SRL Archive - Senior News and General

Promote SRL?


The Claw

2011-01-03 07:03:23

I remember this idea being said a few times, but now with the update coming (p < 0.01 that it wont happen) we could be looking at some more activity. Just wondering if we should do some "talking-up" of SRL, for example a thread with screenies of peoples botting accomplishments, a vid on youtube that we can post places, other stuff like that (can't think of anything else).

I think we have a lot of botting success stories, heaps of stuff has changed lately, and SRL probably has little to no public reputation anymore. Now with these success stories, Simba, Reflection, Python, development for OpenGL, SRL stats, MSI, almost 0 bans this whole time, and so on…if we pushed it, we could probably change the way a lot of people think about us which would encourage them to join/stay around longer, which in the long run is more activity and more people knowing about us.

Cause at the moment, we're still a "special" community but its kind of hidden from the public/new users. If new people came to SRL, saw a link saying "See what we can do without bans" and opened a thread showing party hats, 99's, and so on, it would at least put us on the same level as the java bots :p. I also think the move to python will get a lot of interest across the cheating community..and we've got heaps of stuff like stats.

I dunno, activity will increase by itself naturally, but if we have a few stickied threads explaining where we're at, what we can do, and so on, it would probably make more activity. "I went back to the SCAR-bot forums and they can get phats and 99's without bans and stuff come look" as opposed to "I went back to the SCAR forums and they're still as bad as they were".

tl;dr Ideas to promote/talk-up SRL in preparation for the assumed influx of activity when this update happens. :)

Markus

2011-01-03 09:40:53

Problem is: ATM SRL/Simba is just too hard to use. My best friend's friend (a real moron) even managed to get RSBot running (with a woodcut script) in like, five minutes without any instructions.
So we need to finish the script manager soon (mc_teo where art thou).

HyperSecret

2011-01-03 09:48:46

From: Markus
Problem is: ATM SRL/Simba is just too hard to use. My best friend's friend (a real moron) even managed to get RSBot running (with a woodcut script) in like, five minutes without any instructions.
So we need to finish the script manager soon (mc_teo where art thou).


Agreed, a user needs to be able to download simba easily (SRL automatically downloading [maybe reflection too]), double click the icon, to file->run script/script manager->select script and go.

I have been thinking about this lately…would it be possible to build SMART "INTO" Simba. So you have a client, editor and stuff all right there in one. No need to wait for SMART to load after hitting run, it loads when Simba loads.

marpis

2011-01-03 11:11:12

tl;dr

Where could we advertise? On other botting sites? Kinda pathetic and lame..

BenLand100

2011-01-03 11:36:32

IMHO, moving to python will be a big deal, even though I'm not a big python fan. I know lots of people who aren't necessarily good programmers or interested in learning other languages can and have picked up python quickly, and there is a large userbase that is probably also interested in RS cheating. Being able to write your own stuff and learn always encourages intelligent people to join, but pascal is a bit outdated (although simple). If one were to open up a FOSS rs cheating library in python (i.e. pymml) and advertise it a little, people would come.

Boreas

2011-01-03 12:04:27

Before advertising, wait for the update to see if it's a RuneTek6 that breaks reflection or changes a lot of color stuff. First impressions and reputations are important, so we need as many of the improvements mentioned above that are feasible in the near future, and at the very least not be caught with our pants down like with RuneTek5.

Wizzup?

2011-01-03 12:23:37

Script Manager core functionality is done. To function it basically just needs a pretty GUI. (The functionality of the core is simple ATM, but it works…)

Wanted

2011-01-03 21:15:57

Sit back and watch, the mass influx of the botting community is coming soon with the revival of free trade.

Hobbit

2011-01-03 21:18:07

From: IceFire908
Sit back and watch, the mass influx of the botting community is coming soon with the revival of free trade.


Finally I will feel useful again! :p