Thread: Article: Operation ClusterFlutter to End All Botting in Runescape

Hi everyone,

As you know, Jagex has a strong track record of dealing with people who cheat whilst playing RuneScape.

We’d much prefer to invest all our efforts in developing the game, adding new and exciting content and supporting our awesome community.

We spend a huge amount of time, effort and money on tackling the cheating issue and the people involved. We and the genuine players are greatly frustrated by the activities of cheaters and the knock on effects it creates.

We don’t think it’s necessarily fair that genuine player’s membership fees have to be used to combat cheating. So why not make the cheaters pay for the trouble they cause instead of legitimate players footing the bill.

In some situations we may now charge cheaters to get their account back.

You can rest assured that this does not give people a license to break the rules. The decision will be entirely at the discretion of Jagex. We may just decide to ban the account without any further options being made available.

If we decide to do anything different to banning, aside from a substantial stinging rollback penalty to XP and wealth, there may now be a real world cost dished out to cheaters.

We will always be on the side of the genuine players who enjoy our game and play fairly. As always legitimate players need not worry, it’s only the cheaters that need to be concerned.

Kind regards,
The RuneScape Team

@Wasted, they said they've banned 1.5 million accounts in the past week. Stop trying to prove me wrong and actually look at whats going on.

Originally Posted by Eagle

@Wasted, they said they've banned 1.5 million accounts in the past week. Stop trying to prove me wrong and actually look at whats going on.

Not in the past week. "Recently". And seriously, there won't be a mass ban. I did notice that Jagex said they will stop injection bots. That may stop RSbuddy and RSbot for a little bit.

But again: They are NOT doing a mass ban. They are NOT tracking users. They ARE preventing the use of bots. They are going (supposedly) to stop them from working, not banning people that try and use them.

Originally Posted by wastedbro

Not in the past week. "Recently". And seriously, there won't be a mass ban. I did notice that Jagex said they will stop injection bots. That may stop RSbuddy and RSbot for a little bit.

But again: They are NOT doing a mass ban. They are NOT tracking users. They ARE preventing the use of bots. They are going (supposedly) to stop them from working, not banning people that try and use them.

I do agree. If they mass banned, the game would be empty. Stopping the bots is a way better solution then banning anyway, in my opinion, for botters. Stop the bots, you keep the players possibly which ensures more profit if they do membership, and they won't be cheating. Banning will lose profit and a player.

I do think RSBuddy and Powerbot will be hit with the whole Injection thing, but nothing will stop it forever. RSbots i believe will be in the most affected area, but still will recover eventually.

Hi Everyone, Last week, Daniel Clough shared more news with the community about our ongoing war to eliminate botting and gold farming from the game. Today, I am really happy to say we are in the long-awaited position of being able to announce that we’ll be launching our most formidable bot-busting weapon in our history, targeting what we believe to be 98% of the bots seen in game. I anticipate that this update will be a defining triumph in our battle against the bots which you’ve clearly told us have been harming your game. However, we are not resting on our laurels and will be continuing to develop numerous systems as well as still making a number of improvements over the coming months in an attempt to remain a few steps ahead of both the bot makers and gold farmers alike. As Daniel made clear last week, we are dedicated to battling bots and gold farming on every front. We have also recently detected and banned over 1.5 million botting and gold farming accounts. While we work behind the scenes on certain projects, we know that sometimes the necessary secrecy can be rather frustrating for players and, as a team, we’ve all desperately wanted to share details about this upcoming project with the community since the very beginning of the year when we had first believed it was going to be imminently ready. However, sadly sometimes when innovating in multiple uncharted areas it takes a lot longer than expected and we were therefore at necessary pains to keep this project tightly under wraps while completing it and, crucially, not giving bot makers any information or warning that could assist them in working around it or preparing for it. The project, code-named the ‘ClusterFlutterer’, will be launched as part of the RuneScape game update on Tuesday the 25th October permanently preventing “reflection” bots from working again. We anticipate that next Tuesday will go down in RuneScape history as 'bot-nuking day'. To celebrate this landmark event, we’ll be running a series of one-off bonus days from Tuesday’s system update through to Friday. Over the course of these events, members will have the chance to gain triple XP in Slayer and additional points and rewards in some of our most popular D&Ds and minigames in a bot-free RuneScape: Tuesday: Slayer skill day: All Slayer XP earned from killing assigned targets will be tripled. Some monsters will have a faster respawn time. Wednesday: Castle Wars day: Tickets earned from winning a game will be triple the usual amount. Thursday: Distraction and Diversion day: Bonus rewards will be given for the following distractions:

• Penguin Hide & Seek: Double points.
• Evil Tree: Triple XP.
• Shooting Star: Triple XP while mining it and increased final rewards.
• Familiarization: Players will receive the lucky charm AND ingredient box instead of having to choose.

Penguin Hide & Seek and Familiarization will be reset on the day, so you can do them again if you have already done them that week. All other D&D limitations remain the same (e.g. only two Evil Trees a day). Friday: Soul Wars day: Players will receive triple the usual amount of zeal points. These days will run from midnight to midnight (BST), with the exception of Tuesday which will run from game update time until midnight (BST). Unlike previous Bonus XP events, these modifiers will not deteriorate and will remain constant for the durations stated above. As promised we’ll be as transparent as possible in keeping everyone updated on the status of our fight against bots and gold farmers and, equally, as before we also ask of you to continue to do your part in helping and supporting too. I look forward to seeing you in-game soon. Have fun! Cheers, Mark Gerhard Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer

-jagex

They sound like tards in my opinion...I think it was a bad idea to poke fun at the botting community. I also noticed powerbot.org is down..hmm

Originally Posted by davee

They sound like tards in my opinion...I think it was a bad idea to poke fun at the botting community. I also noticed powerbot.org is down..hmm

They were constantly being ddosed, it was good for a while, so I can't speak for certain if it's being ddosed, or what the case is.

Powerbot- Gay
EpicBot- Gay
NeXus Bots- Epic
RSBuddy- the shit.

Originally Posted by Mr. Sexy

Powerbot- Gay
EpicBot- Gay
NeXus Bots- Epic
RSBuddy- the shit.

I use powerbot for the market. It doesn't beat sythe, but obviously beats rsbuddy.

It's the 25th and I'm still botting.http://i.imgur.com/lc0rJ.png