Our good friend Andrew Gower..

[Merchant_in_the_dark]

I discovered this archive on Google, it contains logs of Andrwe Gower's blog posts, IRC logs, Usenet posts, and interviews since the mid-90s.

It's pretty amazing to read. It also sheds some light on the recent updates.

Andrew Gower = MrAndrew

[00:16] <Asrock> andrew: are people that have been locked up for macroing locked up forever?
[00:16] <@MrAndrew> pretty much yes asrock, I do NOT like macroing
[00:16] <@MrAndrew> it's blatantly obvious when people macro
[00:17] <@MrAndrew> people report macroers to me and I login and go and have a look
[00:17] <@MrAndrew> well the people who hate the game just shouldn't play it! stands to reason

[23:40] <@MrAndrew> had a record number of players this evening I was very pleased
[23:41] <@MrAndrew> I saw 3067 at once!
[23:41] <Kerrick> i remember when we hit 1000
[23:41] <@MrAndrew> yep me too, I was so excited when we hit 1000 months ago
[23:41] <@MrAndrew> now 1000 seems like hardly any

You guessed it, these logs are from 2001. Seems like he's had it in for the cheaters since then.

Check out the rest of the logs here:

http://gowerarchive.googlepages.com/communications

This is some interesting crap.

 

[Merchant_in_the_dark]

Another interesting snippit:

<King_Cj70> wtf is up with this slowly rotating rs screen
<King_Cj70> every second it moves slowly right
<King_Cj70> or left
*** MrAndrew has joined #runescape
*** ChanServ sets mode: +o MrAndrew
<King_Cj70> um rotating screen?
<MrAndrew> anti macro measure
<King_Cj70> it bugging tho
<MrAndrew> it only does it very slowly
<DiRtYDeViL> can u make it only by mines and fiching areas?
<DiRtYDeViL> its very annoying
<MrAndrew> nah, thats too much effort
<MrAndrew> it's not annyoing!
<LummoX> it is
<MrAndrew> well blame the macroers
<King_Cj70> okok
<MrAndrew> if you are find that annoying
<MrAndrew> you are too easily annoyed
<King_Cj70> it annoyin when cookin but i hvent noticed it in dungeon
<MrAndrew> oh yeah
<MrAndrew> I forgot
<eus-> its too frequent i find...
<MrAndrew> it's once every 5 seconds
<MrAndrew> and it's very slight each time
<MrAndrew> I wouldn't have added it, but it's the usual case of people trying to cheat forcing me to waste time on features which inconveniance everyone else
<MrAndrew> the cheating is just ridculous!
<Zeus> 5 secs....maybe 30 secs
<MrAndrew> if it was less frequent people would still be able to macro for like an hour before it moved far enough
<MrAndrew> so no
<MrAndrew> I mean I could make it half as often but twice the jump
<MrAndrew> I'll try that
<MrAndrew> might be less annoying
<MrAndrew> nah it would be just as bad
<MrAndrew> I won't bother
<King_Cj70> im gettin dizzy here
<MrAndrew> it doesn't do a complete revolution, it just goes back and forth a bit
<Wedger> I though something was wrong with my comp
<MrAndrew> well thanks for moaning at me for stopping the cheating
<MrAndrew> I won't bother in future
*** MrAndrew has left #runescape

Apparently not

 

[SuF]

lol andrew is fat whore.... idoit.... i hate him.... he hates his own game now... he wants it to die... fuck him :/

 

[Merchant_in_the_dark]

Read the chat logs.. he's hated botters since Runescape came out.

 

[SuF]

Read the chat logs.. he's hated botters since Runescape came out.

too bad they give you money from the ads or membership... get over it =p

 

[Merchant_in_the_dark]

In the logs, he even asks people to click his ads.If he's so money-centered, I have no clue why he hates a good membership-paying flax botr lmao

 

[Dorito]

Some of those are actually interesting to read. If only he kept his word on the "I won't bother to stop them anymore".

 

[Merchant_in_the_dark]

Seems to me Andrew Gower is the only one who gives two craps about cheating.. too bad he's the only one who counts lmao

 

[Jeffreycat]

lol andrew is fat whore.... idoit.... i hate him.... he hates his own game now... he wants it to die... fuck him :/

YOU WANT TO FUCK HIM??? AFTER INSULTING HIM? WOW, YOU ARE MENTAL OR SOMETHING!!!


(NOTE: I am just KIDDING!)

 

[SuF]

well he has like 200mill or sumthing crazy now... ads and member ship made him rich as fuck.... he should go die :/

 

[joostis]

funny, especially since autoing was supposedly allowed in the beginning!

 

[Macroman]

Yer, If i'm correct that site has some funny pics on the jagex cam, be sure to check them out,

 

[V V $]

Yer, If i'm correct that site has some funny pics on the jagex cam, be sure to check them out,

i'd like to see that aswell.

 

[Macroman]

funny, especially since autoing was supposedly allowed in the beginning!

Oh really?
thats quite interesting.

 

[Vlad]

Wow, RS had cheaters when it came out. Seems there are sly people whenever and wherever a game comes out

 

[Line]

Nice find, some interesting and funny reads, thanks for posting

 

[crashcourse]

well he has like 200mill or sumthing crazy now... ads and member ship made him rich as fuck.... he should go die :/

SuF I'm sick of Twats like you. Oh "Andrew Gowers a cock; he should go choke on his own vomit" WTF are you on?? U are aware that Jagex is a fucking company; not 1 man? If it wasn't for gower there would be no Sythe, no Fagex, no Runescape and no fuking SuF.

Yea ok JAGEX fucked us all over with the updates; but dont blame the guy that started the craze in the first place you narrow minded cock!

 

[w0ah u k03d]

Lmao jagex cam he looks like a right nerd.

 

[Gp trader]

But he did Ruin Rs2

 

[klondike]

wow. sheds a little light on why rs blows so much now. good find.