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| Combat level | 86 | ||
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| Started playing | 2002 | ||
| Ended playing | Late 2006 | ||
| Known for | Being 1st in Runecrafting for a long time; running a very popular and successful business | ||
Larryr is a RuneScape Player Moderator who quit late 2006. She is most famous for being the number one Runecrafter of RuneScape for a very long time, and for having 5 times the next nearest competitors experience. She was also the second person to achieve 99 Runecrafting.
Throughout her RuneScape career, she encouraged many players to continue playing the game by giving them gold pieces (GP).
On April 4 2011, a new NPC named Larriar was made, who is the master of Runecrafting and sells the cape of Runecrafting.
Message congrats to Larryr on 100M Exp
100,000,000 Exp
History
Larryr's user was created in 2002 by an adult female. Her son was the one who originally asked her to come to RuneScape, and Larryr was named in honor of an immediate family member.
Larryr trained skills and did some quests, but did not become well known until after the Runecrafting skill was released in 2004. She then came up with an idea of creating a Runecrafting business, and eventually earned enough GP to hire people for her business. She hired her first runner on May 15 2004, and reached 99 Runecrafting four months later, on September 23 2004, becoming only second to do so, after Kale Stille.
Larryr created the business in order to gain XP in Runecrafting quicker and to help other players. She crafted nature runes and made 200-250 thousand XP each day on average. Her business was also one of the first created, and remains one of the biggest and longest running Runecrafting businesses ever. It remained active until Larryr quit in 2006, when it was disbanded. Some tried to keep the business going after her disappearance, but it did not work out as none of the managers or CEO's of the business could craft double nature runes and were losing a lot of money quickly.
Larryr left with just over 157 million XP in Runecrafting, a score that was around 5 times higher than the ranked 2 person at the time and that is known as a gaming first: prior to this time, it was unheard of to have a score five times higher than the closest competitor in a MMORPG game for a long period of time. This score also remained unchallenged for many years, but would eventually be beaten by Phoenix Odin almost four years later, on September 14, 2009[1] (about five years after she gained rank 1).
Progression of Runecrafting Score
| Date | Rank | Level | XP |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2004 | 3 | 75 | N/A |
| July 5, 2004 | 2 | 83 | N/A |
| September 23, 2004 | 1 | 99 | N/A |
| November 26, 2004 | 1 | 99 | 25 million + |
| December 17, 2004 | 1 | 99 | 30 million + |
| January 5, 2005 | 1 | 99 | 40 million + |
| February 14, 2005 | 1 | 99 | 45 million + |
| March 4, 2005 | 1 | 99 | 50 million + |
| July 19, 2005 | 1 | 99 | 75 million + |
| October 1, 2005 | 1 | 99 | 100 million + |
| July 25, 2006 | 1 | 99 | 150 million + |
| 2006 | 1 | 99 | 157 million + |
Disappearance
Before quitting, her account was temporarily banned once due to security reasons, but this only lasted one day.
She quit because her son was in Everquest 2 and asked her to join that game with him. Her reasons for leaving were not because of the trade limit update.
After she quit playing and shortly before the trade limit update was set though, Larryr returned to the game once more so that she could have MrsChrystler, a former CEO of Larryr's business sell her last white partyhat and give the money away to other RuneScape players. The money was given away in 100 K amounts to many new players that no one from the team had met before. The money was passed out by CEOs and Managers. During this time, some people also tried to talk her into getting 200 million XP in Runecrafting, but she refused to do so.
Larryr today is not in gaming much anymore, she is presently working diligently in art to become an even more famous real life artist, stating: “Its the treasures we leave behind that positively inspire the world that really make a true difference for having lived.” When asked in September 2010 if she will ever return to RuneScape Larryr gave the following comment, which gives a glimmer of hope that she may change her mind about returning: "I'm not eager to return, but who knows what I'll choose to do at 70, giggle."
Business
Larryr's business was expansive and well designed. Many of the members were recruited through posts made on forums, were required to go through training, as well as go through the rules. Other members were recruited in the game by Recruiters. Larryr paid everyone with GP, and provided all essence for runners. All jobs were promotions from within, working their way up from being runners.
