Your thoughts about bots?

[sotwnoz]

What's your thoughts about bots? How does it effect Runescape and the economy?

 

[iNAME666]

Nah, i may not think so. Try to think:

1. There's people who does not bot and they're pissed because of boters. So they think about buying membership and there's more free places where they can improve their levels. Jagex get the money.
2. There's people who bot and like botting. So they bot a lot f2p skills and after they got max or a lot of skilled skills, they just wanna try something new and they probbably get membership. RS get money.
3. There's people who doesn't like bots so they report them. Jagex says: there you go "bot nuke" - bots just don't give a damn about it. People who doesn't bot are happier and they still playing, cuz they know that jagex is trying at least to do something. So they still play and thinking of buying membership. Some of them get membership and RS GET MONEY.

So if person likes RS he's going to buy membership sooner of later and it doesn't matter he does bot or not. For e.x person got pissed of bots - buy membership (rarely stop playing, just if there'd be bot everywhere and he could not play normaly). Person got high levels because of botting - buy membership to bot more skills. It doesn't matter, people don't drop playing that easily.

If there's more people - there's more money anyway. So an only way to stop runescape of getting money or just make very little money is not play that game. The other thing is to make massive botting structures. Like you are trying to do that. For e.x. there's 200 people who bot f2p 10 acc everyday 8-10 hours a day. People in f2p barely can get any resources and new players are just not interested in buying membership. That'd be called JAGEX NUKE so anyway getting rid of members would be the way lot more difficult, cuz u cannot bot 10 acc membs, cuz u'd need to pay, so u don't pay and it's difficult to get a lot of people who can trust in safe massive members botting.

 

[stojac]

there is a no win situation with bots.
So let people do what they want,
Of course i do not agree with actual Chinese gold farms.
they take it just to far.

 

[Eazy69E]

Runescape has became shit. The only good thing about it left is botting...

 

[Punkerpunk13]

Botting is a business like anybody other.. People invest into expensive computers, have employees, have real revenue, and pay taxes. I completely condone botting in it's entirety.. It's not hurting the game really. Most of the people who play RS PvM & PvP.. It surely isn't taking away from that.

A majority of botters stick to certain things.. Runecrafting, Sorc Garden, GDK, etc.. How is that hurting anybody?

 

[Alma Mater]

I wouldn't recommend anyone downloading those links GFNEX posted today....

 

[XWX]

Botting is a business like anybody other.. People invest into expensive computers, have employees, have real revenue, and pay taxes. I completely condone botting in it's entirety.. It's not hurting the game really. Most of the people who play RS PvM & PvP.. It surely isn't taking away from that.

A majority of botters stick to certain things.. Runecrafting, Sorc Garden, GDK, etc.. How is that hurting anybody?

You'd be making it far less profitable for any legitimate player trying to make some money on their own. Not to mention if a swarm a mindless bots are monopolizing a certain item/skill then why would legit players even want to attempt it?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize mass botting is ruining it for legitimate players. So actually, I absolutely disagree with everything you just wrote; it's very much incorrect.

 

[ploxz]

bots gather an abundance of resources thus making prices of ressources in game cheap, which then means that every player can have fun on rs for less rsgp... b

bots are win win to jagex and other players. I do not support goldfarming though

 

[kmjt]

You'd be making it far less profitable for any legitimate player trying to make some money on their own. Not to mention if a swarm a mindless bots are monopolizing a certain item/skill then why would legit players even want to attempt it?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize mass botting is ruining it for legitimate players. So actually, I absolutely disagree with everything you just wrote; it's very much incorrect.

There are two ways to look at it. I'll use sorc garden as an example. Those who do sorc garden legit to make money may hate bots because they drove the price of herbs down and now sorc garden isn't as good money as it was before. But the people who train herblore love the sorc bots because they drive herb prices down making their training a lot cheaper.

Monopolizing items/skills doesn't even make sense. A "skill" is impossible to monopolize. If anything, bots make it a lot easier to train skills. The majority of bots farm raw material; they are bringing in items that would have not even been there in the first place. That is not monopolizing. If anything it is the complete opposite of monopolizing since instead of hoarding an item they sell it for profit. That is the point of botting; to make profit.. not hoard/monoplize an item that would be foolish.

