events, was echt super om mee te mogen maken!
Speaking from someone who ran a private server and made $2,000 a month with only 15-30 active users, you actually do learn by coding. When you download these private server sources, the original base model for YOUR unique server, it has most of the code laid out for you. Inside a folder there will be more folders, and inside those folders will be files and everything is pretty self explanatory. Say you want to change the price of an item, you find the .txt document in the folder titled "prices" and find the item number and it will have the code laid out already, and you just edit the price to what you want. Obviously, to create a successful server, you want to know a lot more than just that, but just reviewing files and folders will help you a lot to get better at coding. Also runeserver and other boards are very helpful for situational coding, say you want to add weapons or whatever, you can find posts by other people that help you out, it's a great community. I do like how he notes that private servers teach sloppy coding, which is exactly the case. Since you're learning from other people who most likely learned from others, and others, the proper methods are often times lost and you end up with bad code, which will still run, but not as well as it could and sometimes this is how glitches form.
There's so much truth to this. I just recently graduated college while working full time in tech. I learned almost nothing from my cyber degree, mainly just how to write good papers. Some of the top employee's in my environment never went to college. A college degree simply raises your salary ceiling, it doesn't actually mean you know your stuff.
I imagine that SoulSplit (and perhaps other successful private servers) are the reason that Jagex decided to take a chance with OSRS in the first place.
4:33 It's funny cuz I'm here going to school for software design right now, and that answer made total sense to me. I first learned how to program by opening up a private server that I tried to make as soon as I could so people would play. I learned how to code by literally taking an existing line of code and.... messing with it until it either broke or I got some new result. Within days I was making if statements, spawning objects, changing drop tables, coding my own commands... I learned to code... by coding XD
By the way, it literally DOES work that way. You learn to code by coding. You learn to ride a bicycle by hopping on a bicycle, same for walking, reading, and everything you do. Trial and error through experience can teach you more than any teacher can, and just hearing you say that shows how much you have to learn. You look at the programming language and you start by making 1 small change in an area you are familiar with (like in game commands). Then, you figure out WHY that change made an effect on the game, eventually after some time of looking at the same code over and over again, you begin to understand it. once you start to understand, you see that their is a structure to it, kind of like writing a paragraph, and that paragraph is inside a larger structure, now you're looking at a whole book. when you understand the structure, you can start making larger changes until eventually you are writing your own code into the game, changing it and creating your own version.
I know his purpose was to let people know to work on themselves and the future but I wanted an interview from this man in particular so that I could learn something about him his interest in private servers and what it takes to run one properly and successfully this interview did none of those things I have so much respect for both you and himBut he did us a bit of a dis-service
I learned so much through coding private servers in the 8 or so years that I did it. It really sucks that the whole scene became about money. From hosting with donations to actually selling code and models, ect. It really turned me away from the whole aspect because I was only in it to learn and have fun. Of course I did both of those, and I eventually hosted one of the very first most popular servers that was passed down to me by [one of] the man himself that actually helped sign and launched the first webclient. I remember back when winterlove came out, being able to stably run a server with 50-75 people was a huge feat lol. You had to practically monitor your server 24/7 because 1 wrong packet would send it into a crash, causing huge memory leaks that could sometimes freeze your computer so bad, you would have to restart it. I remember programming a file to force close the server upon (most) server crashes and relaunch it so I could just sleep at night, but even it wasn't perfect. Wish I could go back to the time where playing a private server meant opening up the moparscape client and not having to download a specific client and cache every server you wanted to play but those times are long gone, now.
SoulSplit/2 was the best RSPS. I had multiple accounts and my main that i stuck out was on Legend difficulty. Such a good and well done game. I had an extreme but Legend had a better dopamine hit.
@pim Hey Pim, I must say soulsplit was a great experience, it was on par with the original Near Reality which both where ahead of anything else that rivaled them. Do you ever get the itch to reboot soulsplit or start a completely fresh rsps from scratch? Thanks again for the great memories!
yeah I definitely miss the community so the itch is always there but it's the right thing not to do it - both to Jagex and myself. Now that I create things that are actually our own, I can't imagine what jagex must have felt like with so many people cloning their games. I don't think I could do that again.
@@pimdewitte7031 I was part of the original team that found the dupe in dungeoneering in SoulSplit, was fun having an unlimited bank back in the day! Do you remember Tubus? I miss that guy!
