I have a question that has probably been asked several times already, but who knows, something may have changed since the others asked.
Of the few popular bots, which one is actually the best? I'm not looking to start a farm, i'm going to start an alt-account (one that I wouldn't kill myself over if it did get banned) to just max combat stats. Most of the bots will have the same "anti-detection" sections that try to make the bots looks safe. The only bot I did use (years ago) was RiD, before they shut down the bots, and I never got banned after setting it up for entire days of magic training etc, and never got a ban.
Which one would you use if you were to non-suicide bot your account for max combat?
Cost isn't an issue for premium bots.
Lastly, are there any other bots out there that aren't commonly used like most on here, but are as good or better.
Times haven't changed much when it comes to the OSRS botting scene.
1. There is theory is no best bot, there is only what you prefer. Yeah some will have higher ban rates then others, but its all about variety. I personally used OsBot before going onto a private platform, it was pretty good. Same with Rune-mate which I bot 99 strength and did 5 hours a day with no breaks and it did the job.
2. RiD is still in production (for over three plus years now lol) and actually is still a good color bot. But they still do exist.
3. Could always look into Simba (tried it long ago, and it was amazing), Rune-mate, or even OsBot / Tribot. Each have their own cons/pros. Personal experince, get your own platform and do private scripts, if this is out of the question well, I'd recommend Rune-Mate.
4. Cost isn't a issue? Buy private scripts to help yourself with ban rates / Prems.
I have a couple questions about keeping a bot farm going.
A few months back I tried to make a 5 bot fishing farm, I paid for a 10$ script on osbot and raised the accounts through tutorial island myself before botting them (I played on them for maybe an hour or 2 before sending them to fish).
They fished for about a day and I had them taking breaks at different times but when they got to about 50 fishing they all got banned (I was running them on the same VPS but different IP proxies) and I just kind of ran out of funds to keep my farm going.
What could I have done better? I've been doing extensive research for a while now trying to figure out what the best way to get my fishers up to minnows or sharks but I keep running into a wall.
Any tips are appreciated, thanks.
Here are some tips: Also farms are ALL trial and ERROR, be prepared. lol.
Make sure VPS are unique IPs (DO(Digital Ocean is the best from my experience))
Bot on Weekends (usually they don't work)
Bot on holidays (based in the UK)
Bot within non-working hours of Jagex. (I assume its like a 9-5 thing.)
1. Botting clients:
- You want to avoid Injection based clients, these are some factors on why your account(s) get banned.
- Reflection / Mirror - Mirror (people can argue with me if they want) doesn't make a difference. The ban rates can be the same just as reflection, believe it or not reflection has the best results when it comes to CPU usage, scripts, and overall performance.
2. Proxies (when it comes to farming)
- If you plan on running a farm there are a few things you guys should want to collect: Trial and Error, this is going to be DATA collecting, seeing when to bot, how long bots last, investments when it comes to bots, mirco-managing.
- Everyone who wants to run a farm should look into setting up multiple VPS's and which have unique IPs and you should only run 1-2 accounts on at a time. They can be cheaper along with not having to worry about the proxies going dead.
3. Safe botting
- Everyone should be safe botting if botting at all, make sure your times aren't too off and make sure you manually do stuff on the account.
- Scripts is what usually get people banned, here is the thing, people thing Premium scripts are the way to go. With that being said, yeah you should pay for scripts as they should have different methods to keep you safe, but you do realize when you buy / sell this script more people use, making the patterns easily detectable and hence its becomes public and well now you have the chance to get banned. You should write your own scripts / pay people for scripts privately and hope it won't get leaked or sold for money. (Especially when it comes to money making methods)
4. ITS TOO MUCH MONEY FOR PRIVATE SCRIPTS / BOTTING CLIENT (PLATFORM)
- Understand people who do code with Java or even other platforms aren't going to do work for cheap. Making a script to your desire does take time and resources. A java programmer can make upwards to $30+ hour. So know if they quote you a decent amount, know its not too far off. If you know a person who knows their shit, they will make sure they take time to test the script making it bug free, free updates and support, also make sure your method / script doesn't get used. (Can't say this for all of em, just some). Not to mention if someone wants a script vai Tri-bot / OsBot or whatever, their API is different and it may take some time to adjust to it.
Just for anyone who wants to know where I came up with this stuff? Personal experience, know a good friend whom knows Java / ran a bot farm with the friend itself.
Other questions:
Ban rates: No one knows the system, there is no way to tell what they look into for banning accounts, they do manually banning along with system banning. No one knows the rate, doubt anyone will.
Which client is the safest: Each client has its own pro/cons, its up to you which platform you decide to choose. Personally making your own platform is the best option.
Botting is trial and error, have fun.
