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Getting tagged manually as a bot by mistake could be a number of things including incorrect labeling by a member of the team etc, unfortunately as much as I'd love to talk about botting and what flags accounts in the first place, that's something we won't do I'm afraid.

• The system bans very blatant (to how a system can determine) bots (mass created gold farmers etc)
• The system flags other more bespoke/intelligent bots for manual review
• Flagged accounts are checked by an Anti Cheating Specialist
• Accounts are reviewed daily by Team Leads for accuracy
• Accounts can be appealed if compromised by third-parties via this link

What would make it useful without also making it abusable via exacerbated points/XP gain?

What content would you want to see added to the guilds?

We've spoken about it in recent Q&As. We're looking to poll some Sire questions soon, and then I think we'll be looking at Grotesque Guardians.

It wouldn't be as simple as copy and pasting a minigame from RS3 to OSRS. We've seen the state of multiple minigames which lack enthralling rewards (they aren't very active) and I think the same would be said for FoG.

There's something in the works for Rune pouches for the duration of the beta. Blog coming imminently.

Mod Tyran talks about the issue in some detail here: https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/dlhzok/why_shouldnt_evscape_get_a_faster_recovery_than/f4qk34l/

Mod Tyran talks about the issue in some detail here: https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/dlhzok/why_shouldnt_evscape_get_a_faster_recovery_than/f4qk34l/

Solid shout here.

I think you need to further explain the idea. How could gp suddenly become worthless? Would that not just be banning the account and removing the gp?

I wouldn't be averse to reducing the length of time each trawl takes, but I'd prefer to separate that from any change in the droprate of the angler's outfit.

The player was unbanned. Other associated players were unbanned. Feedback was given to the anti-cheating specialist was responsible. Mod Tyran talks about the issue in more detail here: https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/dlhzok/why_shouldnt_evscape_get_a_faster_recovery_than/f4qk34l/

Would you like to see it? Would a new Slayer master be introduced, or would Vannaka be repurposed? Would we add existing P2P NPCs to F2P?

It's human error that acts as a double edged sword - even though we use very few of them, automated bans are actually very accurate (much more so than human) but they are fed from human learning to help improve and make them effective, otherwise they would be wildly inaccurate and flag entire swaths of innocent users, or be very niche and therefore not effective in aiding to take out mass amount of bots (contrary to popular belief, we do ban over 15,000 bots per day in OSRS - mostly made up of 'suicide bots' created to generate a small amount of wealth and trade it off as quickly as possible). Whilst the automated system does ban a number of accounts, these are from heuristics built by the team and are only made live after vigorous checks. When they do eventually get made live, they are very restrictive on what type of account they look for and are reviewed frequently. The vast majority of accounts are all checked by members of staff - hence where human error unfortunately comes in...

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Hey all. I've been finding out what happened in this particular instance, and I've been working with the anti-cheating team to try and shine some light on how we handle false positives. Here's what I have to share:

We aren't out to falsely punish our playerbase. Nobody benefits there. We know that false positives do happen, and we wouldn't claim otherwise, but they do happen in an extremely low volume. Every anti-cheating specialist's actions are reviewed as part of 'quality' sampling (ie. are they taking the right action?). If we do encounter a false positive then we reverse the decision, and we review all other offences associated to that wave of bans.

In this specific instance it was made easier to resolve by the fact that an anti-cheating specialist happened to be viewing the stream. That led to the offence being reviewed in minutes (rather than as part of the normal sampling process), and that led to all other ass...