That's cool about him though. I enjoyed soul split but I was addicted to insanity.... Or whatever it was called way back then. Spent a ton of money on it lol but it's good to hear Sanity is going to go there and work with them. Interesting video Crumb. Enjoyed it a lot
great video crumb! Really eye opening and inspiring content.I'm about to graduate summa cum lade with a degree in mathematics and in not really sure what to do with it. =b
I used to play the server a lot however his profile on linkedin is ridiculous "At 14 years old, I started the largest legal RuneScape Private Server in history with 3M accounts and $1M+ annual revenue." He does realize that Jagexs permission is necessary for it to be "legal", putting a clause that it's for educational purposes only makes it legal if you're making no money from it.
Soul split was one of my favorite servers. Such a good player base and I had all the rares when my friend who was an admin quit and gave me everything lmao.
I wouldn't recommend college as a graduate. If there is a trade your interested in than I would recommend that, but the most important thing to keep in mind. Is to follow things through. You can't just start a degree for one thing and then start another after giving up on the other. Really if you want stability the most important thing is getting experience and knowing how things work. College isn't everything and makes you waste a lot of time on impractical subjects (general education requirements), but it also helps you pick up some new things as well.
i was maxed on a legendary account with full battlemage when it got shut down. Was pretty sad when it was closed but have moved on. Thanks for a great server and a great experience after the outbreak of EOC hit.
As someone who myself learned programming by coding runescape private servers... Yes. You can indeed learn those skills. Not saying you just go at a blank canvas with no help. You start by working around with already established private servers, learning what you need to host them on your own and for other people to connect, then slowly changing code to suit what you need. Watching UA-cam and looking up guides or taking code snippets is a BIG part of this. PS I was like 10 or 11 when I was doing this. Moparscape ftw. ::Item 995 2000000000 was so cool for 10 year old me to do, but to an adults eye, seeing me setup a server on my own would have probably been jaw dropping.
theevilben666 more like some people decided to launch a fake server, dub it soul play, and pretend to be us. None of the actual Soulsplit team have ever, or are working there. They're all at medal.tv
@@pimdewitte7031 loved your server when i was younger, made some great memories there. also great to see you doing well and also bringing the old team along with you. i hope nothing but the best for medal.tv :D
Hey Pim! Idk if you're still checking out comments & answering questions, but my question is do you still play osrs/rs3? Did you play on any other private server besides your own while running SS?
There was a text on soulsplit when you logged in which said you'd get $100 if you found a way to dupe and reported it. I found a way and he just told me to not dupe and then ip banned me when i kept doing it. I want my $100 man
Run this at 1,25 speed, you're welcome
Thank you
Doin 1.5 lmao
2x*
ffs just watched the entire video then saw this
I did not, nor do I intend to thank you for something. Your "you're welcome" statement is invalid and arrogant.
soulsplit was awesome. i remember playing it with friends at school all the time since the real rs was blocked
wayge awe thanks man!
@@pimdewitte7031 I remember it was so big at a point where people were saying things like "fight me in soulsplit." as they were too low level to even consider pking in osrs, and whenever someone had a screenshot of lots of rares or valuables everyone would assume it was taken in soulsplit. I sort of miss those days, I loved it while it was around and for some reason assumed it was forced to shut down back then when I eventually couldn't find it anymore.
Pim de Witte I wish he would of gone into, or maybe make a video himself about people trying to get into coding.
bro yes played soulsplit 2 so much i had the kree ara boss as my pet after killing it like 5,000 times and using the bonecrusher thing on it, just rememberd my account was the 1x or 10x xp rate that gave you the untradeable longsword as a weapon
I used to be admin on SoulSplit in 2013.
Yo this video is more then a runescape video. Its really good for the business mind
Exactly. I don't or have never played RuneScape but this video has shown me a lot
I love that he was able to re employ all of his previous soulsplit employees, he seems like a good dude.
Get Jed if you can some how
I would love to, but I don't think he's that foolish haha.
That would be absolutely amazing
Didn't he flee to Argentina? kappa
That dude was such a beta
Gary Host probably not possible, he used people’s personal information. Even though it was through a game, that’s still a criminal offence.
