Yeah I was wondering where that went 
Do you know why that was removed?
That sounds notable but I havenât heard anything about this; do you have any more details or why? Would it be easy to see on old legit RS screenshots vs 2004Scape without the sprite (like looking at the stream in lumbridge)?
A person interested in having something even resembling your technical know-how and impact to this project would likely need to ultimately devote their own 6k hours into the scene.. But what about the first 100 hours? How is that best spent?
With the experience and knowledge you have now, what would you suggest a lowly 2-commit chump start doing now and for the next weeks/months to begin his journey to Jordan-dom?
Do you have your own private copy of your work where you add your own custom content and ideas? I would imagine a lot of ideas for how to shape the world and what features to put in it pop into your head while working on a project like this. If so itâd also be really interesting to hear about some of them. 
I really wish it were that easy to spend 100 hours so there can be more knowledgeable people in the space with proper technical skill set.
Before officially joining the project, I have probably over 100,000 hours alone in programming just in general, and most of that was spent around RuneScape private servers since 2012. It was basically all I cared about doing when growing up through my teens and early adulthood. I also do software engineering for work in my real life career right now at a company in the USA.
Thereâs nothing exactly special about me or anything, all it takes is the work, time and energy to constantly grow your knowledge. Whenever people are raving on YouTube videos people ability to create compilers, their own programming languages, emulating cpuâs and old game systems, it really doesnât become that big of a deal once youâre at the end game. You already have a general sense of how things work on a real small technical level, the language you use and such almost becomes irrelevant.
The first steps I took to learn back in 2012, I watched a youtuber by the name âTheNewBostonâ and watch his Java series multiple times, just copying what he did whether I understood it or not. It was very difficult for me to get into programming at first. And my parents did not understand what it is I was doing and did not support me at all, even to this day, they donât understand the world runs on software. I used to write code down on paper in the middle of class trying to make calculators and stuff from memory. We used to have a computer class where my teacher allowed us to do anything we wanted, some people did photoshopping, some did shirt printing, some did spray painting, and I did programming.
To be honest, I donât have a good answer for you. Either be a genius or put 100k hours into programming and pretend to be a genius. RuneScape private servers have always been a great way for me to learn and try new things out to expand my own skills. You just need to find something youâre passionate about and take it by the reigns. Only like a handful of people actually have the skills and knowledge to create a server from absolutely nothing, and even smaller number willing to try new technologies and ideas. One day I will die, and so will everyone else, and the knowledge that comes with it. But I will say if you are able to achieve this and able to make your own game server, you essentially gain the ability to create basically anything in the world.
Iâve considered the idea of mentoring, however this, weâre talking years of mentoring, and there is big risk when the person you are mentoring decide they donât want to continue this anymore.
Yes this is my GitHub profile here:
I have made some additional repos on my profile just testing the waters with some new technologies that I was working on and wondering if I should implement on 2004Scape.
This is my fork of the old server repo which has over 350 branches of different things I was working on and PRing:
Thereâs some cool stuff in there, nothing really notable like I was wondering if I should completely rewrite the RuneScript runtime on the engine to Rust to see if improvement to performance and speed would be better:
There will always be works and ideas made that never make it to the final product. In like a weird modern way, programming is like a work of art.
I, too, started with TheNewBostonâs Java tutorials, but for me the inspiration was developing my own Minecraft plugins because one of the ones I was using had been abandoned.
Those tutorials, for how mediocre they were, had quite a broad reach for people. Goes to show that you donât have to be perfect to have an impact. Sometimes what matters is getting something out there at all.
Considering how integral you were in getting the server to its current point, itâs a huge blow no longer having you as part of the team. I hope you still plan on being a presence in the community. Your YouTube channel was initially how I heard about this project last year.
I wanted as many people as possible to know about this and to join in on playing it. So I just did what any delusional person would do, and post about it everywhere I could. I still spend a good chunk of time replying to people on YouTube comments and engaging on discussions and arguments in chats, to push this further and further⌠The big content creators have helped me considerably. Iâm glad you were able to be reached.
This is my account progress so far, mostly grinding for clues:
