How did you get involved into RS-cheating?
I remember Wizz showed me The Game about a year and a half ago or so. I was shocked and totally uninterested. How could anyone possibly be playing a game that slow, with such a poor graphical representation and in such a small window. Reminded me of oldtime Commodore Amiga games.
Now, we were at that time heavily fighting WWII, and Wizz managed to fight himself to an amazing Nr.1 ranking @ BF1942, while I never got beyond Nr.300. (Dont play BF with Wizz, you will loose bigtime), so you can imagine looking at scunerape was like a 15 year timewarp.
Anyway, a good friend of mine showed the game again a few months later, explained to me how it worked, and against all odds, (but I happen to have some free time @ my work sometimes...) I started to play.
Then, after playing three nights, whilst chatting to everyone I'd see, I noticed some players with odd behavior, repetitive movements, no talking, and where often at one spot for hours at a row, having strange and sometimes ridiciously abusive names.
This could only mean one thing: Robots!
From that moment on, things went fast. Quickly found Kaitnieks (was it may 2005?), downloaded Scar and got fascinated by its elaborate functionality, its community -crowded with eager inpatient youngsters- and the mechanisms within the community. I printed out every single interesting manual/script/tut that I could get my hands on, studied them all intensively and started scripting (I have 6 years programming experience).
I released some crude ScarScape scripts (Fighting/Mining/Smithing) and was shocked by its impact.
Everywhere I looked I found my own scripts. At one night I had to switch 5 worlds in order to find me a quiet Jail Guard spot. The script was downloaded over a 1000 times. It was getting out of hand. I asked Kaitnieks to remove my scripts and he kindly did so.
By attracting all the attention a very dear main got banned. I still feel sorry for that.
I kept on scripting and promised never to release a script again. Started meeting interesting people @ Kaitnieks, tried to do something about the include-jungle, and managed to interest keyplayers into collaborating with me in search for the Ultimate Tool, amongst them Flyboy and RsN.
Now things have cooled down. Jackex struck hard @ the heart of the cheating community. (How long did it take them to do that? 3 weeks?) It has scattered its community and left its keyplayers somewhat traumatised. Whilst the community once was all about Scar and Pascal programming, it had transformed itself into a 27000 headed hungry monster and was shot by Andrew.
Even so, It is my profound believe that Scar will always be the safest way to auto, not because it is the fastest, but because you are actually doing something entirely different: you are sequencing colors and comparing bitmaps.
Thats all we do, searching, grabbing, comparing, clicking, timing....Colors and Bitmaps.