A way to stop macroers!

[ADT_CLONE]

Jagex, jagex... When will you ever learn how to stop macroers? You apparently have "protection" against them,, yet I go on the biggest world and most unlikely place for macroers, and there are 5 little level 3 accounts hogging my yews. That is rediculous. And they have forgotten about one of the most surefire ways to stop macroers. Forums and other websites use it, why can't they.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I reckon that Jagex should add in a security feature. When your not in combat and out of the wilderness, if it actually detects signs of macroers, example, constant clicking, waiting before clicking, long term cutting, it will have a little pop-up screen asking you to type in a certain security code. This would work a lot and wouldn't annoy players too much. It also means most macroers would go out of buisiness because they wouldn't be able to crack this code.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So who agrees with me on this system, because at the moment I'm pissed and can't cut a yew without 5 other macroers joining in, making money for their mains, and then bragging to other people about their mask and 40 mill that they "earned". If you agree with this system, please post a reply saying so. I was thinking of building up a partition, though I was too lazy. Any help of getting this message to Jagex would be greatly appriciated.

[Riptide Mage]

You are talking about a captcha image...which was broken in RS1, and is broken on most websites. If a rotating balloon animal wont stop a macro what makes you think some text will?

[ADT_CLONE]

A rotating balloon is quite easy to pick with the right 3D algorithms. Anyway, it is more secure then that. Though it would have to be really easy to read and very hard for a macroer to read.

[bsmovies]

captcha will be broken easily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

think of bots which go around auto posting advertisements in forums, theyre advanced enough to bypass captcha's, and theyre designed to have the smallest code possible.

[ADT_CLONE]

It won't rule out all autobots, though it will rune out most of the "noobiest" ones who won't know how to create a device to crack the code.

[dsavi]

Yahoo and Google use it, why not RuneScape? Text is extremely difficult for a program to read if it is not a) copiable and B) in usual form. This would be very effective. But still not foolproof.

[subtle_rune]

I suggested this before, and it didn't go down too well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My suggestion, all the way from page 4.

[None2None]

Yahoo and Google use it, why not RuneScape? Text is extremely difficult for a program to read if it is not a) copiable and B) in usual form. This would be very effective. But still not foolproof.

OK, then don't read text, just know how many interfaces will be held and detect the differences and uniquenesses to each interface :roll: :wink:

[Bauke]

This would work a lot and wouldn't annoy players too much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bots would find a way around this and it IS irritating.

[Harrington]

I think this has been suggested before... it's still a good idea, but like someone else said, they'll find a way around it eventually. It would likely just be another temporary fix.

[Zaaps1]

Or we can make random events more likely when you perform an action that is "macro-like"

[iwatake]

Won't annoy players? Of course it will annoy players!

[the_god_of_soup]

it seems rather drastic to me..... but, i have a minor improvement for it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there could be two varying things; the text that they must type AND the way in which they must read it. there could be like 10 variations of the reading it part. it could be like "left to right", "top right to bottom left", or "bottom to top". this would make it tricker i think =p.

[ShakingBro]

Lol, a fellow PE member on tip.it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hmm..

 

 

 

as they said before, they'll find a way around it. =|

[darkblade986]

A potential method in which this would work is a "puzzle" of sorts. Essentially, you could make a little 5x5 word find and you have to find the word located in there. Given, the word would only be Left-Right, TopLeft-BottomRight, or Top-Bottom alignment to make it easier, but it would still be hard for a macroer system to find it since it would completely randomize where and how the word is added.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So for example, say the word was 'CAT.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARSTE

 

 

 

EMCIR

 

 

 

OLANW

 

 

 

CNTWY

 

 

 

POQAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cat would be Row 2, Colemn 3 going down... but it could be randomized literally anywhere in the puzzle...

[Zaaps1]

A potential method in which this would work is a "puzzle" of sorts. Essentially, you could make a little 5x5 word find and you have to find the word located in there. Given, the word would only be Left-Right, TopLeft-BottomRight, or Top-Bottom alignment to make it easier, but it would still be hard for a macroer system to find it since it would completely randomize where and how the word is added.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So for example, say the word was 'CAT.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARSTE

 

 

 

EMCIR

 

 

 

OLANW

 

 

 

CNTWY

 

 

 

POQAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cat would be Row 2, Colemn 3 going down... but it could be randomized literally anywhere in the puzzle...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great idea, maybe a Rubik's cube puzzle? I'd own at that.

[bunny]

the're are things called ocrs which are text recognition things

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you're idea sucks and it would ruin the game

[goldphishies]

Good idea, but deltawood has a better one. Click on my sig for a good and fun way to kill macros.

[Abyssalwhip]

Congratulations the 10000000th person to steal my idea (use the damn search button)

[justj2]

abbyssalwhip chill lol, i made an idea once then a day later saw someone else post it, dont spam their (your) idea... its an idea to make the game better regardless of who thinks of it, so maybe help along with the idea instead of getting in a hissy about it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ontopic... i think this is a good idea, bound to annoy people but LIVE WITH IT if so many people didnt macro we wouldnt have the damn porblem in the first place would we?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and over 50% of people that put an idea like this down are macroers them selvs lmao.... idiots

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anyway, good luck with the idea =) very much in support

[dsavi]

Just talking can get you a random event now.

[Drazon]

Good idea, but deltawood has a better one. Click on my sig for a good and fun way to kill macros.

 

 

 

I tried Delta's way, but the macroers are pretty advanced. After the hobs hit them a few times they ran like the devil himself was chasing 'em. It was still fun to watch, though.

[UB2]

Jagex, jagex... When will you ever learn how to stop macroers? You apparently have "protection" against them,, yet I go on the biggest world and most unlikely place for macroers, and there are 5 little level 3 accounts hogging my yews. That is rediculous. And they have forgotten about one of the most surefire ways to stop macroers. Forums and other websites use it, why can't they.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I reckon that Jagex should add in a security feature. When your not in combat and out of the wilderness, if it actually detects signs of macroers, example, constant clicking, waiting before clicking, long term cutting, it will have a little pop-up screen asking you to type in a certain security code. This would work a lot and wouldn't annoy players too much. It also means most macroers would go out of buisiness because they wouldn't be able to crack this code.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So who agrees with me on this system, because at the moment I'm pissed and can't cut a yew without 5 other macroers joining in, making money for their mains, and then bragging to other people about their mask and 40 mill that they "earned". If you agree with this system, please post a reply saying so. I was thinking of building up a partition, though I was too lazy. Any help of getting this message to Jagex would be greatly appriciated.

 

 

 

You didn't play rs1 did you. If you did you would know this has been tried similary(sleeping bags) and failed yet you think it will work now.

[thephat]

it's good but alot of work, but i support u :)

[Death_Dude74]

Recalling... Recalling.... RSC!! JaGeX tried this before, back in RSC. We had these 1337 things called 'Sleeping Bags' and 'Beds.' Pretty much EVERYTHING but walking used 'energy,' and you could only get 'energy' back by using a sleeping bag. You had to type in a code to get out of the bag though. Anyways, you still have them if you play RSC, but RS2 did away with them. I think people didn't like them because they were an inconvenience and you could escape fights with them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But on your suggestion, I can see the logic, but the implementation wouldn't go over well in my eyes. Largely because, people can now get through those filters, and also, regular players might get REALLY ticked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So overall, good intentions, but by looking at the past, I would have to disagree that this could be used effectively.