The player who popularized Tick Manipulation
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In 2009, Andrew Gower explained on the RuneScape forums how RuneScape had an internal clock which ticked at every 0.6 second. At the same time, a player was gaining attention for their extreme skilling methods. This is the story of Zarfot and the discovery of tick manipulation.
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I quit osrs over going woke.
I remember learning to tick manipulate firemaking because me and another guy would always fight for the same world in Draynor. Out of stubbornness we would cut each other off, forcing the other to restart on a different line. Eventually we figured out if we were fast enough we could switch lanes without having to restart the fire. It eventually became fun and we'd both jump around a lot. It made a boring task competitive and kindled a long friendship.
Just looked up zarfots account on rs3 hi scores and it looks so funny. Rank 1,3,3 and 4 in the hardest skills and nothing else in the top 10000 lol. Absolute legend
There's a hard skill on rs3?
@@suckaducka6407 omg an osrs idiot who is so proud of clicking the same spot for 400 hours !! Want a medal buddy ?!
@@suckaducka6407 he got the xp pre-rs3
@@wayge right, yeah
@@wayge pre easyscape
dont play runescape anymore but this guy was the one who paved the way for future skilling and hardly anyone knew about him. Nice to see he's being appreciated more now the game has aged :)
Imagine still playing runescape these days. Money laundering POS hack/scam/gold seller game that is all.
@@Semirotta imagine watching TH-cam videos and thinking you understand the game
@@chiefkeith5641 Imagine thinking someone has no knowledge on the game other than TH-cam. I was there when the game was born, I was among the first ones to ever play the game. Ive been part of this game and its history enough to know what is up and what is down.
bruh his meme channel with the xtranormal videos were hilarious back in the day. dude was just ahead of his time
@@Semirotta twink
So he's why the game is being designed around not having fun but instead sweating yourself dry.
Neat.
Thanks for the heads up about some unacceptable words said in one of the archive videos. I didn't catch it in editing, as I was mainly focused on the activity performed by the player rather than the chat... I've applied a blur effect through TH-cam studio, although it'll take some hours to show up.
Hold up where? Cant see anything wrong
Saw title and instantly knew Zarfot :)
I remember I watched all of his videos in his channel "Tofraz" training mining at gold ore deposits with low alch and super heat. Also, his cooking, fm, and cooking training was insane. The recent memory of this acc was him attaching feathers to bolts with mousekeys in god speed mod, and his herblore cleaning script. Unfortunately, I couldn't find his channel anymore and it seems to be deleted sadly. I wish I see this legend once again.
Made skilling yt vids back in 2009 and was loosely aquainted with zarfot. From what i recall his decision to quit was only partially due to the direction of the game. He was starting his career after uni and had already cut his hrs. Since he could not keep up his previous hrs he felt there was no point continuing skilling since xp was getting devalued so fast.
IIRC, even as far back as 2006, the playerbase was aware of ticks. Ticks were notoriously related to saradomin brews and PKing; eating and potting at the same time. However, most skillers were very aware that the game would accept only so much input per hour and per minute (under non-manipulation). Many of these tricks, especially with PKing and staking, were kept a secret
wow lol I was literally just thinking to myself last night about how tick manipulation was previously unheard of but just suddenly spring into the world of every scaper, was curious about how it kinda came to be. great video, really enjoyed it!!
Until reading this comment I didnt consider that one day we all just realized 😂
Nice video bro well made, underrated channel for sure. Love to hear about the RS culture and history lol grew up on this game 18+ years ago and I'll never forget it.
This was phenomenally well built up documentary. In addition to ancient effigies, there was stealing creation minigame added that basically doubled the exp in most of the buyable skills. What an insult to those original grinders
Not really. When runescape first released, the Gower brothers never imagined anyone would actually grind all the way to level 99 in a skill. That's why all the content stopped around the 40s and 50s. It wasn't until it became apparent that more and more people were actually interested in grinding all those hours out that they began adding more higher level content and better xp methods to train. It's entirely likely they would've added in things like that from the beginning had they known the interest was there.
Zarfot also used to make some of those funny animations with text to speech, where he would make fun of current events in runescape
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I went to school with Zarfot. He was a friend of mine, used to sit at the "runescape" table at lunch. Helped me here and there. Good guy. Not very talkative, however. Funny to see videos being made of him and how much he influenced people like years and years after we initially all started. Wild.
@Chopstick Cunt You perfectly named yourself.
And then everyone clapped
@@SelassadiI mean, I know there’s tons of bullshit on the internet, but you don’t gotta assume everything’s a lie. There’s nothing particularly outlandish in what he said, it could be true.
