[IDEA] Community Led Project - Open Source OSRS Project

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10-22-2018, 06:20 PM
DeathKid

[IDEA] Community Led Project - Open Source OSRS Project

So I was on Github the other day, and I got this amazing idea 'why don't we come together as a community and create an open source OSRS project'? Everyone on this board has a skill-set when combined with others can create something magical. I believe, together we can create the closest possible thing to a real OSRS experience.

How It Would Work:
We'd use an online board like Github where the source code would be readily accessible and changeable (with approval of-course), anyone can stop by and add in some code they think would advance the server. The code then will be approved/edited by selected members who will make sure the code is not malicious.

Who Would Get the Money?
I think we should re-invest every penny (except for hosting costs) back into the game and keep upgrading it. We could do something where the top monthly contributor to the project would get 20% of the donations, while the other 80% would go straight into development of the game.

This idea is still very premature and open to ideas. I just want to know what the community would think about this before we start planning details.

What do you all think? Yes/No? Why?
10-22-2018, 06:27 PM
Corleone

More chance getting Madeline Mccane from a mystery box than this working.
10-22-2018, 06:27 PM
Klem

No, this wouldn't work. Most of the people are in this business for the money.
10-22-2018, 06:28 PM
Spooky

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Originally Posted by DeathKid [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

So I was on Github the other day, and I got this amazing idea 'why don't we come together as a community and create an open source OSRS project'? Everyone on this board has a skill-set when combined with others can create something magical. I believe, together we can create the closest possible thing to a real OSRS experience.

How It Would Work:
We'd use an online board like Github where the source code would be readily accessible and changeable (with approval of-course), anyone can stop by and add in some code they think would advance the server. The code then will be approved/edited by selected members who will make sure the code is not malicious.

Who Would Get the Money?
I think we should re-invest every penny (except for hosting costs) back into the game and keep upgrading it. We could do something where the top monthly contributor to the project would get 20% of the donations, while the other 80% would go straight into development of the game.

This idea is still very premature and open to ideas. I just want to know what the community would think about this before we start planning details.

What do you all think? Yes/No? Why?

theres plenty of osrs servers and other protocols on github that you can already fork and make pull requests for. apollo has been out since 2011, thats had the same people contributing since then. people either don't know how to code at all, dont want their code being public, work for free, or just cba.

got more chance of finding a needle in a haystack unfortunately.
10-22-2018, 06:28 PM
DeathKid

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Originally Posted by Klem3n [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

No, this wouldn't work. Most of the people are in this business for the money.

The top contributor would get paid.
10-22-2018, 06:29 PM
Royal

Best of luck DK
10-22-2018, 10:23 PM
Scu11

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Originally Posted by DeathKid [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

The top contributor would get paid.

by who lol, theres nothin stoppin me takin the source code and marketing it better than u and reaping 100% of the profit

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Everyone on this board has a skill-set when combined with others can create something magical.

9 women cant make a baby in one month
10-22-2018, 10:34 PM
Necrotic

SocialistScape coming to a github repo near you soonTM.
10-23-2018, 07:36 PM
uint32_t

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Originally Posted by Klem3n [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

No, this wouldn't work. Most of the people are in this business for the money.

This is very, very true. The only way I can see this happening is if OSRS ends up like RSC did with RSC closing down and then a community project like OpenRSC pops up. There is too much money to be made with OSRS servers for anyone to want to do this, except for maybe like one or two people. Plus if a community project gets far enough along and starts adding a decent amount of content, Jagex would just end up shutting it down.

This won't happen any time soon.
10-26-2018, 04:49 PM
Planets

we have nothing to lose but our chains