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Over the years we’ve watched how the cat and mouse game with bots has evolved from sleeping bags and Black Hole to Botany Bay; goblins to Fight Caves. Looking at the most recent updates to the Wilderness bosses and the new barriers to entry, it would appear the focus is on mitigating the problem instead of tackling it. However, we still need—and I think I have—the final solution to busting bot.

Players need to be heavily encourage to report bots—and for Jagex to follow them up. As of right now, I am only informed my reports have been received, but it doesn’t look like any have stuck. Sometimes, it feel as though Jagex have sanctioned some botters when I see how bad the overcrowding has gotten. I’m reminded of some of the corrupt member of the Jagex team we’ve had in the past and sadly it’s not outside the realm of possibility that it could be the case.

“If right-click report hasn’t encouraged more players to report rule breakers, then what will?” I hear you ask, and the answer is: to gamify banning bots. Back in 2016, we watched as Jagex streamed the searching and destroying of bots; teleporting them outside of Gillenore before killing them and then seeing what the account had on it. If we had devs doing this sort of thing every day, it would massively curb botting as botters would fear the hunt. In fact we saw this in the early days of RuneScape when bots would logout when a player moderator or staff would enter the vicinity. This is exactly what we need more of. MUCH MORE!

Now that I’ve buttered you up for my suggestion, here goes:

Busta is a new battered and bruised robot who escaped Botany Bay and now wonders around the mines south of Varrock—a very iconic botted place. Busta has a reward store where you can buy “I report bots” t-shirts and other merchandise with a new form of currency: Counterfeit GP.

26-Aug-2023 22:03:38

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For every F2P bot you report for macroing (and that is subsequently banned), you will receive one counterfeit coin. Busta will exchange them for t-shirt, wares, and other merchandise. As for the P2P bots, you will earn ‘shiny’ counterfeit gp. Busta will exchange these for even more valuable wares, including membership bonds and lucky potions. However, Busta’s rewards aren’t cheap!

What I really like about the idea of anti-bot cosmetics is that bots will easily detect players wearing them (like they did PMods and Jmods) and leave. In a way, players become the new random event that’ll actually curb bots. Just having the shirt ready to put on to ward bots away would be a huge step toward stopping bots entirely.

As for the bonds, lucky potion, and other valuables, these are reward players won’t want to play without, thus encouraging players to keep on reporting bots. Also, the bragging rights of being able to renew membership via reporting bots isn’t too shabby either.

Lastly, the counterfeit coins themselves are the most powerful element of this whole idea, as it acts as an accumulative way and demonstrable proof that your reports have turned into action. You’ll know, with your ten of thousands of shiny counterfeit gp and “I report bots” t-shirt, that you have really made a difference in stopping cheaters. Sure, the bots will keep on coming, but they will now have to face an entire army players who are actively hunting them down like prey. And ultimately, it’s your reports that act as the first step the anti-cheat team need to begin their investigation.

26-Aug-2023 22:03:46

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