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Davidh2o
Feb Member 2021

Davidh2o

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I'm glad you guy are getting on the ball and doing more good, but I think a way to help out with bot removal is to send a mod out to where someone is reporting a possible bot activity since I noticed newer bots bypassing your safe guards that you set up last year.

05-Jan-2013 10:15:58

Nyhunter
Aug Member 2012

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i really feel like your doing nothing to fix it ....

i was in world 36 yesturday and i watched a account log on and about 20 bot log on one after another and trade that account but when i tried to contact some one i had no answer and nothing happened..

so tht guy made out because of a broken system that dosent work...

05-Jan-2013 10:27:53

CuriousCat33

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To Westo454 on page 26: This is a nice idea, but it's what Jagex tried in the past with random events. They ended up being removed from the game because they were a hinderance for real players & did nothing to slow down most of the bots as they read Runescape's code & could easily be programmed to "answer" correctly in the events.

To DeathPiggy on pg25: very true. The player-detection system could work, IF it was people who had proven themselves consistently (basically player mods) who were doing the detecting. But rewarding them is going to encourage the wrong kinda of people to do try to earn their way up to doing it as well, so it needs to be unrewarded, sadly.

To all the doubters: do you have ANY IDEA how quickly 3rd world sweatshops can produce more bots?? do you have any concept of the number of players being reported?? do you have any idea the number of accounts to check to make sure they are really botting, of the manpower required to do these things, of the sacrifices in terms of never making any other changes or updates to the game Jagex would need to make to have even a chance of making progress with the bots?
(and it's likely easiest to sweep one skill or activity at a time, which seems to be what they are doing, at least one of their tactics... but where one falls, more will rise until PEOPLE WORLDWIDE STOP BUYING RS GOLD/STOP MAKING BOT PROGRAMS or until, if we are lucky**** no longer uses JavaScript. All my hopes to have large success against bots mostly lie in the code-base change hopefully being released sometime this year.

To whoever said on pg 20-something that "other games don't have 90% botters" - it's because Runescape uses JavaScript, and other very popular MMOs mostly don't.

To everyone: I still think the trading limits systems Jagex put in place back in 2006 (and later removed due to player demand) were the best thing any MMO has ever managed to do against botters/gold-sellers. They made gold-selling unviable/undesirable to do..

05-Jan-2013 10:32:46

El Rey Soy

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obelisk,

Thank you for positive comment referring back to me :)

I do think there are many ways to stop bots/gold farms and the high amount of gambling (rwt being apart of that)

Jagex has always been a company that keeps things for the owners, they have been starting to talk more about what they're doing. It's very easy to say its just 'PR exercise'
In the very beginning, they never told us how many or even if they did ban people. (2003 timeperiode)
So I think it's a bit easy (not saying you claimed it but in general) to say its all just an 'PR exercise'.

I do agree with you about showing us how many bots they reported, giving us more information about certain things ' botwatch updates, banning (removing people from highscores) what not.

That would be wonderfull to see, all we can do is show Jagex we'd like to see more of that and hopefull they will listen and provide it to us :D

05-Jan-2013 10:33:50

Kubeeek

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But i still can see these 200mil experience botters on hiscores!
Jagex team is it hard to ban at least those 99 lvl botters??????
I don't think that you can make runescape like old one and see on that "people currently playing" counter number of 200 000 people online without any botters back but you can still save that game for 10 000 people... or less....

05-Jan-2013 10:34:02

RS KING

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@ Mod Jacmob - 02-Jan-2013

"In this particular event many have been caught for botting dungeoneering, but that's not the only area we've taken action in; we're already moving elsewhere. Having said that BotWatch will remain watching dungeoneering very closely from now on." ~ Quick find code: 15-16-388-64171738

Great job Jac, don't stop busting these losers, glad to see your monitoring Dung and moving into other botted areas.

On a side note, you should look at the recent action from the lazy loser enemy botters in the referrer logs linking directly to the hlf / High level forums from elsewhere.

05-Jan-2013 10:36:48 - Last edited on 05-Jan-2013 10:37:48 by RS KING

Zapzing

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I'm certain they know who and how many players that are botting. But why would they want to ban thousands of players that pay membership each month?
The bots they did ban are most likely just F2P players that doesn't benefit Jagex in any way.
They said they even banned maxed players, I doubt they banned as many as they want us to think. I know many of my friends that bot and they are all still here, high levels.

IMO I don't care as much about the botters as I do with the combat update, which sucks ass.

05-Jan-2013 10:45:05

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