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So basically its like this:
1.Your suspected of being a bot so your sent to a hidden world.
2.just because you are sent there does not mean you will be banned.
3.While there you can switch back to your previous world if and/or when you realized you are even on a different world.
4.While the players are in the world they will be watched closely (no offense but sounds like a peeping tom
)
5.You will then basically use bots caught there to test ways of detecting and banning them.
That sounds all good except how is this any different from the back and forth you have been doing with bots for over 11+ years now? And how many innocent players will be caught in the crossfire? And how will this help players actually get a chance at getting these resources? And how will it stop those botted resources from getting flooded into the OSRS economy?
You know these botters will program to realize how they are detected and change up their routines to make them harder to detect. And be programmed so that once they realize they are not on one of the official worlds they will just switch back. It does not stop gold farmers (players playing the game to gain gp to sell to gp sellers). It does not stop merchant botters or mass chat spammers.
I'm struggling to see an upside to this to be honest. Yes some will be trapped. But so will some regular players. And those players do not even have to be botting to be caught up in it. And this will only be effective until the botters figure out how you are doing it and circumvent it meaning then you'll be catching more regular players then bots.
1.Your suspected of being a bot so your sent to a hidden world.
2.just because you are sent there does not mean you will be banned.
3.While there you can switch back to your previous world if and/or when you realized you are even on a different world.
4.While the players are in the world they will be watched closely (no offense but sounds like a peeping tom
)
5.You will then basically use bots caught there to test ways of detecting and banning them.
That sounds all good except how is this any different from the back and forth you have been doing with bots for over 11+ years now? And how many innocent players will be caught in the crossfire? And how will this help players actually get a chance at getting these resources? And how will it stop those botted resources from getting flooded into the OSRS economy?
You know these botters will program to realize how they are detected and change up their routines to make them harder to detect. And be programmed so that once they realize they are not on one of the official worlds they will just switch back. It does not stop gold farmers (players playing the game to gain gp to sell to gp sellers). It does not stop merchant botters or mass chat spammers.
I'm struggling to see an upside to this to be honest. Yes some will be trapped. But so will some regular players. And those players do not even have to be botting to be caught up in it. And this will only be effective until the botters figure out how you are doing it and circumvent it meaning then you'll be catching more regular players then bots.
25-Feb-2014 14:38:05
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