OP needs to realize that the year is 2018. If any of the servers that were up in the 2010 would be reopened in same format, they would be dead. Times have changed.

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If they vote on a vpn if can be seen and put on a ban list (i know they do it with minecraft servers, not sure if they do it with rsps atm) before the vote even works, it says "you are on a vpn and cannot vote"
Runelocus atleast does manual checks of suspicious votes and go straight to banning servers from their toplist.

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A real server advertises itself. I created Ultimascape, and Derpscape and with no paid advertisements. Ultimascape was first place on all RSPS for a few months in 2009 peaking at 140 players, and Derpscape fought for 4th to 12th place for a year straight in 2012 with 60 players online at most times.

Let me ask you this, could you spawn items at all in that server? I'm sure there were more reasons other than their paid advertisements that drew players away. I'm not the only one who wants to pk for reward/risk alive today and I shall make a server and prove it

YO Paladino, let me get Battlescape 2010 so I don't have to use P.I or Elvarg base please and thank you.
Toplist traffic can't be compared to what it was back then. The player traffic has been increasing from the other sources. You can't compare 2009 rsps playerbases with 2018 playerbases, doesn't make sense at all.