Anti-Gold-Farming Measures-today's update

Today sees the latest in our series of initiatives to stamp out botting, gold farming and dishonest play in RuneScape.

It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of gold farming activity takes place in the free game, where it is possible to create disposable accounts that can be used to generate in-game money and send it on for illicit real-world trade in defiance of our rules. Today’s measures will reduce the effectiveness of this practice by a factor of 100, to show these people once and for all that ruining your game is not only unacceptable, but also a waste of their time.

From today onwards, newly created free to play accounts will be subject to a number of trade limitations, consisting of:

New free-to-play accounts can only give away gold coins or items, or make a trade with an imbalance in the recipient’s favour, to the value of 25000 coins per 24 hours. This limitation also applies to drop trades.
New free-to-play accounts can make Duel Arena bets with no greater imbalance than 25000 coins per 24 hours.
We have also made a change to Wilderness PvP, where noted items will only appear to the original carrier when dropped upon death; not the killer. This affects all accounts – not just ones subject to the limitations above.

The last thing we want is to make trading difficult for our long-standing and bustling free-to-play community, so existing free-to-play accounts will be unaffected. What’s more, there is no limit to the value of gifts that can be received by a new free-to-play account, so there’s nothing to stop a new player from receiving a helping hand from a high-levelled friend. Needless to say, balanced trades between players are not a problem, either.

The limitations will remain in effect until the affected account purchases membership. Subscribing will remove these restrictions permanently, even if the subscription later ends and is not renewed.

These measures are a decisive next blow in our ongoing battle against botting and gold farming. We are fully committed to stamping out this insidious form of cheating to ensure you the fair game experience that you deserve.



http://services.runescape.com/m=news/anti-gold-farming-measures


for the ones who don't want to read
basically if you are planning to make a new account and want to put like 1 mil one it to start u won't be allowed until you put membership on it

 

Jagex's way of not completly stopping it but making the RWT'ers forced to pay for membership.

Jagex making bank.

 

Jagex knows people will continue to make accounts for whatever reason such as making pures, skillers etc..

And by setting a one-off quota on the account they can still attempt to maintain membership sales.

 

You can receive any amount from a friend you just can not give large amounts of money away. Its to stop gold farming but still enables you to get help.

 

Just wondering, do you think gold farmers will use this as an excuse to drive up the price of gold?

 

It's good that they are trying to stamp out gold farmers. Maybe existing F2P accounts have become just a little bit more valuable.

 

As a whole, I think the price of gold will slightly rise just due to the fact that getting gp is harder now without bots. And this only effects accounts just now being created, So no I don't think this update will effect anything much.

 

>stake your level 3 mule with a main account
>Get the money anyways

Problem solved.

 

What don't they use as an excuse? I'm sure they will use it as one, yes.

Kinda glad they implemented this. Doesn't affect me because I don't have any new accounts, and don't plan on making any.

 

so much for making a new ftp pure... thanks jagex

 

This is weird.

 

Good thing I have over 300 f2p mules already at my disposal lol.

This is only a minor annoyance; it won't be hard for people to get around this. If someone is going to trade billions they can afford to put membership on an account. Jagex is just using this as an excuse to get more memberships probably XD

 

Smart way to get memberships :l I'm confused on the whole PvP Aspect of it tho, so if i were to bring noted claws in my inv, and i was killed without protect item on and skulled, i wouldn't lose them?

 

basically f2p pures can only get 25k loot.........rofl!!!

 

You wouldn't have any issue making a new F2P pure, seems you read it wrong. They cannot GIVE AWAY over a certain limit, they can receive unlimited amounts still.

You would lose them, however the person that killed you wouldn't get it, it would just drop to the ground for only you too see. This effectively stops most if not all of the "ill trade you X, and it will keep over your X" lures.

No where does it say that.

 

Ends mules for sure

Nice copy paste

 

Pretty sure the staking limit is only 25k a day for these new account as well.

 

these new accounts cannot transfer over 25k per 24hours including dying in the wild = if you pk in f2p against a pure acc that has been created after this date your loot will be capped at 25k...........gf f2pers lol........


hmmm you might get 0gp if they already died and lost 25k within 24 hours?????

 

ur logic fails lol

idc about this update... as long as i get my bot free training spots im good to go

 

Jeff.'s thread was posted first. Please refer all discussion to that one.