ok, well...i played runescape for like...a while 3 years off and on i believe...
but as most people say, "if your gonna waste ur life on a game, pick a good one" soooo, in recent updates JaGeX has been sucking BIG TIME...

Heres what im looking for

Really need these two
-skills (I.E. - fishing, cooking, mining, smithing etc.)
-highscores (BIGGIE)

others
-a community that doesnt involve ten year olds cursing more than they speak normally
-only one race...but multiple races will do fine
-a friends system
-CANNOT BE TEXT BASED
-must be able to walk around freely
-a good PvP system in which people have a risk of losing stuff
-lvls that dont go up to outrageous numbers...(1-1000000)
- NOT HUGE!!! in other words, a game with windows XP reqs...
Games I've tried (most of them not working

Runescape...
Eternal Lands...
Wurm online...
ultima online...
sherwood...

Here are a few:
Guild Wars
Rohan Online
Fury :P
Shadowbane
Requiem: Bloodymare
Diablo 2
Perfect World

World of kungfu

go out there, PK and earn yourself the coldblooded, madman and public enemy titles :D

kal online .. you can fish overnight when you are afk there is also a pk mode and it has quite nice graphics but the only thing is theres only 3 character to choose from

wizard
knight
archer

You should try out Seeds of Time Online (http://www.seedsoftime.net/). It's browser-based and uses a system where you can keep up with the top players in the game even if you're only able to play for 30 minutes per day. I.e. don't spend 5-10 hours of your daily life grinding like you would in WoW or Runescape.


Really need these two
-skills (I.E. - fishing, cooking, mining, smithing etc.)
-highscores (BIGGIE)
SoTO has all of those skills, as well as top player lists (http://www.seedsoftime.net/top_players.php).

You should try out Seeds of Time Online (http://www.seedsoftime.net/). It's browser-based and uses a system where you can keep up with the top players in the game even if you're only able to play for 30 minutes per day. I.e. don't spend 5-10 hours of your daily life grinding like you would in WoW or Runescape.


SoTO has all of those skills, as well as top player lists (http://www.seedsoftime.net/top_players.php).
I just looked at the front page of that webpage and wanted to hurt myself

I just looked at the front page of that webpage and wanted to hurt myself

You're in the same boat as me.

When I Quit Runescape..I Went To Conquer..PK Was Huge There..And..Then Theres Domo For Crafting..Fishing..Mining...PVP..Flying And..Ranks