I decided to start playing again after a 2-3 year break since all my real life friends started up again too. I was older and didn't have much time or interest to put into leveling up anymore. I kind of knew what botting was, but never thought much about it. I decided to look into it and of course decided to buy one. I had a level 122 with over 3b on it that I had mostly made much from merching. I decided to buy Perfect Soul Wars since I had 97 range and wanted to max that out first along with the rest of my combat skills. I definitely regret not buying Perfect Fighter instead. I did some research on safe botting and was only botting 8-10 hours a day while babysitting a lot of the time. After 6 days of botting, I made the mistake to bot overnight one time since I was about to get 99 range and wanted it once I woke up. Instead I wake up to seeing my account perm banned. Turned out they had just done a sweep at soul wars. Lost my very first 100% legit trained account with no black marks that was made in 03, along with around 3.5b in cash and items which I couldn't have transferred over because of the damn trade limit at the time. It was the first weekend they started handing out perm bans too. I quit again right after that.
6 months later, I decided to come back for some reason. I wanted to make a perfect staker and chose to make a range tank. Within a few months, I had it pretty much where I wanted it at 99 range, 99 mage, 90 hp, 75 def, 1 prayer and summoning. I started working my way back up to some good cash from staking, while botting up several accounts and selling them here on Sythe. I also made several sorc garden accounts and started gold farming 24/7. Out of all the accounts I botted, I never had another one banned.
Unfortunately soon after, I ended up quiting again after getting anti-lured by Cls Product who I had known for a while and thought I was friends with. We had done some successful phat lures and I didn't see it coming at all. After that, I just lost all motivation to keep playing for some reason. I still had plenty of cash to keep going, but just ended up selling everything. I don't really regret it thought and I'm kind of glad I don't play Runescape anymore to be honest.