My Suggestion - Registration Confirmation

Total Plox · **Posted:** October 13th, 2007, 5:10 pm

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As we all know, Runescape is filled with autoers/macroers who create multiple accounts and take all the resources to sell for REAL MONEY. If the registration process was altered, it could slow down the autoers, and maybe reduce the amount we see every day.

As of now, I believe you can create 5 accounts before having to wait a set amount of time. Now, that's five autoing accounts put into existence in less than five minutes. After this, you have to wait some time (I'm not sure of the amount of waiting time at the moment, but let's go with one day).

If the number of accounts you can create was reduced to say, one or two, that would be four or three less autoers put into existence at one time! This could reduce the amount of daily autoers by more than half.

Now, if the waiting time was increased, even more redcution could be put on the autoing community. What if the time was set to one week before you could create another two accounts? Once again, autoers could be reduced.

One more idea I have is a Registration Confirmation. This would be an automated message that is sent to the account creator, through the Runescape Message Center, which would send a link to confirm the registration. The link would lead to a page where more information would be input, after inputting the information (name, age, gender - just random questions that would prolong the registration process, which may discourage some autoers from even creating accounts), the account would finally be accesible to play.

Another idea I have is waiting time in order to subscribe for a membership. Jagex could make it that the account must accumulate at least 12 hours of play time before being able to subscribe, so that autoers can't start stealing our resources without spending some time actually playing. Maybe set a level limit, such as "You must gain one level in each skill before becoming a member."

I'd really appreciate it if you could leave your comments here, as well as the Official Forums at Quick find code: 24-25-649-52543195.

Thanks guys

Adbot · **Posted:** October 13th, 2007, 5:10 pm

nicong · **Posted:** October 13th, 2007, 7:34 pm

Most macroers are woodcutting & fishing. Keeping them away from members world at low level wont help much. They probably train in non-members untlil they can reach at least yew or lobs. It will be fun if jagex allow players to do something to the macroers. Like maybe tele them to the wild. That will be fun.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** October 14th, 2007, 4:18 am

Funny i was talking to Mike about this idea a few weeks back, i thought i came up with it.

Darn.

It has it's faults though, like if a family wanted to sign up and play. 5 accounts is average family size, i'd imagine that's why it's set at 5.

Kirby · **Posted:** October 14th, 2007, 7:51 am

CreepyPirate wrote:

Funny i was talking to Mike about this idea a few weeks back, i thought i came up with it.

Darn.

It has it's faults though, like if a family wanted to sign up and play. 5 accounts is average family size, i'd imagine that's why it's set at 5.

I doubt that a whole family would play RuneScape, my family is 5 people and I am the only one that plays. And I would of set it to at least a week for each 5 players.

Jaden · **Posted:** October 14th, 2007, 3:09 pm

Kirby wrote:

CreepyPirate wrote:

Funny i was talking to Mike about this idea a few weeks back, i thought i came up with it.

Darn.

It has it's faults though, like if a family wanted to sign up and play. 5 accounts is average family size, i'd imagine that's why it's set at 5.

I doubt that a whole family would play RuneScape, my family is 5 people and I am the only one that plays. And I would of set it to at least a week for each 5 players.

There are, though. I know of this one family in real life, in which 3 of them play RuneScape. I know two families over that internet, in which 4 out 5 (three brothers, mother, excluding the father) play RuneScape. I have them all added. The other has four out of four family members playing. That father's account name is Tallon40.

Also, the only way to set a restriction on the number accounts made would be through IP address, and it's quite easy to change your IP address. I could made 2-3 auto accounts, change my IP address and make another 2-3 auto accounts, and not have to wait for the time restriction. How do you think some people still manage to use macros after they are IP banned? They change their IP addresses.

Southrend · **Posted:** October 14th, 2007, 11:17 pm

Yeah what Jaden said. It's a great idea but it's solution lies in IP Addresses and you can change those easily.

However do they actually IP-ban accounts?

Adbot · **Posted:** October 14th, 2007, 11:17 pm

Gotekn · **Posted:** October 15th, 2007, 4:00 am

I like everything you said, besides the level limit, I think it should be an experience limit instead, like you need 10k exp before becoming member.

The only reason I don't like the level limit is because then it will ruin the pure populations since you will need defense in order to get into membership.

Good luck

~Gotekn~

bhh2000 · **Posted:** October 15th, 2007, 12:32 pm

I think that those are grate Ideas for ways to stop my Idea is to make A new......BAN!!!!! button for players that are definitely not macroer say over combat level 50 or so

when they click it you pick A skill and than enter the user name of the macroer than it dose some sort of scan on there accounts and look at there bank and levels if more that A certain % of there bank is for one skill the skill selected fishing,woodcutting,crafting,est....and if that skill is over say 25 or 50 and all the other skills are under 3 or so the account gets A automatic BAN!! that most be repeal by A Email and the Email are annualized for all being different so they can write A emailing striped to get unbanned.

if A player dose this A set number of time successfully they get some sort of P mod like thing....