I've come to realize that Woox must be a rhythmic genius with his tick efficiency.
Woox is without a doubt a god. He even won a DMM by tick manipulating!
Every online game runs on ticks in some form, Runescape isn't unique in this fashion. The main difference is that other MMO's like WoW or SWTOR run on 20 ticks per second roughly, but FPS games like Overwatch or Apex run on 60 ticks per second or more.
Im sooooo glad it was Zarfot, well deserved. He may have also created or assisted with gp/xp or made it a thing
Second of your bangers that I've watched now. The narration and the music is just perfect!
That was an extremely interesting vid to watch. Thanks again Will! - Flashpoint
I would like to add that even tho Zarfot never was rank 1 on the hiscore, he was the player with the most overall xp the day he quit. The only reason he was not rank 1 is because he was not 120 dungeoneering yet, and the hiscore prioritize total levels over total xp.
He was training dungeoneering before quitting and was approaching 120. I remember beeing all excited to see him reach level 120 and #1 overall but he quitted right before getting there.
There's a possibility this is the case, but without the archived websites, it's kind of hard to see.
I can see Zarfot was 172m xp below Aasiwat when Dungeoneering was released. Zarfot is currently level 111 Dungeoneering, meaning if he grinded that skill alone up until his departure, he'd still be 125m xp short behind Aasiwat - even more behind Gertjaars.
So based on that, I'm not too sure he ever was the player with the most overall XP...
GREAT TO SEE ZARFOT GETTING the recognizion they deserve
Power leveling back in the day basically meant something like, "I'm cutting willows, but im dropping them instead of running all the way to the bank"
dunno when it ever meant anything about ticks.
Definitely an evolvement into the tick play! Power leveling existed for many years before Zarfot showed up, and it worked a lot like you explain it. But when Zarfot developed his methods - and those what discovered similar methods prior to him - didn't really have a label to put on it. Hence, power leveling was the umbrella term for anything that sped up the XP.
@@rswillmissit Makes sense. Kinda like how PJing was player jumping and now all of the sudden people say it's pile jumping or w/e. I guess I just still have a 2004-2006 mentality lol.
@@RsChrisG Yeah I always knew it was player jumping but would see people say pile. Didn't make sense to me honestly. Player made more sense.
@@christopherronaldhouse6313 right? remember pjing back in 2005-2007 was basically rushing someone who was alrdy in a fight, but while their opp was eating or w/e. Pile jumping never made sense.
Tick manipulation was around before 2009, I was using it with firemaking. If you clicked the next log at just the right time, you'd surpass the animation. I didn't know it had a name but it was the fastest way to train FMing at the time.
indeed, we all did that and still do lol, but i guess what this means is alching while firemaking.
Yeah it's been around since the dawn of rs2 if we want to get technical
Rswillmissit is so underrated. Top tier content creator
All online games have a tick system, its just not at noticable because of how smooth those engines are designed. Think of it as frames per second. Well RS has a very small amount of frames per second compared to most games.
Best way iv heard it explained man
Awesome video. I love videos talking about rs back in the day. It reminds me of being a kid lol
Another masterpiece of a video - thank you very much once again! :)
I used to use zafot's guide for every skill on the rs forums religiously back in the 06-08 era after skill capes were released and every one was on a mad dash to 99 something to flex their cape
Finally. Zarfot! Thanks a lot for the upload. :)
Thanks for watching!
Every online game has ticks, not just Runescape; they just have a much higher tickrate. Instead of 600 ms, WOW's was originally 400 and went down to 10.
.06 is 60ms not 600
@@JustJanitor Yes, and OSRS ticks are .6s, not .06.
@@JustJanitor clown comment
@@JustJanitor be ashamed of yourself
@@JustJanitor Do you have any idea the level of disappointment you exude?
"Power leveling"... that's a term I'd nearly forgotten...
Ticks are present in all almost games, not just Runescape. Games need a way to track inputs and changes within a certain timeframe, which is what ticks are. If you are familiar with technical Minecraft you've probably heard of ticks being used for things like redstone updates. Fighting game players call their version of ticks frames and have been mapping them out for decades. In fact, weapon attack speeds are just the RS version of frame data.
Funny considering that runescape was far more advanced when it came out for its time and nothing compared to it.... wow was even made off the back of what rs did
i remember talking to friends in like 2008 or so. We been pking f2p style with short bow and the 2h and we always used to say go for the 2h if you put your bow down after an attack. So you instead switch to the 2h and the enemie cant see it coming.
