Your right, because bots have devalued essence. P ess used to be best money from GOP. It's not like bots only started mining essence since like half a year. They have been botting pure essence since it was released and way before GoP was released. Exactly. But they are bigger and worse now, and even casual non RWT players bot because of the whole non permanent ban thing (I'm aware they reinstated permanent bans though, but apparently this is temporary). I can't imagine it going like this which you imply: Jagex: Temporary bans for botting now. Thousands of players: Oh since it's temporary bans now I'm going to start botting!