No you do learn how to program by writing code... That is how it works. How do you think you learn how to ride a bike? By actually riding the bike you silly goose...
Literally this, the best way to learn how to program is not by taking classes but by the drive to make something and figuring out how you make the thing you wanna build.
Looks like i'm the abnormality. I always wanted to code and run private servers as well. But never managed to learn how to code
You need to learn and know control flow, methods, datatypes, programming paradigms like OOP, etc if you want to actually make something good and not just copy and paste.
its easy, its just having $ to make it grow.
True statement, you can learn coding by yourself it is a skill noweone else can teach you.
Schools learn you the basics but learning to program is gained by expierience in coding.
Watching this is reminding me of how weird the transition phase of runscape was from when EoC was added and other combat changes to create what is now current Runscape. So much stuff was constantly changing between 2007 to 2012, it was litterally a completely different game entirely from the two versions we now have today. I wouldn't personally want to play it but I can see why some people would create a 2010-11 private server.
This was a really inspiring video! I am currently a second year Electrical engineering major (an incredibly broad subject area) who has a lot of programming experience, and this made me realize that I should really focus on honing in on one specific type of thing and become good at it in my prime instead of trying to be the best at everything. Keep up the great videos.
Soulsplit was so good, the tiers of difficulty, the daily rewards. I was one of the richest in that game an loved every second of it, was maxed on the hardest difficulty and would flip barrows items.( no g.e) in soulsplit.
shit reminded me of the good old days lol
This was nice. He was really saying focus on the long term, not just the short term gain from ripping off an existing game 👍🏾
killler240 the biggest, most common business mistake that people make is overvalue the short term vs the long term
Man how I miss when you made an extreme account and got the sir Owens :(
nothing like that feeling ever again
4:30 "How do you learn to code by coding? It doesn't work that way"
But it kinda does tho... It's like learning a language. You learn to read by reading, you learn to write by writing and you learn to speak by speaking. Sure it's not that simple and there's a lot of trial and error involved, but that's the bottom line
Saved me typin it out babe
exactly what i was thinking lol, dumb crumb xD
Exactly, okay I doubt he went from “Hello World” straight into writing a fully fledged server, however diving into your projects is the best and only real way to learn how to program, you can watch as many tutorials and read as many books as you want but until you actually sit down and work through your first problem you’ll never get anywhere
he just rewrote using code snipped from rune-server.org, just 99.9% of all other servers. @@justgame5508
You need to learn and know control flow, methods, datatypes, programming paradigms like OOP, etc if you want to actually make something good and not just copy and paste.
I loved playing soul split... had hundreds of millions of GP, logged in one day and I was cleaned :/ definitely was one of the best private servers out there. Rip you legend
i loved it to i had over 200B one day i loghed in to nothing
+polak mg I turned a pair of d claws into 50b in an hour or so then lost it on one stake good memories lol
Anyone remember queen puff? Or (extreme)ly hairy vag? That was me. 2 maxed extremes. And had plenty of bills. With the baby black drag pet. :p
Coming back all these years later… man I still remember soulsplit… soul spawn was my favorite iteration 😞
I’ll be answering questions on and off throughout the weekend here and on twitter: twitter.com/pimdewitte - it’s pretty late here so might not get to a ton of them tonight, but will answer a lot more tomorrow.
Sws nederlander, lekker man!
Hahaah held, dankjewel voor het interview met crumb. Veel van geleerd voor mijn persoonlijke leven enzo. Heel veel succes met medal, ik ga zeker even checken man!
Pim de Witte Hey man, would love to have a talk with you if I can. I’m going to college for networking and administration and security. I would love to talk to you about my future.
Pim de Witte aka Pim the Witty
Meaty 1212 dm me on twitter and I’ll reply
damn this brings so much memories, i still remember to this day playing soulsplit when there was 2k players on it. played the game for couple years, one of the best servers that there was at that time, hands down. i wish private server would be such popular now as they used to be
remember queen puff? Or (extreme)ly hairy vag? That was me. 2 maxed extremes. And had plenty of bills. With the baby black drag pet. :p
I WORKED FOR THIS GUY!!!
I'm not even kidding! During RS3, SoulSplit was getting so much traffic because it was "old school". I genuinely have no idea what made them grow so much, but what I do know is they got an office in my city. I applied there to do customer support.
