J2e asked:
If I help my friend giving him amounts of cash and some equipments, will that be considered as RWT? Considering Jagex doesn't know if you had IRL money for the eq/cash.
Mod Fetzki answers:
We are encouraging people to give other players gifts or lend them some equipment so before we accuse someone of cheating by buying gold we make absolutely sure that we can prove it.
What our exact criteria are, I won't reveal, though, for obvious reasons.
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“2.Aren’t you concerned with a resurgence of RWT? Because free trade makes transferring money a heck of a lot easier…”
We know that of course there will be those out to abuse free trade but we’re very on the case with that thanks to some very helpful tools and staff
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Moe Is 4210 asks:
How will you be able to differentiate from someone giving a gift to their friends as opposed to someone completing a real world trade transaction?
We have a specialist team of people who deal with cheating all day long, they have excellent tools at their disposal and can tell very easily the difference between people who are RWT and those who are just trading to friends.
Genuine players who wish to give things away have nothing to be worried about!
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“9. Do you have ways to detect RWT?”
Yep,
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Imah Slayer:
#1 Im not sure how to word this so im going to give you a situation. One player named "bob" gets a gift (50m) from his friend that is quiting. Another player "billy" buys 50m gold from some RWT site. How can you tell the diffrence between a bob and a billy?
Mod Fetzki:
The difference is that Bob won't get into trouble but Billy gets punished for cheating because we can tell the difference. We won't reveal how we do that though for obvious reasons.
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Snipervenm:
How will you guys try to prevent a rapid growth of macroing and RWT?
Mod Fetzki:
With various efforts like breaking bots, taking macro developers to court, banning or rolling back accounts that do real-world trading and/or macroing and many more things.
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Donzaloog20,
“1. how do you plan to stop RWT if you can mention anything at all, i know you can't mention exactly how you do this but are you able to confidently say that RWT will NOT be possible?”
The freedom of Free Trade does mean that RWT will be possible. Such is the way of free trade! However, we’ve done a lot of work in the background to minimise the risk. ; )
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Tomolonotron asks:
When the Free trade returns, my friend wants to give me about 20m, maybe an item worth more then 50m+ will we be able to do this without being detected as gold sellers? We've been on each others friends list for about 2 years.
Yep, we can tell pretty easily who is just genuinely trading and who is RWT, don’t worry!
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I Pot U Drop asks:
If someone bots 100m on an account and then gives it to a random person will they get banned for rwt or botting?
In our experience, most people who use bots don’t do it so they can randomly walk up to someone they don’t know and trade them 100 million for no reason.
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Jarkur,
“Q1: Why Jagex planned to take such a big *risk* for bringing it actually back? as it was one of the biggest reason for causing RWT to actually happen?”
Hi Jarkur, I’ll be your mod mark for today. Because we’re in a position to be able to do it given all the work we’ve been doing and also, very importantly, because it’s something that the majority of the community clearly want.