First time playing OSRS. I spent 4 hours to go from bronze defender to dragon defender. ~2.000 tokens.

So I genuinely cannot beleive this happened and I need to know if I'm the crazy one here.

Yesterday I'm afking sand crabs. I find a spot where this dude is basically just standing there doing nothing for long enough that I assume he's gone, so I take over the spot. Dude gets pissed that I "crashed" him.

Okay whatever. People take my sand crab spots all the time. It's annoying for approximately 15 seconds and then I hop worlds or whatever.

Except this dude DOES NOT MOVE ON.

I hop. He follows me.

I hop again. He follows me again.

I keep hopping because at this point I'm just baffled and confused and partly thinking "there's no way he's actually going to keep doing this."

HE KEEPS DOING IT.

I swear to god this guy with his clan (later I realize it was 5 alts of his) followed me through like 8-10 worlds just to stand at my sand crabs and mess with me.

And he's telling me it's about the "principle of the matter." Brother.

THE PRINCIPLE OF WHAT???

I eventually leave and go do farm runs and other shit because I'm not spending my evening participating in a territorial dispute over SAND CRABS......

I figure thats the end of it. Nope.

Like 12 HOURS LATER, I am playing again and this mf finds me AGAIN.

At this point other random people are standing there watching us argue and I'm explaining that this guy literally followed me across a bunch of worlds yesterday.

I say something along the lines of "people take over my spot all the time, I don't crash out like you."

And the dude responds: "I'm not crashing out, I'm just standing up for the principle of the matter."

And then I find out this guy apparently has like 5 maxed / extremely high level accounts and I realize he's the same dude behind another character I had seen. So this isn't even some random noob who got emotionally attached to his first sand crab spot. It's an experience mf who has seen plenty of things.

I cannot emphasize enough how blown my mind is.

I have been crashed before. I've crashed people before, intentionally or accidently. But then either I or tehy move on. Yes it's annoying when people do it to me but it happens.

EDIT: Removed swearing because children are here.

EDIT 2: I was being a degenerate at like 3am afking sand crabs while starting my new ironman. All this happens. Ends after I do my farm runs.

It is 4PM the next day and that's when the second encounter happens. And tbh I'm waiting for round 3 at this point. I'd be so dissapointed if he doesn't.

EDIT 3: 6:40 PST - DUDE IS STILL FOLLOWING ME 16 HOURS AFTER THE FACT u/Krazy4Kush can attest to this he was there with me just now.

EDIT 4: 7:20 PST - Oh boy the other side's perspective is finally out. Totally cool, we both agree I "crashed" I say I did it inadvertently, but at that point it was too late and I dug my heels in. I've said my peace, he's said his.

EDIT 5: I'm going to be the bigger person, whoever is spam blasting his post that it needs moderator approval stop it. He said his side of the story, I want it public because it proves my point. He's not faking. His one comment about my weapon of choice for sand crabs was way too specific for it to be a random person trolling.

EDIT 6: We cool now, stop trolling the guy if you see this. All just a game! Go back to touching grass folks.

Proof of reconciliation - u/ludicous is the bigger man here - https://imgur.com/a/making-peace-W3lmAPz

Gm Scapers, not sure if some of you are familiar with "The Old Nite", but if you weren't present with us over 20 years ago in our lovely game I'll do my best to share this with you. The Old Nite was the second player to max in RuneScape history trailing behind Zezima himself. Sadly, in 2006, The Old Nite had a period where he stopped gaining any xp on the hiscores due to being in hospital for cancer treatment. He sadly passed away from his illness that same year. Jagex added this statue in level 14 Wilderness to honor his in game achievements and memorialize his passing. Whenever I pass it in game I always take a bow on my way to my slayer tasks.

I wanted to make this post to remind players today about how he was revered member in the community for being a genuinely kind player, sharing advice with other players and would spend time chatting to those who passed him in game. I love playing this game and sharing in the culture with other players and have never quit since making my first account 23 years ago. I recall specifically looking Zezima's and The Old Nite's stats online as a child and being amazed with their progress. I don't know if The Old Nite would still be a prolific member of the community if he lived on to be with us here today, but I just wanted to take a moment to show him respect by posting this message and maybe to remind all of us to take a moment and stop to be grateful that we have such a great community and game to adventure in all these years later.

I am just a humble player of 23 years who loves skilling and chasing xp, and with how much significance this game has had on me I still look up fondly to the prolific players of RuneScape from my formative years. Cheers to The Old Nite.

Edit: his statue is in the realm of memories but I've always attributed this statue to him 😆 respect is still given to one of the legends either way. Point is I bet he or his family would think it would be nice if we took a moment out of our days to think of him.

Also, while we are at it. Why do random NPCs get new hairstyles and our character do not?

That is all.

Edit: I seen someone mentions group CA's I hate those as well.

Well, I guess I owe everyone another update lol.

Last week, I posted the full origin story of how Socks and Co started when we had around 120 employees and 750K socks. You guys absolutely blew that post up and two days later we somehow managed to cross 1M socks!

