The Bot That SAVED RuneScape 

Did u remember

This has to be one of the funniest comments I’ve seen in years

High af ?😂

You forgor? ☠️

cool

Very insightful, thank you! :)

Most of us did not run those data collection scripts; we often used Blood's scripts or wrote our own, towards the end, APOS was also struggling because the original owner of APOS handed credentials to Storm but there would be times in which the server to auth the bot would no longer work and we couldn't access it. There was alternatives made to improve the client such as full screen mode and other QOL client for when we wanted to play legit or play on a legit account; however, most of the forums was about trading Rare items (i.e. a party hat might go for $50 USD, I remember some guy when it got announced servers were shutting down was buying up all the rare items knowing the servers were being shut down just so he could experience having a ton of official rare items on his account and watch them literally vanish as he gets disconnected). There was a variety of players; we had some malicious too on the forum that were frequently banned and none of us would trade with that person. Most of our communication occurred via the forum, we typically respected one another and sometimes would coordinate who got what training spot; i.e. druids in edgeville for herblaw. The APOS client itself was closed source besides the public API; so it's very likely Storm also integrated telemetry data into the client to preserve its history; though I can't confirm yes or no on that, but I do remember some export scripts for saving interactions and such. I didn't communicate with Storm often because she was often busy with IRL work due as keeping APOS alive was her hobby, but it's still was an awesome experience to be part of that community. I joined in around 2010 and was with them until the server died to which I have no clue where most of the members went; though I do know one member started up the OpenRSC source and has been working on it and updating it like crazy to bring about a living replicated copy of the game with some of the bugs fixed (i.e. the crystal chest being glitched for months on end). FYI, that hated member on the forums; he was the one who would intentionally glitch the chest and then mock us over it. I wish I still had screenshots of my time on the forum but most of that was lost due some unfortunate events IRL. I do know someone did write a bot to travel around RSC to gather data however; I figure it had something to do with OpenRSC, but its goal was to interact with most of the world and NPCs that it could; we did have one person document through a video series back then every single quest and every single quest dialogue option; I'm pretty sure that is all recorded as well. Most of us only botted because we loved the game, we loved the community, we loved our drop party events (I remember S U O M I showed up to one, I can't remember if it were Halloween or Christmas but I think it was Christmas). When it came to OSRS when it released, many of us like RS2 but didn't like RS3 so continued with RSC. When OSRS came out, many of us botted RSC but played OSRS like normal. I didn't play OSRS due to college since when it released, I was in the middle of college but rejoined OSRS in early 2016 as an ironman which sparked new love for the game and gave me something to do during my last semester in college and while I was going through a rough period in life. When the game shut down, it was an insanely sad time; what is funny is most of us did bot our accounts right up the final few hours before dropping our banks for everyone in celebration; twas a good time. If you want a lot more info regarding RSC, join the RSC subreddit. You can ask and there are people who will try to answer your questions. I will say this; the game was botted because time was a problem for many of us but we liked seeing stats go up, we liked seeing online player count. We did have legit players, we did hold events (pking/dueling/drop parties/pvm etc). But the game was effectively dead as people wanted to play RS3 or later OSRS. If we didn't have the bot, the game's number would have likely read 0 frequently, unfortunately. While I was too young to play RSC in its prime, I did get to enjoy a piece of its community and experience the later half of its history as I moved from RS2 (I joined in 2005) to RSC to Darkscape for a few, to OSRS.

Imo jagex has Noone but themselves to blame for botters, I got banned as a kid who didn't even know what a bot was or that they even existed lmfao I legit thought everyone was a real person. Well long story short they ban me I appeal because wtf is a bot I'm fkin 7 lmfao no idea wtf macro or botting even means 😂😂😂, needless to say they created a bot farm that day that funded my brand new main acct 😂😂😂 Mayne if they didn't just ban ppl for 0 reason they'd have less ppl doing it

ty for your comment, it helped me a lot

It's ironic how /v/scape is honestly more enjoyable experience than OSRS simply because there's no bots or GE even if there's only 20 players or so online and you have to talk to them to trade while they're antisocial 4chan autists. Also the game sucks but at least skills such as woodcutting are useful and 99 mining is an actual achievement. Meanwhile jagex's game sucks, because it's popular, well know, anyone can play it, and well, it attracts attention... Wherever there's attention, there's opportunity, it doesn't happen with small niche communities. I literally got 99 woodcutting there by cutting magic logs and I'd rather grind my dick off than get 99 woodcutting on OSRS via best xp/hr without tick manipulation.

I'm currently playing a server called RuneLegacy based in the 06 era. It started a few days ago and it's super fun. Includes slayer, farming, Barrows, Dagannoth kings, etc.

@@Kkrider84 skill capes o:?

@att6att Yep! Skill capes too!

I tried to look up the rsps, but the link for the rsps is broken

2006scape was awesoume

When they did that myself and most of my friends stopped playing, completely ruined the game

RSC Preservation

goodman, goodman

I missed out on it and would love to see it come back so I can play it myself

What was your RSC username?