Jobs
There were many jobs, such as:
| Job | Description |
|---|---|
| Runner |
A Runner's job was to take 10,525 GP and 25 noted essence and unnote the essence somehow (either by banking at the Shilo Village bank, using glory amulets and the gnome gliders, or by selling their essence to a general store and buying it back) and return to the line to trade the unnoted essence to a collector for more noted essence and money. FUCK THIS SHIT NOOBS |
| Collector | A Collector's job was to collect the 25 unnoted essence from the runners and pay them with 10525 GP and 25 noted essence, then deliver the essence to Larryr. |
| Recruiter | A Recruiter's job was to travel across the worlds of RuneScape advertising a good way to make money, and then telling those who were interested in finding out more information about the business and what their job would be to come with them to a training session. Recruiters hired Runners. |
| Security | The Security's job was to make sure there were no line jumpers and made sure only people from the business were buying the essence from the general store. If problems arose, Security would look for a new world and then once one was found they would PM other members of the business and tell them to switch to another world, and tell them to turn private chat off so that people could not find them. |
| Trainer | The Trainer's job was to train runners. They would explain how much essence and how much money they would be getting, explain that they were to unnote it and then come wait in line to trade with a collector. They told the runners that if they wanted to work for larryr, they would need to follow the general rules of no cutting in line, be kind, no flaming or harassing etc. and follow all RuneScape rules. |
| Managers | The Manager's job was to make sure everything stayed organized and ran smoothly. They would tell the other workers what jobs to do and what was needed the most. They would ask a member of the security team to find the world if one was needed, they would decide if more people were needed to collect and if so how many. They would also make the ultimate decisions on if someone was allowed or not allowed to work for Larryr anymore. If someone caused problems the managers would fire the person. Some of the managers would buy essence or sell natures when the CEO was not around to do so. |
| CEO | The CEO of the company sold most of the Nature Runes that Larryr made. They also bought most of the essence Larryr used to craft natures with. They made threads in the Runes Forum to do both of these as well as buying the essence by going to many Free to Play (f2p) and Pay to Play (p2p) worlds and typing the offer in public chat in the bank. |
The CEO, Managers, Managers in Training, Trainers, Security, Recruiters, and Collectors were all paid exactly 100 K per hour. Larryr would keep track of who started working and the time they started each day. When someone was ready to stop working for the day, Larryr would do the math on how many hours and minutes that person worked. The runners on a good day could actually make more than the collectors at 10,525 GP per trade, if they used a bank to unnote the essence instead of selling it and buying it back.
The purpose of giving away money was to help low levels gain money until they were a high enough level to gain money themselves.
Larryr (the one with the Dragon armour) with other members of the business.
Larryr's profit from the business
Larryr did not gain a huge profit for herself with the business. She spent some of the money that would have been her own profit buying white partyhats for the managers to wear so that the rest of the crew would know who they were. She often lost money because people would steal the essence from the general store and craft their own runes with it, or take the initial 10,525 GP and 25 noted ess and bank it and never come back; she would not make a profit off of that. She was also paying between 7 and 15 people 100 K per hour each night to do all of the jobs listed above that did not involve bringing in unnoted essence to make natures to sell.
Events
Once a week everyone except the runners met for a meeting to discuss how things were going; problems that occurred; promotions; how to manage things more effectively, and rules, among other things. In the earlier years of the business Larryr crafted for 12–14 hours almost every day, then later cut it down to between 8 and 10 hours a day until 2006.
After work sometimes the managers would hold events, sometimes Larryr would stay and participate in these events. It was a way to get to know the crew better, and give them a chance to get to know who they worked for. These events were either helping with quests so that the runners did not have to use the general store, or things like Agility in Brimhaven, Fishing in Catherby, Trawler, and various other things.
Many fun events and drop parties were held on a semi regular basis as well. Larryr would commonly say, “I give you this gift in hopes that someday you will give a complete stranger a gift to pass on that inspiration.” When she gave items away or held drop party events for runners. There was even a favorite story time where the runners would often stop running to hear a story (the rest of the team would either listen to these stories or just chat with one another).
Training
People who wanted to join Larryr's business had to go through a training session that was usually around twenty to thirty minutes long, as well as go through a pre-interview and get an introduction to the crew.
Pre-interview
Applicants would go through a pre-interview if they had not already gone through one before. In the interview, the trainer would ask the applicant questions, such as how they found out about the business, and if they had been or are currently running for a crafter.
Training session
The training session differs depending on the job the applicant applied for. If the applicant applied to be a runner, for example, they be told what the runners job was, and they would go through some basic rules, such as not to cut in line. The Trainer would then take the applicant after the training session and introduce them to the crew so they get to know them better.
Record Keeping
The Trainer would normally PM the Managers that were online and Larryr the name, age and date the applicant was hired, as well as the job they were hired in afterwards. This information was recorded by hand on paper for a few years, and was eventually transferred to an online database.
Stats
With the exception of four skills released after she quit, all of her skills are level 63 or higher as of 2011; the highest one being Runecrafting at level 99. As of 2011, she has a total level of 1502.
See also
References
- ↑ "Phoenix Odin". RuneTracker.