"20. Are you working to take down the major bot sites right now?
MMG: Yeah, absolutely. Part of the bot watch and Optimus launch, Botany Bay, will also be us trying to take down the last two botmakers, Epic Bot and Power Bot, so Aadil and Burt, we’re coming after you."
and another
"MMG: Bot watch is about what they do in-game. It’s not about the programs you’re running, It’s not about where you’ve been, your internet history, it’s about what you do in-game. Alluding to that point, I was reading the forums and some suspicious people are going “Oh JAG is the precursor to their Bot Watch. It’s absolutely not. The two systems are unrelated. JAG’s just about locking down safe devices, trusted devices for yourself. Bot Watch is about picking up what you do in-game. That disseminates you from a normal player."
and another
32. Botters currently have a variety of different types of botting platforms such as Injection, Reflection, Colour and most recently, OpenGL. So, my question is, will your new anti-bot system target specific types of bots, or will it detect and ban all types equally?
MMG: All.
Mark: All bots.
MMG: Specially the colour pickers. Just ‘cause we haven’t touched them for a while.
Mark: We are confident that every sort of bot that is currently running in RuneScape will get identified and taken out by Bot Watch.
Found this while digging through info on different sources. (is there any truth to this?)
This is the info from rswiki on botwatch
- Botwatch is able to profile accounts and determine whether or not they are using botting software.
- it monitors an account's actions and determines whether or not it is human behavior.
- Certain checks are also in place to determine whether or not the game is being played using an official Jagex client.
- Botwatch system has banned players directly, making it the first automated banning system
My opinion on bot detection
- Type or nature of script being ran can affect getting banned
- Location on where you bot
- Player reports (i highly doubt this has any effect at all as with the number of dragon bots running around in every world lasting for months now)
- Anti- bans to provide human like actions really help
- Break system greatly helps with no getting banned
- Moderation on botting / not for long hours w/o breaks and no determined time on botting or breaking (should be random)
- Never rush on a max stat or 99 clearly they could see how long your account existed and getting a 99 in the fastest time is just shouting out bot.
The environment in our community doesnt show that we have gold farming bots and the fact that detecting with colour is hard as runescape is built that npcs/monsters/objects in game has identical colour with the surroundings.
Share you experience or ideas on how we could evade detection or lessen the chance of bans that is already so low