In the MMORPG Old School Runescape (Steam) , a player made an extraordinary effort to produce an absurd Twitch clip that has already been viewed by 210,000 people: The player NC State struggled for over 8 years through a terrible mini-game, the Brimhaven obstacle course, to set a record for “Exp per minute.”
What did the player do?
- As a friend of the player explained on reddit , NC State completed the mini-game “Brimhaven obstacle course” in Old School Runescape for 8 years. There is an EXP reward that can be redeemed for this. However, the player did not redeem these rewards but hoarded them.
- On January 26th, he then packed the collected 178 million hoarded EXP into the skill “Agility” and took 49 seconds to do so: He clicked like crazy, as can be seen in a clip on Twitch: With each click he redeemed 1,000 of the accumulated runs in the obstacle course, giving his character a significant EXP boost.
- This extremely high influx of EXP in such a short time pushed Runescape’s exp system to its limits within seconds: Because at that rate, he received 10.8 billion EXP per hour – the counter could only handle 2.147 billion per hour, then it stopped.
You can see the clip on Twitch, showing how the player gained the Agility points and overloaded the system, here:
8 years of suffering for a 49-second viral clip on Twitch
Does it make any sense? No, in any way. As PC Gamer points out, the “Agility” stat in Old School Runescape is not that great, you only gain a little stamina and can take some shortcuts in the game. In fact, the obstacle course is considered one of the main ways to level up the skill.
In any case, you only need 13 million EXP to bring Agility to level 99 and thus to the maximum. The remaining 165 million EXP were essentially blown into thin air.
At least a Twitch clip came out of it, which already has 210,000 views.
Player spent nearly 5,000 hours on the action
How terrible was it for the player? This obstacle course is despised by many Runescape players.
For NC State, however, the place became a second home. When asked that he must have spent about 4,800 hours there to collect the experience points, he said:
I want to add that Brimhaven is a place to relax, or it can be at least when you are not doing the obstacles while waiting. Most of the time, you watch YouTube, read news, surf the web, and so on. I was almost never at the PC just to do Agility, but I always had Runescape on, no matter what.
How is this being discussed? The top comment on reddit summarizes it well: “What the fuck lmao?” So disbelief mixed with amusement.
Another user says: The Runescape community continues to surprise him with tasks that would be enough to drive a normal person to despair.
Apparently, the experience points per hour rate was one of the highest ever achieved in Old School RuneScape – if that was important to the player.
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