BioIce

I see prayer flashing as part of emergent gameplay. It's an unintended mechanic players have adopted, so why not keep it?

Since artisan's workshop. It'll only get worse from hereon.

Here we go. Bring back the gnomecopters. At least you get to fly around. And yes, it's a member's advertisement. EDIT: Bots don't need to update their game IDs, console build is still 663.

You always did look like a peon. That scruffiness is shady. Hah! I don't really think the change of client is what pushed it. (Using a personal client here.) I had a sneaking thought it might've been something like this that triggered it: Thanks as always for supporting my griefing the runecrafters after I initially closed the guild chat down. Fun times.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I only see one case, not two. The other charge was related to failing to register as an offender in the new state he moved to.

He was basically a smuggler. EDIT: I know you have to tow the company line, Carl, but you're laying it on too thick.

Nero actually used a harp, but the fiddle's stuck. The article didn't come to mind.

It's pretty old, too. Got one dating back to July 2010 on another fansite.

They didn't need to do this publicly. They could have entered into private negotiations concerning the matter as Tip.it had done to gain it's platinum status. From there they might've worked out a possible solution that kept it all quiet. Jagex acted in a hamfisted manner, as usual. Heh. At this point I'm only interested in how long the fiddler will play while Rome burns to the ground, so to speak.

Neat. The biggest wrench thrown into their plans is the time factor. It still takes too long for evidence to mount on a botter before being banned.

The high experience grind is the bread and butter of this game yet it's been getting easier to gain experience as the years have gone by. They're not about to lower how you gain experience.

You mean Jagex as a company is concerned for their image. That's fine. What's not fine in my book is how they've handled this situation and given rise to all this rabble-rousing.

Eh, I thought people frowned on others declaring, "I quit!" because they saw it as calling for attention and was more of a private matter.

Collective suspicion and lynch mobs are no way to build a proper society regardless of how Jagex handled this matter. EDIT: Might as well place a camera at every home, body scanners in every airport, barricade your homes and keep a potentially lethal weapon like a ballpoint pen on your person at all times. Do not let fear rule you.

Far from an expert. No one has 100% confirmed what Jagex's detection is, we only know it from using deductive reasoning and observation. Most of what I know comes from people's personal horror stories from attempted botting.

From my perspective that man's regained his honour. It's been fifteen long years and he's repented. All reputation is folly anyway.

Bahahahahahahahah! I think people understand the stigma attached to a crime like this. It's the way Jagex has handled it in a way that flaunts their authority over fansites that has people up in a tizzy.

The first is player reporting. They're heavily reliant on those since legitimate players make up the bulk of their detection. Second are their own automated scans for third-party programs that have added up over the years. Making a crude autoclicker from scratch has a high ban rate nowadays. They also have their own people actually look at the accounts in question and compare the overall experience gains, the log-in history, etc. If you were caught botting more than once your IP is often put under a watch list. Tripping that after a rollback would pull a permanent ban. I've known a handful who got rolled back then tried to transfer the remaining wealth only to have the mule account locked within hours. Extremely rare, though. Good bot programs usually come with anti-ban scripts to make the bot appear more human. And it works so long as you don't bot in an area known for high ban rates, like sorcerer's garden. The biggest area Jagex fails in are handling gold farmers since these people approach botting with the shotgun method. Fire up enough bots and enough will get through. Ban those bots and the backups are ready to go. EDIT: On a further note, Jagex has mistakenly banned for using mousekeys before in the past. On a more thoughtful note, they have yet to ban for using modified clients that either remove advertising or unlock those handy console commands.

Nuff's case is the usual as the rollback's proven. And it's pretty much well known Jagex's bot detection is a laughable outdated farce. There have been, shall we say, "grand" experiments that are still ongoing and haven't been caught. EDIT: Just to add, we aren't living in a time when a player can travel all the way to Jagex headquarters with their computer to prove their innocence anymore. To add further, I damn well hope they don't think mining a rock + high alchemizing it counts as abusing rapid clicking.

Humanity has a far longer history of being hunter-gatherers. Becoming farmers was extremely game-changing. The industrial revolution is just the acceleration of humanity's drive further away from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

Only one thing bothers me. This is a past crime. From what I understand, it was a decade and a half ago. The man in question has by all appearances since repented and salvaged what he could of his personal honour. The lynch mob doesn't surprise me. The sharks smell blood - well, there'll be a feeding frenzy. Airing the dirty laundry in public is in poor taste.

Good. Because all these things I mentioned will completely change the Runescape we all know into something alien. It's still a possible route for Jagex to take.

From that Nashville article.

You want to start cutting down on bots, then cut into what they do: make the game less tedious. Since it's clear Jagex is edging closer to all out real world trading anyway. I want to see a P2P feature where you can put your character to sleep when you log out and it gains experience in a skill of your choice at a high rate while you're offline. The downside's obviously no loot or gold. Want to knock out the gold farmers? Host a gold service. The focus won't be entirely on selling the gold itself for pennies per million, but the customer service - less risk of hacking, easy transactions and guaranteed security. With that implemented, they can provide players with a way to pay membership through gold - something on the order of hundreds of millions of gp for a month's worth of membership. The game's focus would then become less material and skill-level oriented leaning more toward activities that clans do, like turf battles for a measly crop of rune rocks. If this all sounds familiar, then take a wild guess what other MMO does this and has been doing well in its niche.

Huh. I thought most people more or less followed the unwritten rule that if you're going to get your hands dirty, make sure you don't get caught. After all, there's that old saying: "Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." Ask yourself this, Rudes. The times and experiences you personally had with Setelima, does it make the past any less precious because of this?