Bot Analogy

[Epicpineapple]

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[Lame]

runescape is a game. Thats real life. Idc what i do to hurt a fucking game.

 

[david493]

What if Bots were completely removed, the cost of raw materials would be high, making even something like coal mining yield huge profits from like 400 or 500 gp trade price. Like think of it man

 

[capper4lyf]

You realize runescape is just a game? Lol, ok what if the botters are ruining the runescape economy if you dont like it dont play it there's plenty of better games out there. To be honest its not just botters ruining the game its the amount of new items being bought into the game its injecting more money into the game then what the botters are doing in my opinion.

You take runescape to seriously lol?

 

[The Riddler_]

Economies can function without bots and illegal immigration. Without illegal immigration, the companies would be forced to raise the prices paid for the workers, which in turn, raises the prices of the product. Same goes for RS economy. Bots and immigration just deflates the prices.

 

[JohnK]

Firstly, at people saying "omfg its just a game!!", he has a point. Stop being ignorant.

Without bots in RS, prices of raw materials would just deflate. To what extent this effects the economy as a whole, I'm not too sure...

 

[Epicpineapple]

Economies can function without bots and illegal immigration. Without illegal immigration, the companies would be forced to raise the prices paid for the workers, which in turn, raises the prices of the product. Same goes for RS economy. Bots and immigration just deflates the prices.

Companies are not moral they will not raise wages instead they will look for a cheaper alternative.

 

[Epicpineapple]

Firstly, at people saying "omfg its just a game!!", he has a point. Stop being ignorant.

Without bots in RS, prices of raw materials would just deflate. To what extent this effects the economy as a whole, I'm not too sure...

Our economy depends of raw materials if suddenly the supply of these materials was removed then the economy would implode, thus bots are necessary in order for the RS economy to function.

 

[sofaking]

Hard to compare RS to real life because RS allows us to do a lot more than real life. We have the option of mining our ore and fishing our food because it's easily accessible. Many CHOOSE to buy raw materials because it's more convenient. Like others said, bots only deflate prices. If they weren't around to chop the trees, it's not like no one else is going to do it. Many players CHOOSE to buy raw materials instead of getting them themselves because the pros outweigh the cons. Because of lower prices due to botters, it's more practical (in the sense of moneywise) to just buy in bulk than spend countless hours fishing or mining the items themselves.
Think of it like this:
Scenario 1: (With Bots)
It takes 1 hour to mine 1000 coal ores, which has a market value of 242 per ore. That's only a gain of 242,000 gold in one hour. If a person values their time to be greater than 242,000 gold per hour, they would just buy the 1000 coal ores and spend that hour doing something more productive.

Scenario 2: (Without Bots)
It takes 1 hour to mine 1000 coal ores, with market value of 500 gold per ore. That's a gain of 500,000 gold per hour, which is more than double the gain in the previous scenario. Not many value their time higher than 500,000 gold per hour and, those that dont, resort to mining the 1000 coal ores instead of just buying.

Botters doesn't equal RS economy implosion. It simply means the economy becomes more raw-material based.

On the case of illegal immigrants in the US, you're oversimplifying the situation. There's more to the case than just immigrants doing what citizens don't want to do, there's the idea of them not paying taxes and having citizens pay for the illegal immigrant kids' schooling, etc.

 

[z Revs]

Bots are nothing like illegal immigrants. Bots require no effort, they are in much more massive quantities than immigrants, and they aren't even doing the jobs nobody wants to do. They're just producing mass quantities of raw materials, making the prices for those items low. Bots are basically the reason the economy is so inflated, doubled with the poor updates in the game as of the past 3 - 4 years.

 

[matthuw]

Our economy depends of raw materials if suddenly the supply of these materials was removed then the economy would implode, thus bots are necessary in order for the RS economy to function.

Actually the RuneScape economy would function just fine without bots. The one and only thing bots do are lower prices of most items. Without them, prices would simply rise, nothing more, nothing less. You act as if no one actually gathers raw materials legitimately, when there are thousands of player doing so. You have a very limited concept of what and how an economy is and functions.

 

[Delphie]

What if Bots were completely removed, the cost of raw materials would be high, making even something like coal mining yield huge profits from like 400 or 500 gp trade price. Like think of it man

Whether the economy is flush with GP or poor, prices will adjust to fit
the poor/rich economic conditions. It just means 100 Million GP would have
the same value as 50 Million GP did in the past. If you take a good look at
RuneScape's history, back in the RS classic days, 100k GP was considered to
be a lot of GP.

 

[animeking1120]

this conversation got turned to the wrong direction. I feel bots neither help. nor destroy runescape. Some people deserve the right to use bots because of how long they've played and how many man hours were put into there accounts.