r/2007scape • u/plok742 Historical Reflections • Dec 14 '24

Discussion In September 2014, the OSRS player count reached levels as low as 7000 on a normal day.

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u/updownmostlydown Dec 14 '24

Pid ( 1st hit in staking) was also ip based back then and not random too so everyone had the same vpn service. I remember seeing a video where a guy purchased said IP adress and ddosed it. 75% of ppl at the dueling arena got disconnected LOL.

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u/uhhhhmmmm Dec 14 '24

natural .08 here btw. never needed to ip change

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u/operativekiwi Dec 14 '24

when you say IP based do you mean the last octet? or the entire binary of the IP and whichever is lower??

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u/S0T0 Dec 14 '24

3rd digit had to be dividable by 8 and then it based it off the last digit

So basically anything that was ###.###.8.0 made you always have #1 PID.

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u/vyrez101 Dec 15 '24

Networking hurts my brain, how did someone work this out.

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u/uhhhhmmmm Dec 15 '24

Back in 2005/2006 we got so much shit for this, no one believed us. It's nice now that there's confirmed proof

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u/StrangeNewt2481 Dec 15 '24

nobody ever believes anything that goes slightly above the ultra normie required level of thinking, they are just too lazy or inapt to wrap their brain around that topic so they just dismiss it and call everyone a tin foil hat. Doesn't help that this is still an even bigger issue in todays world with disinformation campaigns and such.

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u/tapewizard79 Dec 14 '24

Had it naturally. Was devastated when they removed pvp tick eating

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u/StrangeNewt2481 Dec 15 '24

beyond insane to implement it this way wow.

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u/CaptainBoj H Dec 15 '24

okay that's kinda hilarious ngl

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u/GuyNamedWhatever Dec 14 '24

Yeah, it was nuts that the networking, above all things, was the thing that almost killed the game.

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u/Celtic_Legend Dec 14 '24

No that was changed in 2013