Hmm were the updates needed?

[Cwmbran]

Taken from The RuneScape news list:

19 January 2006 - Over 15000 RuneScape accounts banned for cheating

We have just banned over 15000 accounts from the main RuneScape game for breaking rule 7, and attempting to use software to play the game automatically for them.

We can detect this type of cheating VERY easily. Suprisingly some people seem to think they can get away with this, but we're making absolutely sure you can't.


As well as having new systems to detect people cheating in this way, we are also using a new system to go through and ban other accounts used by these cheats, so they can't just cheat on a 'throwaway' account they don't care about, and expect their other accounts to be unaffected.


We will not let cheats spoil our game for everyone else. It's just not fair on our millions of legitimate players to let a selfish few try and spoil the game for everyone else.

If Jagex had followed through with these "New systems" then they could have put a stop to autoing along time ago, which would result in RWT being more obsolete than it is today, and therefore no crappy updates.

[Grimmauld]

for us, no, for jagex, yes.

[Cwmbran]

for us, no, for jagex, yes.

Care to elaborate on that?

[Brody]

technically yes if u see how much rwt comes from just this forum alone that is quite alot and this is mainly a habbo forum so imagine how much rwting u get from sites based on it eg sythe and fagex so technically yes but i dont like the updates

[Cwmbran]

If Jagex had continued through with their methods of banning mass bots then RWT would not be a problem.

[micky.blue.eyes]

I think it was too hard for Jagex to ban all bots because there were just too many people doing it and too many different programs.