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  1. #1 Can anyone explain the stagnancy in RSPS over the last few years? 
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    It seems as though there hasn't been much _public_ progression in RSPS in the last few years.
    Most remarkably, during COVID, popular private servers have peaked and then come crashing down.
    To me, there's still an obvious interest in the scene. Why the stagnation?
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    People are bored to see what they've seen for the past two years or so.
    It feels like creativity has been lacking and no new idea's (as in not a few idea's but like constantly updates with unique aspects) have really been popping up to Runescape Private Servers for a while.

    The custom scene has become a tumor where everything is about donating as much as you can to become the best and the private servers that do not have a too big of a p2w aspect got boring over time due to the fact I stated above.
    Also the custom private servers I see releasing nowadays is just standing in a room and clicking pickachus and waiting for you to do 50k damage and then click another one (there's 0% skill needed and it's litteraly not fun to play since all you do is
    click and wait).

    To me (and what I've heard from others) a private server is quick play, and if nothing drastically changes have been done in a server for a few years straight, then it might gets boring (same as Oldschool Runescape at the moment).

    For example an economy reset on servers like Runewild, Roatpkz, Alora and other big servers could do alot. A fresh start, new gameplay.
    A server (or second world of an exsisting server) that resets seasonal would be an option to try out aswell.
    The big players in the scene could make this difference, but are too afraid of the possible consequences (which I fully understand).
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    I think the quality of servers is improving imo, a lot of good projects in the works atm as well as some great servers online. I think the majority of custom servers are pretty bad currently though, with the exception of very few.

    The barrier to enter the RSPS scene and be successful has greatly increased. Players in general are down (still a good amount though), prices of starting/running a server have increased, the quality of servers is much higher and its just harder for people that haven't been doing RSPS for a good few years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raw Envy View Post
    I think the quality of servers is improving imo, a lot of good projects in the works atm as well as some great servers online. I think the majority of custom servers are pretty bad currently though, with the exception of very few.

    The barrier to enter the RSPS scene and be successful has greatly increased. Players in general are down (still a good amount though), prices of starting/running a server have increased, the quality of servers is much higher and its just harder for people that haven't been doing RSPS for a good few years.
    I feel like its only improving because 'better' servers are being leaked; which makes questions seem more advanced than the previous average. Majority of these people arent learning shit. Only active people that are taken rsps seriously are newbies, leechers, and p2w owners, very limited to those who actually have a decent project going.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Raw Envy View Post
    I think the quality of servers is improving imo, a lot of good projects in the works atm as well as some great servers online. I think the majority of custom servers are pretty bad currently though, with the exception of very few.

    The barrier to enter the RSPS scene and be successful has greatly increased. Players in general are down (still a good amount though), prices of starting/running a server have increased, the quality of servers is much higher and its just harder for people that haven't been doing RSPS for a good few years.
    You've got some good points there. But also with top-tier servers focussing on getting as close to Oldschool Runescape itself they lack on creativity and unique aspects. I'd love to see some more expiremental content by them.

    Also yes, I think it's way harder to get on the list if you're newly starting up a server.
    Advertisement has become more expensive and forms of advertisement has changed. Where a toplist was the absolute number one way to get new players it has now changed to a combination of toplists, Discord servers, social ads, youtube video's etc (,_ those are assumptions and not based on any facts though). Also the biggest servers have bought all the advertisement slots on toplists, hired all rsps youtubers etc.

    Comparing with Private servers releasing back in 2012 the standard (and expectation) is way higher nowadays.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Melvin View Post
    I feel like its only improving because 'better' servers are being leaked; which makes questions seem more advanced than the previous average. Majority of these people arent learning shit. Only active people that are taken rsps seriously are newbies, leechers, and p2w owners, very limited to those who actually have a decent project going.
    Realistically though, all of the servers that have been released/leaked aren't good. They're either full of bugs, shit code, dupes and exploits or they're years behind on content and no one knows how to use them enough to make them good enough to compete with the top servers.

    I think people do leech/host a lot because of it though, but that's probably always been a thing
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    I actually agree with Melvin, nowadays its like 3 people with actual servers and bunch of leechers and shit. Maybe with osrs and rs3 getting more players recently this scene gets also some fresh air but I highly doubt it tbfh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nes View Post
    It feels like creativity has been lacking and no new idea's (as in not a few idea's but like constantly updates with unique aspects) have really been popping up to Runescape Private Servers for a while.
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    At this point we have enough data to emulate the entire runescape game perfectly, and add 4813240 custom items if we want.
    Creativity seems to be at an all time low
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethan View Post
    I actually agree with Melvin, nowadays its like 3 people with actual servers and bunch of leechers and shit. Maybe with osrs and rs3 getting more players recently this scene gets also some fresh air but I highly doubt it tbfh.
    osrs is dying and osrs players are moving to rs3 btw :O
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nes View Post
    osrs is dying and osrs players are moving to rs3 btw :O
    not true, a couple of content creators have moved to rs3 but they don't represent the entire population

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    In terms of stagnation, OSRS servers is what RSPS players have become used to, and what they want.
    RSPS is a business, why take the risk with something entirely unique (OSRS servers are still different to one another), when you can just launch another oldschool server and rake in the cash (easier said than done obviously).

    Unique servers *have* been done, even recently, but players don't want it.

    That being said, 'different servers' are being worked on as we speak, i.e. Nalore, so it will be interesting to see how that goes, but for now OSRS servers are the 'safe bet'.
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