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Who here plays Runescape / Question If You Do

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ShoothimNow:

Stupid question, and I really could care less if you think the game is retarded, I'm just wondering if people here actually play it. The reason I bring this up, is because I have probably played on and off for roughly 10 years (Jesus Christ...), and I have been extremely pissed off at one aspect of the game, the idle logout time.

Back in the day, Jagex gave players 60 seconds of idle time to come back before you were logged out of the game. This was completely annoying and even if you went to get a sandwich, you would instantly log out before you came back.

Recently (years ago now), they increased the idle logout time from 60 seconds to 300 seconds (5 minutes), but still I tend to see that after afk playing and doing homework... I am constantly logging back in due to idleness.

Well, lmao, after 5 minutes on Visual Basic, I created this ****ing countdown timer that I am extremely proud of.

Features:
*The form is always on top, so even if you click another window, the timer stays on the top.
*No taskbar button, instead it is a system icon (the icons near the clock)
*Hoverable timer reset: You dont have to click anything to reset the timer to 5:00
*Extremely tiny in size and fits on the top menu bar with ease.
*Right click anywhere on the form to close, or right click the system icon to close.

Again, this is ****ing amazing IMO, mainly because I only wanted to find a program like this for years now. Instead of being able to find something that was easy to use, I realized I could create it with my knowledge from .NET in my Visual Basic class, heh... Took me 5 minutes to create the code and probably another 40 minutes to personalize the look of the form.

Click the picture for full screenshot

Again, I understand a shitload of people refer to this game as retarded... and I don't care, I was just wondering when I get a few friends to test this timer out to correct anything that I might have overlooked, would anyone want me to send you it?

juan0tron:

I do say that is rather awesome. I just have no use for it. I don't like MMO's much, even of the free variety.

Mick Dundee:

I played off an on for a while. I actually was quite hooked on that game for a long time.... but with every "improvement" and quest I slowly lost interest.

They seemed to make things EXTREMELY easy to level that any long time player of the game would have worked their ass off for many many hours to accomplish. It just seemed to take away from the accomplished feeling I'd get for leveling things up and getting better.

I never noticed much of a problem with timeout log outs. Then again, i never went afk much.

Like i said, I don't play anymore, decided that i get more satisfaction with Xbox Gamerscore points.

If you run into any of my moms characters while playing say hi though.
ioveliest - lvl 3 skill (Player Mod)
Speedstream - Neglected rarely used combat character

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