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[Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« on: October 22, 2011, 01:21:17 »
21-Oct-2011 - Bot-Busting and Bonuses For All

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Hi everyone,

Last week, Daniel Clough shared more news with the community about our ongoing war to eliminate botting and gold farming from the game. Today, I am really happy to say we are in the long-awaited position of being able to announce that we’ll be launching our most formidable bot-busting weapon in our history, targeting what we believe to be 98% of the bots seen in game.

I anticipate that this update will be a defining triumph in our battle against the bots which you’ve clearly told us have been harming your game. However, we are not resting on our laurels and will be continuing to develop numerous systems as well as still making a number of improvements over the coming months in an attempt to remain a few steps ahead of both the bot makers and gold farmers alike.

As Daniel made clear last week, we are dedicated to battling bots and gold farming on every front. We have also recently detected and banned over 1.5 million botting and gold farming accounts. While we work behind the scenes on certain projects, we know that sometimes the necessary secrecy can be rather frustrating for players and, as a team, we’ve all desperately wanted to share details about this upcoming project with the community since the very beginning of the year when we had first believed it was going to be imminently ready. However, sadly sometimes when innovating in multiple uncharted areas it takes a lot longer than expected and we were therefore at necessary pains to keep this project tightly under wraps while completing it and, crucially, not giving bot makers any information or warning that could assist them in working around it or preparing for it.

The project, code-named the ‘ClusterFlutterer’, will be launched as part of the RuneScape game update on Tuesday the 25th October permanently preventing “reflection” bots from working again.

We anticipate that next Tuesday will go down in RuneScape history as 'bot-nuking day'. To celebrate this landmark event, we’ll be running a series of one-off bonus days from Tuesday’s system update through to Friday. Over the course of these events, members will have the chance to gain triple XP in Slayer and additional points and rewards in some of our most popular D&Ds and minigames in a bot-free RuneScape:

Tuesday:

Slayer skill day: All Slayer XP earned from killing assigned targets will be tripled. Some monsters will have a faster respawn time.

Wednesday:

Castle Wars day: Tickets earned from winning a game will be triple the usual amount.

Thursday:

Distraction and Diversion day: Bonus rewards will be given for the following distractions:

Penguin Hide & Seek: Double points.
Evil Tree: Triple XP.
Shooting Star: Triple XP while mining it and increased final rewards.
Familiarization: Players will receive the lucky charm AND ingredient box instead of having to choose.
Penguin Hide & Seek and Familiarization will be reset on the day, so you can do them again if you have already done them that week. All other D&D limitations remain the same (e.g. only two Evil Trees a day).

Friday:

Soul Wars day: Players will receive triple the usual amount of zeal points.

These days will run from midnight to midnight (BST), with the exception of Tuesday which will run from game update time until midnight (BST). Unlike previous Bonus XP events, these modifiers will not deteriorate and will remain constant for the durations stated above.

As promised we’ll be as transparent as possible in keeping everyone updated on the status of our fight against bots and gold farmers and, equally, as before we also ask of you to continue to do your part in helping and supporting too.

I look forward to seeing you in-game soon.

Have fun!

Cheers,

Mark Gerhard

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Woof

Re: [Oct-22 -11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2011, 01:26:01 »
I am so happy right now. So happy that I'm going to return to RS and hog all the new rewards. Yay! ^__^

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Re: [Oct-22 -11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2011, 01:32:48 »
Mhm! Best update ever, if the 98% really is true :D
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Re: [Oct-22 -11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2011, 01:56:49 »
I think it will be. I did a bit of searching, ALL of the bots I could find run on some sort of "reflection".  Most of the threads I found were actually about the reflection failing lol.

Plus this is big statement and commitment. They must know that if they make a huge fuss like this and fail, THOUSANDS of people will give up hope on the botting problem and possibly/probably leave their game because of it. Which, ironically, would also get rid of a significant chunk bots in the long run. No legit players = no demand for botted geepees.

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Re: [Oct-22 -11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2011, 01:59:04 »
I don't think Jagex are uneducated enough to make such a hype of this implementation with rewards for legit players unless they were sure it was going to work.
The thing that lingers on my mind though is: How long will this stop the bots for?

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Re: [Oct-22 -11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2011, 02:15:46 »
Hopefully long enough for moneymaking methods to actually make money again so I can fund my new account xD

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Re: [Oct-22 -11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2011, 06:58:58 »
I can't wait for this either. Hopefully money-making methods for skillers will get a boost :X

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Re: [Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2011, 12:43:22 »
I'm looking forward to double Penguin points. :D
Shame I'll miss out on the Soul Wars zeal on Friday, since I'll be heading to Runefest. :3

Oh yeah, and the bot busting bit - cool.
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Re: [Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2011, 12:48:50 »
98%?

How long is that going to last though, I reckon not much longer than a week max. I don't think Jagex will ever be able to stop that high an ammount of botters. It's always nice to dream though. Just a pitty I'm doing a 13 hour shift on Tuesday! :( I need that Slayer xp.

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Re: [Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2011, 13:04:39 »
We will be able to do penguins twice next week, correct?
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Re: [Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2011, 13:05:46 »
We will be able to do penguins twice next week, correct?

That's how they've made it look, yup.

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Aaron

Re: [Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2011, 14:42:06 »
What does everyone think of this? It's obviously a good thing bots are 'going', but already I've seen people attempting to sell items much higher than face value. People in the Grand Exchange selling whips for 1m, Dbones selling for 4k each. It took me nearly an hour to buy herb supplies today, and that's Max price.

On the other hand, if prices raise, then players can use Old School money making methods, like collecting Limpwurts since bots will not be populating the areas anymore.

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Re: [Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2011, 16:28:46 »
If the bots really get stopped, prices will naturally rise, probably by ~50% on most botted items. The rise we're seeing now is from pure speculation, which is why I will be selling my investments on monday night. Better safe than sorry, and I still expect a 25-30% profit. Besides, flipping will be easier during a continued rise.

Personally, I believe  this is overhyped, as the case usual is with Jagex. Moreover, even if they are right, it is only temporary. The only question is how long it takes for bot programmers to write a program that does not use java reflection. I.e. a program that checks the screen and interprets the images, so if there are bots that use AutoHotkey, they shouldn't be discovered.
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Re: [Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2011, 17:22:08 »
From what I gather, the value of current cash stacks will fall and the value of time will go up. So this:

Easier GP/h
More expensive GP/XP

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If/when they do come out with bots that interpret onscreen images, won't that mean the bots are limited to 1 per OS, as the bot will actually have to take control of the mouse?

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Re: [Oct-22-11] BOT BUSTING, HOO RAH!
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2011, 17:28:50 »
I'm sure there are ways to work around that. For one, virtual OS could be used
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