RuneScape’s Dumbest Rules. AFKing Could Get You Banned! (OSRS)
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RuneScape's Rules didn't always make the most sense. Today we explore some of the strangest rules that Jagex created for RuneScape and OSRS!
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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
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
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"
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Tbf about the afkness, you should also have been scared that a chicken would ags gmaul you, then everyone could take your stuff.
"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
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.
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.
@@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.
"It's probably the only reason that half of you can tolerate your job."
I felt this on a spiritual level.
Anti-AFK rule was in place when server space and calculations were a lot more limited and expensive so it made more sense then
Use to take so long just to get into the world you wanted.
Yh i remember thatXD@@shanehunt4661
also when mods actually went around banning people manually and bots would just deactivate themselves when a mod showed up...
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.
@@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.
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.
honestly with some of the decisions jagex makes sometimes it feels like runescape got popular in spite of itself
"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.
Man I'm getting flashbacks. Upstairs in one of the slum houses behind the Varrock East bank was my go to spot
@@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).
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.
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
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.
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.
I completely forgot about attacking randoms I remember the start of 07 some guy died to a plant with 80m😂
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.
@@ColonelloRS what bank has a npc u can splash that won’t kill u 😂
@@cceproductions8435 Gnome Stronghold comes to mind
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.
Did that but in NMZ back in the day making bank off of the reward shop. 😉
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
@@jasebas9941 what do you mean by back in the day?
@@Real_extra_1 Bro NMZ is 10 years old this year
U can still do it for 6 hours which is solid
if andy gower had his way the game would of never been popular lmao
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.
Lost a guthix helm in lumby back in like 04 crazy to think I played this game since I was 6 years old
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.
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.
just gotta put a weight down on one of the arrow keys and you're set
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.
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.
no you still have to click something
"Jamflex can't do anything right, WOW!".
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
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
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)
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.
Ah a man of culture, nice to see
I was doing the "log in on the same tic" method, personally.
Or worse, drop transfer in an innocuous spot.
@@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
I love pictures and videos from early runescape 2, keep up the content year 2005-2007, best era of runescape
Thank you, will do!
Honestly, even the 5 minute logout is absurdly outdated... Most online MMOs are around the 30-minute mark.
Gotta love when devs try to ruin their own success.
Imagine having to do quests without just following a blue arrow like it's tutorial island.
Bring back the evil chicken random event and make OSRS always 1% dangerous 😎
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
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!
for me it was on the second floor of the arrow store in Varrock
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.
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.
"Colon Mule," sounds like a drug smuggling tactic.
Used to work 12 hours come home to my full Guthans and some juicy exp :)
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.
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.
Classic rule 8. The era of drop trading. Technically your accounts didn't interact with each other and weren't logged at the same time.
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
8:22 “unless your an ultimate Ironman who loves punishment” 😂 broke me
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?”
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.
"D.A.R.E. program fighting against Advil" is genuinely an amazing metaphor I hope I find the chance to use in casual conversation.
"Colon Mule" Hey! Thats how they mule in real life too!
beware of organized gangstalking, emf broadcast, remote neural monitoring; justice for targeted individuals!
holy shit "The DARE program going to war against ADVIL" got me so good
Clash of clans just paid all of the osrs content creators rent
I like how pretty much all of your RS history videos nowadays have some RSC footage :)
If the Wiki wasn't a thing I wouldn't have come back to OSRS.
I thought I was the only one that used inspect element to delete the ads. 🤣
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.
7:44 The amount of proxy accounts I made just to get safety question gold 👌🏽
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.
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.
I had over 90 magic in just 2 days lol
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
Before runescape wiki it was RUNEHQ or lunagang 😂😂
"Probably the only reason half of you can tolerate your jobs"
That hit home hard lol
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.
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!
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.
I used to go around arguing with people for using multiple accounts lool
Players today will never know how hard RuneScape was back in the original days, Classic will always be my favorite. I still play today RuneScape til this day and have been since 2004.
I cringed every time you said "Tip Dot It" lol it was just called Tip It back then haha
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...
5:50 you're ALMOST right.
Back in
Is there a way to see all these old 3D renders? I love them!
Yup! Here’s a Reddit post that has all of them: www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/3mpz3p/some_forgotten_ancient_20012003_runescape_assets/
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
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.
Having to define the abbreviation AFK in 2023 is painful. Like to the point I nearly broke my keyboard, so I'd technically always be AFK.
I NEVER AFK train, instead I active train. I will always click again immediately after catching a fish, chopping a log, etc. Its the way we were apparently supposed to play after all lmao
I think there was a limit of 5 logged in per IP on rs2 We used to play RS LANs
omg the nostalgia when u mentioned swift switch
Clash of clans??? I ain't seen a sponsorship for that since like high school! Didn't know it still existed dayum!
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..
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”
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.
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
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.
1:29 is the most nostalgic shit ever
I lived in fear of the afk rule when I was a kid lol
The moment you mentioned afk not being allowed reminded me to go afk something
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
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).
imagine ur at school and then the first kid to get to the computer would be bale to play osrs,what an experience lmao
What bothers me more is that Jagex doesn't even enforce like half their rules. If you aren't going to enforce your rules, then don't even have them.
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.
"Afk training is how most of you can stand you jobs."
Me, at my job, watching this video and afk fishing.....
Those ads were kind of illegal. Promoting gambling for kids and then being outright scams. Fits to Jagex tho.
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
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.
Imagine making air b staves before they had an animation and get banned outta nowhere
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
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
You know what would make players not want to afk? Having skilling not take 5,000 hours.
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
Sounds like a very fun idea, definitely adding it to my future videos list :)
I remember going in a random area and dropping everything for my alts lol.
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 😢
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
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.
because of that no AFKing rule, I still wont AFK on any of my accounts
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?
I feel that the afk rule was implemented to please their advertisers. I remember when i played RS back in the day they had ads for the f2p players.
I remember getting 99 combat stats at NMZ with guthans lol. Back when the guthans spear was like 15mil lol. Good times
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