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about 4 years ago - /u/Jagex_Weath - Direct link

It looks as though the accounts in the screenshot were banned a week ago so there isn't too much that can be done with them now. This was 1 day after the trade restrictions were put in place and we've been collecting a lot of data on the remaining F2P bots since then. It looks as though the restrictions have had a really positive impact so far and the price of commonly botted items are largely going up quite dramatically.

I will continue to adjust our systems to try and pick up the remaining bots and, as always, the best way to flag this kind of activity to us is reporting it in-game.

about 4 years ago - /u/Jagex_Weath - Direct link

Originally posted by drupey

Any updates on the Zulrah bots with base stats and combats enough to make it to zul-andra and have 5-10k kills?

Still banning Zulrah bots every day. Unfortunately they seem to have a good supply of hijacked accounts to use and quite a few of them get unbanned through ban appeal, only to go straight back to botting it.

A lot of the high kill count ones will be hand played gold farmers, which are a huge pain to deal with because the systems for doing so are very old and very bad.

about 4 years ago - /u/Jagex_Weath - Direct link

Originally posted by IronClu

Is there any plans to improve those systems, or is the juice not worth the squeeze there?

There are no plans currently because the engine team's very limited resource is being used elsewhere. However, priorities can change and I'll be continuing to request improvements (and more access to make improvements myself) at every opportunity!

about 4 years ago - /u/Jagex_Weath - Direct link

Originally posted by [deleted]

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I'd rather avoid any content that might also annoy legitimate players. However, if we are unable to reduce the numbers through faster banning, then we can consider other options in content.