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Wouldn't the client being open source mean botting is essentially impossible to control?

• joenot443 2y ago
  I'm curious how you came to this conclusion. Bot detection isn't typically done clientside these days, hasn't for a long time. Have you ever played Runescape?
  • pfdietz 2y ago
    How do you detect a human-like bot at the server? I mean, something that attempts to resemble what a human would do? False positives would be a big issue.
• 16mb 2y ago
  Yup pretty much. There’s a large percentage of the community botting. Most of the bot builders have forked RuneLite to add custom scripts for automating tasks. Jagex has made some improvements to their bot detection mostly through detecting if you’re playing on an “approved” build of RuneLite (the primary repo) in the past year or so, but this method went undetected for so long that many have maxed their accounts.
  • eigenket 2y ago
    I don't think its accurate to say a large percentage of the community is botting. My understanding is that the overwhelming majority of the botting is by organised groups making money out of selling the gold they make. I think a large percentage of the community is buying botted gold, but random people botting to get 99 mining or runecrafting or whatever is relatively rare (and relatively sucessfully detected) compared to gold farms.
• impulser_ 2y ago
  The RuneScape client has always been "open source". People have been decompiling and deobfuscating the RuneScape client since 2005. Since it's written in Java it's not hard to do. They do have some pretty smart ways of easily detecting bots. They do live streams of them teleporting bots to a world and killing them all before banning them. It actually quite hard to build a reliable bot for RS.