So weird to think some OSRS players don't know who Zarfot is. Guy was one of the most famous players of the RS HD/trade restrictions era and permanently holds top ranks in high scores for being among the first few to some 200M's.
Memories :') started rs in 2005 but now just play osrs, a lot of good players then too, yogosun, kingduffy 1, I remember being a lvl 3 skillet and meeting pure kq max one of the best skillers ever
I started in '05 and was around heavily in '09 but don't really remember his name lol
but I didn't really care about hiscores stuff, met zezima at castle wars once though
@@ezyyze7526 what no way that's so cool to here! I was a free to play super noob back then. I remember being so excited over a friend of mine gifting me an addy scim :) I started playing osrs mobile not to long ago after a friend of mine told me about it.
So cool. Idk when I understood tick manipulation and it's cool to hear about the origin.
To be fair to Oslo.. we don't actually know for a fact that Zarfpt never soiled himself for exp gains.
Dude! Where have you been? Good to see you!
Been working suuuper hard on next week's video! A 1 hour special on the Falador Massacre :D
That screenshot with level 200 really brings back some memories that I forgot.
That was the best ad on a runescape video that I’ve EVER seen.
I don't remember Zarfot. But I remember in 2004-5, Skychi made a few videos of tick manipulation. Not sure what happened to him. I would assume he was one of the few that popularized this meta as well.
Pretty sure 2008 is when swiftkit became popularized which had a few of these features built into the client. This was an instant ban if you were caught using it.
How did I let two days go by without knowing you uploaded?! Welcome back!
Glad to be here!
I remember this guy's post on the general forums. I always thought his methods were extremly difficult
Not weird at all, given how young we all were
@@rswillmissit true! But I was 17 out something? I did copied his slayer guide a lot though!
oh shit hello das me 15:01
Thanks for including my content in your video haha
what a video, your stuff really is the best runescape content ever
'I am euphoric!' Favorite sponsor plug line so far. lol
Oversimplified a bit at the intro there: every online game runs on a tick system, they just tend to be a lot more frequent so the player doesn't feel it as much.
7:12 this is funny af " carple what now " 😂😂
Always banger videos
Awesome video again!
I never knew how hard keeping a rhythm was till I tried to get better at OSRS.
I still remember when he maxed his account in less than one year which wws unheard of back then
Mfer really pulled a battlebeast and was like "THIS REALM IS TOO EASY FOR ME" and yeeted outta the game
Well, every game is on a tick system. They just tend to be faster than Runescape's. But all games rely on a loop, and each iteration of that loop is a tick or cycle or whatever you want to call it.
Competitive fighting games are almost solely based around it for combos, some of the UMVC3 guys I've played with were masters of the ticks, or frames basically
@@Joe_Bidens_hair_fetish usually modern competitive games run at multiple hundredths of hz. so those are probably quite old games.
Really hope Zarfot will get to see this doc about him. Great way to honor a person.
Great video thank you. I remember feeling like I figured out a rhythm when I was f2p pking all those years ago. Awh the magic of the game back when none of us knew what ticks were
Never heard of this guy and been playing on and off since like 06 thanks for the info, guy seems like one of the most unknown RS Legends tbh
I miss the golden social era of RuneScape. It was primarily a social outlet before anything. You have to remember that RuneScape came out before major social media, so it kind of functioned as social media in a way.
Didn't think of it that way, true
I went around in F2P the other day and was shocked at the amount of people standing around talking to each other
lmao that sponser transition xD
Zarfot is my all time favorite player, glad you made a video on him. Loved how he used bronze armor for his avatar lol
Haha! The guy changed his outfit consistently, but his forum avatar rocked the bronze... so, so did we :P
The problem with runescape "skill ceiling" and other games skill ceilings, is that RS does everything possible to be as unergonomic as possible.I can skill up in a FPS, or an RTS withoutabsolutely destroying my wrists. Not so much in RS.
I'm too lazy for tick manipulation. If I ever reach a point in the game where it's all about mastering the ticks in order to progress I'll probably lose interest.
I love this documentary and think anyone who has the time to master tick manipulation is an absolute boss of the game.
Dancing Queen by ABBA is also 100 beats per minute. Use this information how you will.
Always good to see another video on this channel.
Imagine skilling to Dancing Queen
@@rswillmissit Why imagine when Dancing Queen is only a few clicks away...
P.S. Hips Don't Lie by Shakira also works.
