SRL Archive - Bot Information and Spottings

There has been a lot of suspicion about this "Chinese /Mandarin Bot" and a few programs fround, but a lot of them seem to be "fake".
I believe that the only way so many level 3s, with default clothes, doing the SAME thing over and over can get their skill levels into the 50+ and some even 80s is though playing legit.

I think that, yes these guys are Chinese, but they are legit players, in fact, Chinese Gold Farmers.

Read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_(gaming)
Hers One playing WoW or something:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH1LGdjZUKQ

This is just crazy Yohojo hypothesizing, but I think its plausible.

I have thought this for quite some time. I think its a bit of both, the guy who has a featherbuyer in every world is botting(''selling 1.2million feathers 8ea'') but the lobbie fishers etc I think could be people playing it, or bots that have people fixing them 24/7(eg. solving randoms etc.) but if you look at the pathing its slow and bad, I think it could also be a multi window bot that clicks the mm in the same place everytime, makes the map north and clicks again, same waits and has a person solving randoms. Make this a poll, bots, farmers, both/dont know.

Edit: 144 ScapeRunes lol?

By autoing we make poor chinese gamers have an even harder living.. bummer:(

I think they deserve it… Forcing little kids play rs for them like 10 hours a day :p If they arent bots…

What about the fact they all walk the same paths? And seem not to be smart enough in some cases to solve a simple random? My opinion is that they are bots.

It may be a bit a both, but I think at least some are bots. As said by therealjdb and WT-Fakawi, the pathing on some is the same. Also, if they are human, they should be smarter about blending in, ie non level 3. I really think the lvl 3s are something that intercepts packets or something else detectable, so they aren't wasting time fighting because they will be banned soon. Short lifespan also explains how the names are the same with a different number.

They don't care about "Blending" or combat level.
They are gold farmings. They play to make money, and fast.
No time to make a custom look on tut island, no time to get combat up.
They just skill and skill.
If there was a bot, then they would probably get banned a lot sooner that level 60+in a skill if they run so many.

Maybe it is 1/2 and 1/2.
But you don't understand.
These guys are PRO gamers , and gold farming is their JOB to make REAL MONEY to SUPPORT their lives.

i don't think their Chinese Farmers. Runescape money is not as profitable as other games anyways.

If I was a human gold farmer, I would think that putting a little effort in to not get banned/reported would allow me to last longer, meaning less time making and training up new accounts, and meaning higher levels and easier money making. Either bots or stupid inefficient humans.

Higher level (skills and combat) make money easier and faster, every legit fansite will tell you that. The only reason for low levels is short lifespan due to macro detection system.

Also, wouldn't merchanting make money faster for human gold farmers?

I highly doubt theyre people… As they are acting like they would want to be banned (not even putting any effort trying to remain unbanned)… Its like they would be asking to be banned, what doesnt make sence.. So most likely they have some 1337 private program theyre using that works VERY nice (soooo much of those people all around).

From: WhiteShadow
i don't think their Chinese Farmers. Runescape money is not as profitable as other games anyways.

Maybe true, but if u think of it, its better than any other online earning services, surveys, referrals etc.

[sarcasm]Maybe it's jagex, reverse engineering a bot so they can better protect themselves. [/sarcasm]

haha, The Chinese Game Farmers I thought was a crazy idea. But now it makes life so much clearer now :P

Everytime I think about chinese gold farmers, heres the things that says no it can't be :

1) They all are similar in a way of walking.. Always stand in same place, also go to the yews besides lumbridge.. between lumbridge and draynor, you'll notice that they stay still when tree is chopped up, and start running as soon as other tree arrives.. They can't see the other tree, but somehow they know it has showed up.. Maybe java bot?

2)[MAIN POINT]Why pay for all those computers, and pay all those workers.. Why not just pay a professional programmer to make a bot, it's a one time payment unlike paying workers over and over again… [MAIN POINT]

3)There's like HUNDREDS of them… I mean go to draynor and watch all of them just walking in and out of bank.. I don't think there's gonna be someone paying for THAT many comps, and not just getting a programmer… Kinda like last point..

Although, the guyz at green dragons *might* be farmers, but I highly doubt

They could all just used unsigned clients, and play a bunch of chars at a time.
Don't ask me why they don't hire a programmer, read the wiki, thats just how they do it.
Making a java bot isnt as easy as just hiring someone.
And Asians (stero-type) are damn good at games.

Always stand in same place, also go to the yews besides lumbridge.. between lumbridge and draynor

Arent many places to stand around a tree..

Let me show you the power of an asian though this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OrIwPhhDiI&mode=related&search=

From: da_professa

2)[MAIN POINT]Why pay for all those computers, and pay all those workers.. Why not just pay a professional programmer to make a bot, it's a one time payment unlike paying workers over and over again… [MAIN POINT]

Heres why.
They get payed like 0.5$ per mil they make and he sells for 5-10$ ea mill. Now you would pay an experienced programmer 100$ to make you bot which will work only till next update. They're basically exploiting the situation in the china. Everyone needs job to support their family…

Regarding how many of them there are.. well which country has most people? Yes. You got it right :p

Wow this article will explain everything to you then
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815

Please read, but for you lazy basterds:

He's paid about 56 cents an hour to work in a videogame "sweatshop."

