The greatest threat to the RSPS community is not Jagex; its the you.

[Valkory]

For those who do not know me, I am Teh_Dew. I have been around the Runescape cheating scene since 2006 and have been with the private server scene since 2007, back before most of you knew what a private server was. I am writing this as a warning to every community out their. The real danger of the scene dying is no longer from Jagex alone but from the 'Skiddies', Malware authors and the gullible members. I will give you a example from a few years back, the same day that Silabsoft's client pretty much died as people finally figured out how she 'hacked'(note: hacked is another term for 'hard coding') the new models into the older clients.

A well known Malware author at the time, I guess you could call him a skiddie named T_X released a client that supposedly had all of the new models/maps/interfaces. Inside the client was an oblivious and malicious method under the download method. Inside, it connected to a server and downloaded a trojan (that was outdated) to turn many people into zombies(if you do not know what a zombie is in computing terms, please leave this thread). The trojan was created by a friend of mine named Gary, A.K.A. 'PhP'. It was later noted that the Trojan did not work any more, leaving T_X's time wasted.

That's not the only attempt by the fellow community members to affect the community in a negative way. Does anyone else remember the countless malicious .bat files that where circulating during the early days?

I am not saying that every single person is at fault, but a few bad people can dramatically effect the future of the private server scene. Whether its Malware that people have to worry about, or a new programmer releasing a project and being harassed to the point they have to remove the project completely. Its those people who will end up killing the private server communities, not Jagex. It will slowly drive people away and onto other things. Believe me or not, its going to happen.

To end this rant/prediction I would like to give a quick shout out to a few people from different communities:
Dharok_ - A.K.A. corey
Gary - PhP
Palidino76 - Dalton
Jedi - Jeremy
Super_ - oldrin
Speljohan
The oldschool mitb crew
The oldschool sythe crew
The RSCA crew
The RSCB crew

And as a FYI, I found a pastebin claiming that I am dead. I am not, I have landed a job in a field that I have always loved and started my own family. This is Teh_Dew signing out for the final time. - Joe, A.K.A. Teh_Dew.

[Harlan]

cool don't care

also

less people in rsps community > less competition > easier money > more people start making rsps's > more competition > less money

endless cycle. not dying

[Valkory]

cool don't care

also

less people in rsps community > less competition > easier money > more people start making rsps's > more competition > less money

endless cycle. not dying

If only Winterlover could see how the communities are now.. Money hungry, and not advancing in anything spectacular. I am sure he would laugh, as I am sure #mitb is at the moment.

[Ariene]

Personally don't think rsps's will die, as long as runescape is around their's always going to be people interested in rsps's

[natsu]

didnt we already know the greatest threat is other people lol cheat clients spammers,nullers,ddoss attacks just to all the players of that p server gone.

[lare96]

he does have a point though I mean when you host a server jagex is usually the last thing on your mind unless you have a large player base

you're usually concerned with: people using socket flooders, people trying to exploit bugs, people ddosing, etc. etc.

we're a community we shouldn't be doing that shit to each other lol but meh, what do I know?

[Shaq]

He has a point.

[Eclipse]

he does have a point though I mean when you host a server jagex is usually the last thing on your mind unless you have a large player base

you're usually concerned with: people using socket flooders, people trying to exploit bugs, people ddosing, etc. etc.

we're a community we shouldn't be doing that shit to each other lol but meh, what do I know?

You know a lot apparently considering you're right

[funkE]

RSPS is no different from any game. With any game, you're worried about people exploiting bugs, flooding, etc. The "worried about exploiting bugs" thing shouldn't even be an issue, but since people download and use garbage bases, they have to worry.

The difference between the mentality of someone who owns an RSPS and someone that owns a "real game" is that the "real game" owners realize that this is just something they have to deal with or die as a result of inaction. You work on infrastructure, then you don't have that problem anymore. You could call the people that attack traditional games the "greatest threat to the gaming community."

RSPS requires a business model to make money to support itself once it gets large. It just so happens to be that people need to "donate" (pay) for items. People call it donating when it really isn't. If you can't support the infrastructure you shouldn't be running the game to begin with.

It's not the community. Once you get big, you become a target. You fail to realize this happens in literally every single field you look at, especially with internet-based things since people have power (bandwidth = power), but even that has a cost.

Why don't you go after the people providing the services that facilitate the attacks rather than the few and far between "members of the community?" They are more toxic than RSPS kids. The thing that determines if people stick around RSPS is if they are genuinely interested in any of the few things RSPS-related:

Programming
RuneScape
Games in general
MMORPGs


Just like how there's a whole community based on world of warcraft private servers. I'm not interested in that game at all, so I don't touch it. A lot of people become uninterested in runescape, so they leave. People have other things to do. I think RSPS is very profitable but I find it much more of a hobby thing. Not to mention RuneScape is kind of boring, lol.

[Koy]

Not sure what the point of this is, people will always be attempting to hack one another, this is the internet after all. Communities will loose the old people and gain new people and I really don't think people are loosing interest because of a few idiots.