Cam L Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 (edited) Hi everyone,Last week, Daniel Clough shared more news with the community about our ongoing war to eliminate botting and gold farming from the game. Today, I am really happy to say we are in the long-awaited position of being able to announce that we’ll be launching our most formidable bot-busting weapon in our history, targeting what we believe to be 98% of the bots seen in game.I anticipate that this update will be a defining triumph in our battle against the bots which you’ve clearly told us have been harming your game. However, we are not resting on our laurels and will be continuing to develop numerous systems as well as still making a number of improvements over the coming months in an attempt to remain a few steps ahead of both the bot makers and gold farmers alike.As Daniel made clear last week, we are dedicated to battling bots and gold farming on every front. We have also recently detected and banned over 1.5 million botting and gold farming accounts. While we work behind the scenes on certain projects, we know that sometimes the necessary secrecy can be rather frustrating for players and, as a team, we’ve all desperately wanted to share details about this upcoming project with the community since the very beginning of the year when we had first believed it was going to be imminently ready. However, sadly sometimes when innovating in multiple uncharted areas it takes a lot longer than expected and we were therefore at necessary pains to keep this project tightly under wraps while completing it and, crucially, not giving bot makers any information or warning that could assist them in working around it or preparing for it.The project, code-named the ‘ClusterFlutterer’, will be launched as part of the RuneScape game update on Tuesday the 25th October permanently preventing “reflection” bots from working again.We anticipate that next Tuesday will go down in RuneScape history as 'bot-nuking day'. To celebrate this landmark event, we’ll be running a series of one-off bonus days from Tuesday’s system update through to Friday. Over the course of these events, members will have the chance to gain triple XP in Slayer and additional points and rewards in some of our most popular D&Ds and minigames in a bot-free RuneScape:Tuesday:Slayer skill day: All Slayer XP earned from killing assigned targets will be tripled. Some monsters will have a faster respawn time.Wednesday:Castle Wars day: Tickets earned from winning a game will be triple the usual amount.Thursday:Distraction and Diversion day: Bonus rewards will be given for the following distractions:Penguin Hide & Seek: Double points.Evil Tree: Triple XP.Shooting Star: Triple XP while mining it and increased final rewards.Familiarization: Players will receive the lucky charm AND ingredient box instead of having to choose.Penguin Hide & Seek and Familiarization will be reset on the day, so you can do them again if you have already done them that week. All other D&D limitations remain the same (e.g. only two Evil Trees a day).Friday:Soul Wars day: Players will receive triple the usual amount of zeal points.These days will run from midnight to midnight (BST), with the exception of Tuesday which will run from game update time until midnight (BST). Unlike previous Bonus XP events, these modifiers will not deteriorate and will remain constant for the durations stated above.As promised we’ll be as transparent as possible in keeping everyone updated on the status of our fight against bots and gold farmers and, equally, as before we also ask of you to continue to do your part in helping and supporting too.I look forward to seeing you in-game soon.Have fun!Cheers,Mark GerhardYour thoughts? Edited October 21, 2011 by KiIIer Cam Link to comment
Pyrolord Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 I find it amusing that they think that they've already won. Link to comment
Cam L Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 I find it amusing that they think that they've already won.My thoughts exactly. Link to comment
Tristan Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Well they better hope that it actually works other wise its going to be an epic failure xDThe extra xp stuff should be interesting though I may just have to make some time to play next week (After exams of course ) Link to comment
Beric Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 God, I hope this actually works. I'm also super excited to do Familiarization twice. Link to comment
Sam Wins Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Sounds promising. Bots or no bots I still couldn't actively play the game anymore. Link to comment
Deathcon Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 TRIPLE SLAYER EXP. AWMG Link to comment
Cakeboy 43 Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Woot i cant wait to get slayer xp Link to comment
Hess Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Woo Hoo, lets kill all the bots but flood the world with more players so its like nothing ever happened!!I doubt their success will be long. If they do what they think they are doing, within just a few months botters will be back. Link to comment
Darktigergx Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 So soul wars botters will all be maxed that much quicker after this fails? Well at least they have a couple days to retract the 3x exp before the day of the event Link to comment
aCOWkickedME Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 i'm interested to see if this works. someone said on reddit: "On December 10th, 2007, Jagex released an updated that caused all hacked-client bots (Pretty much 98% of the bots back then) to cease from working. It wasn't until years and years later when they found a way to get them to work again. Back in 2007, the bots were just as good as they were now. Jagex has does this before, and there is no reason to be skeptical on their action this time.I guarantee you that the only bots that will work after this update will be color-clickers such as SCAR which hasn't been seriously used for years."it'd be nice to see the bots get beat... and jagex seems really confident about it. which really worries me. anyway, if it works, i would probably try to start playing again. Link to comment
C 4 M M Y Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 I'm glad jagex is working to get the ratio down from 1 in 5 players are actually real players and not just a bot. Link to comment
Power20024 Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 They could have done this at any time but now obviously is the strategic time to nuke the bots. Before free trade, the bots were players who just wanted extra cash/exp and it didn't really affect the overall game. But now there are gold farming accounts that are solely used for botting, and people are quitting because of those gold farming accounts. If they continue to let the game run like this they risk losing the entire game soon and obviously they want to maximize profits. It makes sense because they'd make a lot more money on 100k players for another 5 years than 150k -> 50k players+bots in only 2 years. Link to comment
Snipezzz Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Success will be in my prayers Link to comment
Linda Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Most awkward name for this project ever. Oddly enough I'm excited to see if this works, there's so much not even worth doing right now because of all the bots. Link to comment
Moto Bro Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 I think what they meant was "Runescape is a total cluster-fuck and we are gonna try to un-cluster-fuck it!" I just hope they actually get it right this time. Link to comment
Bryce Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 We anticipate that next Tuesday will go down in RuneScape history as 'bot-nuking day'.Your thoughts?wooo hoo what one day ever 4 years they will put a big dent in the bot population? Link to comment
Douglas Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 (edited) 'clusterflutterer' is just because they can't say 'operation clusterfucker' in front of the little kids... although it would be amusing to see a brit trying to say that with his accent. Also an australian. Very hopeful that it will work out. Also hoping for another mass ban to be applied.wooo hoo what one day ever 4 years they will put a big dent in the bot population? no you don't get it; they're removing the ability for current bots to interact with the game accurately. They're gonna have to make the bots from scratch using different methods than they do now Edited October 22, 2011 by Doug Numbers Link to comment
Bryce Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 wooo hoo what one day ever 4 years they will put a big dent in the bot population? no you don't get it; they're removing the ability for current bots to interact with the game accurately. They're gonna have to make the bots from scratch using different methods than they do nowoh so temporally removing the bots or at least the majority of bots for now till they find other ways Link to comment
Krista Dash Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 wooo hoo what one day ever 4 years they will put a big dent in the bot population? no you don't get it; they're removing the ability for current bots to interact with the game accurately. They're gonna have to make the bots from scratch using different methods than they do nowoh so temporally removing the bots or at least the majority of bots for now till they find other waysI was thinking.. how would this stop the bots. This will only help the bots lol Link to comment
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