Goodbye 6 Hour Logout

[Brotein]

Runescape QFC: 15-16-298-65590601

The 6 hour automatic logout has been extended to a 23 hour automatic logout. A warning when the automatic logout time approaches is coming soon. Be sure to take regular breaks!

So with the ninja update today, the 6 hour logout has been extended to 23 hours. Wonder if this is intentionally setup to monitor accounts staying active that long, or if enough people just complained about the 6 hours logout being too short. Thoughts?

[cosmasjdz]

Runescape QFC: 15-16-298-65590601



So with the ninja update today, the 6 hour logout has been extended to 23 hours. Wonder if this is intentionally setup to monitor accounts staying active that long, or if enough people just complained about the 6 hours logout being too short. Thoughts?

Probably they removed cause people dont like to get logged out in the middle of godwars farming trip. And reloading runescape like 3 times per day for a nolifers is frustrating and most of all xp waste.

[Ian]

Fewer reloads = fewer opportunities for a SMART spawn error. Very good news for long progress reports

[Lipcot]

im LOVING this, i was having trouble at reloads so

[Bixby Sayz]

Nice. Drives me nuts even when playing legit. Load RS but get busy before I can play. Come back later to play and "Game Session has now ended". Grrr. Think my record is 5 reloads before I actually got to login.

[meep152]

I don't think that this was intentionally set up to monitor possible botting accounts, or anything of the sort. Recently, RS has become "top-heavy", with high level accounts greatly outnumbering legit low level accounts. So I think it was just a matter of time before Jagex added features such as this, in order to make grinding/bossing/etc. easier.

I just hope that people continue to bot responsibly instead of getting banned for stupid things like botting 23 hours/day for a week as a result of this update.

[Clarity]

Yeah, we shouldn't really be changing anything in habits because of this. Sure, it's a little more convenient, but I'm not jumping to start running scripts 23/7 or even 18/7.

[Myke]

my scripts take breaks usually way before 6 hours runtime so this shouldn't affect me, but it definitely doesn't hurt

[???]

I'm kinda skeptic of this, I think they want to collect more data on your mouse movements and find similarities between them. From my experience I been banned couple times and usually when they don't kick you out after 6 hours its means your account is flagged to be banned.

[KeepBotting]

First the removal of random events, now an extension of the 6-hour limit ... things just keep getting better and better for us. I question Jagex's motives behind this, but I think the points cosmasjdz made are the most likely cause behind this decision.

[J_R]

Well, if anyone does get 23hr logged outside of dxp, you can be sure (probably up to like 4 logs certainty) that the guy is a bot, so I don't know if it's a good thing for scripters who don't have breaks already put in to the script. For suicide/farm accounts though, full speed ahead!

[The Mayor]

I don't see this really changing much in terms of SRL. If anything re-spawning SMART less means less chance of a spawn failure.

[theholyone]

is a nice update, but won't change much for me.

still going to stay on my 2-2.5hr break timer

[Kopa]

Great thing, I hated the 6 hour limit. Not because I botted for more than a few hours but after leaving the game client open for 6+ hours, you would still have to restart it.

[ste]

I wonder why its 23 hours? That seems like an odd number.

[jok145]

pretty nice even hated it when playing legit

[falloutboy12]

I'm not sure why it took me 10 days to notice but yea - this is really nice as far as I'm concerned...

[Tlachtli]

I wonder why its 23 hours? That seems like an odd number.

Well since it isn't divisible by 2, it is in fact an odd number

The tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist in me says to expect another mass ban wave in the next month or so. I'm sure there're more than a few RSBotters* who're chomping at the bit to try out the new 23 hour run time, and the bot detection will be more than happy to take down names as they do.

*Or whatever the major 'bot client' is now. Not exactly current on the botting scene anymore.

[Nathgunner888]

April Fool's Day is coming up, Jagex's way of trolling botters?

[DarkRai559]

Huh, I never knew of this "6 hours kicks" I guess i haven't played for that long of an hour continuously, or I just kept afk-ing and got kick to the lobby causing me not to logout. That's probably it.

[Im New Sry]

Huh, I never knew of this "6 hours kicks" I guess i haven't played for that long of an hour continuously, or I just kept afk-ing and got kick to the lobby causing me not to logout. That's probably it.

Doesn't matter, you have to restart the client every 6 hours.

[Justin]

Doesn't matter, you have to restart the client every 6 hours.

That's now changed to 24 hours I believe.

[Im New Sry]

That's now changed to 24 hours I believe.

23 hours to be exact, yes, but I was talking about the old limit :P

[Justin]

23 hours to be exact, yes, but I was talking about the old limit :P

Ah, correct! I thought they sent a warning out at 23 hours and kicked you off on the 24th hour.

[Life2dmax]

when I saw this I wondered if jagex would more closely monitor accounts playing 6+ hrs w/o logging. It would seem suspicious to me