This video is full of truth. I'm hoping that Jagex save the wildy with the future updates.
Being one of the people who still PK in F2P multi out of habbit, I've noticed that there are very few new names among the people I meet. Mostly pkers that recognize me from years back and come greet me. What happened to the noobs that used to lurk around places like hill giants and gdz? As His Lordship puts it, they have no reason to enter the wilderness anymore. For over 5 years, Jagex has solely focused on game updates outside the wilderness and in safe activities.
Alas, I still do PK in F2P multi, almost daily. With how small the F2P world has become (unless there are wars on, only W57 and W1 are valid PK worlds, compared to nearly every world having action back in the days), I know basically everything that's going on by just checking a few FC's. Still, as long as there are challenging fights to be had, it never gets boring for me.
COME FIGHT!
Anytime from 4 GMT to 11 GMT (11AM EST to 6PM EST) there's almost guaranteed to be some action in the wilderness. Hunt down open CC's like Ls Life(90-100s), Wildcattwo2(90-100s), Im soBeast(80-90s), even mains like DP, CD, S3, BT, KOD (100-120s). Have a relaxed midweek trip to practice your piling and spamming in game. Make some bank loot, without the fear of being rushed at every turn by your most fierce rivals. Get new recruits by fighting people other than the same pure clans you fight every single saturday.
"No we're pures we get owned by mains". When I was leading Fatality on a trip and I heard there's a (noobish) main clan PKing or fighting somewhere, they instantly became the top priority over any pure clan we were supposed to be fighting. Why not? Great practice for actual piling instead of the sniping and massclicking that pure clans usually do. Great practice for tanking and listening, great recruitment for the clan and even some free rune. I'd even go as far as to say that the aim to have fun on trips, instead of focusing on any single clan, made FI what it was for 3 consistent years back then, the undisputed #1 F2P pure clan. Ask any old school FI and they'll tell you that those were the best times they've had in FI.
I invite all pure clans (especially HPC's) to get the hell out of clan wars and join me in F2P PKing anytime you like. /msg Nip in IRC if you can't find any action and I'll find you some.