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<quote>~THE IDEA~

A new random event, maybe introduced by the Mysterious Old Man, should come into existence. When the Mysterious Old Man appears in front of you, he requests you type in the letter/number code in the screen above. The letters WILL NOT be case sensitive. Once you click "Continue", a new little chat box similar to a Private Message box will appear, and you type the code in the box. It will NOT be typed and then a message in Public Chat. And I want to make it absolutely clear that I mean a PICTURE of letters, not text. As several have mentioned, macroers can already decipher regular RS text.

If macroers were faced with this problem, it would stop them completely, as other websites have done this. Aditionally the picture should rotate and switch every few seconds to prevent screenshot answers. And Jagex would change the pics every once in a while also.

Obviously, if you get it right, you get the usual reward of a gem or a few coins.

If you do get it wrong, I suggest that you either get teleported elsewhere or you get automatically logged out, which was suggested in other forums in different ways.

Or, it should note everything equipped and in your inventory, therefore it makes an Axe/Lobster Pot/Pickaxe useless until unnoted.

Suggestion from Dagriton: If you get the question wrong, your account is automatically scanned for macroing.

Or be teleported to Moderator Stadium, and if you are deemed macro then your account is locked. Deemed a player, you are sent back to where you were.

A constructive suggestion from The Arche777 states that there should be THREE trials of this read-and-retype code just in case there's bad typers. If you get all three right, you get a better reward than just one. And this would still have the same effect in the case of macroers.</quote>


why or why not do you think they will do this?

jagex dosen't have the bawls lol.

people would flame the shit out of the forums saying omg this random is gay! so no=pXD

It doesn't matter as we already have procedures that do some of those things and can figure out a way to do the others.

They wont they will get flamed to much by 9 year olds just like luring.

If they do we will probably be able to figure it out anyways.

its jagex they will try anything lol. anyone remember the sleeping bags? :D rotfl

Yeah but they didn't last long due to getting flamed. Also remember when you had to sleep on beds?

Suggestion from Dagriton: If you get the question wrong, your account is automatically scanned for macroing.

Isn't everybody already being scanned anyways?? People who play legit are getting banned for macroing now.. In my opinion, it will just be another task to over come for the almighty SRL. They thought impossible to stop randoms would stop us too.

Lets face it, we can't be stopped yo! :p

……..

I actually sugested this to Jagex when I didn't know about this forum! Oh, good thing Jagex doesn't even SEE any F2P messages you send to em! Jagex is so gay sometimes… I got banned for rule one when I didn't say anything, then when I pushed I think you have made a mistake, it 2 seconds later said "You are merm banned because u were in control of ur acct" WTF? they never even saw my appeal!

@mr.klean: yeah the whole sleeping concept made me stop even thinking about mining :D and i played legit back then. and i didnt say that they wouldnt revoke it i just said they would try anything to get rid of macroers, and yet, the always FAIL!!!! lol

@hy: well yes bans/perm bans are completely automated. bad decission on jagex's part. although i did actually get in contact with someone from jagex through billing support. they said they couldnt help in any way but yeah…. i think im going to post a thread about this in the strategical info section cause it was quite enlightening.

That random would be damn hard for the SRL Dev's to figure out how to solve.

Lets hope Jagex never makes it.

Hmm…I think Jagex will try to make more randoms that are going to be harder for programs to detect but I dont think the one wired is explaining will ever come into the playing field. But hey whats the fun when theres no challenge

hell typing in letters would be easier than solving most randoms

From: wired16
<quote>~THE IDEA~

A new random event, maybe introduced by the Mysterious Old Man, should come into existence. When the Mysterious Old Man appears in front of you, he requests you type in the letter/number code in the screen above. The letters WILL NOT be case sensitive. Once you click "Continue", a new little chat box similar to a Private Message box will appear, and you type the code in the box. It will NOT be typed and then a message in Public Chat. And I want to make it absolutely clear that I mean a PICTURE of letters, not text. As several have mentioned, macroers can already decipher regular RS text.

If macroers were faced with this problem, it would stop them completely, as other websites have done this. Aditionally the picture should rotate and switch every few seconds to prevent screenshot answers. And Jagex would change the pics every once in a while also.

Obviously, if you get it right, you get the usual reward of a gem or a few coins.

