Old School Runescape Dev Tracker

You do know that in that last two years almost myself and Mod Trident have just under 10 million bans attributed to us and we're the newest two people on the team...

Member, non-member, ex-member... I don't really care, I ban if they're rule-breaking.

men are poor

Ban is correct.

There is infinitely more done to combat botting in-game than players believe, but an anti-cheating team (in any company) will not provide clarity on the matter as it opens up the door to navigating around being banned.

One example of this is that for the most part, the game of chance hosts are indeed automatically muted. The ones that aren't are banned fairly quickly as they are generally player-run and not actually bots. I believe this was also brought to light a video by Sir Pugger.

Whilst I won't provide more of an insight than that, I can give you some numbers that should at least somewhat reinforce that we are indeed effective in reducing the numbers of bots.

Strictly limiting the numbers to the two newest members of the anti-cheating team.

I have 4'034'126 bans attributed to me, 2'320'396'787'257 gold removed and in my case 115,534 bans labelled as games of chance (as it's one of my primary focuses)

Mod Trident has 5'381'706 bans attri...

Should be gone

Engineers aren’t required to communicate with players as their core focus should be about maintaining the server stability so you can enjoy the game you love! Having said that, you’ve definitely helped to identify that we (CM) would probably benefit from working closer with that team so I can provide you with more of the answers you’re looking for. I’m really grateful for this feedback and I will absolutely pass it on.

A mobile build released today fixing some issues (https://twitter.com/oldschoolrs/status/1636681993340559360?s=46), as for the S Pen issues we are still working on it. It’s been assigned to the next engine update which is pencilled in for the end of the month. Can’t guarantee a fix by then but that’s what we are aiming for. I apologise for the inconvenience caused and hope we can get it sorted for you soon. :)

There were a series of 5-hour downtime/maintenance windows to improve servers in various regions not too long ago. We've been doing work to improve the servers behind the scenes but we're usually hesitant to make a song and dance about it because we know that lag issues are difficult to resolve... Instead we tend to instead make small improvements and iterative changes which people may not notice right away. Nevertheless I completely understand what the feedback here is saying and your feedback will be passed on! Thanks

Got it, and thanks for the feedback. It wasn't the intention, but I totally understand how it might have come across in that way. We don't want to leave you in the dark which is why we felt this was appropriate but I'll make sure to communicate the response and offer some insight from this

Since RuneScape 3 worlds were affected by similar outages we felt like a joint statement at the same time is much better so that one game didn't communicate with its playerbase before another. We mentioned on our livestream yesterday that we'd give a statement today, however I understand a week turnaround time is a while to wait. Thank you so much for your patience on it though.

Also, the fact you're 2271/2277 is great, hope you can max soon.

Your feedback about preferring a more detailed blog at a later date over a less detailed one that comes sooner is really valuable. Thank you!

This has been something that pops up and has done consistently for a while now. It is difficult to pinpoint exact cause because of so many variables. Generally, skill total worlds have more authentication requests, so those servers in general do more general work, which can put them at risk of performance issues in comparison to other types of worlds. I'm not a professional working in the engine team so I can only pass on the reports to help them identify if there's any issues.

Apologies that it came across that way. Our intention was to communicate with you all, ackowledge the issue and get a statement out in a reasonable timeframe. I acknowledge that it's not a lot of information to share - we'll make sure that feedback is taken on board.

On the Old School side of things, not at this stage. It's being taken seriously and we acknowledge that it's impacted your experience.

We're aware of reports of lag especially on 2k total worlds. There's no silver bullet fix for those issues but we are aware of reports and we're committed to ongoing work to ensure the servers are maintained and ran to the highest standard possible.

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