Dealing with Bots - An Experiment

Years ago I remember doing a similar thing to flax spinner bots who were spinning at the lumby castle. I reported them and kept track of their stat's. Month's later they were still gaining crafting xp. I think it stinks that so many botter accounts clog up the highscores like that. I also reported them on the Runescape forum's and promptly got scolded by a mod for mentioning their names in the post.

I disagree with the notion that botting isn't so bad because of the supplies they generate, such as essence. If bot's weren't supplying essence, there would still be a supply. The demand would go up, the essence price would increase, and as a result, legit players would be motivated to use that as a source of income, especially low level players. Then the runescape economy might feel a little more realistic.

I also think though that too many people automatically think someone is a bot because of the way they play the game. I myself get constantly accused of being a bot because I rarely respond to "level requests", or other forms of chatter. I also usually do skilling without any clothes on, so that makes them think I must be botting. Most of the time now I just play in the quickchat world 160 so I don't have to listen to nonsense like that.

Nice idea, I hope we don't discover what we already suspect.

Hasn't Jagex already said they don't make much out of bots anyway cause the majority are using stolen credit cards? The majority are for those dodgy sites that sell gold and ****.

I don't for one second believe they keep bots about just cause they want the money that's never been there style. We'd see microtransactions and all sorts of **** polluting this game by now if it was the case. No it's not that. I think there just **** useless at catching them.

If that was true, they'd be the ones selling gold and stuff.

You have to think that Jagex realizes that the more and more players get disgusted with the bot problem, the higher likelihood that they will quit the game. Bad press is bad press. If you quit because the game goes down the tubes due to botting, and tell your friends, man that is some bad publicity. Jagex would soon find out that the only players that are online are the bots. Is that really worth it?

It's not just RWT companies that use bots. I know quite a few formerly legit players who turned to botting (and were perm banned, I might add).