When you come to the log in your runescape accounts, the screen that gives you the option of choosing your own world or having the computer choose a world for you. Let's say you always click on the computer select world button.



Stop! Never do this any more.

Always, always, always choose your own world! The number of players in each world directly affects several important factors in the game, and the wise player knows how to use the world-select option to their advantage. When you are looking to find free cowhides, for example, you want to choose a world with about 1,000 players in it. With this number, there will be enough players killing cows without there being too many people who are also there picking up cowhides. You can usually find your fill of hides in a few minutes in such a world.

But world hoping comes into effect when the world you are in is not allowing you to do this. Maybe no one is killing cows. Maybe there are too many people picking the hides up and you aren't able to get any. No problem. All you have to do is click the ?world-select? button and choose another world to go to.

The number of people playing Runescape at any time varies greatly depending upon the day and the time of day. In general there are not that many people playing early in the morning, or very late at night. There are lots of people playing on the weekends, and there are lots of people who play on weekday evenings. Keep an eye out for how many people are playing when you play, and if those numbers are different at other times or on other days. You will quickly get to know when people are playing the game, when they are not, and you will learn to use this knowledge to your advantage. For now, you want to focus on world with about 1,000 people. If you can't get enough cowhides in your current world, world-hop until you have enough. Take all your cowhides to the Lumbridge bank, deposit them, and repeat the process until you have 100 cow hides. Since you have 28 spaces in your inventory, this takes at least 4 trips. Once you have 100 cowhides in your bank account, you need to withdraw them all.

Once you have withdrawn all the cowhides as banknotes, you also need to withdraw all your runes and whatever runescape gold you have. Take these things and leave the Lumbridge castle. Go east across the bridge and go to the fence gate with the 4 guards. He will tell you it costs 10 gold to get through. Pay the guard, go through the gate, and travel south until you get to the Al Kahlid bank. You should see several people standing around the bank lobby buying or selling things. Keep an eye-out for people looking to buy cowhides. They will usually say something like ?Buying cowhides,? or ?Buying hides.?