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25-Apr-2023 20:20:34

J Hot161
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J Hot161

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but the thing which is truly shocking...

looking in the vorkath highscores, all the players from rank 2 - 15 are ALL 200M RANGE XP yet their other skills are so sus looking.

now yes their total levels are higher, but thats bearing in mind that DS2 has a lot of skill and quest reqs.

this seriously needs looking into, i mean, if i had time to scroll through every boss, every skill, for the top 10,000 players in the highscores, i would be certain 100% you can find thousands of bots and goldfarmers/rwt accounts.

but i don't get paid to do this, i can't file out reports in game as the player needs to have spoken, and to send a list of that many accounts to the jagex tipoff email, would take up so much time, i would want some form of compensation for doing so.

but please jagex, either give player/forum moderators slightly higher powers, dedicate some staff to scrolling the high scores, or, if need be, recruit staff who are willing to scroll the high scores and compile a list, even if you make some sort of voluntary agreement where you don't legally have to pay the national minimum wage, because there are thousands of us legitmate players, who are getting sick and tired of seeing bots and goldfarmers ruin the game.

25-Apr-2023 20:23:03 - Last edited on 25-Apr-2023 20:25:21 by J Hot161

Bruce Waayne
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How can they ban hundreds and thousands each day when the playerbase playing is only 140k ish... Daily, are bots being detected when logged out?? By their numbers @ 1k bots banned aday should be cleaned up in less than 4 months cause not all 140k of us are bots.
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26-Apr-2023 00:08:51

Zeffirino
Jan Member 2023

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Please don't air usernames of players with unfounded allegations on the forums. It's against the forum rules to do this.

To answer your question though: you correctly noted that Jagex bans heaps of these accounts on a daily basis but the problem will continue renewing itself as there's a fairly low barrier to entry to creating these bots again.

Otherwise we'd be seeing those numbers dwindle. Just keep ensure you're reporting and perhaps even use the tipoff email for suspect bot farms.

26-Apr-2023 05:24:19

Rooh
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@J Hot161

As others have mentioned, you can't name and shame on the forums, best thing to do is report them in game.
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26-Apr-2023 09:10:17

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