Hi I am new to this forum and I'm not looking to cause trouble or problems, but I think bots can be both good and bad. Now this may seem odd at first, but the part about them being good is not from my perspective, it's that of Jagex. Bots bring quite a lot of money to Jagex because a majority of them have to buy members in order for their botting be worth while, whether it be to gain levels or to farm gold, those options just aren't around in F2P. And can you blame Jagex? I mean what company doesn't want to make money? Because when bots were around prior to the first nuke I think there was something like 200k (or around there) players on at one time. Now you see maybe 170k at the most? That's a lot of business lost hence the rise in fees for membership. Sure Jagex could attempt to ruin bots and come down hard on them, but in-turn I would imagine that fees for membership would be even higher because people always find something to complain about.. Now from my point of view, I greatly dislike bots. I personally don't like them because of the 5 odd years I've played Runescape my career has been gauged towards skilling. And bots are a major problem when it comes to skilling because of the MAJOR impacts on the RS economy. It now gives me and other players a bad attitude towards skilling, for example if I'm going to go for 99 fishing, I for one would be concerned with the low prices of all the fish which would make me think, is the time and effort really worth the awful profit? In most cases it is not, and this is what causes players to either quit, beg, scrape by, or even buy RSGP by real world trading. This creates more problems for Jagex and us as players, but In the end I guess it's a matter of picking your poison.
