SPECS edition>What is 2004scape?2004scape is the live 2004 server of the Lost City project, a project aimed at recreating lost Runescape versions, down to the Runescript.Every cache revision that is available will slowly be recreated by the Lost City project, after every feature has been tested.The Lost City engine is the best engine to ever reach the private server scene.This server will have NO Quality Of Life features, and will exclusively be a recreation, not catering to playability.https://lostcity.rs/t/faq-what-is-lost-city/16>What day is it?May 18th has come and gone, now the Lost City project has gone up to June 28th 2004! Special attacks, Elemental Workshop, and more!All Free-to-Play and Members content of Runescape up to that day is available to play, at a normal 1x XP rate.https://2004.lostcity.rs/news/216>What content will be available?The Lost City project hopes to recreate a bunch of lost versions, and content will slowly update to match later revisions, and it will eventually launch 2005scape, etc. The current goal is to reach May 2nd 2006, with the eventual hope of recreating lost versions after that as well.https://2004.lostcity.rs/news/215>Linkshttps://2004.lostcity.rs/titlehttps://2004scape.orglast thread >1677521
>>1865993Fuck>>1677521
>>1865993Does this still require a Discord account?
>>1865993are you still not allowed to be rude to people without getting a ban
>will eventually launch 2005scapeThey'll keep 2004 around right?
>>1866413yeah there's going to be a world up for each year and a launch day world is coming sometime soon too. there's also the option of running any version locally
>>1866506You can have multiple forks of your character?
>>1866506>there's also the option of running any version locallyOnce I can practice the Fight Caves locally I might learn the mechanics so I can use my last OSRS bond and get my fire cape. Bonds were like 3M the last time I bought them, don't think I can grind 14M for another so I only have two weeks to make it happen and get my bank account down to a F2P size.
>>1866508that's the goal for the different years last i heard, pazaz made some backups of launch characters for when that's up. locally you can transfer your character from the live game over to your private server by exporting your .sav file and overwriting a blank local account
>>1866384You get muted. Never understood the guys who can't handle the bants and report you instead of just using ignore
>>1873529People who banter are obnoxious normalfags. I don't have any interest in sharing an online space with those people. Go hang with your bros in the real world and stop shitting up my internet. Simple as that.
>>1873615>wahh i can't handle banter that's for normalfags or something like that grow a pair
i NEED 2007
>>18761192005*
>>1865993too bad player count isnt what it was. dont know wtf to do since members released desu. my parents thought membership was a scam 20 years ago
>>1865993well it does have quality of life features because they made it playable on mobile, which is not authentic in the slightestbut whatever retard
come home white man...
>>1883132>login>25 people online>logoff
>>1883816>Muh playersWhat? You need more? 2004scape will have 20 players max by the end of the year.
>>1877032>dont know wtf to do since members released desudo quests. prep for future slayer (Fishing/cooking enough food). prep for future bosses. get your agility and herblore up (they are both extremely important).you can also rc some nats so you have a decent stockpile going into the future.
Threadly Reminder:Every single Mod is a tranny.The community lost their shit over a door.Inauthentic tick system.
>>1891938>The community lost their shit over a door.lmao, which door pissed them off? Door griefing is OG RuneScape.
>>1891969Aubury's mostly. Zoomies were crying so hard, that they had to patch out door closing for most buildings.
>>1892883I wish I'd been playing (not going to now because of the Discord signup). They should have made them suffer until whenever the authentic Jagex patch would have rolled out.
>>1866506So it has a "singleplayer" hosting like 2009Scape? As in available now or in the future?
>>1891969It was pretty insane. It was one guy made a door closing botnet. Bots on every world closing doors mostly at ess, when one got banned another bot was ready to take its place. Dude was making 100+ new accounts every 12 hours for 2 weeks straight just to bot doors. The registration and report systems were burning down so they implemented Discord signups.
