at what point does it become actually idle?

[Mel]

i'm not complaining, i see all the threads from angry people. i'm not one of them. just honestly would like an answer:

i bought this and started doing the tutorial and thought it seemed cool so i left it fishing after about 10 minutes of the tutorial and went to bed. came back with 12 hours played (past the refund point) to see that i fished up a grand total of... 1 shrimp. i guess i have to finish the tutorial first. so i did, and then did the same thing again. 1 more shrimp.

again, not complaining, but how much active clicking will i need to do before this can be an idle game?

[󠀡󠀡]

i just started a new character, skipped the tutorial and idle already worked (1 min afk, got 10 fish)

[Mel]

What? I figured it was supposed to work that way, I'm baffled. I'll look some more in case there's some setting I missed? Thanks for the reply.

[Zyvvrict]

One thing that kept tripping me up is when you get loot from an activity, if there is no more room in your bank for the new item, it'll stop. I had to buy a bunch of bank slots and sell a bunch of junk in order to keep idling, especially skills like fishing that dredge up all kinds of random items.

[Mel]

Originally posted by Zyvvrict:

One thing that kept tripping me up is when you get loot from an activity, if there is no more room in your bank for the new item, it'll stop. I had to buy a bunch of bank slots and sell a bunch of junk in order to keep idling, especially skills like fishing that dredge up all kinds of random items.

Yeah I think that's what was happening, I appreciate that insight. This is obviously a very well crafted game but not what I was expecting/wanting right now to fill a very particular niche for me. No worries, I'm sure I'll have fun with it eventually when the time is right =)

[Blackwolfe]

There'll be plenty if idling ahead. As with a lot of idle games really, it can take time before you get to the truly idle parts. Not a very long time tbh, but you do have to manage some things manually (like for combat, you'll need to get a necklace from a dungeon to get autoloot but only if you equip it). Some aspects can be modded (if you so wish).

As for tutorials in A LOT of idle games, they pretty much force you to do certain things in a certain order and lock you out of things until you complete certain steps.

[[DG]Holoman]

some skills require you to go to the options / settings and change them to be able to idle them while you sleep / the game is closed. i can think of combat + thieving + dungeons (auto-restart on success) as an example. buying the auto-eat upgrades are a huge benefit to buy early as well as a decent food source. scroll down past all your skills (on the left) to find the options / settings

[SunEarthMewsic]

The game is pure idle and the name fits the name down to a t. I think the part that you have to get used to is that runescape is not an idle game, and so this game is attempting to make every part of its inspiration idle.

It won't translate perfectly.

Things that generate infinite resource such as fishing, woodcutting, combat, agility, astrology, etc, are pure idle.

If you mean even 1 non-idle thing makes the entire game not a true idle, then that's a different issue that has nothing to do with the game. That's a pet peeve. That's not objective.

[Brids17]

Originally posted by Melwing:

came back with 12 hours played

This game has offline progress, so there's no need to keep your computer running for it.

[Ultimaga]

How Idle is Idle ;) i for example log in once in a 24 h to switch from fishing to cooking or to combating, also replant my farms and milk the township. but i am lvl 101 so it means longer times for a leveling, so no point to watch it.

[Mel]

Thanks for the replies, I'm going to 'unsubscribe' here because for me this post was about a very specific issue at the very start of the game that was resolved almost right away =)