Account changes to stop bots etc etc

[leebrave]

IF THIS KIND OF INFORMATION HAS BEEN POSTED BEFORE - SORRY

 

 

How many accounts do you have?

 

does one of your accounts us a bot?

 

Time to stop

 

Bots have become a real life marketplace nowadays - extremely deperate and kinda sad people actually buy bots for RS and other games

 

Typical day of a bot user - Example

 

Account one - Playing like normal not using bots etc (inoccent person seemingly)

 

Account two - Bot farming fish - Feeding items to account one at cheapest rate or by death

 

Account one - Taking items from account two and selling at highest price or using on skills

 

etc etc

 

This is a very sad thing to do but will never change and as RS boss himself has said BOTS in the future may become undetectable

 

 

New games mostly coming from China etc have a good although not completely perfect solution

 

The games allow one account per ip/email etc but within that account you can have more than one character most have 5

 

What this stops & creates -

 

Stops multiple accounts at once unless you have another computer available as this would show a different IP

 

Creates a large decrease in bot usage

 

Creates an instant loss of all characters that some may have spent months perfecting due to bot reliablility

 

Creates better more fun gameplay for most people

 

 

If RS wants to show they are actually stopping bots etc this is something they should implement

 

Alot of you are thinking but i have 4 seperate accounts on the same IP - not a big problem all RS has to do is inform people of the new change and tell them to provide all the details of their accounts they want to use on one account

 

If anyone has a problem with the account change - then theres only one reason why - no one can run more than 3-4 accounts at once unless they are using some sort of AID program (except the odd one or two very dedicated players)

 

The above has become a standard in most new games but thats only due to the fact that they are the Free To Play - want extras you pay types. Ive played alot of these games and on hardly any occasions has my game been ruined by bots of any kind

 

This sadly is something they should have implemented a long time ago but never will for one reason that im sure your all aware of

[Danny_TeamDan]

Just because you're on a a diff computer doesn't necessarily mean you have a new IP.

 

Runescape has IP banned people before (99% sure of it) and I'm sure they will but they do so cautiously. It's not hard to change your IP or get a new email. What if I have a sibling who plays as well? Then they couldn't play simply because my IP is the one that is allowed to play.

 

Also trade limits make it hard to transfer from bot to main so they do have ways to stop/encourage people not to bot. I'm sure within the next month they will have an announcement about how they mass banned a lot of people who have been playing for a long time to scare more people from botting.

 

Good suggestions but I'm not sure Jagex will get that extreme only allowing us to have one account/IP

[Dragonlordjl]

IP bans are only effective against computer-illiterate people. And even then, with a small amount of google research anybody can figure out how to reset the IP or use a proxy. Requiring you to tie an account to an e-mail is just another speed bump-- it's very easy to create a new e-mail account using one of the free services like hotmail or AOL.

[Rock Hard]

all rs needs is 'captcha' random events

[Dragonlordjl]

all rs needs is 'captcha' random events

Apparently you didn't play in RSC. :razz: We had something called "Fatigue," which accumulated after you did pretty much anything that gained exp. After you reached 100% Fatigue, you either stopped gaining exp (in the case of combat) or stopped being able to perform that activity at all (which was the case with most of the skills). You had to use a bed or sleeping bag to reduce Fatigue, and closing the "resting" interface required you to input words in a manner very similar to CAPTCHA.