>>1893902available now. you can download the source code and set up your own server
>>1895214It were, at most, 10-20 real people. Some even posted youtube videos of it.Trying to find a 2004scape shill that doesn't lie CHALLENGE: Impossible. Clearly.
>>1895739We've discussed the bot situation before and got stats from the mods. There were a few copycats, but there was one guy running door bots
>Shillscapegrosssssss....
Is there a guide for learning runescript and making custom content?
>>1899789https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScripthttps://github.com/RuneStar/cs2/blob/master/README.md
>>1899959Thanks, does this project have a map and model editor too?
>>1901781if i recall correctly from my days in working with private servers you can rip models from the cache and import models into blender some how to edit them.for a map editor i think any rsps map editor should work, you could try this one https://rune-server.org/threads/rspsi-map-editor-new-model-decoding-202.701330/
funny how quickly this server died off, after they stopped paying for advertisement bots
>>1902010what private server are you playing on that has 300-400 players on it? most of them have like 10
>>1902993Filter out the bots and it has, at most, 40~ real players left.
>>1896074It's my personal belief that the moderation team fabricated evidence to impose martial law and eradicate groups of people that they personally disliked.
No global chat?Dead game. For such a small population global chat is BIS.How boring is it slogging along without andrewsy asking stupid shit in global chat?
>>1912711>No global chat?trust me, you don't want to read what the trannys that play this game are saying.
It's over....
>>1921958this shit is so dead lmao
>>1912711Why a global chat? Can't you just wait for clan chats and pick some random dude's chat to all squat in?
>>1866506i think it's a good strategy and i believe if they can achieve an open standard for server-signed rsps save files, it would make rsps effectively immortal via web of trust. where server hosts could allow certain pubkeys imported because the origin is known to not be a "cheat" or sandbox server. maybe even a kind of server manifest system where they publish core mechanics like exp rate, that can be parsed and adjusted according to a shared config format>>1883824vscape could prolly support ~100 max before increasing the yell timeout, assuming most intend to grind and occasionally trade and banter. it couldn't handle 100 jewzys at the same time>>1895214>>1895739as someone who posted a short video after hearing about the door meme, i was legitimately surprised to learn someone else had actually taken the trouble to DoS an entire pess mine via door-closing bots. the service was legit griefed pretty hard, i think a canonical and attacker-controlled domain is still serving a windows driveby lol>>1912711yell is extremely useful. not implementing it and allowing chatbots may have been a strategic mistake. i don't see anything wrong with 2.25x exp, infinite run, global chat, dank mask, etc. it's just compensating for the increasing value of our time as we age to offer the most enjoyable runescape experience to adults
>>1891938>tranny modsand for that reason, im out
>>1934567filtered
Vscape has Lootshare, why should I play on this outdated server?
>>1936867>why should I play retro-retroscape instead of nu-retroscape?
>>1936872nu-retroscape is 2004scape btw. Vscape is 11 years old, while 2004scape isn't even an infant. Vscape also doesn't require trooncord to play.
>>19368742004scape is a FOSS RuneScape preservation project. Vscape is a goofball private server with little to no value for historical RuneScape preservation.
>>1936881your mom has little to no value for historical RuneScape preservation
>>1936901That's not true, she has some old hard drives that I'm eventually going to go through in search of old RuneScape files.
>>1936881okay *is the most authentic 2007 server in existence*YNBA2007RSPS
2004scape is already dead. no amount of bots will change that.
>>1937004>server owner dies>centralized server dies with himclosed source "preservation" projects are myopic
>>1937361who the fuck cares lmfao
>>1937522anyone who lived through Jagex's enshittification of RS2 and wants a hedge against their favorite private server going the same way
>>1937629Okay, so Lostcity had its enshittification within like the first couple of days of it's release. Meanwhile, Vscape has been around for 11 years and is still consistent.
>>1937637>Lostcity had its enshittification within like the first couple of days of it's releaseDoesn't matter, you can run your own de-shittified version because it's FOSS. The project persists beyond the current player server mod team.
