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    Default [RS3] WARNING: Potential threat when botting

    ***If you haven't started the world event, disregard***
    Ambushes

    From phase three onwards, players that are aligned to one of the two factions can be attacked by ambushers of the opposing faction, up to 3 times per day. Killing these ambushers will result in a generous amount of renown.
    Ambushers cannot attack in the following places:
    Daemonheim.
    Banks.
    The Wilderness.
    Instances.
    The ambushers will also not attack while a cutscene is active, if you are already in combat or if you are at less than half health.
    Ambushes have the chance to occur between 15-45 minutes after you log in. Once an ambush has successfully occurred, the next one will be attempting in 1-2 hours time. If an ambush can't occur on the first try, it will try again 10 minutes later.
    TL;DR You can be randomly attacked anywhere in the game by an NPC 3 times per day, except for the places listed above.

    Obviously if you are running a script and not babysitting, you will likely die. These NPCs have abilities and are reasonably powerful if you don't have good combat gear.

    Dying to these guys is NOT SAFE.
    Didn't see this mentioned anywhere else so I thought I'd pass it on to everyone here. make sure you've been ambushed 3 times before botting, or maybe wear heavy combat armor and leave auto retaliate on while botting AFK.
    Last edited by Clarity; 12-22-2013 at 11:38 AM.

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    Weird, I've been botting for hours over the past few days and had none :\

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    It's a new addition just added in the last day I believe, Phase 3 of the world event just started.

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    Can you disable that? I've not seen it before either... Then again I never started the event

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ashaman88 View Post
    Can you disable that? I've not seen it before either... Then again I never started the event
    Oh, you have to start some event on RS for it to happen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ashaman88 View Post
    Can you disable that? I've not seen it before either... Then again I never started the event
    Yeah, that would make sense since you're being 'ambushed by the enemy.' I don't think you can disable it if you've sided with a faction. This warning is for people who have started the event I guess!

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    Is this only for RS3?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flight View Post
    Is this only for RS3?
    Yes, it's associated with the Bandos/Armadyl world event.

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    Earlier, while legit skilling, I got a holiday cracker (like the old holiday crackers, but with much more common prizes this time around). It takes up inventory and is unbankable. You have to find another player to use it on to get rid of it. Not sure yet which types of skilling cause this.

    This is likely to mess up certain skilling scripts. Note that you do not need to have started the world event to receive these.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vwxz View Post
    Earlier, while legit skilling, I got a holiday cracker (like the old holiday crackers, but with much more common prizes this time around). It takes up inventory and is unbankable. You have to find another player to use it on to get rid of it. Not sure yet which types of skilling cause this.

    This is likely to mess up certain skilling scripts. Note that you do not need to have started the world event to receive these.
    Is it possible to 'Destroy' the holiday cracker?

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    Quote Originally Posted by acredelta View Post
    ***If you haven't started the world event, disregard***


    TL;DR You can be randomly attacked anywhere in the game by an NPC 3 times per day, except for the places listed above.

    Obviously if you are running a script and not babysitting, you will likely die. These NPCs have abilities and are reasonably powerful if you don't have good combat gear.

    Dying to these guys is NOT SAFE.
    Didn't see this mentioned anywhere else so I thought I'd pass it on to everyone here. make sure you've been ambushed 3 times before botting, or maybe wear heavy combat armor and leave auto retaliate on while botting AFK.
    Where did you read this from? I doubt this is true as it would cause major inconvenience to ppl skilling.

    Quote Originally Posted by Justin View Post
    Is it possible to 'Destroy' the holiday cracker?
    Yeah festive cracker can be destroyed, though pulling it on another player gives a chance to win the black santa hat.


    EDIT: oh it's on the official wiki (http://services.runescape.com/m=rswi..._and_the_Beast)....
    players training skills will rage at jagex unless these npcs can be killed easily...
    Last edited by riwu; 12-22-2013 at 10:17 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by riwu View Post
    Where did you read this from? I doubt this is true as it would cause major inconvenience to ppl skilling.