@@OldQueer oh my god
LMAO "here comes the first log timer"
I hate what tick manipulation has done
You mentioned his sole reason for making guides was to help others but I remember some players in the high level community back then accused him of making certain guides to merch off of people who would be using the guide's method. If I recall, one example was a niche herblore method he made a guide out of, and since he had already gotten 200m xp he was accused of stocking up on the herbs/secondaries, releasing the video and then dumping all the materials in GE for mega profit. After the accusations he took down the video lol.
Other than that incident (if even true since we don't have his GE logs) he was definitely the most revered player back then. Unfortunate he quit pretty early and right before he was about to take rank 1.
Definitely wont look away from the possibility that he had some additional intention with some of his videos. It wouldn't be unusual for the time, neither surprising given his skills within merching.
Although, one can't deny with his guide-making history on both the forums and early day TH-cam, that he more than likely did it purely to help out others
@@rswillmissit I mean yeah 99% of his stuff was purely for help, not like you can profit from people mining granite lol.
Even if he did release 1 or 2 videos where he turned a profit, I never saw it as a big deal. No one got scammed there, can just look at it as a reward for leaking his method.
The real problem were the top players who used merch clans back then. They were basically participating in scamming people (tell noobs to buyout an item then dump it early and they lose gp on the now crashed item). Gertjaars was guilty of this with the Smokin Mills merch clan, and of course Chessy018 who Zarfot made fun of because of her merch clan antics.
RuneScape history is like drinking a fine aged wine
Which song is playing when you are talking about Zarfot getting 200m prayer?
"It's not April Fools so I'm not trying to mislead you today."
I guess you also don't want to... Tick us off.
LOL just saw my old main account name on that list below Zarfot!
I remember when he started rocketing out of control. Those were the days man.
15:05 Aye is that RS2? I freaking love that UI! Sucks that I wasn't there :/
I've not laughed at an ad as much as I laughed at this NordVPN ad. That includes SuperBowl ads.
Not sure how long you've had p mod but congrats! You definitely deserve it
Coming close to 12 years now :')
@@rswillmissit that's whatsup!!
More good content Will. Good job!
yea i used it at times even for fire making done quick enough you make fires walking 1 step backwards without bending down auto lighting if timed correctly that is
Zarfot's Summary Achievements
- Inventor of the 1-tick method, or tick-manipulation and shared his methods with the player-base (having created guides)
- The #1 player to achieve 99 Runecrafting and did so on December 24, 2006 (the year the game was released)
- In June 2010, was Rank #3 and quitted shortly after the release of Ancient Effigies, Social Skilling and Jagex releasing more AFK training methods seeing the "Game becoming too easy"
- His name has been immortalized and cemented in history representing:
(1) Being excessively quick at something.
(2) Doing something without mistakes.
(3) Closest thing to being perfect
Rank 1: Prayer
Rank 3: Construction
Rank 3: Herblore
Rank 4: Crafting
Rank 28: Fletching
Rank 52: Cooking
I don't think he stopped playing when he disappeared... Just played on an account people didn't know. I was fishing near this guy once and remember a literal swarm post of people talking at him what's this ... any new guides ... Your the greatest ... Ad nauseam the whole time he was there. I left cause it was driving me crazy and none of it was even directed at me... It's like world 2 ge levels of chat following you around everywhere.
i just remember zarfot from his goofy xtranormal videos
ticks were a recognized term (in online gaming) loooooooong b4 Runescape was even a creative thought in someone’s head.
anecdotally, i learned of them while playing muds (text based games) and it preexisted my arrival.
i mean yeh... 600ms for 1 tick you can manipulate that so much so many people maxed because of his discovery still crazy to this day
tick manipulation was actually used in catching in rsc. no of us knew we were doing it, but we were
I remember my friend educating me about game ticks late 2006. It wasn't common knowledge back then. At the time due to that we discovered flicking - at the time you could get banned for that. Actual line about it wasn't drawn according to my pmod friend who later became somewhat of niche celebrity himself. I have no recollection that what time flicking picked up general use without fear of banning but I suspect it was around 2008 or early 2009.
Anyways, at the time (early 2007) flicking intervals were longer compared to these days when you click basically two times repeatedly (somebody later realized you can spam the prayer and it will do the same thing). Getting damaged every now and then was part of flicking and therefore used in when food got low and you couldn't risk your spot i.e. giant spiders/SOS or in unexpected combat i.e. evil chicken random.
About the term tick manipulation, it was already around 2010/2011 when S U O M I wasn't household name yet. Larger use for the name actually came around 2013/2014 at least in Finnish rs community but the methods were considered labour intensive and only few people were in the knowhow at least in the deeper insights.
