If you’re referring to May 2006, that is the current end, before they need to change to a new system. This would not include capes of accomplishment. And those would arguably be the very first update to promote efficiencyscape. Construction and Hunter would also not be included here.
But yes, all in all, I believe early 2006 is about as complete as the game can get without it beginning to deteriorate and lose its original feel.
Ah, yes, that is a very different game then compared to skillcapes, Hunter and Construction, and I agree that’s when “efficiencyscape” really took off for the average player. I’m not so sure it’d be such a game-changing update today on 2004scape as it was back then, but I am by no means sad it won’t reach that point. Construction and especially Hunter both took the game in a new direction and, now that I think of it, to me drew the line between the “real” old school Runescape and the new one.
Luckily the game as of early/mid 2006 will be so complete and full of things to do that we’ll be set for as long as we play🙌🏽
There is no true “cutoff” but it starts to take much longer when data is missing or unusable 
OSRS has more archived data available, but OSRS is not canon RS2
Oh, and the complexity to deobfuscate and decompile goes up quite a bit. Porting it to run in a browser is another time sink. It continues to grow in effort :')
Does this mean that updates will continue past the revision 377 that’s currently listed last in the Roadmap newspost? Or is that time so far in the future that it makes no sense to speculate about?
I just stopped listing at 377 since the time complexity is linear until then - have to make new tools in a few areas. Server engine stays mostly the same after that, just need new data tools and improving my deobfuscation tool. The client gets +50 additional classes to reverse engineer and port immediately (RS3 has +1200 for perspective)
Interestingly, we know Jagex has at least 1 backup of late 2006 and a couple in 2007, they just had to pick August 2007 because it was the easiest to work with. If we did stop at May 2006 we wouldn’t be stepping on their toes, so to speak. But that’s just an observation - the game must be preserved regardless.
Yes, what I meant to say (from my understanding) is they recently got over a “hump” with that new game update system which you can find in the 29-Jun-2025 news, and that there won’t be another one of these to contend with until the revision taking place in later May 2006. How the “main server revisions” are planned to be divided up by the years remains to be seen, but it does indicate that May 2006 could serve well as one of those cut off points for a particular era.
It could go to 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 in the long run. But nobody is forced to go through that all over again (excuse my PTSD), of course.
Aye some revisions and years will ultimately be less popular and maybe even have only a few players. Free trade removal v2…
Don’t forget - This project was created and exists for the sole reason to recreate and preserve permanently, the live servers and players enjoying is a benefit but not a requirement
I have been here for years and would still be doing this exact thing (it’s my hobby!) if I didn’t hit the launch button on Feb 1, along with every other git contributor. Probably less headaches and stress. But it’s given a lot of people a chance to experience history and make sure the work lasts beyond us 
Are we really going to do the free trade removal? Make 76ing in the wilds again.
Yes indeed, and I won’t lie, I can enjoy parts of that era in the same way I’d enjoy a bag of cheesies. I used to be an absolute menace for the entirety of summer 2009, terrorizing 76king clans around the homes of Falador Dwarven Mines in my signature Proselyte + Dragon Claws combo. I’d maybe play it for laughs, but nothing serious.
Vscape has been around since 2014, so there’s precedent for the server staying up. But unlike vscape, this one has legit xp and drop rates and isn’t a 4chan echo chamber so it has a serious shot at making jagex sweat by showing that there is demand for “starting over” that requires the community to be divided. Jagex meta for the last 7 years has been to ban any discussion on this to keep it from growing. Notice how we can’t even post about our server in 2007scape reddit yet we get 100k views on youtube videos. It’s a lot like Ron Paul; people clearly want him and would opt for him given the chance, but the masses are intentionally prevented from learning about it.