Jagex released their newest invention to aid them in the war on bots, Clusterflutter. Despite the name, this project had great expectations, and proved successful. October 25th, 2011, all bots used for Runescape, have been knocked offline. If you attempt to use a bot to open the game, the bot will not load the site, or for some bots, just say it is currently down.
Many developers and staff for these bots have announced that this update was rather large, and are still trying to investigate what the update has changed in detail. RSBuddy and RSbots have done more work it appears, but both have said that they will be up soon, but the users of these bots have said otherwise. I read through a bit of people saying that this was "the end" of botting, maybe not forever, but for a few months.
For those who do not know, this is one of Jagex's biggest updates, having many purposes. This update was involved in many internal changes, and since it now requires newer software, like newer Java, to shed room for newer technical and graphical changes. Not only is it for those purposes, it is also to stop botting, as it now stops Injection and Reflection, which is what the bots use for Runescape.
Though the developers seem like this will not block much, and they will easily surpass, many others disagree. Not only are some users of these bots think this is the end, so does Jagex. Though it should be they are confident of this update, in the past they lack this kind of enthusiasm. They seem so positive they have stopped botting, they gave bonuses for certain things, and have laughed at how these developers think they will continue to conquer on Runescape.
People have also talked about what Runescape will be without these bots, the economy will obviously raise, but the player count will be lowered dramatically. The income Runescape brings will slim down, due to many gold farmers buying membership, and now Jagex is hunting down the gold farmers. But, even with all these different things happening due to this update, no one truly knows how the aftermath of Clusterflutter will impact the game.
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The update broke all the client hooks and the IDs of things now change every few hours or so. RSBuddy needs to completely rewrite their client hook and some other methods and it should be done. The difficulty of that task? Not many know, including me.
So... it worked? Wow.
Methinks that as with any adversity, people will get back on their feet and fight it. It will not be the end, only temporarily.
From what I understand, they actually used polymorphic code in their client. Which will make reflection and injection near impossible. However, I've not taken a look at the client myself (or had a reliable source look) So what I'm saying could be completely wrong.
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All Jagex did was force bot developers to make their bots smarter. The botters will be back in no time.
Meh, if they don't come back up soon, I'm going to end up selling my accounts. I've been playing that game for years, but I can't get any joy from it anymore.
I imagine they'll find a way. Runescape has evolved so much over the past few years, but so have the bots right along with it. It will only continue to be so. I'm going to use RSbuddy for 99 fishing, cooking, and hopefully firemaking when it comes back online.
I'm thinking once RSbuddy gets its client back up, it will be a constant fight for a while. Kind of like Nexon and MPGH. Nexon updates all the time, but the coders at MPGH are right along side of them, updating their hacks.
Jagex broke the client hook. They also randomize code, making it harder to read and predict. I assume they will continue that idea to temporarily hurt bots.
Well if thats the only true way they can win, they are forced to. Its either that or lose what they have fought for near 6 years, and that wouldn't make the few legit players happy.Originally Posted by wastedbro
I believe this would be a loss on Jagex's side as if the code changes every few hours, they would need to buy a lot more ram so that the servers can process it all. If they believe they've cut the lifeline to "98% of bots" then botters won't bother buying membership again so that'll cut their profits considerably (I think I read that the playerbase cut 40% after the update). Basicly they've bought extra stuff, for more upkeep and less profits.
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