pulli23

funny, how you didn't address the only real solution! all the solution you made above are just ways to make it more difficult. But once it is figured out how to by-pass them, they will be by passed.. and the autoers will return, so it would only make a slight delay of some days (maybe weeks) in which there are few autoers. However if anyone wants to create a solution for a problem, they should know WHY that problem is there! - And then address the root of the problem! What runescape, and everybody here currently try to do. Is comparable with using "analgesic" as a cure, you only "cover" the problem - but once it will return! Now what is the main problem? I think unlike others (JAGEX) that the main "root" of the problem with autoers, doesn't has anything to do with "people who want to buy stuff with real life money", well maybe a little bit, but the root is much more in the core of the game! (I think selling stuff offline shouldn't be a problem... but that's another story). It's the game itself which produces these "problems", I think. Let's follow this trail: why do autoers exist? -> to make money in real life! How do they make money? -> by selling runescape gold! How do they make gp? -> by utilizing certain skills! So we need to prevent autoers from being able to utilize any skill! Now rises the question: why do they utilize certain skills? and there are 2 "answers" on it, which are both connected in some way: first of all, a skill is "profitable" - meaning it earns gp! Now why are they so profitable? - it's because nobody wants to do it! either it's very dull work (wcing, fishing), or does give very bad experience (flax and various other picking, buying in shops). secondly a skill needs to be "macroable".. It needs to be able to be "caught" in a set of (simple) commands. Being an AI programmer myself I believe that in the end everything is "macroable" - I think a good "robot" should be able to do just like humans can (and maybe even "learn"). But that's for the future, and would require too much processor memory. Currently the runescape autoers are just simple bots which can only do a selected set of commands! - This is why autoers tend to choose for skills with as little commands as possible (fishing?) Now how to solve the auto problem? The only way I think autoers can be solved is the remove 1 of the above reasons the autoers won't exists anymore... The first reason, can I think only be solved by stopping "trading" between acounts.. Or at least stop "gold" from existing.. If any skill was like agility, there would be no gain in buying certain stuff and autoers won't make GP which they can sell. However since money is the underlying motive for most people to play runescape I think this is a very bad idea.. The other reason was the "easiness" of certain skills. Well why are those skills (fishing, woodcutting, mining, flax picking) able to be autoed? - It's because they're so easy, and repetitive! The human mind is good in finding new things, however it is beaten by computers when doing repetitive things! So the only way to make skills less macroable is to make it less repetitive! Now how is this possible? Good question, I myself haven't found the solution for this completely yet. Since being able to do everything once wouldn't be good for the replay value and would cause JAGEX customers. The only thing I can think which makes a skill non-repetitive is making it more, way more, player versus player! So that players have to compete with each other. If this is the case the other players will prevent repetitive things from happening. Examples where this is the case are abbys runecrafting (the pkers are the "opponents" of the crafters), and mining (where miners are each other opponent when fighting for an ore). Autoers can't keep up with this because they miss real intelligence and they will keep doing the same tactic, but human players will find ways to prevent autoers from getting the stuff then, and I think this will eliminate the autoer problem... So to conclude (sorry that it's a bit hard reading, but I'm not very good in writing english essays): I think the only way to prevent autoers from existing is to prevent the root from existing.. And that are the repetive tasks in runescape. And I think these tasks can be removed by creating more player versus player in the skills! NOt by creating stupid randoms, or some IP restriction system, they can be by-passed very easily.. And well for storing something on a PC: if you've ever went into multiplayer programming you should always follow this rule: the users pc = evil! they can (and may(!) ) do everything on their pc and they will hack any file on the pc. So far runescape has done a great job by processing everything on their servers though!

well does the same count for abbys mining?? since the time there is "set" (You just fail or not fail) and it's around 1 "hit" from the animation..

Lol how wrong can you be?? Randoms are not random! - the only random thing that currently exists and which people could get is the "spin" of an electron.. and maybe the corresponding "error" in electronic signals.. But I really doubt jagex is using that to get a random... no they're using a recursive function to generate the randoms instead - which makes it look like "random" things. on another note, even randoms can be "counted" and you can draw conclusions about it.. Everybody who has at least a small knowlenge of maths and physics knows the thing about gaussian and binomal distributions.. And you should know that every random has an average, standarddeviation etc.. Well I think the average depends on the thing (and how long) you've been doing that.. Also if you log in everytime at the same time it seems to give you randoms!

rune kite.. when the ice trolls weren't nerfed yet..

I didn't test it yet, but by the looks of this it makes rcing even more slow! maybe it's better to not take a pic anymore now (and take an axe instead?)

