Forestry Exploited by 1000s of Bots Day After Release 

1 hour did NOT make 3k bark an hour. Stop lying.

​@@dranideyeah I was doing every event as well and I got no where near 3k an hour

@@GodSpawn I was making 3k an hour by world hopping using a twitch stream

@@GodSpawn is your channel name same name ig? I’f so I think your in my clan lol

World hopping to events you can definitely get 3k an hour

At this point I think Trident is running ALL the big bot farms. If he is still working for them they are all corrupt like Arc Survival.

That would be grievous considering how janky their potato-servers are lol DC and come back into the same world but can’t do your own event you triggered 😅

@@onewingedgaming it's not like you dc often haven't DC in weeks and no one would care that much about a WC event 😆🤣

@@MariusNinjai oh they upgraded their servers? I haven’t played in about a year or two so I’m kinda out of date 😂

A refined bot this soon after release does make it hard to think otherwise

the fact they are still trying with bounty hunter and deadman gives me hope they wont, if bots could ruin the game i dont think it would have lasted this long

@@HappyDragneels_page Bots 100% can ruin players experience. I refuse to play main game as bots run the economy. With that I’m FORCED to play as an Ironman as I don’t see main game worth grinding. It’s not worth my time.

@@lemoncake9385 FORCED to play ironman because main game is LIDDERRRLY UNPLAYABLE. lmao surely youre meming, the game would be better without them but you can never 100% get rid of them and you can totally play around them, u make less money grinding bosses but its also much cheaper for you to skill. it changes certain aspects of the game but considering theres a whole lotta mains still playing kinda invalidates your point. some people just prefer ironman nothin wrong with that, but you werent FoRcEd to play lul. u can play a main like an iron and get drops yourself you just have the option to trade. but then you wouldnt be able to tell everyone about your shiny helmet right

is it just me or is it jaw dropping that jagex didn't see this coming? they know bots are a problem so why would they make something so easily exploitable? i don't get it

I see the sarcasm you used there. Using the word engaging instead of any😂

at least the bots are gay 🤡

The root event took the longest to spawn on launch. It was like once an hour it felt like. Also those prices crashed really fast

The blueprints sold for 30m and log brace or whatever it was called was 5m

​@@_barncatno u

so about 1.5b an hour?? wtf x'D... idk how jagex didn't see that coming.

I am rock solid right now, "Stiffed up" If you will.

Agreed. My biggest grievance about forestry

Facts Jager new that this would happen lol

Should have*

Agreed

yeah

Money

Stella needs a job

I'd rather not. Because then you get those power tripping p mods back in the day.

Theres too many to manually ban. Jagex management needs to take out their wallet and hire a specialist at 100k+pounds/yr to code more bot detection.

​@@TangibleGoods no one would hire that waste of space

These mfers really had a one man team. Insane! They love being used like a fleshlight, they need to drop half of there team and use them for bots or hire someone else cuz damn they fucking suck

it's good to document before updates

Failure or business opportunities?

Yeah they definitely failing claiming $7 from each bot for their bond 😂😂😂

There’s really nothing they can do about it.

How exactly is this a failure? The forestry update so far has been a massive success, lots of people who never would skill outside of getting some requirements, are skilling. And they’re enjoying it. Yeah the bots come along and do their thing but how does that make forestry less of a success? It’s really cool that you can have hundreds of players at the same spot skilling, without them negatively impacting each others experiences. And a side effect of that is bots will exploit it, it’s inevitable, Bots are already doing this in every mini game so it’s nothing new here. Maybe this is the most exploitable as it has 0 requirements, so I suspect jagex will add a prerequisite quest to unlock forestry to reduce the effect of bots.

A timezone would help. You can convert yours to a random other one to avoid doxxing yourself at all

You must not visit the revs often. The bots are literally there 24/7 in every section. I do agree it should be looked into. They will pray perfectly based on the weapon you wield and also stop eating if they run low on restore pots to avoid getting smited.

Yeah these bots have been here for a while. I made a level 75 pure and in the last 2 weeks, I’ve pked over 100m at rev caves. They’re incredibly easy to kill if you know how.

(how are you playing a 25 yr old java browser mmo on pvp worlds at 1-4am often enough to know this)

then no one would tip him off

@spawnpktomhanks6865 tibfoil hat idea but, sir pugger is actually a botting mastermind that documents his own bot farms into video for double revenue. Trust

giving players that privilege is a recipe for disaster and puts a target on their account from black market users to defeat competition.

calm down

Agreed!

at least the bots are gay 🤡

It's because the game is more mechanically simple

More and more mmo's are experiencing the same problem. Look at world of warcraft, lost ark, New world. Invested with bots too. It's not just osrs anymore unfortunately.

It's a game that you can play by just picking parts of the screen. Nothing else needed

Jagex are doing a good enough job destroying it themselves. Bots have always been a problem.

does it really effect you tho? only artio is unplayable

Already quit long ago due to bots. Its just becoming a game where adults RWT gold and buy items, and bots facilitating that

Bots keep the game alive my friend

​@@Tim82621 the economy all people use is influenced. I'm no expert on that, but prices change a lot every day. More cash inflow means higher inflation if I remember my economics right.

This is why I love ironman xD

i will always pronounce it how slayermusic pronounces it

There are bots at wilderness bosses/revs even :*(

Definitely stoppable. They just don’t stop them.

If the community didn’t buy gold…

just not enough players to remove all bots, dead game if they do, i remember days when soul wars were active in the real runescape, back then they started bot nuked and suddenly you couldn't play this minigame anymore

@@volgran1683 what a stupid take

Even cheaper than a bond is if they are using twitch prime accounts

More like a great way to RWT.

