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hi prayer o/

Pretty cool seeing people still playing the game and responding on forums. Hope you're all doing well

Quote from: Kryptonite on November 24, 2021, 01:24:42 PM
Congrats man. Site looks pretty clean. You monetizing this in any way?

Thanks! We made sure we were profitable since day 1 :P

I occasionally check the forum. Right now I'm just super busy working on my startup @_@

Thanks! Link's here: https://hyperbeam.com

Discord community is here (I go by Scotty now): https://discord.gg/hyperbeam

Hi all,

Hopefully some of you recognize my name, I haven't been active in a while! I used to play religiously and got myself on the first page of the high-scores.

I've been working on site called Hyperbeam which lets you watch together online (anyone remember Rabb.it? It's kinda like that). Rather than sharing screens or synchronizing video players, Hyperbeam works by giving you and your friends a shared browser that you can watch and control together. If any of you want free stuff LMK ;)

That's my big life update: how is everyone else doing? I remember chatting a lot with Charles, Black and Wirt: hope you're all doing well :D

PS: Dunno if Prayer will see this, but thanks for recommending Codecademy when I was 14 or something, lol. That helped me out a lot :)

1056

Buttplug why are you such a pain in the ass? :^)

Step 1: Make sure you have a JRE installed
Step 1.1: If you're awesome and you use Arch Linux, the open-jdk JRE seems to get the job done (install it via Pacman)
Edit: It seems that the OpenJDK has a weird bug; right clicks are registered as left clicks. I've ditched OpenJDK for Oracle, and everything seems to be working fine.

Step 2: Download the client here: https://www.runerebels.com/smf/index.php?board=134.0
Step 3: Unzip the file
Step 4: View the contents of "RuneRebels/Run.bat", here's what it looked like to me on 2018-11-17:


title RuneRebels
java -Xmx256M -jar .\jar\loader.jar -configurl http://www.runerebels.com/resources/config.agf
pause


All you care about is the command that invokes Java. Let's make a bash script that runs the command:


#!/usr/bin/env bash

java -Xmx256M -jar ~/path/to/jar/loader.jar -configurl http://www.runerebels.com/resources/config.agf


Note you'll want to replace "~/path/to/jar/loader.jar" with the actual path relative to the bash script.

Once that's done, chmod your bash script and run it:


sudo chmod +x runerebels.sh
./runerebels.sh


I don't have any evidence to back this up, but I have a feeling RuneRebels "died" because the player base grew up; people just have better things to do now than grind for hours on a private server. With the introduction of OSRS, RuneRebels lost its appeal to many new players. IMHO RuneRebels still has a few advantages though:

• Small & tight-knit community - Main reason I played private servers; I'd have a decent chance of getting on the high scores, and (more importantly) you make a lot of friends
• It's "vanilla" - Some people are purists, and are uncomfortable with the additions to OSRS
• RuneRebels never dies (?) - IMO the strongest appeal for a private server is knowing your precious exp.
  won't disappear the next day

I don't think updates will save RuneRebels. Personally, I wouldn't play the game regularly even if the game was 100% complete.

Why?

Back in 2013, when I was in high school, I had an enormous amount of free time; I'd spend hours just watching anime, AFK fishing sharks and shitposting on /b/ (lul). Now it's 2018, and I'm busy with my studies and co-op. I enjoy lurking the RR forums and seeing how everyone's doing, but grinding out slayer tasks or burning logs for hours isn't a big priority anymore.

Of course, this is just a theory. I'm just getting vibes that the only "active" RR members are veterans who've grown up, and simply can't devote as much time grinding exp.


So what should we do?

Here's what I think:

• RR needs new players. I think it's very, very unlikely we'd succeed in getting people to join, which leads me to the next point...
• If RuneRebels fails to get new players, it will slowly disappear as everyone ages; at that point, it's Ryan's call to decide when to pull the plug
• If Ryan does decide to kill RuneRebels, I'd really appreciate it if he put the source on GitHub (I don't know how RSPSs work, so this may be impractical, idk)
• It would be nice if the RuneRebels forum continued to be maintained, but if not, I'd be willing to make a simple forum for free (I'd make it open source, build it with Node.js, and deploy with Heroku)
  

If somebody feels enthusiastic and does feel like advertising, I'd recommend focusing on RuneRebels's strengths, ie. "vanilla", small community, long lasting (?), as opposed trying to compete with "common" selling points, such as big communities, frequent updates, and 20x exp rates.



TL;DR: I don't think RR will benefit a lot from updates; if we want RR to live, we should focus on the community, and market RR as nostalgia server that has been up for (more than?) five years. Do I think RR has a chance if we advertise? Not really, but it seems like our most viable option.

Regardless of what happens, it was definitely a pleasure playing with all of you; I'll never forget all the fun I had grinding, going to drop parties, and meeting everyone here.

I wouldn't really mind if MrHebb overtook me, he's a friend <3

How is everyone btw? I don't know if I'll ever be playing as frequently as I once did; I started uni about eight months ago, and right now I'm on co-op. Any free time I have is spent screwing around with software side projects :p (anybody using Rust?)

I still lurk occasionally though. I'm glad the server and the community is still here :)

Quote from: Charles on November 20, 2016, 10:21:23 AM

Quote from: Ry60003333 on November 17, 2016, 12:42:57 AM
Let me know what you guys think!

Any sort of revival of Runerebels would indeed be great, especially if we could get all skills trainable and hopefully a stable player base/economy.
But let us get our priorities straight!
This is the first thing that should be fixed. [spoiler][/spoiler]

:^)

oh that was like 10 replies ago

rip
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Quote from: wirt on September 16, 2016, 10:15:21 PM
Hi

Next is zezima

Close enough ;)

I flipped a coin, heads for garnu and tails for wirt

It came up tails, wirt don't fail me now :3