>>1937651>you can run your own de-shittified version because it's FOSSLiterally who the fuck cares, unless you want to play a single player version where you run a bot farm. Every other server has zero players. The fact people choose to play on the eshitified version makes this point moot.
the sperging about "open-source" makes you look and sound like retards, stop.
>>1937695>Literally who the fuck caresSee my previous answer you myopic bing-bing-wahoo zoomer smoothbrain.
>>1937721Retard so mad that I'm right he's trying to discard my point LOLFact: FOSS for MMO private servers is detrimental towards and main server.Fact: Closed source benefits servers like Vscape who won't fracture players.Fact: People would rather spend their time on servers that have staying power (like Vscape)Fact: 2004scape is ran by troons, has inauthenticies despite priding on muh perfect authenticity.
>>1937727I'm telling you there's a hole in the roof while you're insisting the weather is nice.
>>1937695>Every other server has zero players.lost city has 5-10x vscape's playerbase though
>>1937844everytime i log on and try to talk to the "players", they somehow never reply. i wonder why that is, hmmmm.
>>1937844It's because of the chan culture, and mods there don't give a flying fuck for advertising unlike 2004troonscape
>>1937917Phonefags, afkers, and multitaskers aren't very conversational in any RuneScape variant.
>>1937935Vscape and any other server has those as well and the majority still responds.Stop the cope and accept that 04scape has a clear bot problem. These numbers are a lie and you're a fool.
>>1937995>the majority still respondsbetas who have nothing going outside of your closed-source cult
>>1937999says the simp for the tranny game LOL
>>1938027I'm not a /v/irgin simp for the tranny mod private server, but a /g/entleman in support of the broader open-source preservation project. There is a hole in your roof.
>>1937917>everytime i log on and try to talk to the "players", they somehow never reply. purely disingenuous bold-faced lies, surely you feel at least a *little* silly while you are typing blantantly false statements into this website? it's ok you can admit it
>>1938094I know that tranny cock is very delicious to you guys, but holy shit the amount of mental gymnastics and lying you have to do, to defend this insignificant server is just insane.Please consider your life choices.
I can tolerate updates catered to mobile users, runelite plugins for clues, players being banned for having harmless fun with uptight grinders, etc. But as soon as the owner turned the game into a gacha slot machine for discontinued rares, I put my foot down. I don't like being forced to log on every weekend to grind my life away because the admins are desperate to regain a fraction players that they have lost. Pickles would never do that. Pickles would give every player a rare, a slice of pizza, and a handshake to thank them for enjoying his project. Vscape may be small, but at least it has tegrity.
>>1938425> calls you out on lying> n-no!!! Y-YOU'RE lying! also T-TRANNIES!!!really though, who do you think you're going to fool by making these kinds of wild assertions? yourself and the 15 other guys playing vscape? everyone reading can see how mindbroken you are, desperately grasping at straws...
>>1939219cope cope cope tranny cock in your mouth cope cope.
>>1939356How many times per day do you imagine tranny cock in peoples mouths? :S
>admins have troons>like clockwork, they ban people they dont likehard pass
troonscape
it was cool meeting all of you guys in seers. best time i've ever had in rs in years
>>1937651>The project persists beyond the current player server mod team.the project persists as long as the repo remains up (easily could be deleted by disgruntled admins or via C&D from jamflex)>but muh forks and other copiesyeah those will get lost too over timesaying something is preserved for all time because it has a public code repository hosted by a corporation is so retarded lmao
>>1937844That number was 40-50x just a few weeks ago btw
nothing more pathetic than gloating about a bot infested server. i guess you learned that straight from fagex.
WHEN YOU SAY HAM YOU SAY:
>>1941319HAM
>>1941319Sigmund was right.
>>1941676no he wasnt
>>1944940The aboveground goblins in Lumbridge are murderous invaders who killed Lozar and others just two weeks before the player talks to the Guildmaster in Dragon Slayer (2001scape). It's completely asinine that the Duke hasn't already mobilized against them and instead turns to goblin apologetics in 2005scape when the Dorgeshuun show up.
