The Runescape Fishing Bot is a program that gives players an unfair advantage in Runescape. Players use this program to gain levels, or most commonly, money. When players use macros to get money, they are referred to as “Gold Farmers”. When Jagex introduced the trade limits, this (almost) stopped the people that sold Runescape gold for real money.
Using a macro is against Rule 7, for many reasons than one. The obvious reason is that when you use it you get an unfair advantage, but this is not the only reason. Most people who claim to be giving out these programs are really giving out viruses known as Keyloggers. These viruses can steal your Runescape name and password. Not to mention anything else you type such as your email, credit card information, and so on.
Sadly, these people found a way around even that. Therefore, they invented Gold Farming. This new way breaks even MORE rules, because they have to get on the person’s account to Gold Farm. This is in breach of Rule 6, Account Sharing/Trading. Of course, I could go on and on about all the rules you break when you buy gold.
What to look for in a suspected bot
Bots are very easy to detect, even for normal players. On Free to Play worlds, they are usually level 3, with the default look. They will have random names usually, though some might have Asian names, as Jagex claims most of the botters come out of the East Asian countries. On Pay to Play worlds they are anywhere from 3-30, but there have been some bots that are higher levels.
Another way to tell if the player is a bot, ask them questions. If they do not respond most likely, they are bots. Bots will do their assigned task and ONLY their assigned task. Therefore, if you have a fishing bot, they are going to fish and bank, and then go back to fishing. They will do this over and over without saying a word to anyone.
I learned a little more about how bots work, so let me tell you how the popular ones work -
Newly created Runescape Fishing Bots will start getting levels by net fishing in Draynor Village. According to how smart the bot is, when they get to level 40 fishing, they will head to Catherby for Members and to Karamja for non-members. When they get to 68, they might then go to the Fishing Guild in pay to play worlds. When they reach 76, they will then fish sharks at the Fishing Guild or at Catherby. Some, however, may stick with lobsters (usually free to play).
So what did the botters do to our economy? Those who are leveling their cooking to 99 are happy that they were here. They lowered the price of raw fish a great deal, so now they are able to get to 99 a lot cheaper. of course, those who sell fish for a living think the exact opposite because the money they were making has fallen, so now they have to produce more fish for the same amount as they were getting before.
At one point in 2007, Raw Sharks were down to 400 coins each because of the surplus the bots were producing. After the mass bannings of the fishing bots, the sharks have started to climb again, they climbed to 800, and now they are close to 1000 each again.
So now, you know how bad botting can be, and why there are rules against it. Please, do not use a macro
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