I want to tell you otherwise.

I have played RuneScape for roughly 4 years. It will be 5 this June, not counting the breaks I have taken. For most of those 4 years, I was the model player. I reported players when I thought it was neccessary, I didn’t break rules (except swearing, but hey, that’s been lifted a bit) and most of all, I didn’t bot. RuneScape was never really boring. I was a member for most of the time, and so I had plenty to do. RuneScape was good.

Shortly before 2008 breathed its last breath, I re-kindled a friendship with an old mate. He introduced me to sites such as Sythe and Fagex, and taught me the art of scamming. Together we scammed two accounts, and several membership PINs. Sythe and Fagex also have a RSBot section, and I looked through it and eventually downloaded RSBot.

I wish I had done it sooner. RSBot is easily the best thing I have done in my RuneScape career. I am botting right now! Jagex claims they will find you, and yet in 3+ months of near constant botting, I have not been warned nor banned.

As the title proclaims, robots don’t get Carpal Tunnel. If RuneScape is getting boring, you can do what I always did, and take a break. Alternatively, you can take the step and get RSBot. You will never be the same.

RuneScape Bots came in all types and sorts. There were Auto Miners, Auto woodcutters, and so forth. In general, there were many different ways to automate your character and make money. To not get in trouble from anyone, (especially jagex), i am not going to go into detail on what other existing programs there are that are still being used.

Some of the older players, well maybe even recently started RuneScape players can recall the massive amounts of bots patrolling woodcutting spots like behind the lumbridge castle, or in edgeville. Massive scale botting was done by companies like “Lewt Gold Supplies” in free worlds since they did not have to pay for membership. Here’s a lowdown on how it worked.

Bots Collect Supplies ( Yews, Ores ) -> Dump at nearest bank -> Repeat -> On a periodical schedule, transfer all collected supplies to a main account -> Sell Supplies -> Get gold -> Sell for USD or other currency

As you can see, they were making a lot of money with this. Believe it or not, many many many players actually went out and PURCHASED runescape gold. Yup, it was cheap, and effective. Only problem was, jagex tracked all gold trades, or they said they did. Either way, people got banned and yeah, you could imagine the chaos.

All of this eventually led up to the horrible trading system we have now, the introduction of the grand exchange system and the stop to pking.

Some of you may not understand why PKing was removed, well let me explain. As people started to realize that jagex were banning RuneScape accounts, gold merchants decided, well. Lets go ahead and pretend that you killed me! So these players would carry the sum bought by the customer into a secluded place of the wilderness and then let the customer kill the seller for the gold. This is how drastic gold selling became as Jagex got tighter and tighter.

The trading system was also set to being limited the way it is now for a reason. So people don’t scam the old way. Obvious right? That’s where the Grand Exchange came in. It was the replacement to the trading system. People could make money exactly the same way they did before, except they wouldn’t know who or what they were buying or selling to.

There were many limitations to this system though. People could no longer give each other RuneScape presents or even a decent free give away. Everything was simply. Well in communist state.

Recently however, due to a big community uproar. Jagex seems to be devising a replacement to PKing. Although much information of this has not surfaced. There is a post on RuneSociety Forums discussing this. You can view it here.

Earlier on in RuneScape there were also other client based hacks which Jagex fixed right away such as a Stat Changer.

This post was simply written to tell some of the new RS players about the previous RuneScape, the one they were never a part of. It was not intended to induce cheating or anything of the sort. So don’t flame me ;]