Hi all,

 

I am free player only. I have a mining level of approx 64 and am increasingly frustrated by the number of players (one of whom was 105 combat level) who appear to be mining with macros. The mining guild appears to have a minimum of 50% bots . These players (I use that term rather liberally) as in the old days (pre GE) tend not to wield the pick and always go for the nearest ore available even if other players are already mining. This means that legitimate players are often mining for 50% of the time without any reward as they are always in competition with the bots. I notice also that the iron mines outside Varrock always contain several of these macro cheats. These players tend to be easily beaten to the ores and never complain if I take three out of the 4 ores available. They also walk slightly away from the mining area if no ores are available and show no sense of knowing where the next available ore is likely to appear.

 

My question is how does one report these players? Obviously I know how to perform the reporting procedure but how do I provide evidence? It is obvious to me over a few minutes that these are bots but presumably since they are becoming more prevalent JaGex cannot ban based on the evidence presented by such reports. Most bots of yester year tended to cut yews in free worlds but I guess these mining bots make more gp per hour and are easier to get hold of. Why do they bother anyway since I was under the impression that money transferrence was now virtually impossible?

First of all, money transfer is still possible, don't ask me how because I don't know how, but their are still tons of sites selling gold. Second, I understand you feeling like you want to be proactive against botters, because yes they are stupid and very annoying. But with botters you have to learn to be kind of passive with them, I personally only report if they are interfering with how I play or are showing extreme signs of botting, like getting stuck on something for 10+ minutes. The reason I am so passive with them is because everyone has different styles of play and as a player you can never be sure. You can't just report someone because they aren't talking, they could have public off, like I do sometimes when I get annoyed and don't feel like mingling with others. However to answers your original question the best thing you can do is to report them like normal and hope jagex looks into it.

Don't bother reporting them, more will take their place. Just carry on playing. And it's still easy to transfer...

I report every bot I see, mostly because I just want to be able to play normally without a programmed machine interfering.

If the people using bots don't want to play like everybody else, they don't need to have an active account. <_<