Gold farmers ruined botting for the rest of us

Back before there was major gold farming, people would only bot for skills because they didn't want to grind countless hours playing the game. They wanted a program to do it for them while they lived it up IRL (people had school, work, priorities)

Then came along mass gold farmers who botted solely to make profit off of Jagex's game and exchange the gold for real life $$$. These are the kinds of botters which destroyed botting for the rest of us! Blame all the greedy kids who gold farmed mass amount of GP and RWT'ed like there was no tomorrow.

That's why I believe Jagex launched the bot nuke.

I have no problem with people botting their skills, and I bet Jagex didn't even care that much either.

It's when a mass amount of gold farmers entered the game, That is when Jagex got angry. Even all the anti-bot noobs who went around looking for botters;Who did they target the most? Gold farmers!

That's why 98% of bots are gone now, Thanks to gold farmers!

Botting was always about skills back in the golden days. Fast forward to the months of Pre-nuke botting, it was all about gold farming. Guess what? Now both are gone! (Well there is a small minority still botting off colour bots, I don't care what you say, there still not as effective as all the injection bots were)

 

Of course they did. But they're is no way to differentiate between the two

 

You are 100% right, they want to stop gold farmers. Legit goldfarmers with their own bots doesn't affect jagex as much, as they are limited in numbers. But thoses people buying rsbuddy/rsbots.net goldfarming scripts were soo huge in numbers that it overwhelmingly out numbered them.

 

Which is why the system at SRL is awesome.
Only those knowledgeable and giving enough to script will and publish scripts get our better, more profitable scripts, keeping everything in a good balance.

 

Mod MMG said that the main reason they removed bots are goldfarmers, and with botting it removes the social aspect of the game

 

I am happy with this new system of no bots (except color bots which are no match for the injection bots) i hope it stays like this.

 

Goldfarmers ruined the game.
Botters didint.

 

This is the correct answer.

One of the main reasons bots were nuked was to get back the social aspect of the game. Jagex see's RuneScape as a social network, among other things. It is a game where people can get on to converse with their friends and/or people they have just met.

However, this is not the only reason bots were nuked.

Bots devalue the game in every respect.

You have a RsBot fishing Sharks, the value of a shark before a bot is say: 1.2k with a stock of 500 - The fisher purchases a bot or downloads a free one and his stock goes up 5x because he can now bot to fish his sharks at a rate 2x he could before because now he can bot while hes sleeping, at school, work, with his friends, etc. You now have 2500 sharks that were once 1.2k each because there was a limited quanity of it but now the supplier has a endless amount of sharks he can fish while hes not playing, because there is no limit or time period between fishing the value of a shark goes down from 1.2k to 450gp.

Due to the sharks going down to 450gp ea the value of gold goes down, because it is much easier to make now that the botter can sell sharks in any quanity he wants he has an unlimited amount of access to gold.

It works the same way with any skill. If you can bot any stat it ruins the economy and the value of everything. It takes the enjoyment out of those who train there stats from those who don't do it themselves.

You have a pker who trains he stats, earns the right to be a maxed pker and practices to pk so he can be one of the best pkers his combat level in the wild.

You have a different player who bots his stats to be maxed in half the time the player who trained his stats himself did it in. He doesn't have the right to say he trained his account to be maxed because someone or something else did it.

Bots put an overall unfair advantage above the legit player, it takes the respect of the game away and the purpose of it. The game is designed to train, earn your way to a rank and socialize. Bots take all of that away.

It is not just farmers, it is the lazy player who doesn't want to take the time to play the game correct and train his account.

 

Your understanding of why people bot is askew. Most botters botted because they were in it for the money. They aren't 'lazy players', they're thinking of the money in the long run. I could buy 3 Idunge and let it go for a week and a half on 3 accounts and have 3 80 dunge accounts I could flip to a 'lazy player' for a huge profit. The truth is that the game stopped being fun because Jagex ruined all of the fun things. Now you have to grind so much to get anywhere that the game is just ridiculously boring.

 

The average user who bots their account for stats plays it while they have money transfered to the account for pking, staking, etc.

Once they loose that money they bring it here to sell and recover back (most of the time) so that they can start over again, they're not just farming they're making quick accounts to sell and take back.

I'm not telling you this as my opinion, i'm telling you this as the facts that are discussed within RuneScape hierarchy.

Farmers a a big part of a reason but its not the sole reason, they are a percentage along with the;

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The term is used strongly towards people who just dont want to train and farmers. It works both ways.

 

Loled, lazy on a game? I would never spend hours and hours to grind some skills. I play rs for pking and having fun and i dont see anything wrong with that. I love how legit ppl complains when they are skilling and saying its sucks and is boring. Like cmon, its a game.

 

im very pleased with runescape right now, with no bots, makes it a better game for us tbh

 

Bots never left

 

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People that don't agree are most likely those that played runescape after 2k7.

Anyway, VenomXI, there's no point in crying about it now. Old bots are gone, so just move on. Play legit if you want, bot with the new bots (which are pretty crappy compared to the old ones and I'm including my own bot), or quit it if you want. Complaining about it won't do anything

 

Then go learn how to script yourself. Stop being a leecher. Colors bots, while not as EASY to make as injection bots, can still be nearly as effective. Jagex just removed the 98% that were leeching off of others. Good riddance. Gold farming only became so big because it was just way too easy not to. Now it actually requires... a brain. Color bots are also pretty heavy on CPU resource so you need a super computer or a lot of VPSs which can is costly (to gold farm that is).

RSC and early RS2 were much more a grind compared to post 2k7 RS, especially RSC.

 

stop complaining there has always been bots\bot farms every since this game pretty much came out and they are still out there you're just either too uneducated to find them, or too stingy to pay the fee.

 

AMEN.

Which asshole decided he wanted to make money off of the game and then sparked a tidal wave of goldfarms?

I've always been against gold farming.

 

I agree about how jagex didnt mind skill bots as much as gold bots; however the simple matter is that most of those skill bots were also feeding into moneymaking bots. For example, the top two selling bots were AutoHunter and kMiner. Frost Dragons was increasing in popularity as well, and iDung was doing well too. AutoHunter gave 30M + Cape, AutoMiner gave 40M + Cape, and iDung Gave more accounts access to frost dragons.

 

If you're seriously QQing because you can't cheat a game anymore, quit the game already. Jagex has made this game better by eliminating bots. If you needed to bot to have "fun" in this game, you shouldn't be playing it in the first place. We both broke rules, we both got punished. Except your not the ones down thousands IRL because of it.

If you really care so much about botting take the initiative and find your own script developer.

 

If you can't playing rs legit, you shouldn't bot.
If you can't understand how to maintain or make bots, you shouldn't gold farm.