Kilo Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I think they did, but the problem wasn't the bots themselves, it was the number of them. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecube Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I really don't think they did. They just created a bot-dependent economy, and now that they're gone, item prices are messed up. If they had never been here, it would have been much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hephaestos8 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 if you think 10k 99 cooks is a good thing then yeah bots are awsome they did their job well get tons of raw recources in the game and make it waaay too easy to lvl up take the glamor of lvls make money sell account and start over again i dont think its cool that anyone who wants a heavily botted skill like fishing can get lvl 99 cooking and only spend a few mil its over 30k now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sy_Accursed Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Well, bots in Runescape are similar that, (bot took the jobs from merchants), and in an awkward and secretive way, they did help keep prices down. We have something to keep the prices down now. It's called the Grand Exchange. Seriously though, the prices have never been lower... At least the prices of the items I've been buying. Thats just the nature of the grand exchange. Using forums/banks and having to hop worlds and move around meant matching up a deal was alot harder and the effort involved in making the deal was much harder.Plus f2p was largely excluded from the market. With the GE you can just throw up what your buying or selling and it does all the work you meaning it is alot less effort, meaning more people sell, meaning tht prices drop Yes, this causes the prices to drop further, but it had to start somewhere. The G.E. started off with low(er) prices. The 'less effort'-thing has just made the prices drop further. What planet are you on? When GE was released virtually every item value on there was too high compared to street price Jagex had to fix lots of them. Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldDucky Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Bots have helped the economy of raw materials, however they mess up the servers. It's usually bots who have servers full, and their Third party equiptment doesn't really connect with Runescapes main server. This causes the game to lag. As some of the above posters have said, I do also think that players should work hard for what they get. That's just bypassing those who work 100% more than them. O'Ducky ~ HYT Chat Rules (Click Here): Read before entering the chat. ~| Former Clan Chronicle Editor | Former Clan Improvement Member| Former TET Member | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aznmidget448 Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Actually, bots supplied raw material for the general public who didn't want to pay high prices for some simple items. However, now that they are gone, more f2p players will be coming back in order to help keep the flow of raw materials going. I've already seen an increase in the amount of people at the yews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primadog Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 As an immigrant, I found it insulting to be compared to bots. Why not compare the gold farms and RWT with the Mob? You know, the ones that raised all kind of hell in ages back, sure, their bootlegging, drug trafficking, and black markets help "produce" some wanted goods, but are they really good for the economy? All I learned in life, I learned on Tip.it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yaz Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Really they just made runescape closer to being a 3rd world country. Anyone who produced raw materials (woodcutting, fishing etc) made less money and anyone who further developed those goods profited off the cheap labor. (Think big companies like nike that have factories in places like indonesia or china in order to maximise profit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_to_fall Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 I miss all the bots... *Mumbles something about Magic Logs, and the price of his Party Hat* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkie_Joe Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 What planet are you on? When GE was released virtually every item value on there was too high compared to street price Jagex had to fix lots of them. We're having a discussion, not an argument. I bought 200k steel bars at 620gp each the week before the G.E. was introduced. When it came, I went to check the price of steel bars. They were 570-ish each with 610gp being the highest price possible. Now, they're 534 each, with 570-ish being the top price. Thanks to Jwrm22 for helping me with the signature :DHave a look at my 'Land of Fakes'Private chat ON, give me a HYT and I'll HYT you back :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sy_Accursed Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 What planet are you on? When GE was released virtually every item value on there was too high compared to street price Jagex had to fix lots of them. We're having a discussion, not an argument. I bought 200k steel bars at 620gp each the week before the G.E. was introduced. When it came, I went to check the price of steel bars. They were 570-ish each with 610gp being the highest price possible. Now, they're 534 each, with 570-ish being the top price. Interesting Everytime I bought steel bars in past like 2 years I paid about 500 - 550 ea So basically you overpaidand GE was still high Operation Gold Sparkles :: Chompy Kills :: Full Profound :: Champions :: Barbarian Notes :: Champions Tackle Box :: MA RewardsDragonkin Journals :: Ports Stories :: Elder Chronicles :: Boss Slayer :: Penance King :: Kal'gerion Titles :: Gold Statue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkie_Joe Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Interesting Everytime I bought steel bars in past like 2 years I paid about 500 - 550 ea So basically you overpaidand GE was still high Let's leave it here, shall we? We agree to disagree. Even though it doesn't matter now, I figured I'd add that I was a steel bar merchant, and that I (easily) sold the steel bars for 650 each on the forums. Thanks to Jwrm22 for helping me with the signature :DHave a look at my 'Land of Fakes'Private chat ON, give me a HYT and I'll HYT you back :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hephaestos8 Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Interesting Everytime I bought steel bars in past like 2 years I paid about 500 - 550 ea So basically you overpaidand GE was still high Let's leave it here, shall we? We agree to disagree. Even though it doesn't matter now, I figured I'd add that I was a steel bar merchant, and that I (easily) sold the steel bars for 650 each on the forums. I was selling steel bars for over 800 ea the 2 weeks before construction and 1.5k ea the day construction came out, other than that steel bars have been around 600 ea hitting 650 ea in bulk the past couple of months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feabdrt Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 ive been playing off and on since around 2001, so ive seen good updates and bad. i loved it in rsc when i wuld go to mine iron. and a autoer wuld be there and when u ahve a full inv in rsc raws wuld just fall to the ground. so there was a pool of iron there for the taking, and i wuld always dive in and make a healthy profit. if a bot was outdoing me i wuld just world hop. its simple they helped. i dont think they hurt anyone to badly. i mean runescape has a lot of worlds to go to and plenty of them are bot free in the spot u wanna train. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonkadonka Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Bots helped runescape! Bots lowered the price of good items making it easya nd cheaper to go pking and all that stuff! And buying gold isnt gonan really effect any one... Oh wow that person just bought every thing u can buy in the game.. BUT WAIT THERES OVER 2 billion copys of every item! There was no downfall to peopel bottign and selling gold irl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk1llz0fg0dz Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 sure bots helped, but they don't belong in the game, at least now it wont be as easy for thousands of people to have 99 fletching, cooking, and firemaking which is good because those skills shouldnt be easy to get or at least not as easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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