"I work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the U.S. Lineage II server," he says. He works long, boring hours for low pay and gets no holidays. Carefully constructed macros do most of the work; Sack is just there to fend off the occasional player itching for a fight or game master who's hunting for these automated farming programs. "Everyone knows where the good places are, and GMs know that your account has been online for a whole month," he says. "[A GM will] message me asking, .Hello, what level are you, please?' I know he isn't asking my level; he just wants to know if [there's actually a person at the computer]."

Says they use macros, but watch them in case a mod or whatever talk to see whats going on.

How does it work? The macros for World of WarCraft, for example, control a high-level hunter and cleric. The hunter kills while the cleric automatically heals. Once they are fully loaded with gold and items, the "farmer" who's monitoring their progress manually controls them out of the dungeon to go sell their goods. These automated agents are then returned to the dungeons to do their thing again. Sack's typical 12-hour sessions can earn his employers as much as $60,000 per month while he walks away with a measly $150.

almost like we jumpin into another form of slavery, eh?

From: oliver1205
almost like we jumpin into another form of slavery, eh?

Lowly paid job is better than no job at all. I'm sure that with 150$ you can get alot of things in china.

chinese farmers umm yea that might be because i was watching my guy cut yew on my varrok yew cutter and there were me, and 2 other guys(lvls 3). one died from evil chicken! the other one jumped on the bones, so did I.. it was pretty amazing.. i tought it was bots but the guy who died came back rigth after lol(death-walk maybe?). then i tought umm.. the guy jumped on the guy who died to pick up yews, let's drop a yew logs! droped, the guy who died jumped on it.

in this case i think it is chinese farmers who work for a company and play 18hrs a day lol

I think the gold farmers in rs are RSMembers that people people think are bots, such as the Green Dragon Autoer, Nat Crafter, etc ( hence 120+ characters that don't know english training on dragons all day [with no slayer points]) And you'd think, it has to be a bot, I've seen videos of ppl pking their whips. It's really easy to misclick when your bored of clicking a dragon for 12 hrs..12 hrs of dragon killing gets around 3-4M+ depending on stats . After every update you well notice almost no bots are cutting yews in f2p, but within 6 hrs they are back at the yews. I think these bots last about 4-7 days, then they are banned, and add on to their 000 + 1. I also notice about 10 characters in the Lumby Castle 2nd floor, south behind the rooms. I sometimes see the yew bots go and trade them. You might think they don't even get any yews with those damn bronze ax's, but lookup the highscores, and you'll see they have 70+ wcing!

well its sad that they barely get enough money to live while the owner gets rich and makes a lot of money to live but doesnt care about his workers

I think there all bots but peeps in china are just watchin them solving the hard to do randoms. And talking to peeps so they dont get banned.

From: zasz
I think there all bots but peeps in china are just watchin them solving the hard to do randoms. And talking to peeps so they dont get banned.

when have you ever seen a rsdemon bot talk? besides when they went ++++++++++++++++++ and " . " .

i doubt that. i think it's chinese bots running vm's and keeping them all running 24-7.
and how do they "pro gamers" i can't belive that. the best money is abbyss rc and magics logs (besides pk and staking, and merchanting, as they are chinese..)so why aren't they there? and they would bother with a costume look to not get banned, if their "Sooo" effient and a chines person might beable just make it by by playing rs (like most chinese people, only making it by )

well that's my epinion,
and other games are more profitable, and it's posible to be a "pro gammer".. i was one in vanguard =p i could make a platinium coin in 2 hours(was worth like 10$ each)
but they screwed that game up didn't you sony games..

Either that or lots of rsdemons =p

From: Boreas

Also, wouldn't merchanting make money faster for human gold farmers?

They can't speak English ;)

I think all those default clothes, dumb named, lvl 3's have to be bots. Farmers would at least change the clothes around.

Well yeah i think it's very possible that they are playing legit. I mean, this is probably a much better job than working in a sweat shop for the same amount of money. This isn't that hard to believe.

Um, YoHoJo…lol. Mandarin is simple a language of China, it doesn't represent a group in a specific region in or outside of China…lol.

In my opinon, i think that somewhere in the world there is a screen with hundreds of rs's open, hundreds of low powered computers feeding into the screen and about 10 people on cents per hour to solve randoms on these hundreds of computers or something like this. Almost like slave labour, sickens me. I admit autoing is bad but its the only way up, and its easy, i dont care about money i just want my skills higher, thats why i auto (:. i think gold farmers do exist on runescape but maybe not as bad as on other mmorpgs like wow guild wars etc (sorry for my wall :P)

Hi camm, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to you from all of SRL forums. Please take a look at our forum rules, especially the part about not posting in really old threads like this one. Thank you, and I hope you have a great experience here at SRL.

From: Smartzkid
Hi camm, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to you from all of SRL forums. Please take a look at our forum rules, especially the part about not posting in really old threads like this one. Thank you, and I hope you have a great experience here at SRL.

lol