In the interview they gave me the assignment to write a letter in English. I can't remember what it was about, but it was something along the lines of rejecting something that a user asked. The other last thing I remember is that they gave me a couple pictures of RuneScape items. I remember dragon boots, whip and 2 other items, one of which I don't remember what it was and the other was I THINK one of the spirit shields?
It was a real chill company to work at and everyone was real nice, but I left after a very short while due to not being able to commit enough to college
Edit: I even got an email from 2014 about applying for the job, as well as the job description and how much you'd get paid hourly. imgur.com/a/ufk81jY
It's in Dutch and I don't want to translate all of this, but if you want to; Google is available.
Was a huge pker on soulsplit back in the day, talked to PIM back then and can say he’s a very humble guy, he and his staff worked their ass off on that server, it was great while it lasted
you should interview Palidino, from the server Battle-scape. Hes been running this server for legit 10+ years
I used to love Battle-scape but the dude killed off his own playerbase multiple times. I really miss the old days of that server.
I miss that server so much its still up but i used to play the fuck out of that through alot of eco resets
That server was so fun the 317 was the best
Battlescaple isles was probably my favorite
Yeah bro he had real pure clans on there, best server ever made. Clans pulling 50+ multiple clans
I remember soulsplit so well. I was a staff member in his team (just a lowly moderator) and it was an incredible experience. I have some screenshots from that time, like getting a refund for someone hijacking my staff account (with credits worth over $600 USD equivalent to the items I lost)
i loved SoulSplit, Pim was a god in my eyes back in the days.
He was like the dad we never had
I discovered a dupe on this server, video recorded it and sold it online on a black market runescape website for hundreds of dollars to a few individuals back then which eventually led to a reset of the server. The video is private at the moment but if enough people are interested in seeing it, I can make it public.
Post it, the servers no longer open but it’d be intriguing to see how something like that worked
please show it.
show
Only one dupe? I abused many dupes back then lmao
DO IT
Crumb, myself and my friend created a privet server when we was 14. It was so simple back in the day and we learned coding by making mistakes. And then running it, I had my laptop on within my bedroom 24/7 keeping the server live.
oh man, those videos advertising the first private server are so mid 2000's with that music, so nostalgic, it was a simpler time back then
Crazy Interview. So rich in Valuable life Lessons. This guy is a gamechanger. Champion Mindset
Nikesnipe thanks man!
@@pimdewitte7031 Do you still play Runescape today?
@@ObsidianSoul1 doubt he's got the time
@@pimdewitte7031 wos the best private server ever that still gets talked about to this day
This server was amazing on release and it just kept getting better. Thanks for letting folks have fun during a really shity time of RuneScape.
Damn I had no idea soul split had gotten that big at one point, when I played it it was still new
interesting interview 30% knowledge which is common sense, 70% advertisement .....don't tell them I said it
Anyone else get the Dreamscape RSPS advert while watching this? Lol
dreamscape is shit
I played soulsplit for years, Loved it! I even interviewed Pim back in the day myself. It is uploaded on this channel. I made many good friends over soulsplit, even met a few in real life from it. Still in contact with them today!
Thanks for the memories Pim, And thanks for the upload Crumb!
It's crazy - i watched this back and like... most of it actually came true.
@@pimdewitte7031 Good times
this has pefectly made my day and just set a future for me
Amazing, Really interesting guy! Great to see how successful you can be when you follow what you are passionate about.
He is very smart and I have to respect him for this marketing move. This is great publicity for him and his project
The best private server ever made since 2008 was BattleScape ran by palidino, it was lagg free, the economy was similar to runescape pre 2008, and was ran 24/7 with 1000-2000 players online at the time everyday. I tried soulsplit ofcourse, logged out after 10 seconds
Yo that was the best.
It was better then runescape
Soulsplit was actually a great server, crazy how much irl money the owner earned. Someday I will make something like that, wish me luck guys.
Pim gets it. I think too many people are blinded by ego and cookie cutter society to be an entrepreneur. We need more people like Pim.
Sercey tyvm :-)
Holy fucking shit. I used to be 'Super Admin' of Sousplit back in the day (Username was 'Umadpro').. recognised Pim's face in the thumbnail straight away man jeeeeeez
Good to have you back.
