Runescape opens up for the very first time publicly on Jan 4, 2001. The majority of Cyberwars players moved to Runescape. Proof can be found by clicking here.Ĭyberwars, a game Andrew created, closed. Player names were case sensitive at first. If you didn't move, you would be logged out and have to type random text to be allowed back in.ġ8. So if you were say, waiting with your general store screen menu open, you had to close it and take a step and reopen it in order to not be logged out every little bit. If you stood in one location for too long, it gave you a warning, saying that you needed to move or risk being logged out. You would see level 13s with rune 2hs.ġ7. They gave 5 attack experience and no hp experience. This was when you drunk wine down to level 8 or below and attacked dummies. This is a pretty cool quote: Largest War: Barbarian Village Debacle (Mithril Clan and RPKers versus EARTH Alliance, Syndicate Alliance, Dark Syndicate Alliance, NKKA Clan, and Sabres) this war filled up an entire server, almost 75% of the approximately 1200 users signed in were fighting this war. In the really early stages of RSC (before the wilderness), The Sabres had a huge influence. From the Internet Archive, search '' > 'runescape coming soon!' =)ġ5. Runescape Open Beta was released on Jan 12, 2001. Click here to see OOOOLD highscore stats (official).ġ4. Click here to see a picture of the RS highscores as of 2002, very old ^.^ġ3.

There was no buddy list at first, you used to have to type 'tell (enter name)' then type your message and it would send your message.ġ2. Beer could be drunk infinitely to raise your strength to level 99 which was promptly changed after word spread.ġ1. After Rune armor was integrated into the game (but no-one had it since no monsters dropped it or no-one could make it).ġ0. There was no Adamant armor in the beginning.

Al Karid (as it was originally called) was added a week or 2 after the game opened, before that it was just ocean.ĩ. This is not confirmed, so you can believe it or not.Ĩ. Click here to view the original 'planned' RS layout. When you died, you only lost your STAKED items and you spawned in Lumbridge.Ħ. You could (still can) duel/stake anyone anywhere. This was not in the game in the beginning. When your fatigue reached 100%, you had to go 'ingame sleep' until it lowered. You could only gain exp after killing the monster.Ĥ. Prayer did affected combat level but not as much as in RS2.ģ. The member version of the game was launched on February 27, 2002.Ģ. The following facts are from when RS1 was first opened to when RS2 was launched.ġ. When I didn't know as much about RS1 as I do now. News: Section about Runescape being bought removed. Runescape Classic is also called Runescape 1 (RS1). There are currently very few people tht are able to play RS1. Then, sometime in mid 2005, it was changed to 'you must had played RS1 within the last 6 months to be able to play it AND be a member'. RSC remained open to everybody (f2p and p2p) until Jagex changed it to p2p only. RuneScape Classic was the previous version of Runescape 2 (the game 99% of people play). Was famous because of her/his combat level mainly.ĭue to the controversy of famous pkers, various users will have to recommend a famous pker for a pker to be added. Ladykilljoy: First player to 99 strength.

Gearshifter: First player to level 123 combat. Never moved to RS2, that is when Zezima and Lilyuffie88 passed him in ranks.Įzarc: First player to reach 85 mining. First to 99 fishing and 99 cooking.īonebreaker6: Ranked #1 overall after Tks requested for her account to be locked. Tks: She was ranked number 1 overall for a very long time until she requested Jagex to lock her account for security reasons. The Old Nite: I don't think he was known as the mentioned above but he was known for his kindness and his levels.

Lilyuffie88: She was famous after achieving a high prayer level. Had a huge influence in early Runescape.īluerose13x: First to 99 Smithing, first/second to 99 Magic. Rab: Apart from being the first player to sign up and being one of the alpha testers, he created 4 quests, and moderated RS on the name 'Moderator' for a year. Names not in bold mean that player was first to a skill Names in bold mean that the player was also famous. wasn't very famous until she reached some high prayer lvl)

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