Bots on the runescape
Macros or bots are a blot on the Runescape landscape. They are a means of cheating and spoil the game
for many players, but to what extent?
Take fishing for example, If you go fishing and are on your own, how is the fishing? It is probably
slower than when there a number of players fishing. In fact the more there are fishing then the quicker
the fish respawn and the prescence of bots does not depreciate your catch. The crunch comes when you
are selling as the bot catches flood the market and the street price is driven downwards. Watch a bot
and you will see that they do not generally cook their catch but deposit straight into the bank, so who
does the cooking?
Now look at woodcutting, again lots of bots gathered around willows and yews but not so much around
maples, so what do they do with the logs? bank them of course! So, who uses the logs, it can only be
fletchers and we see in many shops unstrung bows by the thousand literally. Why unstrung? Well that
stage is quick and easy and they get 50% of the xp for a fully strung bow, and you never see a bot
collecting flax or making bow strings! Maybe the cheats haven’t got a program for that yet.Â
Your woodcutting however IS compromised by bots and I have cut yews against a bot and got no logs at
all on a number of occassions only to see them trot off to the bank!
I am sure that most people recognize a bot but you can never be 100% sure. They might be a genuine
player that does not do combat and hence the low combat level or a newbie.
Some bots are hard to recognize as they could be of any level wearing any style of clothing or armour.
How many times have you seen accounts being offered for sale? Absolutely against Jagex rules but it
happens anyway, and how many of these genuine accounts are converted into bots?