Fresh start worlds was really good because of this, I saw very few bots

Yeah, games a waste of time. I played for so long and it just even more boring

as long as ppl are motivated by profit ppl will exploit that

Fuck people always ruining everything that exists.

Y’all crazy if you don’t think Jagex are low key part of the RWT scene.

If the only problem was that they overcrowd places, something like this might work. But they adversely affect the economy for everyone everywhere, f2p or p2p.

woodcutting turf wars, interesting

Add more penalties for regular players because of bots, like tele timer in rev cave, instead of fixing the issues. 👌🏻🤢

@@runescapeiwatchvids Those penalties would be addressing the issues created by the bots. If it affects bots it also affects regular players. What action will directly be "fixing the issues" that singularly and only affects bots, with no "penalty" for regular players? I've been playing this game for 22 years, I'd be interested in your suggestions that fix the issues and don't impact players at all. Clearly Jagex need to see it! Botters are obviously run by players. Players whose choices need to be mitigated. If bots use something that regular players also do, there's not always a way to tune it so that bots can't profit from that activity far more than a regular human being. I'd rather that activity be a little less rewarding at the benefit of destroying bots.

@@runescapeiwatchvids Regular players don't need to be constantly world hopping while woodcutting anyways

@@shrub8644 But ironman gathering stuff from shops do! And how would you spot the difference?

I’m so happy for them. Jagex gets their bond money, bots get to sell their gold, players get items for cheaper. Triple win 😂🎉

It actually is really impressive how fast they acted. And it shows that combating bots by banning them or making content more annoying to engage with is impossible, as bots get developed and created at a rate that’s impossible to keep up with.

at least the bots are gay 🤡

Imagine - the developers anticipated this and are either working with people that run scripts or running the scripts themselves

@@OBRIZZLEwhy would developers bot their own game? Lol

😂

I think u were suppose to save that comment for the sailing release video

@@hipjoeroflmto4764 inb4 sailing shop with ornate g maul handle 🤣

i usd to be fully PvM, then quit, I came back to the game with the wildy bosses update, and have tried pking to rebuild. It refreshed my love for the game, trying it in a completely different style. Highly recommend

@SkizVids oh I love the new wildy bosses. Aside from the bots and finding ways to kill them it's good content. I'm looking forward to this so called wildy expansion in the works.

Dude, how do you train or learn? I am so bad at pk but I want to learn

@joseromanfuenmayor4364 lms and just staying to fight pkers. You're going to dye alot but just get into lms for a few weeks and go fight people in the wildy.

Bots can solve most captchas and just outsource the rest. Not a solution plus it's a horrible experience for legit players

This was one of the first things they tried to counter bots back in runescape classic. It didn't work and just annoyed real players.

OBS works great for this too

​@@puff7145yeah obs

The funny thing is... people have been saying that for decades now. :)

​@@TrolldamereMany people have already left, the community gets smaller by the day

been more game breaking shit than this BY FAR, osrs players are built different, and dont care if their game is ruined

@sneekyshot1 This is why i don't grind OSRS anymore, and prefer to just watch content creators put in hundreds of hours and summarize it all in 20 minutes

the game wont get ruined by bots by much because most people are skillers/green logging bosses or doing raids sure the bots make the game worse but it wont die from it not anytime soon atleast

The event where you pollinate flowers lasts for several minutes. So unless it was a pretty long timer they would probably just switch to doing that one.

@@bebe8090 Not too sure for that but no matter what we will have bots exploiting things

U’d be surprised how easy it is to automate that process

They can code most of it before Forestry releases. Only things you have to fill in are specific item/object names and some bug fixes and you're ready to go.

Bot scripts have come a long way, this is not 2002 buddy so you can take your "seems sus" crap and shove it.

@erickchristensen746 they would have to code how to do each event separately let alone one that looks for these event all within 24 hours from the sounds of it maybe you should pick up coding 😉 And on top of that it's nothing against jagex they shut that bot farm down quick as fuck.

​@@andrewblanton8104I think you're overcomplicating the situation. This bot farm seems (to me at least) not as hard as you think. Maybe you should pick up some coding classes and get better at it.

@CMOJoker not saying it's hard saying with how quick and efficient the bot farm came out. If it was over complicating the situation a video wouldn't have had to be made less than 24 hours of release. For a bot farm to have possibly 300+ bots ready and running is a bit wild.

I agree with this, would be cool to have a quest to introduce the whole forestry mechanics anyways.

And then botters make bots just to be reported by their other bots

i reported 132 mage bots today in member worlds a cow patch in lumby every world had 5-6 mages with names like xcghhdffhd123 all standing together it was crazy

Bots will just find another way

Simple fix?

Well there's a bot script specifically to complete tutorial island so that makes it a lot easier

U think bot makers don't have scripts to generate accounts? They most definitely run a script that automatically generates random account names, running multiple instances, completes entire tutorial island for them, before they start running w/e other scrippts they want. They probaably got that done in less than an hour depending on how many instances of rs they can run

Yep. Also, high player base and profits = looks good to the investors and owners of the company = better returns for the staff.

I bet more people tip off to sir pugger than Jagex themselves. How many people even know they have a tipoff emai?

You answered your own question, you think after 20+ years of bots they would do something

They could pay a guy a salary to ban 0.00001% of the bots per day which will get replaced instantly... or they could just not. What do you think?

@@ZenIsPowerthey have botters just found a way around it

They are in ardy, a members area. THey cant get rewards in f2p

at least the bots are gay 🤡

they could just set a realy high skill requirement to even get these event's or make them be active accounts for 100 hours first. ofcourse they don't it's all about money

Yeah for the bots that's a drop in the ocean when they make enough gold to buy a yearly membership on the underground markets every single hour