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"11th June 2009 - Macro-detection systems update" - Fear not!

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http://news.runescape.com/p=kKmok3kJqOeN6D3mDdihco3oPeYN2KFy6W5--vZUbNA/newsitem.ws?id=1937

It’s been a while since we updated you on what we are doing to prevent cheating in RuneScape, and particularly to catch and ban macroers, so here’s what’s currently going on:

You’ve probably already noticed while playing the game that there has been a lot less macroing going on over the last year, as we’ve been getting more effective at preventing it. Gone are the days where every tree has an accompanying crowd of bots. However, we’re not resting on our laurels, and in fact we have just strengthened our macro-detection systems yet again. We are about to ban several thousand more accounts for macroing. We have reviewed all the macro programs available, and there are none we cannot detect.

These days we are taking a zero-tolerance approach to macroing. Players caught for macroing don’t receive a warning, or a chance to appeal, or even a last-chance appeal - they are just permanently banned. Don’t make the mistake of believing that we’ll be soft, and that you can get away with it until you are warned. You can’t. Don’t risk your account. By the time you realize you’ve been caught it will be far too late.

Also, high-level and members’ accounts are NOT immune, or given an extra chance. One of the reasons for our RWT changes was precisely so players couldn’t effectively macro on low–level, throwaway accounts to gain wealth. This means they were tempted to macro on their high–level, main accounts instead, which plays straight into our hands as our existing anti-macro systems catch and ban them! This has proven very effective; so far this month we have already banned over 500 high-level accounts with skills in the 80s and 90s. Don’t make your account one of them.

This is a warning to players that would have otherwise been sucked in by the misinformation spread by cheating communities; don’t do it, or you will lose your hard-earned account.

For further information, please refer to the honour section of the Rules of RuneScape.

Assuming this is more than a mere bluff (because Jagex has historically been known for lying and grossly exaggerating), here is some advice: DO NOT USE OVER NIGHT AUTOS. Simple 20kb executables with a single task or single-purpose 50 line SCAR scripts are the best option. Stay at the screen and know your 'stop' hotkey.

If you look at the comments for my autoclicker (http://www.sythe.org/showthread.php?t=201260), you will see hundreds of people praising a dialoged wrapper for the following simple program:
Code:
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void ClickMouse(ULONG x, ULONG y, DWORD nMinSleepTime, DWORD nMaxSleepTime)
{
    srand(GetTickCount());
    mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN,x,y,NULL,NULL);
    mouse_event(MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,x,y,NULL,NULL);
    Sleep((rand()%nMaxSleepTime-nMinSleepTime)+nMinSleepTime);
}

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nShowCmd)
{
    int nResult = MessageBox(NULL,"Are you sure you want to start the clicker?\n(You will be able to stop at any time by pressing and releasing the F8 key...)","MouseClicker",MB_YESNO|MB_ICONQUESTION);
    POINT p;
    switch(nResult)
    {
    case IDYES:
        while(!(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_F8)))
        {
            GetCursorPos(&p);
            ClickMouse(p.x,p.y,1000,2000);
        }
        break;
    case IDNO:
    default:
        ExitProcess(0x0);
        break;
    }
    return 0;
}

How is it possible that this simplicity has existed and been used for 2.5 years and to this day not one report of someone being banned by it has reached my ears? Hundreds of people have drastically increased their mage levels through this, including WoW Sucks (former moderator: http://sythe.org/showthread.php?t=228968&highlight=autoclicker+latest). Though the picture is dead, it was an increase from 63 magic to 85 in a week.

The moral of this story: simple is better. Use a basic clicking function with a basic random interval and a one-press-stop-everything command (in this case, the F8 key).

@ Jagex: :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p
 
These days we are taking a zero-tolerance approach to macroing. Players caught for macroing don&#8217;t receive a warning, or a chance to appeal, or even a last-chance appeal - they are just permanently banned. Don&#8217;t make the mistake of believing that we&#8217;ll be soft, and that you can get away with it until you are warned. You can&#8217;t. Don&#8217;t risk your account. By the time you realize you&#8217;ve been caught it will be far too late.

Well, you have to admit, they played it well. By those simple threats, I'm sure they're putting a major break in the botting community. Simple bots are always safe to use, but people have become accustomed to more advanced scripts. Dis 'ere b vry bad :'(

This is a warning to players that would have otherwise been sucked in by the misinformation spread by cheating communities; don&#8217;t do it, or you will lose your hard-earned account.

ololol
 
Ah shit.
I guess RSBot just died there...
 
Ah damn! I guess Sythe.org will perish now!

On a side-note: MegaMatt, don't be upset I already said it wasn't personal. You're just the least professional staff member so I used you as an example.
 
Oh gawd I hope my skiller didn't get banned. He has 20k rune ess and 2k coal and 400 mith on him =/. Gonna go check now.

wow i was happy, reading the thread, accounts banned, someone just died, sythe's gonna perish, etc etc and WOW A GOD DAMN IDIOT WITH A GOD DAMN HUGE SIGNATURE

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Guess I'll have to get 85 mining by hand now. I hope they don't ban my account.
 
Ah damn! I guess Sythe.org will perish now!

Sythe's barely based off of our botting.

I agree that the threats are empty, but Kevin's right, the botting community is going to take it as a serious threat. Someone above me mentioned that he had 4 out of 5 accounts banned today, which sucks, but mine is still fine and I have botted with it from level 60 firemaking to level 92 firemaking (with RSBot). I'm pretty sure that this isn't going to be as serious as it sounds. Another thing is that I'm just firemaking though, if I was training a skill which makes money and was more known as something to bot for (ie. woodcutting, fishing, magic), I don't know what the outcome would be.
 
Give it a week Jagex will forget about Macros and move on to some other shit like hackers or something.

Seeing how they have been on botters for the past year, i highly doubt that. Macroing is always a problem for jagex, and it seems that they have finally came to the end of the battle. No more warnings will mean less people doing it.
 
it seems like this is just another scare tactic from jagex to try and stop people from autoing. I do believe the bulk of people will continue using it regardless.
 
OMG SMR HI!!!!!!!

@on topic
my friends got banned for botting that day they posted the announcement. perm banned no appeal. my advice is not to appeal right away but appeal after a couple of months after hype dies down
 
If you really get banned, just bot another account back up... its not like you put work into your botted account 0.0
 
Just be careful for the next few days. They might pull out another mass ban out of their arse sometime soon. Probably not a good idea to bot on your mains for now.
 
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