@@SoloMew BenisBlaster

my experience was the same

I never looked at it from that perspective, it actually really is intuitive for people who can experience runescape with certain handicaps. Imagine somewhere down the track they make one where they throw up a 'are you still watching' like 1 click so they know you're still watching your character level up on its own. Basically just like watching a livestream except its your own personal account and you only level when you log in.

Thank you!! Will do :D

Surely irobot dungeon is the best bot script of all time, managed to get 120 with that beast starting at level 50

​@Joe Leigh Gary's Hood is the all time GOAT and we all know it. So simple yet so powerful.

There's something uniquely satisfying about seeing 'AI' do things in multiplayer games that shouldn't be possible. See the OpenAI SC2 league for example. Incredibly satisfying. I'd love to see a botter league, honestly.

"they just have to be done manually" why would they have to be done manually ?

I use epicbot vip ;)

Mouse movement definitely used to be used for anti-cheat, but with the advent of touchscreens & mobile client, it's no longer very useful for detecting botters.

I think mouse movements were tracked at some point and that's why it became a thing to have certain types of mouse movements in for example SCAR scripts in around 2006 or so. Or maybe a big portion of the botting community was wrong about that, you never know.

My mouse moves 😏

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Maybe this is erronous but i remember the game world would very slowly rotate a few degrees every couple of minutes and they added a log out timer that was only like 60 or 120 seconds or so. In effect it would mean that if you were running a script that didnt account for it the bot would eventually just get stuck somewhere endlessly clicking and log out or walk around not doing the intended thing.

Probably true. I had a small bot farm going botting black masks back in the day. I’d leave them running 24/7 and only got maybe 2 bans?

My issue with botters was more of an issue with how runescape handles resource nodes, since trees and ores and whatnot are shared by everyone bots take up a finite resource and crowd out legit players, but if jagex made the "fullness" of resource nodes be playerside instead of shared that would be a non issue.

you sound like a botter

Thank you so much! Will do!

Glad to hear that!!

I wasnt a pker but my buddy was and he would talk strategies all the time. The system was way more complex than it looked

I hope so too!! Glad you enjoyed the video :D

I remember joining around 2015 or 2016 and starting to use APOS. I got 99 mining and smiting, fishing and cooking, and mostly 80+ stats. I worked on banking 99 herblore but Jagex closed RSC before I could ever finish it. Those were fun days.

@@Kkrider84 sorry to hear you never accomplished your goal! I also never was able to at the very least wear a party hat! I had a good friend at the time who actually owned a pink party hat.

A fake college.

@@AYWUZ ah yes but you still said college.

Colleges are desperate, everybody is aware that a simple degree will get you absolutely nowhere today. Work experience, good work ethic, and an outgoing personality is free & much more valuable than a college degree. ChatGPT can now give you the answers to your whole curriculum.

Yup! I used Eclipse Origins which was a modified version of mirage source.

@@ColonelloRS Your video made me nostalgic. I used to make games with it when I was a kid , thank you for the throwback.

ever hear of a private server?

I feel like thatd still be a more effective punishment today.

That was never a thing...

@Jimmy Z they're called account rollbacks. It was a punishment for cheating and you can find many forums and a wiki article talking about it Pretty easy to validate with a quick Google search

it was and I can prove it. My account was 99 mining, back in 2012 after bot busting I did a mistake of using epic bot client, got perm banned, got unbanned recently in 2019 after appealing, checked stats and its much lower than it were... 90 @@jimmyz9882

I confirm because I have a account that had ban squashed@@ww6372

Glad you liked it!

RSC Preservation is an option to scratch that itch

Blizzard

WoW and MapleStory had lots of problems with it.

Haha thank you!!

This game stopped being cool in 2003. Who cares.

@@ChronusFatherofAll?

Back in 2002-2004 that stuff was still very common. But by 2009 when everyone could bot for whatever they wanted it was much rarer

RSC Preservation

Name of the game ?

I personally think it's not a huge deal so long as it's just to deal with the grind. We have lives outside of scape. If someone bots through iron power mining or agility, I can't blame them. It's the bots that screw up the game economy that frustrate me.

Oh yeah, with all the damage to the economy bots have done over the years it's probably trillions of unnecessary gold lost. I know that a lot of OSRS players don't like change there has to be a point where we have to improve the game from a more modern perspective. Things like Runecraft are downright awful to level and as long as it doesn't affect the economy too heavily I would be in full support of adding new, more engaging ways to level skills.

to destroy bots, jagex should release much more content, if they make game 20x times bigger, I mean, more stuff to do, more minigames to get xp in certain skills, and more items and new forms of gathering it making difficult to bots centralizate..

​@@teste-yh5dfnah thatll never work because bots excell at doing the most menial worthless things like picking up a single bucket over and over. More content probably just means more bots as players do the content and get bored with it.