Originally Posted by
Jake
Good question, it can be answered by many reasons.
I'll discuss my case for example; botting on a 8 year old main = allowed me to go from 400m total xp to 1 billion total xp, a ton of GP, and climbing the ranks to the top.
Think about it, going from 400m total to 1000m total, thats more than double your beginning total xp, and I still wasn't caught yet... so my mentality was to keep on botting.
I made sure to "bot safe" (LOL), tracking my EXP gains, using teamviewer to check on my accounts while I was at university and internship, literally anything you could think of to frequently check on my bot when I wasn't home in the Summer.
I went from having 7 99s to having all of them, along with 120 dg
I ended up being in the top 50 for runecrafting, and top 200 players overall.
Back in June of 2012 when I got banned, there wasn't any treasure hunter, or that many easier ways to gain xp compared to today. So I thought it was kind of a big deal to make your way to the top.
However I went overboard, if you would say, with the botting. There were days where I had the bot on for 2-3 days straight doing firemaking, woodcutting, cooking, dungeoneering, and because I checked my progress on tracking sites, I ended up being the top exp acheiver and had records for certain days in the summer.
That probably set off flags to those who saw me, those who achieved ranks 2 and below for that day, and especially my friends in-game who were wondering what the hell I was doing that allowed me to get 7 mil firemaking xp each day, for 3 days, when they never saw me online (private was turned off).
I guess I'm rambling here, but in a TL;DR format: We kept botting because we assumed nothing would happen, due to nothing happening to our accounts previously. Used that mentality to keep on botting, and began to care less and less about the bans because majority of the bans at that time were happening to lower level accounts, not maxed/high levels. Just me 2 cents.