I've always been in favour of second (and third) chances! if there is a slight chance of the person don't doing the crime again, don't give him a "dead penalty" (in some old tipit times perm banning was compared with this, and I think it's a very good comparisation). a lvl 126 player who autos mostly stops autoing once he gets a warning, they only auto cause they think that they won't get catched.. So once it is made clear that they WILL be catched they will stop autoing immediatelly!

don't want to sound "teaching" or something here.. but in bbcode - just like in normal HTML code (of which bbcode is based) "every" tag must have a corresponding closing tag... so the code would be: [url=URLHERE][img=IMGLOCHERE][/url] where the [/url] parts and such are the closing tags..

well for anybody thinks going to a 64 bit system is easy.. well yest it's easy - but it would also double the ammount of data storage! - I don't think it's worth that..

hobgoblins drop laws too btw.. + some nice limps! and it's really never busy at the crafting guild..

or as p2p go runecrafting for 2 hours..

don't minimize?? and don't use the maximize button.. instead use the "restore" function and resize the window?

well I've been wondering this for a long time already.. we all know that the kind of pickaxe/axe doesn't matter at the obstacles in the abbys.. However I'm wondering does your lvl matter? does it matter which lvl you're in something? and are there easier "things" (like at lvl 60 mining + agility, the agility is easier?)

just wondering: how are JAGEX responsible for the safety? - it is the users own responsibility I think.. about censor: well I don't really know if that's really effective, nor do I think it's needed (I mean come on if somebody types some swearing it's about the intention, not the words, so even if they write f*ck it's still the same)! also I've never understood how an image can have a virus - apart from "bugs" in the software...

hey I wanted to do barrows again... But I'm wondering what setup would fit me best.. here are my current stats: I'm wondering what I should wield (and take in inventory) current things I'm considering (please tell me if there's even a better way :) ): basicly full proselyte + red dhide/whip. This way I'm going to pray at all monsters (maybe partly not at guthans..). Problem with this setup is that I still fail sometimes... Also my ranging is very low so ahrims is hard for me. + this is pretty expensive. the other thing I'm considering is: basicly mystic (for brothers) + best melee (for caves) + range (for ahrim) problem is that I don't know if mystic (with 67 def) can be enough at guthan + torag without pray.. Also it allows me to have less inventory spots.. anybody got some usefull advice for me here? - also look at my stats please (can't wield black dhide..) thanks in advance

currently I'm wielding this: mostly cause I just have the blue dhide from a random and still wait to get pked so I loose it :S

well I got stuck in the part where you need to use the fairy rings for the first time! my quest journal says (in blue): now according to tip.it quest guide I should go to the fairy ring and enter the codes... However I'm unable to do so, it keeps telling "I don't know what you thought would happen, but whatever it was, it didn't" :( - what am I doing wrong??

I really love playing warcraft 3... The story/campaign is simply magnificent.. also I like that you have 4 totally different teams, which all work in completely different ways!

well this just encoutered a few minuts ago.. I was runecrafting on a german world but wanted to go back to a normal world so I could trade.. However when I tried to load the world select page (you can't quick select on a german server), it couldn't load the runescape site! trying to go to runescape.com doesn't work.. This is very strange since I can still load the world I was playing (by pressing 'back'). However any thing else from runescape doesn't load. anybody else has the same problem and knows how to fix it?? EDIT: problems seems to be fixed right now... strange...

well you can easily find a "decent" world this way.. btw check out the screeny I made earlier: Something really strange happened in w 69 lol... a friend told me later a high ranked player (no names :P) put his private on for a minute.. EDIT: why can't I post images anymore??? is Tip.it also going this way from not allowing any websites??

I think the total which are still "in" the economy are around 100... however the ones which aren't in the economy anymore I guess around 400-500. Many people have stopped playing but still own a cracker.

I find it funny that 14% voted "to have fun" - if that's your longterm goal, it means you don't have fun yet??

I've done a simple whois on the links they'll most likely have, and a whois returns that they are registered with JAGEX (the DNS that is), however they are "offline". Also if you type the link to those world directly, you will notice that it tries to load SOMETHING, but the connection won't be resolved. btw this is the most likely link for w49: http://ams199.runescape.com/l1,p0,j0 ow and w22 is only removed a short time ago (I do remember it being offline...)

if you ask the "monk" after you made the sword (but before you give it), how to wield it, it will tell you that it's a special eastern technique...

well you can read here about the 403-forbidden error... (google is your friend :P) If it comes when you connect to the mainpage of runescape something certainly wrong! However this happens since the last update also when you try to load a world directly (ie when using a world switcher or bookmarks). edit: This part looks like what happens to you... Epecially since JAGEX tries to remove third party (or a better better word is "not well-known", since the runescape site never defines when a browser is deemed third party...) browsers!

lol faster chaos crafting :( the most useless runes to craft lol... Well maybe we can powercraft chaos runes now (if it's much faster than the abbys).