Then things got even better! Our 1M sock milestone ended up getting reposted by the official OSRS team, meaning someone at Jagex looked at our company, our respirators, and our unreasonable number of socks and decided the public needed to know about it. W.

Since then, Socks and co has continued to grow at a rate we didn't expect. We are now over 220 employees worldwide, with people from every inhabitable continent on Earth banding together around the barrel. Now our company reserves have officially crossed 1.5M socks!

Yesterday, we had our third corporate party to celebrate finishing phase 2 and officially kick off phase 3. Seeing everyone together at the same time made me realize that the number I care about most isn't the number of socks. It's the number of people!

A few weeks ago, I got a smelly sock from a random dude at the GE and started collecting a few. There was no plan. I wasn't trying to start a clan. I wasn't trying to build a community. I definitely wasn't planning on managing more than 200 employees lol. I just wanted more socks.

But somewhere along the way, it stopped being about how many socks we could collect. I started logging in excited to see who was at the barrel. I recognize each and every one of our employees. I've watched strangers become friends. I've watched people take new employees under their wing and teach them how everything works. People have stepped up to recruit, train, manage, organize things and help keep the operation going. There were also people who don't care about any of that and just come and hang out at the barrel because they enjoy being there.

That's probably the best thing that's come out of all of this. The socks started as a joke. The respirators started as a joke. Half our company policies all started as jokes but, the community that formed around all of it is very real!

At one point this stopped being a small sock project and became our company and that's what I'm proud of the most. I really don't know what Socks and co is going to look like a few weeks or months from now. Every time I think I have an idea of how big this can get, this community proves me wrong.

What I do know is that we are not slowing down. We're already more than halfway from 1M to 2M, new people are still showing up to work each day and somehow there are now more than 220 people who can say they have worked for an osrs sock company.

I also just want to say thank you again to everyone here who has followed along with this. A ton of people found us because of the first post, and seeing how many of you came to W301 to find the barrel, meet everyone or even join the company has been incredible. Also, a huge thank you to the OSRS team for sharing our 1M milestone. Seeing us on the official accounts was something none of us ever expected!

The last few weeks have been one of the most fun experiences I've had playing this game and that's all thanks to the people who decided to come along for the ride. So we aren't planning on stopping, each day we continue to grow, we'll keep having our corporate parties, we'll keep issuing respirators, we'll keep providing career opportunities to our fellow Gielinorians and of course we're going to keep collecting socks.

We've got a long way to go, but at this point I've learned not to underestimate what this group is capable of. If you stop by on W301, feel free to stop by and say hi. There's a pretty good chance somebody will be at the barrel.

We provide the finest quality socks in all of Gielinor.

We are a major liquidity provider in the sock market.

We do AI sock stuff.

and as always.. OUR INVESTORS LOVE US!

- Mike from Socks and Co

Edit: added links to the other posts

Jagex should add a Runecrafting content in the Wilderness which will give 400k xp/hr, that would definitely make the Wilderness way hotter than ever. Here is an image that would demonstrate how the Wilderness would look like if the community approved. Please don't disappoint me as this image took me 11 hours to make.

Hello, I am Flor and i have been playing this game as off may in 2022. After 4 long years i have finally achieved my ultimate goal which was to get a Infernal Cape. I know this is not a insane achievement nowadays but for me it was. I have my 3 big goals completed now which was to get a Infernal, Quiver, and a solo fang kit which i all have right now. Anyways i hope i didn't make to many English spelling mistakes since its not my mother language lol.

Edit: I followed a lot of the guide’s from Gnomemonkey i am a huge fan of his content definitely recommend checking out his video’s if you wanna start the inferno.

Girlfriend painted this watercolour of the gemstone crab for my birthday card. Love it

Saw some of the Castle Wars event from the PvP Bootcamp earlier and was reminded how much I used to like playing it back in the day. I just hopped in a game and all I can think is WTF? 90% of the people are AFK, and of the few people actually doing anything two of them were working together with the other team to intentionally tie the game and kept calling anyone actually trying to play the game cringe. Like??

Is this really the state of Castle Wars these days?

Am I doing something wrong? I kill all moons, and still nothing. Am i just very unlucky? Should I just give up?

I feel like death fees and death mechanics are all over the place. It feels like there's 1500 different rules regarding death consequences both in and outside of PvP, the wilderness, and in PvE. Then there's the distinction between main and iron deaths. Also, those poor souls that double death... Shouldn't this stuff just go to death's coffee?

My suggestion is to standardise deaths across the game. Chest deaths = 50k. Raid deaths = 100k. Tombstone deaths = 0-250k gp.

Not only will this be more consistent, it will be less of a disincentive to push your limits by lowering the death fee costs.

Wildy. I am unsure how they should standadise this, but I feel like trouver parchments should just be voided at this point, all untradables kept on death (but they break to be repaired in POH or Perdu), and maybe even do away with the high risk world entirely.

We need more silly “pets” to go with Numpty Bumpty and the Mayor of Catherby and look how cute that little guy is