In a way botting can be related to real life crime; they are both frowned upon but they do benefit the economy in some ways.

 

[darkorb223]

Botting is a business like anybody other.. People invest into expensive computers, have employees, have real revenue, and pay taxes. I completely condone botting in it's entirety.. It's not hurting the game really. Most of the people who play RS PvM & PvP.. It surely isn't taking away from that.

A majority of botters stick to certain things.. Runecrafting, Sorc Garden, GDK, etc.. How is that hurting anybody?

i agree, honestly it keeps prices down for other people. i'm going to make it a legitimate business so that i don't need to work a full time job while i go to college.

 

[Whalestep]

Down for a week when update drops, cmb bots will be buggy first couple weeks and smooth out after that.

 

[Y u No Share13]

There's people who does not bot and they're pissed :l

 

[ThatDefGirl]

Definitely. Bots hoard resources which in turn provide wealth. This wealth comes from players. The wealth falls into the hands of gold farmers which is sold for a real world profit. This one way or another effects your gaming experience and the economy.

 

[skes]

I don't mind the green drag bots, I kill them for a laugh and to make a little cash.

What really pisses me off is the bots at Kurasks, Black Demons, Grotworms, or any other slayer monsters, it takes me twice as long to complete a task due to these scum bots. These are really starting to piss off the legit players as its directly hurting their gaming experience. Bots are killing slayer.

Hopefully next bot nuke or EoC will get rid of them

 

[Kraytonn]

I actually like botting because it brings down prices for actual players on certain things. Sounds weird, but it's true.

I don't mind the green drag bots, I kill them for a laugh and to make a little cash.

What really pisses me off is the bots at Kurasks, Black Demons, Grotworms, or any other slayer monsters, it takes me twice as long to complete a task due to these scum bots. These are really starting to piss off the legit players as its directly hurting their gaming experience. Bots are killing slayer.

Hopefully next bot nuke or EoC will get rid of them

What do you get that's of value from them besides the bones and dragonhide?

 

[TehInvestor]

I love botting because i don't have to sit around my computer the whole day and kill waterfiends to get charms, my bot does that for me and i love it. Still its kinda of annoying because now there are frost dragon bots and they're the worst frost dragon bones have dropped over 5k in the past week.

 

[skes]

What do you get that's of value from them besides the bones and dragonhide?

I did say a "little" cash

Plus its fun killing the bot killer killers.

I used to be able to skull them, but they updated!

 

[Laptop65]

It disadvantages people who wish to play the game legit but in turn benefits the people who don't (i.e goldfarmers).

 

[Nytrix]

If botting wasn't available, I wouldn't play runescape. It does greatly affect the economy though, depending on supply and demand.

 

[Punkerpunk13]

You'd be making it far less profitable for any legitimate player trying to make some money on their own. Not to mention if a swarm a mindless bots are monopolizing a certain item/skill then why would legit players even want to attempt it?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize mass botting is ruining it for legitimate players. So actually, I absolutely disagree with everything you just wrote; it's very much incorrect.

Nothing I stated was incorrect, champ. Do you see people mass botting arma, nex, bandos, corp, etc? Things that are the best profit.. Nope, you sure don't. Sure the things that are being botted aren't as much profit, but it doesn't take away from the game experience.. If people want to legitimately kill green dragons for the fun of killing dragons, then they can. It doesn't have to be profitable.. Nothing in the game has to be profitable; it just is.

You have to understand that people who want to make profit, still can. Bots aren't driving that away from them.. Sure, it's not as they may want it to be, but it's still very well there. Bots aren't making it where people can't play sorc garden, runecraft, etc. They actually make some of the things much cheaper.. I do realize some bots take up things such as green dragons.. That, I will give to you.. Anything other then that, what's your defense? People can't do it for money because bots do?

The game isn't about getting richer and richer from doing things like green dragons & sorc garden.