If you're going to bot on your main, only bit for maximum 4hr/day, and occasionally talk in game while botting to make you appear real.
Eh, I really wouldn't agree with any of that. You're not going to be botting your main accounts and there's no feasible way to chat in-game across your whole farm, not to mention it's completely unnecessary regardless. Not sure why you posted a thread saying you were in this exact situation but then hopped to this one to give advice lol.
Ban rates nowadays are mostly composed of people either suicide botting or just doing it with a lack of knowledge/care. If you take the time to learn about the subject and staying under the radar, running a farm will be much easier and more profitable. The common starter misconception that ends up burying people is thinking that botting is just easy money, it really isn't. It takes time, effort, and capital to get good results.
Every aspect counts, so don't half-ass anything.
There are a lot of clients to choose from nowadays, some better than others. The community favorite nowadays is
Simba, which is color-based rather than injection or reflection. There are tons of good clients to choose from though, so you're free to find what you like. When it comes to choosing scripts, avoid anything free. Free is the devil. Premium scripts can yield good results with wise choice, but if you can put down the money, I'd definitely opt for having a private script written. Every platform has a lot of good commission script-writers, so if that's a possibility, you can just contact someone you like and they'll give you a quote.
A very crucial aspect in botting is using proxies across your farm. Proxies are essentially remote computers which hide your IP by making every account appear as if it's coming from a different source. The reason this is important is because when Jagex's system catches a bot, it will search for accounts accessed from the same IP and ban them as well, called a chain ban.
@yohojo has a great guide written on proxies:
All About Proxies for Runescape Botting. And I'd recommend checking out
BlazingCEO when you're ready to buy proxies, best service I've ever used at the lowest prices.
To host a good amount of bots, I'd say more than 5, you will also need to rent out either a VPS or dedicated server (I'd honestly just go with a dedicated server). As you could probably guess, the more powerful a server is, the more it will cost. Like proxies, these are rented out on a monthly basis. I'd keep away from any services that involve themselves with RS botting, they charge twice the price and normally aren't great. Also like proxies.
Hm what else. Don't bot for more than 4-8 hours a day and be inconsistent about it. Go harder on weekends. Make sure your bots have some skills leveled, preferably those which affect combat level. Players can and will report you if they think you're botting, so the goal here is to make your accounts look as inconspicuous as possible.
All in all, setting up a healthy bot farm isn't going to be very cheap or quick, but it's more than worth the work you put in. Of course there's a ton I left out, so I'd definitely recommend checking out botting forums for more info.
Good luck, happy devaluing.