WARNING:VERY LONG STORY
Living in small town Nebraska as a 12 year old boy has it's benefits, but I missed living in the big city. Leaving my friends behind was difficult, but I was a good-looking, athletic, young teenage boy, and I was bound to make new friends. This is where my Runescape career began, if you can call it that.
I always had an interest in computers. Before I started school, I would spend my days playing around on my dads old IBM "greenscreen" computer. (Mostly playing games like Adams Family).
As I got older, Computers also became more advanced. In early elementary school, I remember we had a compaq computer running windows 3.x and my dad set up my first AOL account. I spent many hours sitting on that computer playing games on aol, talking in kids-only chat rooms; I was hooked.
Ok, so I'm 13 and i've gone through a full school year at my new school in a rural area. I made many friends and had a couple of girlfriends throughout the year(Who else misses when relationships were so simple).
Summer starts, and being only 13, i'm trying to find something fun to do to occupy my time. My nintendo 64 was getting boring and I turned to finding internet games. One day I'm keeping in touch with one of my friends from the city and he tells me about this fun game he found on the internet. "Runescape" he said, "It's fun, you should set up an account".
So I did. It asked me what type of class I wanted to be and I decided that Warrior best fit my type of character. I was standing in lumbridge with my level 5 account, a bronze sheild, and a bronze longsword. My friend, who had been playing for quite sometime, met up with me and managed to give me a bunch of items that I could no longer use. For the next couple weeks I did nothing but kill men in varrock all day and managed to get up to a decent level pretty fast.
Let's fast-forward a year or so. I have a hard decision to make. Play runescape during the day, or go hangout with my friends playing backyard football.(ok, it seemed like a hard decision) This is where I first started autoing in runescape.
I had looked for cheats in runescape before, but most of them were lame tips that everyone knew, or scams. Even at 13 or 14, I was pretty good at recognizing a scam and I know a little about viruses and keyloggers. I found a autominer that I discovered to be free of both...Nick's AutoMiner.
This was before fatigue, and autoing was relatively small in runescape at this point. The program was quite simple. You filled in what kind of rock you were mining, how many rocks were in the area, and how long you wanted it to run.
This made my decision easy. I would have Nick's AutoMiner do the boring work for me while I went out and hung out with my friends for the day. I would usually come home, and the program would no longer be working, but I didn't care...I assumed it worked for a few hours before it quit.
Around this time, cheating must have blown up, because Jagex decided to implement a fatigue system. At this time, I didn't care. I had a low level account with 65ish mining. I was ready to mine in the mining guild all day to have fun making money. From then on out, I was a legit runescape player.
I had quite a bit of money and many low level skills to raise, and I was no longer interested in cheating. The big dupe came and went, affected me mildly, runescape 2 beta came and went, I was still having fun playing runescape...most likely too much.
I still hung out with my friends quite a bit, but I was spending more time on the computer then spending time with them. I knew I was playing runescape much more than I should have been, but I didn't care. The virtual world was hell of an experience.
Around 2002/2003, I was getting into the whole drinking scene(I was in 8th grade...that's all there is to do in rural Nebraska). I was a manager for the football team which went to state that year, I was active in many sports, and in my spare-time I was leveling my runescape account. I was having fun.
I got into highschool and I had a pretty good account. I was drinking with my friends on the weekends, and I was playing runescape after sports after-school, I was attending varsity sporting events that I wasn't involved in(girls volleyball, basketball..etc) I even had a girlfriend. Things were going good.
I decided that I probably couldn't juggle everything at once, and Runescape had to be cut out of my life...at least for a while. So I did. I was spending time with my friends and girlfriend. Having a couple beers on the weekends, still doing sports, you know...living the dream.
One day, it all turned around on me. I decide it time to start up runescape again. There is so much new stuff, and I was having quite a bit of fun learning all the new things that have been added. One weekend night, I ditched all of my friends and my girlfriend to stay home and pull a runescape all-nighter. That same night, my girlfriend and my best friend got drunk at a party and ended up hooking up. At the time I was crushed. I didn't give my girlfriend a second chance and I pretty much quit talking to my best friend. I instead played runescape more then I should have.
I still had many friends, but as highschool went on, I found myself skipping going to girls volleyball games, and boys basketball games to instead sit at home and play runescape. Around my junior year, I still partied on the weekends, but I hadn't had a girlfriend since the one.
I've made this story longer than it needs to be, so here i'm going to sum up the rest of the story:
I'm now 19 years old with a year of college under my belt. I quit runescape a couple months before I graduated from highschool. While I was in college, I decided to try and sell all my runescape gold. Instead of being smart, and waiting for R2Pleasant to buy, I instead sold it all to a bunch of scammers on the sythe community and lost around 70m rs cash in return for $0.00 USD. I didn't care, I was done with the game. I was in college: getting drunk, getting laid(occasionally), having fun.
To this day, I still haven't had another girlfriend. I've had a lot of random hookups, and got my fair-share of action, but I feel i've missed out on alot of the finer parts of high school because of runescape. I know that I have learned a lot, and it's probably what keeps me interested in computers rather than business.
I'm currently working 8 hour days, and I feel I would like to try and get back at Jagex. I remembered that I used to be able to play runescape and still have a good life..and that was when I was cheating. So i'm back to autoing. My first RS account isn't banned, and I hope to gain some cash and levels on it during the day while I work. Maybe spend some time on it when I'm not doing anything else...but I know i'll never again put runescape first.
I'm currently trying to learn how to script in SCAR and SRL. I have some programming experience, I just need to learn the syntax.
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made it better because now I just leave the players doing the boring job while I study or do anything, instead of wasting my time clicking on a screen around 200k times to get a lvl to 99












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