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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?

From: Brotein
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.

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

im LOVING this, i was having trouble at reloads so :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

pretty nice even hated it when playing legit :p

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

From: ste
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.

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

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.

From: 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.

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

From: Im New Sry
Doesn't matter, you have to restart the client every 6 hours.

That's now changed to 24 hours I believe.

From: Justin
That's now changed to 24 hours I believe.

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

From: Im New Sry
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.

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