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Mrs Shazbat
Sep Member 2009

Mrs Shazbat

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Thank you... I havent played much OS lately and it was partly because of the bots (and party that I was busy in the real world..... $sadface$)

I'll be happy to play again now I know at least something is being done about them....
You had to look, didn't you? This spoiler got scared and ran away, shame on you!

12-Jul-2013 19:29:01

Transcendent

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Thanks for all the hard work on fighting bots, and please keep looking at the high scores and heavily botted items and areas, I am sure there are a lot more in the higher ranks who do not deserve to be there.

In additon to botting, there are two more problems that urgently need to be addressed:

1) Doubling Scams and player hosted trust games are rampant in Old School and need to be stopped.

2) Attempted scamming is increasing at an alarming rate. I believe we need to be able to report not just successful scams, but to be able to report attempted scams and use the chat and trade window changed items as evidence for reports.

For example, if a player puts an expensive item up, then changes it to a similar looking item worth much less then accepts, and does this not just once to one player but repeatedly to many players, its pretty clear they are attempting to scam and should be banned for it, and the evidence is right there in the trade window of what they changed, so there could be in game evidence to catch them.

I'd also suggest taking a close look at anyone selling 100k or more of anything. Some who have a lot of the same items are not breaking rules, but if I were investigating cheating I would look at those trading large amounts of items that were traded to them by a lot of accounts who were given nothing in return for the items.
Hi.

12-Jul-2013 21:37:31 - Last edited on 12-Jul-2013 23:02:57 by Transcendent

Ghosttalon
Oct Member 2020

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Glad to see this. It has been clear in-game that another round of cleaning house has been quietly going on, after another wave of increase in bots from May into June. I've been wondering if you'd soon say anything about it.

I know this is a Red Queen scenario, but at least it is nice to see you holding your own for once, on your side of the arms race.

And Pic 2 is just excellent, btw. Would have loved to see that attacking the bots! :D

Keep up the good work.

12-Jul-2013 21:46:20

Memaw

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Thank you Mod Reach for the update. It's great to see the game I once loved come back to life again and much more enjoyable this time around with fewer bots. it appears a lot of players think they know how bots operate and think it takes Jagex a simple flick of a switch to rectify the problem.

People if we don't show gratitude for efforts that have been put forth to resolve botting issues then people that work on it may get discouraged. They are people too.

12-Jul-2013 22:58:00 - Last edited on 12-Jul-2013 23:02:03 by Memaw

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