Random Events are too brutal

2004Scape
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I get that it’s a preservation server, but damn man those random events are too extreme / demotivating.

In a span of 1 hour, I first had a random event that killed me, costing me 2+ hours of buying out bronze arrows, and then just 30 mins later, I afked for a sec and came back to a clear inventory and cash stack gone.

Neither of these were prolonged periods of time, just have a newborn baby and can’t have eyes glued onto screen.

Otherwise, would be fun to play this and get some nostalgia.

RSC did some QoL updates with the RSC+ client. I hope this doesn’t completely stay strict to original rules.

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Yeah it is rough, but there is a reason that back in the day you were warned not to go afk at all and to log out if you needed to get up for any amount of time.

Do you have sound effects disabled? I am wondering how a random event killed you while buying arrows unless you had sounds disabled and didn’t notice.

I agree some client-side QoL stuff like in RSC+ would be welcome, but that’s not going to change the random events, and I do think random events should be left as they were for history’s sake.

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I play on a dev server without the afk auto-logout; it’s fun drifting off to a new tab for a while, randomly hearing an attack sound, and quickly scrambling to find what tab RS was at :stuck_out_tongue:

I still AFK occasionally, but haven’t died to a random in a while after training combat a bit to base 40s.

I’d like it to stay authentic.

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I recall so many time as a child dying in f2p from randoms… i think we can all remember how ruthless they were lol

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Time to get used to it. That’s the point in it dude, it’s brutal just like it was. I died twice to them losing all my progress with gp too, it’s part of it. I kinda smile inside knowing dying feels bad again.

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They were made to prevent AFK/Botting in the game they are extremely good for the game. Use that attention span buddy!

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Look on the bright side. Someone lost their Rune axe head when I was cutting Willows. Picked it up. My addy axe did the same. I got an upgrade.

RuneScape use to be brutal. That was part of the fun.

I can remember back when Pest Control was released occasionally a high level player with full DH would accidentally kill themselves with " Nitroglycerin" on the boat trying to lower their HP before the mini game.

When they died they would lose their DH helm. I recall it being like 3m GP when I snagged my first one.

I’m glad there’s a version of RuneScape that is just as ruthless as Rust or other sandbox games.

:slight_smile:

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yeah i was in bank, withdrew everything, looked at market tab, looked back was in lumby, lost 40 hrs of buying from shops