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Read moreTo summarize a few of the comments in this thread and add my own thoughts:
- I understand and appreciate the efforts put in by you and other Jagex Mods to tackle the issue. I saw you mentioned banning thousands of accounts in just the past month. That being said, it's clear these attempts have, unfortunately, clearly been largely ineffective in reducing the number of bots.
- The community is interested in helping. What can be implemented to empower users to help? Can accounts created in the past 2 weeks that are reported for player-run games of chance 3x/5x be automatically muted for 24hrs? Simple actions like this could reduce the weight from Jmods and would likely not be easily abused by bad-actors.
- Can players under a certain total level/QP be restricted from entering the same text more than X times in an hour? (reducing the ease of suicide bots) There are certain behaviors and restrictions that are distinctly non-human and can be put into place that...
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...
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