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Re:Play Runescape Classic Again by eddsh1994 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:18PM (#34702746)
Honestly I come back every 2 years for about a month and then realize I'm spending hours cutting virtual trees and leave again. But for that month... man it's so much fun & nostalgic!
Re:Play Runescape Classic Again by insanitybit on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:43PM (#34702973)
99 wc crew
Re:Play Runescape Classic Again by TrapLord_Rhodo on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:44PM (#34702989)
I always come back to runescape every couple years and the things i do in game speaks volumes to my mindset.

Back when i first started playing I never really did much of anything really... explored around, tried quests and never thought of looking up a guide, talked to alot of people standing in the bank, played alot of minigames etc. etc.

Years go by and I come back and i was hooked on efficiency. What wierd methods were there for getting insane xp per hour like sitting in lunar island, cannoning the trolls, while woodcutting the trees and high alching the logs.

skip to my early 20's when i first started programming for my day job and i would come home and write runescape bots for all sorts of stuff. One of my favorites that i wrote would have around 20 bots with gmauls sit in multi-wildy and hive mind spec poor souls who walked by.

I haven't touched RS in years, but funnily enough last weekend I found out the OS buddy and the runescape Wiki post grand exchange data. Was spending some time learning rust and decided to build a grand exchange analysis tool that looked across a number of factors (Volume, stability, beta) to determine the best items to flip.

Don't really want to post it on github cause it'd probably fuck with the economy but if anyones interested, hit me up at [email protected]

Re:Play Runescape Classic Again by eddsh1994 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:20PM (#34703271)
You could put it as a SaaS API or behind a paywall as a web app - you genuinely could get paying users and wouldn’t have to break the economy while you do it!
Re:Play Runescape Classic Again by donutmonger on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:38PM (#34703817)
No idea how many people are paying for it, but there is https://www.ge-tracker.com/ for $2/month. I did the free trial a while back, but it was more fun to write a similar app that just uses data from the OSRS Wiki API (https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:Real-time_Price...).
Re:Play Runescape Classic Again by komali2 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:44PM (#34703430)
Idk if this will break the economy, the WoW auction house survived auctioneer being available as early as vanilla.
Re:Play Runescape Classic Again by wswope on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:14PM (#34704050)
What sorta gp/hr are you making while flipping with your tool?
Re:Play Runescape Classic Again by TrapLord_Rhodo on Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:02PM (#34764449)
You can usually make around 8-10% a flip but doesn't scale very well past around 750M. Also, i never wrote an actual bot to make the trades.