    Yeah festive cracker can be destroyed, though pulling it on another player gives a chance to win the black santa hat.


    EDIT: oh it's on the official wiki (http://services.runescape.com/m=rswi..._and_the_Beast)....
    players training skills will rage at jagex unless these npcs can be killed easily...
    I'm just thinking it might be worth adding a check in with the SOF Ticket 'solver' to destroy the cracker until the event is over

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    Any idea about how long this event is going to go on for?
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    Quote Originally Posted by riwu View Post
    Where did you read this from? I doubt this is true as it would cause major inconvenience to ppl skilling.


    Yeah festive cracker can be destroyed, though pulling it on another player gives a chance to win the black santa hat.


    EDIT: oh it's on the official wiki (http://services.runescape.com/m=rswi..._and_the_Beast)....
    players training skills will rage at jagex unless these npcs can be killed easily...
    Lol, I would not post something like this based on hearsay...it's happening ingame 24/7 at the moment. I and many of my friends have been ambushed multiple times today while skilling.
    They are scaled to your level, I believe.
    Last edited by Clarity; 12-22-2013 at 11:06 AM.

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    Just got ambushed while bank standing (NOT skilling) in the dungeoneering bank. (That's not considered a bank in terms of location, for most things.)

    Seems we should be monitoring our scripts for at least the short term future (these are likely temporary holiday events).

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    Quote Originally Posted by vwxz View Post
    Just got ambushed while bank standing (NOT skilling) in the dungeoneering bank. (That's not considered a bank in terms of location, for most things.)

    Seems we should be monitoring our scripts for at least the short term future (these are likely temporary holiday events).
    I assume the ambushes will stop when the World Event ends next month.

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    Quote Originally Posted by acredelta View Post
    I assume the ambushes will stop when the World Event ends next month.
    Thanks for this. I've started the event but I haven't done much in the way of skilling yet. Good that I find out here instead of loosing money later

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    Quote Originally Posted by bg5 View Post
    It's like old good days, when overpowered tree spirit could attacked you while cutting trees and there were no grave?
    Pretty much. I had one attack me earlier on, but it seemed much easier to defeat than the old randoms used to be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
    Pretty much. I had one attack me earlier on, but it seemed much easier to defeat than the old randoms used to be.
    Yeah, I mean if you're ingame paying attention they aren't a big deal but I would hate to see someone lose valuables because they left a script running overnight while wearing a party hat haha

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    Can anyone confirm whether wielding a weapon and enabling auto-retaliate will beat these?

    In light of the ambushers and the random inventory clutter, what is/isn't a good idea to auto during this holiday season?

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    Quote Originally Posted by vwxz View Post
    Can anyone confirm whether wielding a weapon and enabling auto-retaliate will beat these?

    In light of the ambushers and the random inventory clutter, what is/isn't a good idea to auto during this holiday season?
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    As i've been expecting:
    Just a quick update on this.

    We have now disabled the ambushers from popping up anywhere but PvP areas for the World Event.

    That should put a stop to them!
    http://services.runescape.com/m=foru...6,333,65244284


    I was lucky enough to have botted 10hr+ of div w/o encountering any ambushes before this update though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by riwu View Post
    As i've been expecting:

    http://services.runescape.com/m=foru...6,333,65244284


    I was lucky enough to have botted 10hr+ of div w/o encountering any ambushes before this update though.
    That's actually quite hilarious. The one update that actually had the potential to really mess up bots...the skillers complain and they get taken out immediately.
    Easyscape is my biggest pet peeve, but at the same time I'm glad I can get back to botting without problems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by acredelta View Post
    Yeah, I mean if you're ingame paying attention they aren't a big deal but I would hate to see someone lose valuables because they left a script running overnight while wearing a party hat haha

    thats one way to lose a monitor.

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