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Nice! GG JaGeX, and good luck handling the influx of F2P botters :p

That was nice of them to release their heat maps. Now we can see where not to bot :spongebob:

I won't be playing OSRS F2P (I like my Dungeoneering and resizable screens too much), but it is good that they're trying it out. Interesting that they're disabling yews in F2P, I guess they won't be completely faithful to the original RS2 F2P. A built in auto-typer will be a great addition too, I remember way back using one just to keep up with other sellers in Varrock.

Did anyone else see the cool bot map?

From: Robert
DAE see the cool bot map?

Still a ton of bots on that map if you ask me :p

That's a lot of fishers in Catherby and a lot of rock crab killers.

Anyways, for the most part this was a nice read. As someone who has a high amount of respect for the OSRS team, I'm pleased to see their efforts on battling bots.

any one of us that was using simba got swept this wave?

From: Grunt
any one of us that was using simba got swept this wave?

I wouldn't consider it a wave seeing as this many bots were banned over the course of two months…

Well dam Jagex losing dat bank doe.

From: Grunt
any one of us that was using simba got swept this wave?

nope, both accounts safe

The impact of our anti bot activity has impacted on all areas of Old School, the prices of many items have returned to healthy levels, for example the going price for sharks is now back at 1k gp each and the price of chinchompas is steadily increasing. Despite the increased activity against bots, Old School continues to gain more players.

One of the biggest uses of bots in game is the use of autotypers. In itself, autotyping is not a hugely bad thing for Old School, however the impact is something you all have to deal with every day. Not only do they create huge amounts of spam, but also give account hijackers the opportunity to create malicious programs to steal your accounts

Music to my ears.

All in all, I'm happy that they're finally budging in their stance towards FTP.

They have succesfully banned people doing Tutorial island.