>>1940110Redundancy adds resiliency. >saying something is preserved for all time because it has a public code repositoryIt has higher odds of being preserved for a longer time with distributed archival.
>>1937995i often go out of my way to say a simple "hi" to my fellow vscapers, unless it's some faggot camping the rocks>>1945108don't look at me, i think it's great that 04scape is OSS. i'm not a game dev so it's interesting to see how they do it
>>1866374No, they did away with all of that.
>>1937727why is "inauthenticity" an argument when both servers have them?you're either dealing with castrated men needing discord to easily ban any unwanted entities or a small group of gatekeeping disgusting choco-skinned mongoloids. i hate how both need to share in having obsessed cretins that are enabled in part thanks to the servers' speech policies.
>>1938759because "rares" are okay as long as you get one, but if everyone was given one, it wouldn't make them "rare"the least that was of interest is that there seemed to be some way of acknowledgement how trying to implement "rares" is trying to please two groups whose standards diametrically oppose each other.i assume the "if you play enough you should get one anyway" thing was meant to be a solution to this but it's still pretty strange.
>>1947872My main gripe is that there is no reason for this to be a drawn-out event that requires an unhealthy amount of grinding for a chance at a tradeable holiday item. It should have been more in line with how bunny ears were introduced, with a chance for players to receive a rare simply by logging on. The only reason that I can see for handling it this way is to drive player engagement and boost your playercount. It's transparently opportunistic, and inconsiderate of people who don't have free weekends, or actively limit their computer time. If a developer cares more about their playercount than the players enjoyment of the game, then I am out. I don't have any patience for that bullshit.
>>1948316>requires an unhealthy amount of grindingit's RuneScape
>>1948316You don't have to grind, a bunch of people got the rare just by bank standing. You literally just have to be logged in and there's a chance the item spawns into your inventory whenever
tfw mined 5000 p essthat's 5000 rolls on this p server for a rarewheres my rare lmaoThats Five Thousand rolls already
>>1948622Same thing. You have to be on your computer/laptop/phone/tablet, waiting for something to happen. Again, the only reason for this to be a drawn-out event that requires you to stay logged on for a multitude of hours each weekend is to boost the playercount. It purely benefits the ownership, at the players detriment.
>>1948316the keywords you might be looking at are>holiday itemand>rarei personally don't understand why and how holiday items became "rares" outside of gower handing them out to randoms and ceasing to do so after a while which drove up all the demand and pricing to whatever it's at. perhaps calling them rares originated from this, but today they're being treated as "rares" instead of "holiday items handed out in a completely backwards manner contrary to what they're called", and from there we end up with this fiasco.i and you, probably, could then argue the solution should be to correct the flaw that somehow caused the "holiday item = rare" equation to emerge, and just give them out to everyone without limiting their supply.but then you're running into the greater cope of "authenticity", where mistakes need to be repeated for the sake of appealing to.. ..who, exactly?i've also seen people refer to this specific case as both "holiday items" and "rares" which isn't compatible without ever acknowledging this on the forums for the server itself.the solution then became to hand out technically as many, but only as many as you'd somehow be able to obtain by logging in and afk'ing. curious how many are secretly multi-logging just to have more of any of them, because again - it's okay for something to technically be "rare" as long as the addicts can get so many that they cease to be, but only for them.>>1948567yeah, it's "Run Escape", the game where 99% of the content is solo until you get to quests with forced player engagement and bosses the only difficulty of which is lies in raw damage and supply drain that are consequently much easier in groups.but don't talk about mining, especially not runite, or how the rest of combat encounters are hard-on against genuine team work that isn't 5 people gobbling sharks while standing still, lmao
They did rares wrong.I waited all week for this weekend just to do a few quests instead of during the week and got no rares, meaning i couldve played beforehand when they werent rolling for rares.why do i gotta wait til the weekend just to do some simple ass shitam i even playing this game right?Why do i feel like i should wait til the weekends?
