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    Getting in touch with Jagex CS

    in Help and Advice

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    Yeah they won't change their mind, even if wrong. Their defense of "we only ban the guilty" would be made even more transparently wrong if they shifted stances now.

     

    Ahh well, I've heard of literally 8 cases of the same thing or incredibly similar things happening recently, and while I wouldn't be surprised if at least some were guilty, the sheer number of cases I've run into over the past 18 months makes it statistically almost impossible for Jagex to be always right.

     

    Oh well.

     

    Those sheer number of cases, were they on Reddit or RS Forums? 99% of those cases have been 'proven' guilty by a Jmod at some point. I only know a couple of cases where Jagex has been in the wrong. One of them I was involved. I got unbanned in about 4 hours after I was banned. The offence is quashed, but it is still a stain on my account. They never really officially admitted anything and only said it was banned while investigation was going on. Never got any compensation and to this day, my heart skips a beat every time I get a sudden "Please wait... attempting to re-connect" message (or something alike). This is because I was just playing at the time of the ban wave. It involved around a couple of dozens of people at the time. And this all happened to me, just because I was on the friendlist of a suspected player...

    FALADOR MASSACRE!!

    in General Discussion

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    This was very unexpected, but very awesome by Jagex. Unlike most other game companies that rather pretend that nothing ever happened, Jagex realizes that the Falador Massacre was a major part of RuneScape history and embraces it. It might not have been the most greatest part of RuneScape's long history, so you gotta realize it's not easy to come out of the closet for this. Heck, even some real life nations do not!

     

    For example, I'll bring up Japan since I'm actually half-Japanese myself. Some schools in Japan don't even teach about Japan's notorious war crimes in WW2 in which China and other countries whom still hold grudges! Schools in Japan are doing what most other game companies would do... pretend that it never happened, because it's much easier to swallow this pill.

     

    Proof: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21226068

     

    Is that right? Is that how history should be taught? I don't believe it should, so I applaud Jagex for this :).

     

    A more recent issue is the Armenian cause. The Turkish government says there was no genocide, while a lot of other countries actually agrees that it was. Heck, even recently the German government acknowledged it officially.

     

    This does get a bit off-topic now X"D.

     

    I do agree that Jagex is doing the right approach with this.

    Getting in touch with Jagex CS

    in Help and Advice

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    I took the liberty to ask Jagex Support how they deal with VPN and potential bans. According to them, they hardly issue bans based on VPN or IPs. As such, it makes it unlikely that your account is banned for either of the possibilities suggested. Are you sure that you didn't bot at all in any point?

     

    100% sure. While I had to recover my account at one point, it hadn't been used (just the bank emptied basically). Honestly, I wouldn't make a big deal about it otherwise, but the combination of frustration through not being able to even talk to anyone in CS, having the appeal take 6+ months and be auto-declined, and Jagex's frequent assertions that their system is accurate are incredibly frustrating. It's been 18 months...

     

    I'll be honest I've used AHK in the past, about 4-5 years ago, for some barb fishing. Still, that  was years before, and just to drop fish while still abiding by the 1 input= 1 action requirement. I can think of literally nothing else to trigger it. No auto-typers, no bots, no macros, heck even AHK was used very little for fishing (disliked it, too intensive).

     

    Its the not knowing what the issue was that's at least part of the problem. Was it just right clicking at rocks, was it my name (Playing WoW), was it something from years before like AHK (again, can't imagine it being that) or was it simply an accident?

     

    I just don't know and its frustrating.

     

     

    If that would be the case, then I assume it could be a hi-jacked account. Jagex is currently looking at possible accounts that might be hi-jacked at the time of offense. Could take a while though, since this is from 2014.

    Getting in touch with Jagex CS

    in Help and Advice

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    I took the liberty to ask Jagex Support how they deal with VPN and potential bans. According to them, they hardly issue bans based on VPN or IPs. As such, it makes it unlikely that your account is banned for either of the possibilities suggested. Are you sure that you didn't bot at all in any point?

     

    Intriguing.

     

    Worth throwing out there auto-talkers and tools such as auto-hotkey where you generate more than 1 outcome from 1 button press are considered forms of botting.

     

    For hotkey, for example, if you had 1 button press move the mouse to X AND click that is a form of botting.

    It has to be 1 input to 1 output ie 1 key to move the mouse 1 key to click it.

     

     

    Even that is no guarantee. Any form of third party that interacts with the game client could trigger a ban.

    Getting in touch with Jagex CS

    in Help and Advice

    Posted

    I took the liberty to ask Jagex Support how they deal with VPN and potential bans. According to them, they hardly issue bans based on VPN or IPs. As such, it makes it unlikely that your account is banned for either of the possibilities suggested. Are you sure that you didn't bot at all in any point?

    Getting in touch with Jagex CS

    in Help and Advice

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    They do have a forum thread to post on to ask for botting bans to be reviewed, though I have to say in all my time around fansites and forums I have yet to see one person who got banned for botting actually manage to get un-banned or realistically prove it was a false positive and in the majority of cases when the user is probed they eventually reveal that they "just" did this or that or only for x time.

     

    Of course VPN could be a very real problem for you because all it takes is for 1 person to bot on that ip address and they can decided to ban all accounts that have used that ip address because under normal circumstance same ip = same user.

     

    That is only if the account might be Hi-jacked, which isn't the case here. On top of that it is hard to prove as VPN is used.

    Getting in touch with Jagex CS

    in Help and Advice

    Posted

    As far as I am aware, you are pretty much out of luck. Especially if you've used a VPN consistently, as there would be no proof which IP is of the legitimate owner, and it can look like on account sharing. This is also the only thing that you've said that could indeed point towards the reason to your ban. If you still want to try and get your account back, best shot is to tweet @JagexSupport with your story and maybe (MAYBE, although rather unlikely) they will take a second look on your account.

    Can I be banned for using draw tool?

    in Help and Advice

    Posted

    I would think you would be fine if it's just marking your screen, as a human will never click the exact same pixel many times in a row - we're just not capable of that. If it's dragging your mouse to a certain position it would likely spell trouble.

     

    Nevertheless, a word of caution can go a long way :3.

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    Can I be banned for using draw tool?

    in Help and Advice

    Posted

    That being said, the best advice that can be given is to remain cautious while using third party programs with the RuneScape client. There are plenty that will do just fine, just be rather careful what you use and what not to use. Especially tools that are aimed to enhance gameplay.

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    What happened to these forums?

    in General Discussion

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    What are you talking about? I still get an email on my AOL account every time the Tip.it MySpace has an update.

    Your Tip.ItSpace account still works? Dag. I lost the password to mine years ago.

     

    I too am disheartened that there aren't posts on the forum.

     

    But then again, I'm also incredibly guilty of not posting on the forum very much..

    It's something everyone's guilty of at some point or other.
     
    Also, some of the busiest posters were also some of those who got in the most trouble (I'm looking at you @Arceus, you bad apple :lol:). Not all mind you, but some. They pushed discussions forward and sometimes they would descend into arguments which would sometimes drunkenly stumble into rule-breaking territory. Goodness knows I dealt with enough of them before I left. Mrs Chips said earlier that the staff and mods here were corrupt and working against the community, and except for obfuscator taking bribes ( :P) I know that we weren't and most of you know that we weren't (Kim dealt with that wonderfully already so I really don't want to get into it again, but bear with me here). 

     

    If I had a dollar for every forum warning I've gotten here.

     

     

    You wouldn't have much ^.^

     

    Anyway, this is some very interesting feedback that I have read here so far!

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