Ben · **Posted:** October 15th, 2007, 1:35 pm

bhh2000 wrote:

I think that those are grate Ideas for ways to stop my Idea is to make A new......BAN!!!!! button for players that are definitely not macroer say over combat level 50 or so

when they click it you pick A skill and than enter the user name of the macroer than it dose some sort of scan on there accounts and look at there bank and levels if more that A certain % of there bank is for one skill the skill selected fishing,woodcutting,crafting,est....and if that skill is over say 25 or 50 and all the other skills are under 3 or so the account gets A automatic BAN!! that most be repeal by A Email and the Email are annualized for all being different so they can write A emailing striped to get unbanned.

if A player dose this A set number of time successfully they get some sort of P mod like thing....

And a skill pure gets banned automatically then? And the person who does it becomes a pmod for being dumb?

Warren · **Posted:** October 15th, 2007, 4:07 pm

bhh2000 wrote:

I think that those are grate Ideas for ways to stop my Idea is to make A new......BAN!!!!! button for players that are definitely not macroer say over combat level 50 or so

when they click it you pick A skill and than enter the user name of the macroer than it dose some sort of scan on there accounts and look at there bank and levels if more that A certain % of there bank is for one skill the skill selected fishing,woodcutting,crafting,est....and if that skill is over say 25 or 50 and all the other skills are under 3 or so the account gets A automatic BAN!! that most be repeal by A Email and the Email are annualized for all being different so they can write A emailing striped to get unbanned.

if A player dose this A set number of time successfully they get some sort of P mod like thing....

Allowing players to ban for macroing even with a scan is something I definitely think should not happen. There are just too many idiots in RuneScape. And because an idiot can spot and ban a macro, it doesn't mean they deserve/can handle being a player moderator :$.
Many player moderators don't even deserve it as it is. You report a lot of people (and probably report most people unfairly) you get moderator status, probably don't even check you. XD

bhh2000 · **Posted:** October 15th, 2007, 6:16 pm

if A player dose this A set number of time successfully they get some sort of P mod like thing.... [/quote]

Allowing players to ban for macroing even with a scan is something I definitely think should not happen. There are just too many idiots in RuneScape. And because an idiot can spot and ban a macro, it doesn't mean they deserve/can handle being a player moderator :$.
Many player moderators don't even deserve it as it is. You report a lot of people (and probably report most people unfairly) you get moderator status, probably don't even check you. XD[/quote]

I didn't say that they would automatically become A P mod I said P MOD LIKE THING!!!! not P mod maybe its A message to in the jagex message box that says good job thank you or something OK!!

and Its just A Idea!! OK!!

SorryCharlie · **Posted:** October 17th, 2007, 5:35 pm

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The link would lead to a page where more information would be input, after inputting the information (name, age, gender - just random questions that would prolong the registration process, which may discourage some autoers from even creating accounts), the account would finally be accesible to play.

Another idea I have is waiting time in order to subscribe for a membership. Jagex could make it that the account must accumulate at least 12 hours of play time before being able to subscribe, so that autoers can't start stealing our resources without spending some time actually playing. Maybe set a level limit, such as "You must gain one level in each skill before becoming a member."

Last I checked RWITers consist of two types.

Automated bots or sweat shop workers. In other words, it won't bother them a bit to make them do menial tasks like filling out forms. An automated program would do it near instantly, and if for whatever reason, this was not possible, the person getting paid to play RS would not mind.

On the other hand, a new player, who doesn't even know what RuneScape is, will not want to spend an hour registering.

And what will putting a time limit on membership do? Look up the green dragon bots on high scores. Almost all of them have fishing or mining ranked as well (level 70+). Why? Because the characters are being used for different things. I don't think they'd mind chopping yews in FTP for 15 hours before becoming a member and chopping yews there. It makes no difference to them.

One of my favorite quotes from your post: "so that autoers can't start stealing our resources without spending some time actually playing.". Yes, because autoers would spend real time PLAYING runescape in FTP as opposed to autoing like they do in PTP.

As for your account creation time delay ideas, do you not notice the sheer amount of autoers? I think it's clear that they're finding a way around this already. It's common to find families going from 001 to 999, all with the same base name. Autoer001 - Autoer999, etc.

The ONLY way autoers are going to be stopped is by stopping gold buyers. If people aren't buying gold, then autoers have no reason to waste their time in RuneScape. Autoers will only increase in numbers as long as gold buyers increase. Everyone likes to demonize the autoers, but it is the RS gold buyers that are the real problem. Get rid of them and the autoers go away. Since the punishment is already a permanent ban, I'm not even sure how Jagex can make it more clear that gold buying isn't tolerated.

Ryan · **Posted:** October 18th, 2007, 11:48 am

Personally if I had just started RuneScape I wouldn't want to put in my exact age, real name and gender. It would sound quite pervy and off-putting.

Alex 43 · **Posted:** October 19th, 2007, 9:49 am

Guy with really good idea wrote:

Maybe set a level limit, such as "You must gain one level in each skill before becoming a member."

I don't think Pures will like that. Everything else, though, I like the idea of. Maybe it's because I'm too attached to only using 1 character for everything that I have no need of additional ones.

Al3X · **Posted:** October 20th, 2007, 10:07 am

i support completely. id post on rs forums but im perm muted so i cant =/ you can add me and say i gave permission though =]