Hello all, I've seen a few posts which have been saying that Jagex tracks mouse movements/clicks.
Firstly, assuming that Jagex wants to save alot of hard drive space, I put the clicks in this format:
X,Y Type (1 = left, 2 = right, 3 = scroll)
This took approximately 9 bytes to store:
Keep in mind that this is ONE click. An average player clicks almost 14000+ times in a single hour of gameplay, and if you think i'm pulling numbers out of my ass i'm not. I downloaded a program called WhatPulse and timed myself for one hour 4 times, here were the results:
Code:
Hour 1: Dungeoneering ~21000 clicks
Hour 2: Kalphite King ~19000 clicks
Hour 3: Kalphite King ~12000 clicks (Swapped from Tank to DPS)
Hour 4: Slayer ~13000 clicks
Here's the bytes per hour for each activity:
Code:
21000 * 9 = 189000 / 1024 = 184.5 KB
19000 * 9 = 171000 / 1024 = 166.9 KB
12000 * 9 = 108000 / 1024 = 105.5 KB
13000 * 9 = 114000 / 1024 = 114.3 KB
Keep in mind that this is med to high click activity, and most bots cant do this sort of thing. Lets assume that bots click about 5000 times an hour, regardless of activity. Even still, the amount of KB it takes to record all this is infestismal, and a 1TB hard drive could very well cover all of this for a week.
At all times there're about 80 000 players online, and assuming that 9000 clicks an hour for the entirety of the RS Community, it takes about
Code:
9000 * 9 / 1024 * 80000 = 6328125KB / 1024 = 6179MB = 6.1GB/Hour
Since recording/logging clicks takes about 6.1GB of hard drive space an hour, it takes Jagex approximately 146.4GB of hard drive space everyday to record all of this. However, eventually they'll have to delete/rewrite over everything that happened earlier on because they'll run out of space on the disk (or on Cloud hosting) and will have to buy another one. From a company's point of view it isn't very smart to rebuy rather than reuse.
But the bigger problem is for Jagex to actually go through all that data, so my assumption is that the only time Jagex even records your clicks is if you click in the same area (1-3 px difference) multiple times at which point they start logging your clicks and investigate (or let the computer do it tbh) once it exceeds a count.
Your opinions?
I'd like @Flight's opinion on this