Jagex says they have a way to prevent bots. The community disagrees. Here are a few methods I personally think would help - and some of them are probably already going to be used.
VAC. Need I say more?
VALVE Corporation has software that looks for commonly used cheating programs and bans anyone who uses them on a VAC-secured server. While RuneScape loads, Jagex can probably scan your computer for such programs and flag any accounts used on said computer as a possible bot.
Oh, three hundred people playing RuneScape from that house... Suspicious?
The easiest way to prevent most goldfarming bots would be to look for any IP addresses that have over ten connections and block them temporarily. This limits goldfarming companies to ten bots, whereas they used to be able to have thousands.
Sleep
If you don't sleep for ten days, you die. If you don't sleep for three days, you go insane. Nobody plays RuneScape for 100 hours in a week without having some kind of cheating going on. This would mostly catch hairy b0tters as goldfarmers would have many, many accounts they could switch between.
""""""""""Gifting""""""""""
If a single player gets ""gifts"" from more than twenty people in the course of a month, and this keeps on happening over and over, there's definitely something going on that shouldn't be. Nobody has a birthday every day. Only goldfarmers would receive that many "gifts".
i am not good with computer
Some bots can do random events. So why not make a random event that no computer can solve on its own? CAPTCHAs could work to prevent botting.
CPU intensive work
Systems like MBound that require computers to do work help by greatly reducing the amount of (for example,) spam emails that can be sent because spammers don't want to spend seconds of CPU time for each email. The same would work for anti-bot measures: Goldfarmers would need a lot more computers to do the same amount of botting at the same capacity, whereas normal players would be able to keep doing what they are doing with no noticeable change.
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