Thanks pal
This guy is my far away cousin believe it or not... my grandma and grandpa were together at one point when both our parents were born... lost touch with him after age 15/16... He used to be a great laugh and a killer hockey player (and no not the ice hockey variant)
I tried to google it, but I've never heard of hockey that wasn't ice hockey :o
@@Crumb its a Dutch thing. Look up NMHC Nijmegen, used to be our club, also maaad love for the content u make big up
Having been on the staff team of a fairly popular runescape private server way back before SoulSplit, I can say that its not always just a business venture, a lot of people start it because they want to learn more about it, then keep it going because of the relationships built. I have been friends with the people I met there for over 10 years now. Bonds I wouldn't get rid of for any amount of money, fellow staff members and normal players of said private server alike.
Frugooscape was my favorite RSPS of all time
I honestly enjoyed playing SS
yo pims 100% right about rsps helping your ability to code, that's where I started and now I'm a full time web dev.
Clearly a very sharp guy. Great video
Great server. I was there since 2012-era. I was staff until the shut down in 2015.
6:40 I have exactly the same problem now im 27 years old. i use to run private servers for 2moons, silkroad and minecraft. i was on benefits (im slightly autistic)
so no one really cared, and i love to learn so the way i looked at it was more skills = you get a better job. never really looked at jobs tho scared of the unknown i gess.
Now 3 months ago when i really started looking for a job cos i wanted to move on in life, no one wants to hire someone without knowing if someone can work at a workplace
they all want at least 2~3 years of work experience. and are not willing to gamble on it.
now 2 months ago i got Really lucky i found a place just starting up with some really nice people that wanted to take a gamble and also train me and help me
really get the basics done and all that stuff. So I really got lucky! and from here the future's looking bright.
Marfnl congratulations mate if you ever look for another job send me a message!
@@pimdewitte7031 mr.pim
Holy shit this is so much nostalgia. I learned to hybrid on SS
Mannn yes
great to see another video from you :) I was afraid you were discouraged after all of your accounts got banned. Keep it up!
I remener playing Alotic which was a 2010 style server ran by the soulsplit team. If this server still existed,i wouldn't even play OSRS. Maxing was actually hard and felt rewarding.
I had a maxed Extreme account on this server. It was great and I miss it.
I remember getting put into a Skype chat with pim and a few others and spoke to him a few times. Never really spoke to many people online so says alot to say he's one of the few I did speak with.. He was a sound chap👍
"How do you learn to code by coding, it doesn't work that way" I know this video is old but I can tell from 15 years of experience that it very much does work that way!
played soulsplit since i was a kid back than was the best rsps out there, got into thanks to my friend.
2:00 haha that’s me. Hands down best job I’ve ever had working at Soulsplit. Very nice video, brings back some good old memories. Hope all is going well Pim!
Bart Soulsplit Bart we zijn atm een community manager aan 't hiren in Amsterdam. Whatsapp me?
zeker deze job niet afslaan :) en @pim de witte komt er ooit nog een soulsplit ?
Ff heel eerlijk, weet je hoe professioneel jullie dit hadden aangepakt op die leeftijd? Hele nieuws updates en community events, was echt super om mee te mogen maken!
Tour de soulsplit, jezus dat is lang geleden hahaha
"Pimdewiddy"
I love English people pronouncing Dutch names.
(Pim duh wit-tuh would be more correct, with the w sounding more like a v than the English version.)
Speaking from someone who ran a private server and made $2,000 a month with only 15-30 active users, you actually do learn by coding. When you download these private server sources, the original base model for YOUR unique server, it has most of the code laid out for you. Inside a folder there will be more folders, and inside those folders will be files and everything is pretty self explanatory. Say you want to change the price of an item, you find the .txt document in the folder titled "prices" and find the item number and it will have the code laid out already, and you just edit the price to what you want. Obviously, to create a successful server, you want to know a lot more than just that, but just reviewing files and folders will help you a lot to get better at coding. Also runeserver and other boards are very helpful for situational coding, say you want to add weapons or whatever, you can find posts by other people that help you out, it's a great community. I do like how he notes that private servers teach sloppy coding, which is exactly the case. Since you're learning from other people who most likely learned from others, and others, the proper methods are often times lost and you end up with bad code, which will still run, but not as well as it could and sometimes this is how glitches form.
Great to have you back Crumb!