If you do get it wrong, I suggest that you either get teleported elsewhere or you get automatically logged out, which was suggested in other forums in different ways.

Or, it should note everything equipped and in your inventory, therefore it makes an Axe/Lobster Pot/Pickaxe useless until unnoted.

Suggestion from Dagriton: If you get the question wrong, your account is automatically scanned for macroing.

Or be teleported to Moderator Stadium, and if you are deemed macro then your account is locked. Deemed a player, you are sent back to where you were.

A constructive suggestion from The Arche777 states that there should be THREE trials of this read-and-retype code just in case there's bad typers. If you get all three right, you get a better reward than just one. And this would still have the same effect in the case of macroers.</quote>


why or why not do you think they will do this?

Know what scares me? thats a seriously good idea for all we know ther could be a jagex member on this forum and he could be looking at this thinking… *hmmmm* "They came up with a good idea there ill post it along to the other jagex members/community" then we are offcially fucked.. unless some amazing scripter comes along and scripts for the random but yeh thats what i think. I also think people shouldent talk about this in public because you never know whos watching :eek:

They cant, i dont think they will.

Runescape is getting too big.

jagex doesnt give 2 sh*** bout autoing really they just make it sound like they do.. all they want is members… i says they make it a member random if any

From: joshie
jagex dosen't have the bawls lol.

people would flame the shit out of the forums saying omg this random is gay! so no=pXD

plus they dont have the bawls like joshie said :sasmokin:

sounds like it would be quite easy to overcome
so what if the its PICTURES of text, all text is pictures anyway, we could just make another character set called CharsRandom, we already have CharsNPC, CharsChat, a next one wont hurt
if that doesnt work, we could make loads of bitmaps and figure something out with them

if non of the above works, so what, switch players and set it to false, who cares if we lose one when we have another 9 lined up

this looks to me like the typical legit player mentallity, they think they know how all autos work and that the solution is so simple

also, even if this was made, it would be very easy for java bots to find the answer anyway, it would only really stop one sort of auto

I agree Jagex aint got Bawls for that.
And as YakMan said it wouldnt actually make any difference.
There would be soon a way figured out to macro that random too.
Plz dont make ideas for Jagex :D

well to be honest i wouldn't be suprised if jagex did this cause there a bunch of fags. They did the Evil Bob random…(retarded). They'll try anything to get macro banned.

I think if we made a procedure to do this random. It should be done with color and the size of the letters. Like make a box in which the letters revolve or move. And i'm sure that differen't letters will have different colors. Don't know just a suggestion . :)

If I were legit Runescape player, that would consume some useless time and I REALLY wouldn't like it.

It's possible Jagex might make this but not likely.

Even if, we could find a easy way around it of course. :] SCAR is a life saver.

Moderator Stadium…

<shudder>

Why would they do this again?
In RSC they already made u type in letters from a picture in when you were going to wake up from yourr fatigue-reload sleep.
And damn, people were angry abuot the whole sleeping thing because that was really time consuming:D

Yea they had this on rsc
Called sleeping bags
Someone made a prog that in whcih OTHER people got your text
they typed it
and your good to go.

Also,
you have to type for other people to get 'points'
in order for other to type for you.
so, no leeching!

It was prety cool =)

Jagex wouldnt really care.A new random will only prove that they are getting more and more desperate and only adds to the immense number of randoms that they already have. They hope that the randoms will "filter" the macros out of the game, but they are too arrogant to understand that there is a solution to every problem. Whether it's correct or not is to be banning legit people is clearly up to Jagex. (They have quite the autocracy running aren't they?)


its only logical…

personally i dont think this would make THAT much of a difference because theres for example, evil bob and maze randoms but, omg we have 14 accounts lined up so hmm disabled that one 13 more to go… in otherwords it might be unsolvable but who cares?

Unless they made all randoms like Evil Bob, its only a matter of a couple days before the collective community figures out how to make screen shots of every letter and retype them in each time. Come on now, really people. Don't worry. They have to store that image in the cache file so, we wll already have all the characters, then its just a matter of putting it into and include for the rest of us to use =D. All the people who don't auto think that we are dumbasses. When really, I would rather go to the mall or somthing then sit at my computer and look at horrid graphics all day. HOw about you?

maye..:D