Tried playing Ragnarok Online again. It's still depressing :/ Dozens of max level, insanely glowy people sitting in guild hangouts, hardly anyone else around. And leveling is just as slow as before. I was getting .1% per kill at level 95 transcendent. That's 1000 kills to get one level, and it will only take longer as time goes on...
I forget the actual calculations... but Runescape's leveling is even slower.
In order for me to get Lord Reudh (my player) from level 71 - 72 in Attack, Strength and Defense (where the max is 99, and one 'Combat Level' requires 4 of attack, defense, strength, constitution...) required something like 84,000exp per level... to get a combat level up i'd need 84k X 3, or 252,000 exp.
At the best possible place to train in Free to Play, Level 50 Giant Spiders in the Stronghold of Security on the Pestilence floor,
i would get 200exp per kill. I can usually kill a single giant spider in about 10-25 seconds.
So, 252,000 exp / 200 per spider = 1260 spiders. Assuming I'm on my own and am going as fast as possible, managing 10 second kills, that's 210 minutes straight, assuming I don't have to stop and heal and also make bank runs to restock my healing supplies.
Calculating this reminds me why I quit runescape.
Now, with the bots, i would be lucky to get 50 second kills because there are so many players there... that's 17.5 hours straight to level up one combat level.
NOT GONNA HAPPEN.