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Velstadt

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How will those affect those of us don't play the game at 100% concentration and often alt-tab forums, youtube, etc?

We're prone to missing text sent by players due to being tabbed at times, thus leading them to believe we're bots and then reporting us.

Will the system be monitoring players via a pattern in their mouse movement & clicking speed, or will it just be entirely judgement based by a human being?

26-Feb-2014 00:44:36

Piccolotti

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Sounds like an effective system so far. Obviously a lot of us have questions like how this will stop runite ore bots, or whether playing legitly in a bot world will get you banned, etc, but hopefully those things will get sorted out.

26-Feb-2014 00:45:23

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Saxo

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Btw for anyone curious.. world 85 and world 86 are these worlds and you can login by changing the URL

Logged in and looked about, few wc bots but not much else. Will look about again after Thursday.

26-Feb-2014 00:53:44

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ScapeRune

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How will those affect those of us don't play the game at 100% concentration and often alt-tab forums, youtube, etc?

We're prone to missing text sent by players due to being tabbed at times, thus leading them to believe we're bots and then reporting us.

Will the system be monitoring players via a pattern in their mouse movement & clicking speed, or will it just be entirely judgement based by a human being?
I doubt they'll tell us that sort of info, but given how a lot of people play like that, I'm sure they'll account for that and not start force hopping people for AFKing. If anything, being AFK is proof that you're not botting because you're not making any inputs.
Cabbage? CABBAGE!

26-Feb-2014 00:53:57

Adams King

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I hope this helps.

26-Feb-2014 01:33:04

Ditty M

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Seems to be a lot of people doubting the possible effectiveness of this update, whereas I'm actually feeling pretty positive about it. I have no doubt the system will have flaws when it's first released but it's really nice to see a new update on the horizon. Guess we'll just have to wait and see how effective this will be.

Is there an ETA for this?

26-Feb-2014 01:49:04

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Pikkupstix

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Wow, Mod Mat K took the time to read 10+ pages of comments...

most JMods only respond to the first two pages! Pretty nice that he took the time to answer so many questions