Project of the Week — RuneScape Goal Tracker Part 1

How can I apply what I’ve learned about data science to reach my goal of a 100m cash stack on Old School RuneScape?

Yes, you’ve read correctly. I still play RuneScape. I’ve been playing on and off since I was in middle school, roughly 13 years ago. No matter what game I binge, I always come back to RuneScape. I’ve had many accounts and I’ve progressed pretty far, a couple of combat 99s and I’ve fought nearly every boss in the game. However, it dawned on me that I’ve never had a cash stack of over 75,000,000 gp. For someone who has played the game as long as I have, I think it’s pretty awful I’ve never been able to save over 75,000,000 gp at one time.

Now there has to be some reason why I’m unable to save that much gp, so I’m going to try and apply what I’ve learned over the past couple of weeks about data science to reach a new milestone of a 100,000,000 gp cash stack.

There are a couple of parameters that I want to log and analyze:

• What am I doing when playing RuneScape? Maybe I can’t save enough money because I’m just spending it all, or am I not doing anything productive.
• What money makers are going to allow me to reach my goal faster?
• What percentage of my goal comes from bossing, skilling and flipping?