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General Discussion / Re: Hello everyone // Come reminisce with me about old memories

« on: November 07, 2023, 09:29:16 am »

Hi, nice post!
I'm an old-school player myself, not necessarily very community-active but I've been kind of a lurker.

I do recognize your name, but I don't think I ever talked to you back then.
I used to play with the username Carmelita 20 back in the Emps-Scape days.

Like Ash mentioned previously, I've too seen many people come and go over the years.
But Emps is and will always be my home.

I'll post some screenshots later when I find them.
Cheers!

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General Discussion / Re: Hello everyone // Come reminisce with me about old memories

« on: September 15, 2023, 09:14:56 am »

The only player who still consistantly plays from the list you mentioned above is Bluestorm, the rest have moved on, like Ash said. I do remember you, but vaguely. The players you listed however, many of those people I considered friends for a long time.

Having been around since 2009 I've seen many people come, and go. Having come and gone myself often aswel, however it's always fun to see those old-school players return, most oftenly not to play again, but to catch up, grab a vibe of the nostalgics.

Thank you for sharing these pics with us. And thank you for making me feel old.

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General Discussion / Re: Hello everyone // Come reminisce with me about old memories

« on: September 10, 2023, 07:07:12 pm »

Hi Blake, yes I remember you.

People just do not play anymore, most names you mentioned have left/moved on with their lives.

Including myself, I miss them all I wish we had a way to talk to them but Everyone is off with their lives.

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General Discussion / Re: osrs Emps?

« on: January 26, 2023, 03:43:53 am »

Thomy didn't listen then and he isn't going to listen now.

Dozens of my friends quit playing this game as soon as they were unable to use the oldschool graphics any longer.

More quit the easier the server got with the double xp weekends and insanely inflated eco.

What made emps unique was the community, the fact that the server still had challenging enough xp rates to make it feel like you actually accomplished something, and just general lack of 'ez mode' shit like the fact that there was maybe 5 free teleports in the game. When now you can hop on any popular rsps and talk to some wizard and teleport anywhere you need.

The unique and rare items such as Lantys and scarfs and mime made a super fun end game flex for people to work towards. Having owned many of these items myself it was super fun to walk around flexing on everyone in my bunnies and mime and lanty.

Having fally as the central location was super cool although I will admit that part is mainly just nostalgia for me.

Having HD graphics in oldsxhool literally isn't an advertising point anymore. I can download runelite and enable the fully support HD 117 plugin and have the same thing. Or I can even enable full oldschool graphics with the awesome and super nostalgic whip model.. You can't even do that on emps now lmao you get this ugly ass shit that looks like a 5th grader modeled it and are stuck with it.

Ge totally fucked the eco tbh and should have been implanted with a tax. Or maybe other things did. Rsps always have garbage ecos but emps was actually quite decent back in the day.

Emps had some of the best pking available on a rsps back in the day and I wasn't even a pker I made probably 5+ pkers to use just to get my ass kicked cause it felt good and smooth

And of course. With dropping player counts. All the fun community things that I loved about emps are just flat out good.

Emps-scape held and still holds a very special place in mine and my brothers and friends hearts. It revitalized my love for runescape after having quitted after they added the 10x hits update. I loved emps. I love emps. Hell if thomy dumped a fresh start clean slate emps where I could spawn in barbarian village and buy some membership rings. I would fucking do it right now and I would dump literally hours into it. Grind doesn't bother me. I'm maxed on osrs on my main and am nearing maxed on an ironman.

The issue with that though.. rsps has changed a lot since then. And I'm not sure many would attracted to it. But... then again. Jagex said the same thing about osrs. And now it's the more popular of the two games.

I think what emps really needs is to go back to its roots. Improve on it. Add group ironman. Ironman. All the things people love about new osrs. But keep the things that made emps special as I discussed above.

Nothing in emps right now is nostalgic for me or fun. So I don't play. In fact lately I have been playing an entirely different rsps alongside my usual osrs grind. How sad is that... I literally dedicated years to emps and now I play a different rsps because nothing about this version of emps is fun to me. Honestly seeing it do so badly is just sad to me. Rsps can be popular still. Many are doing extremely well with player counts comparable to what emps had back in the day and also (importantly for thomy) very very very profitable.

I spoke up back in the day that the changes being made would kill this game and nobody listened. I'm sure nobody will now. Emps-world should be ran alongside emps-scape for those that enjoy it still but i see dozens of posts on here when i check in about people wanting emps-scape back. But for me. I won't be playing emps-world ever again. And with all the people that have asked for emps-scape over the years and have had their dreams fall on deaf ears I feel for you because the game we loved is dead and thomy seems to have no will or desire to actually listen to the feedback he gets. I literally watched 3 of my friends quit emps and never return when thomy added the HD update without the option to toggle osrs graphics.
 

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General Discussion / Re: Future of Emps-World - Popularity Discussion

« on: April 18, 2018, 09:35:27 am »

I have experience about servers, as u see the most successfuly servers today are OLD SCHOOL (osrs).
The chance of growing emps again is Old-school.
Old Emps-scape was delta base I think, I know it has a tons of bugs, etc. so now update it to osrs verstion with new updates, just make 2 toggle data of playing, new school and oldschool osrs. Try that, and if u are going to tell me "We can't" "Nty we hate odschool" or "It's impossible" Then emps will never grow up. As u see much people beggins with oldschool that's mean you have % much about oldschool, to be honest Idc, what u like brother, Thomy. <3

Retard spotted.

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General Discussion / Re: Future of Emps-World - Popularity Discussion

« on: October 17, 2017, 09:37:27 pm »

Veteran player here, been ages since I logged in. I've gone through college and started a job since I last played Emps-Scape. Those were the good old days.  It saddens me to see such a great game become obsolete.

I think popularity has gone down for a few reasons (my apologies if this is redundant, I haven't read the rest of the thread):

When Emps-Scape went offline for a few months, this was during a time of resurgence for Old School RS. I think a lot of players just switched over to OSRS, because it was more or less the same game, but a larger community and more grinding. Did you know that OSRS has surpassed the number of players from '07? Just goes to show you how popular of a game it is. RS3 struggled for many reasons. It eliminated the nostalgic feel, it focused on creating a brand new game, where people just wanted the standard Old School graphics and activities. Now OSRS is focusing on keeping everything the same, but creating new content.  They've done a great job, but they also have a huge budget, advertising, development team, etc.

Back when I played Emps-Scape 4-5 years ago there were about 500-700 people online at peak, 100-200 online during off-hours. Don't know if I could return because IRL happens, but I'd love to see the game return to its prime.

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Screenshots / Re: Just Oh My God.

« on: September 30, 2017, 09:26:30 am »

You can also check the old forums page from web archive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111013144121/http://emps-scape.net:80/

Edit:
This snapshot even has high-scores partly working.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130115152501/http://emps-scape.net/index.php

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Screenshots / Re: Just Oh My God.

« on: September 29, 2017, 12:57:21 pm »

Wtf advertising a dead private server in one of the tabs

ps. inb4charr:nostalgiaisbad

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General Discussion / Re: Future of Emps-World - Popularity Discussion

« on: September 29, 2017, 10:28:44 am »

Everyone wants OSES. Grab the old code and make a trial client and see what happens?

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Suggestions & Ideas / Re: Client-sided needs a lot of work

« on: May 25, 2015, 04:09:25 pm »

Number 5 will definitely not be implemented, I believe. It takes too much time to go back to older versions.

Those aren't really older versions.
We're still a 317 loading some revision between 400 and 600 I think.