This is a equal. Playing an instrument is RS gold something you actively practise to improve upon, there's a continuous gratification feedback as you are constantly enhancing your ability and therefore the quality of your play little by little. Grinding a skill over and above doesn't take skill, there is no danger of failure, I know full well I can click a stone to mine 1000 times or once. It doesn't take skill to perform, and it's not something you will need to practise to get much better at.I think the runescape equal would be learning raids or something. It takes a while and you have to focus and get better skillwise, same as learning a new tune on guitar for example. Training mining? Yeah..not so much.

Another major difference is that you are never on"autopilot" if you are playing an instrument (if you are doing it right at a minimum ). There's essentially nothing that isn't autopilot. I frankly do not think there's anything akin to this RS grind out of older school MMOs. I honestly can't explain why I have the urge for ~ 80 hours after to play it. Of course its not exactly the same, the one is a skill, the other is a life skill that is real. However grinding a rs ability has a lot (and not all) of those attributes as well: you get continuous gratification feedback (leveling up, completing tasks/agility laps/mining complete inventories/getting drops/getting pets etc.), you are able to fail obstacles, die at managers. Your skill as a human can get better in supervisors or your personality may get better at climbing obstacles/crafting multiple runes. And not all the skills have exactly the same amount of satisfaction feedback.

There is a degree of permanence I get out of runescape. Some games be fully enthralled through the experience out and that I can play. But the experience is only like 16 hours as it's narrative based and does not have replay-ability. If I try to re-experience it and go back, it suddenly feels like a chore with no prospects. Runescape is a the majority of the moment but it's always there. The chore becomes a match play mechanic that allows you push not just replay the 16 hours of articles. I look at it - there is plenty of things I do enjoy doing over and above.

But I can not deny there lots of boring as you state to get through. I really do those when I would have been seeing netflix/YouTube/whatever other non-technical hobby anyhow, not the other way around. I also listen to lots of music - it can give me something to"perform" but not actually requiring any of my mind, letting me focus 95% over the symphony or album or anything. Feel like watching an episode or two of the sopranos? Eh let's toss on osrs and do a little agility.

For me it's about establishing and achieving goals. Imo, Runescape isn't really like other point and click games because there is an ending in sight that's also attainable if you put your mind to it. Other clickers I've played don't really have that ceiling therefore setting aims seems more pointless if there's no actual end. I believe point and click games get a bad rap and for good reason, but Runescape really has squeezes the most it can out of a fairly simple premise to make it a fun and creative experience. Also keep in mind Runescape was basically intended to be a text-based game such as old computer games in the 80s, but with more interactive visuals to cheap RuneScape gold align with the text choices. That is essentially why everything has an examine option despite it having no significant purpose.