There's so much truth to this. I just recently graduated college while working full time in tech. I learned almost nothing from my cyber degree, mainly just how to write good papers. Some of the top employee's in my environment never went to college. A college degree simply raises your salary ceiling, it doesn't actually mean you know your stuff.
And now his new company, medal, is huge 😮
I imagine that SoulSplit (and perhaps other successful private servers) are the reason that Jagex decided to take a chance with OSRS in the first place.
Dude this information is golden, thank you!
I absolutely loved this game, had a maxed extreme mode account with so many good memories!
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Me too man. I stuck with my maxed legend account. Such good times
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It's funny cuz I'm here going to school for software design right now, and that answer made total sense to me. I first learned how to program by opening up a private server that I tried to make as soon as I could so people would play. I learned how to code by literally taking an existing line of code and.... messing with it until it either broke or I got some new result. Within days I was making if statements, spawning objects, changing drop tables, coding my own commands... I learned to code... by coding XD
By the way, it literally DOES work that way. You learn to code by coding. You learn to ride a bicycle by hopping on a bicycle, same for walking, reading, and everything you do. Trial and error through experience can teach you more than any teacher can, and just hearing you say that shows how much you have to learn.
You look at the programming language and you start by making 1 small change in an area you are familiar with (like in game commands). Then, you figure out WHY that change made an effect on the game, eventually after some time of looking at the same code over and over again, you begin to understand it. once you start to understand, you see that their is a structure to it, kind of like writing a paragraph, and that paragraph is inside a larger structure, now you're looking at a whole book. when you understand the structure, you can start making larger changes until eventually you are writing your own code into the game, changing it and creating your own version.
Awesome interview!
Thanks pal, keep pumping those pk videos out!
I got a private server ad on this video.. Wow
I know his purpose was to let people know to work on themselves and the future but I wanted an interview from this man in particular so that I could learn something about him his interest in private servers and what it takes to run one properly and successfully this interview did none of those things I have so much respect for both you and himBut he did us a bit of a dis-service
I played this and have the best clips ever! Was such a good game
I learned so much through coding private servers in the 8 or so years that I did it. It really sucks that the whole scene became about money. From hosting with donations to actually selling code and models, ect.
It really turned me away from the whole aspect because I was only in it to learn and have fun. Of course I did both of those, and I eventually hosted one of the very first most popular servers that was passed down to me by [one of] the man himself that actually helped sign and launched the first webclient.
I remember back when winterlove came out, being able to stably run a server with 50-75 people was a huge feat lol. You had to practically monitor your server 24/7 because 1 wrong packet would send it into a crash, causing huge memory leaks that could sometimes freeze your computer so bad, you would have to restart it.
I remember programming a file to force close the server upon (most) server crashes and relaunch it so I could just sleep at night, but even it wasn't perfect.
Wish I could go back to the time where playing a private server meant opening up the moparscape client and not having to download a specific client and cache every server you wanted to play but those times are long gone, now.
SoulSplit/2 was the best RSPS. I had multiple accounts and my main that i stuck out was on Legend difficulty. Such a good and well done game. I had an extreme but Legend had a better dopamine hit.
@pim Hey Pim, I must say soulsplit was a great experience, it was on par with the original Near Reality which both where ahead of anything else that rivaled them. Do you ever get the itch to reboot soulsplit or start a completely fresh rsps from scratch? Thanks again for the great memories!
yeah I definitely miss the community so the itch is always there but it's the right thing not to do it - both to Jagex and myself. Now that I create things that are actually our own, I can't imagine what jagex must have felt like with so many people cloning their games. I don't think I could do that again.
@@pimdewitte7031 I was part of the original team that found the dupe in dungeoneering in SoulSplit, was fun having an unlimited bank back in the day! Do you remember Tubus? I miss that guy!
soulsplit was so mutch fun it was definetly the best
I genuinly miss that server.. Used to be rank 2 overall.. - My04 STi
Remember queen puff? Or (extreme)ly hairy vag? That was me. 2 maxed extremes. And had plenty of bills. With the baby black drag pet. :p
Soulsplit was an amazing server. I miss it. And btw some of his advice is actually insanely good.
remember queen puff? Or (extreme)ly hairy vag? That was me. 2 maxed extremes. And had plenty of bills. With the baby black drag pet. :p
That's cool about him though. I enjoyed soul split but I was addicted to insanity.... Or whatever it was called way back then. Spent a ton of money on it lol but it's good to hear Sanity is going to go there and work with them. Interesting video Crumb. Enjoyed it a lot
@Crumb Thank you for the great content, this was a very insightful video.
