The attractiveness of RS gold at that time was the very low system requirements and incredibly addictive grind-like gameplay. The MMORPG makes full use of a power system which needs experience points (EXP) to rise in amounts , up to a total of 99 in every skill. Skills protect many areas, from battle to prayerwood cutting to fishing, and smithing to crafting. There was enough material to keep us entertained, no matter which skill you chosen.
The neighborhood was massive. Servers were always filling up and mini-games had more than sufficient players for several rounds to be enjoyed. You may even hang out with other players and simply talk a load of nonsense while spending hours at one time mining iron for that succulent 100,000 gold coin for 1,000 units of ore trade. We appreciated PK'ing (player killing), questing (at times), and general action grinding to see who would be among the first to hit 99 in a skill.
You could establish a new account called"magicdong400xXx" because that's the limit of teenage imagination, grind tools, develop combat abilities adhering to a specialist"pure" PK manual, make money, buy cool-looking equipment (black trimmed addy armor anyone?) , then lose it in the wilderness. Rinse and repeat, and yes that meant making a new account since we wanted to buy OSRS gold test out new approaches (that sucked).
