Dealing with Bots - An Experiment

Bonsai99 · **Posted:** May 17th, 2011, 3:52 pm

This is basically an experiment to see what percentage of bots Jagex ban/rollback
Along with every name below I will include a picture of their stats at time of reporting and I will link their name to their current stats for easy checking later on.
We will check back on them in a week to see if they have been banned or rollbacked.
Let the experiment begin!

I will be adding new names on a daily basis.

Feel free to post predictions/discuss below

May 17th:
GodlessNomad (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Sir TBone (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
l Z E R K (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
sologlo4 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
HighSkills (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Name change to: PvM Hostile
X3zy_Merchx (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback

May 18th:
ZioGaa (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback (This bot was stuck running back and forth inside the bank)
Sail 1053 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Maybe t (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
sailfishlaw (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback

May 19th:
ip1 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback (This bot was stuck in front of the door of the rune shop)
sda213sa12 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Will-Yum3 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Diet pepsis (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Centaur 2971 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback

May 20th:
No names for today

May 21st:
Polonaise (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Sods Guy 6 (Stat Picture) Rollbacked!
Taurencheef (Stat Picture) Banned!
dodonice (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback

May 22nd:
808RawrKevin (Stat Picture) Banned!
Name Change to: 808HiLyF
Empty 2468 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Master PKGOD (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
mstwert (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
monstershash (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Imkidding5 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Glob (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback (This bot was stuck in between some trees on the way to seers village bank)
Name change to: 6D6
OOoShooteroO (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Killer51101 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Kronic OG (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
Nadavbrown44 (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
0nehitover (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback
9urez (Stat Picture) No Ban/Rollback

May 23rd:
No names for today

May 24th:
No names for today, will try to get some for tomorrow

May 25th:
No names again for today,will probably start this up again when I get membership

May 28th: Think I'm just giving up on this thing, if no bots are banned from the ones I reported on the 22nd I'm finished with this experiment and I think its safe to say Jagex does next to nothing about bots.

May 31st: The experiment is over and the results are disappointing and pathetic.

June 3rd: Whoa some bans are starting to appear!, took Jagex long enough...Let's see how this plays out. Might actually continue this thing if a significant amount are banned, maybe around 5 or so.

June 5th: Looks like Sods Guy 6 got his account back,now it's just rollbacked

June 8th: 808HiLyF Banned!

Adbot · **Posted:** May 17th, 2011, 3:52 pm

1 Stone Pwn · **Posted:** May 17th, 2011, 4:41 pm

An excellent idea! I wonder how it will turn out.

Xbladez · **Posted:** May 17th, 2011, 9:32 pm

Quick find code: 129-130-241-62642440

sign up and enjoy.

Blue October · **Posted:** May 17th, 2011, 10:20 pm

Great idea

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** May 18th, 2011, 12:46 pm

This is how well they handle botters;
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/creepybacon/cheat1.png
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/creepybacon/cheat2.png
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/creepybacon/cheat3.png

Before i let him inside the building he was on the outside of it trying to pickpocket the knight I'd trapped in there. When i accidently let him in i killed the knight and he instantly tried to get that one instead resulting in him running around the room getting no where.

And these are all the 99s this cheat has gained;
Attack
Strength
Defence
Hits
Ranged
Prayer
Magic
cooking
woodcutting
fletching
fishing
firemaking
mining
agility

And soon to be thieving i would imagine. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and say he got all those legit and is just botting this one skill but lets face it thieving is one of the easiest skills in the game he wouldn't **** away all that work for an easy skill unless he didn't work for any of it.

edit: Lol yup hes gone up thieving levels since i last saw him. Brilliant work Jagex. I should also say i reported him there and then.

trekkie · **Posted:** May 18th, 2011, 3:24 pm

i had a bot in neinitznot that somehow traded with me. then it started running around the tree. reported him, but jagex has done nothing.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 18th, 2011, 3:24 pm

Jer99 · **Posted:** May 18th, 2011, 3:34 pm

trekkie wrote:

i had a bot in neinitznot that somehow traded with me. then it started running around the tree. reported him, but jagex has done nothing.

What!? How can Jagex do nothing about this! This is blasphemy! This is anarchy! They cannot just let that bot run around and bot! This is chaos.

Pennstate315 · Runite Member 5-25-10

Guys just leave them alone its a video game, you enjoy playing legit,just ignore them, putting so much effort in preventing and stopping botting when clearly Jagex does not care.

Bonsai99 · **Posted:** May 18th, 2011, 6:43 pm

Pennstate315 wrote:

Guys just leave them alone its a video game, you enjoy playing legit,just ignore them, putting so much effort in preventing and stopping botting when clearly Jagex does not care.

They are ruining the economy and devaluing our money and levels, something must be done!

1 Stone Pwn · **Posted:** May 18th, 2011, 6:57 pm

Pennstate315 wrote:

Guys just leave them alone its a video game, you enjoy playing legit,just ignore them, putting so much effort in preventing and stopping botting when clearly Jagex does not care.

Why does everybody say that? They might like their IRL GP, but it's not like they're Activision or something.

trekkie · **Posted:** May 18th, 2011, 9:54 pm

you guys realize that bots are like illegal immigrants.

Bonsai99 · **Posted:** May 19th, 2011, 10:42 am

trekkie wrote:

you guys realize that bots are like illegal immigrants.

No trekkie they are more like slaves, think about it: 1 person controls a whole bunch of them and they don't get paid.

trekkie · **Posted:** May 19th, 2011, 2:33 pm

yeah but bots also do the jobs that nobody really wants to do?

would you really mine 100k rune ess??

Uncle Dano · **12 99's on 12/12/12!**

Excellent thread! We must wage war, if Jagex is not effective. I'm all in. Any effective tactics that really work? Let me know.

Ataronchronon · **Posted:** May 19th, 2011, 6:08 pm

Nice, I used to see instant rollbacks of bots I reported but lately it's been like 1,5-2 months per time. I spoke to a botter who did it only to get banned and be rid of her rs addiction. I got in touch with some pmod friends who went on to Jagex and a month later or so she was banned. Now she's unbanned again, with all her skill xp cut in half.