Man, I remember Soulsplit and Pim too
He wasn't a bad guy, but people liked to talk smack about him all the time.
Gaming Damage lol that never changed haha
Hey crumb one of the few well written and well thought videos, subbed
Keep up the great work 👍
Yay Crumb is back
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pim was a beast of an owner a very helpful owner was always nice i loved soulsplit
Medal.tv actually seems like a handy tool for osrs. Smart idea i may as well download
Austin Beyak Thx :-)
great video crumb! Really eye opening and inspiring content.I'm about to graduate summa cum lade with a degree in mathematics and in not really sure what to do with it. =b
This video was super inspirational. This is how I learn too. Perhaps I'll try this platform?
Wait soulsplit became medaltv? Thats crazy never knew.
I used to play on his server. So if he reads this big thanks for server was nice getting away from eco
Mew Gaming thank you!
I used to play the server a lot however his profile on linkedin is ridiculous "At 14 years old, I started the largest legal RuneScape Private Server in history with 3M accounts and $1M+ annual revenue." He does realize that Jagexs permission is necessary for it to be "legal", putting a clause that it's for educational purposes only makes it legal if you're making no money from it.
Soul split was one of my favorite servers. Such a good player base and I had all the rares when my friend who was an admin quit and gave me everything lmao.
Remember queen puff? Or (extreme)ly hairy vag? That was me. 2 maxed extremes. And had plenty of bills. With the baby black drag pet. :p
I wouldn't recommend college as a graduate. If there is a trade your interested in than I would recommend that, but the most important thing to keep in mind. Is to follow things through. You can't just start a degree for one thing and then start another after giving up on the other.
Really if you want stability the most important thing is getting experience and knowing how things work. College isn't everything and makes you waste a lot of time on impractical subjects (general education requirements), but it also helps you pick up some new things as well.
i was maxed on a legendary account with full battlemage when it got shut down. Was pretty sad when it was closed but have moved on. Thanks for a great server and a great experience after the outbreak of EOC hit.
RIP to this game, I remember having a huge following in that game... big staker back in the day
Man I used to snap hard as fuck on soulsplit while grinding RS
Cookie range & Relentless were my accounts. Lowkey miss it
I mean this was fine, but a bit disappointing that essentially no insight about private servers was actually gained.
Think you missed the point Troy
this is insanely accurate as owner of a private server of 10 years..
Pim is an absolute legend.
As someone who myself learned programming by coding runescape private servers... Yes. You can indeed learn those skills. Not saying you just go at a blank canvas with no help. You start by working around with already established private servers, learning what you need to host them on your own and for other people to connect, then slowly changing code to suit what you need. Watching UA-cam and looking up guides or taking code snippets is a BIG part of this. PS I was like 10 or 11 when I was doing this. Moparscape ftw. ::Item 995 2000000000 was so cool for 10 year old me to do, but to an adults eye, seeing me setup a server on my own would have probably been jaw dropping.
Also, soulplay has re-launched without pim, but the original team now goes by Alotic, soulplay's 3rd server
theevilben666 more like some people decided to launch a fake server, dub it soul play, and pretend to be us. None of the actual Soulsplit team have ever, or are working there. They're all at medal.tv
@@pimdewitte7031 loved your server when i was younger, made some great memories there. also great to see you doing well and also bringing the old team along with you. i hope nothing but the best for medal.tv :D
@@justin4774 thanks :-)
Jagex started to sue private servers in 2010 so. Like Dodian too.
Dude. I use to play the shit outta Dodian. I was an admin. Remember llamadudeeee? Or yogamana?
I used to play so much Soulsplit lol.
Hey Pim! Idk if you're still checking out comments & answering questions, but my question is do you still play osrs/rs3? Did you play on any other private server besides your own while running SS?
Quinn The Bear I don't play anymore. Have been thinking of getting back into it though.
There was a text on soulsplit when you logged in which said you'd get $100 if you found a way to dupe and reported it. I found a way and he just told me to not dupe and then ip banned me when i kept doing it. I want my $100 man