Shift of the general spirit towards no xpwaste compared to "old times" came about 2014. Game got gradually easier and kids had grown to adults, osrs tributed the trip to nostalgia lane but generally the game is not the same anymore not because of content but because of the general dogma of thought.
Nostalgia trip was this too. Hope all the best for player called Inerti, never got to say goodbye but warm memories remain.
Thanks for the lore :) an enjoyable comment! It would be great if your old friend pooped up in the comments section! I've made a few friends through RuneScape. I've told them "hey we spend a good bit of time together each day and talk most of it. What ever you do if you decide to take a break or quit please let me know." I don't want to make a friend and then one day have them just disappear either :)
Wasn't also him who made DIY guides for training multiple skills, way before Ironman mode was a thing? I also recall of a gator00 account
I absolutely love the LIGMA acronym. It is so perfect.
It took them a long time to figure this out.
I was tick manipulating in castle wars back in 04-05, leading 'meelers' around barricades with my crystal bow, back before people took switches...
I didnt know that what i was doing was anything special, I just noticed you could time laggs with your character and got good at it.
If only I had investigated further... But I was more interested in the next drop party I could find.😂
Crazy to think he returned temporarily in 2012 just to say not to support Squeal of Fortune all those years ago and now it's a massive problem with RS3 now.
I used to write scripts for a few different bot clients back around 2007-2009 and I, as well as others, posted quite a few scripts that manipulated the tick system... The main one I really remember that I wrote was a script that chopped a full inventory, then fletched and alched unstrung bows in one tick (per bow, of course... Was profitable with Maple longbows or better at the time)... There were also plenty of other scripts that would Alch stackables or whatever while doing something else... I don't know when I started to see it being called "tick manipulation"... I would imagine it was probably on a botting site, for real, though...
I drop a like every video.
May be a simple task, but well deserved.
Hey is the outro music also RS3 music? If so, which one is it cause it's fire.
Hey, unfortunately not. It's an upgraded 10 second section of an old (and now cringey) track my buddy made years ago: th-cam.com/video/Gy_nGJRaDZU/w-d-xo.html
chat at 11:31 oof
Zarfot is an OG and a cool guy. Back in the day I used to chat him up and waste his xp rates in ape atoll but he was fine with it and a true dude. Hope he's doing well
Runescape is the Hotel California of games indeed.
Seeing Zarfot's Highscore's in 2022 that haven't changed since 2010. What a Legend! A time when there was no AFK RS, MTX promotions and so on.
Skill Level XP RS Rank
Overall 2545 2,354,325,588 204,092
Attack 114 62,740,180 41,569
Defence 114 62,298,634 67,356
Strength 114 58,572,560 41,219
Constitution 115 68,188,703 77,669
Ranged 114 57,865,738 63,048
Prayer 120 200,000,000 1
Magic 117 84,171,310 48,332
Cooking 120 200,000,000 52
Woodcutting 118 88,220,997 12,657
Fletching 120 200,000,000 28
Fishing 109 36,481,956 47,558
Firemaking 116 74,924,628 22,875
Crafting 120 200,000,000 4
Smithing 116 74,281,479 17,968
Mining 112 47,446,899 35,458
Herblore 120 200,000,000 3
Agility 110 42,322,930 27,646
Thieving 115 69,602,485 29,240
Slayer 115 65,137,872 71,320
Farming 117 82,574,860 58,778
Runecrafting 113 56,327,588 14,627
Hunter 110 39,310,777 32,653
Construction 120 200,000,000 3
Summoning 109 37,495,672 31,065
Dungeoneering 111 46,360,308 81,976
Divination 1 0 0
Invention 1 0 0
Archaeology 1 0 0
I can't be the only one extremely curious what these players are up to now? I mean, this dude had to have been grinding 18 hours (possibly even more) a day.. how do you just up and quit? Like, where do you go after that? Boggles my mind.
I'm more interested on what kind of craziness they'll do outside the game. I really admire these people even if what they did are just "games" to most people. You have to have some talent, insight, or whatever it is that made you achieve such feats.
as a 2007scape player, i dont even recognize the game that most of these clips are from
Without knowing it he changed both game versions a lot, even combat system, 1 tick ags or 2H hitting in OSRS, 4 tick auto attack in RuneScape 3...
Glad his name wasnt forgotten. Think most people on 07 have no idea who he was
omg i forgot all about sal's realm of runescape
i just always wonder how prayers who were kind of unknown before were able to even have enough cash to buy 200m pray xp