Anti-Gold Farming

[Mich-ae-l]

Anti-Gold-Farming Measures

 

Today sees the latest in our series of initiatives to stamp out botting, gold farming and dishonest play in RuneScape.

It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of gold farming activity takes place in the free game, where it is possible to create disposable accounts that can be used to generate in-game money and send it on for illicit real-world trade in defiance of our rules. Today’s measures will reduce the effectiveness of this practice by a factor of 100, to show these people once and for all that ruining your game is not only unacceptable, but also a waste of their time.

From today onwards, newly created free to play accounts will be subject to a number of trade limitations, consisting of:

New free-to-play accounts can only give away gold coins or items, or make a trade with an imbalance in the recipient’s favour, to the value of 25000 coins per 24 hours. This limitation also applies to drop trades. New free-to-play accounts can make Duel Arena bets with no greater imbalance than 25000 coins per 24 hours. We have also made a change to Wilderness PvP, where noted items will only appear to the original carrier when dropped upon death; not the killer. This affects all accounts – not just ones subject to the limitations above. The last thing we want is to make trading difficult for our long-standing and bustling free-to-play community, so existing free-to-play accounts will be unaffected. What’s more, there is no limit to the value of gifts that can be received by a new free-to-play account, so there’s nothing to stop a new player from receiving a helping hand from a high-levelled friend. Needless to say, balanced trades between players are not a problem, either.

The limitations will remain in effect until the affected account purchases membership. Subscribing will remove these restrictions permanently, even if the subscription later ends and is not renewed.

These measures are a decisive next blow in our ongoing battle against botting and gold farming. We are fully committed to stamping out this insidious form of cheating to ensure you the fair game experience that you deserve.

 

Thoughts?

I think it's a load of ********.

[AndyIbeat]

can't stop it fully.

[aTommy]

they did it because of bot nuke and need more members.

[Oh Garrett]

sounds like a plot to get more members and money. But all it say is that in the wilderness, noted items will only appear to carrier. So if i was selling gold, you could kill me and just take the 5m or whatever right? Or i could just carry 28 rune 2h's or something. If they wanted to take a blow to bots selling gold they'd inflict this on all f2p accounts, because most of them that have money for gold sites used botting to gain a ton of gold. How will new lv 3's be able to bot and get gold to sell? Dumb idea.

[Ebin]

wtf how am i suppoused sell my rsgp now!?

[Furl]

cool

[Derp]

doesn't affect you unless your planning on making some new account.

[Ebin]

doesn't affect you unless your planning on making some new account.

o so if i have a acc whichs lvl 3 from long time ago it dont have this 25k / 24 hour thingie?

[aTommy]

doesn't affect you unless your planning on making some new account.

o so if i have a acc whichs lvl 3 from long time ago it dont have this 25k / 24 hour thingie?

 

nope

[muffunz]

damnn, intense stuff

[Viesturs]

Hey guys you cant bot. But if you buy p2p youprobablywontgetbanned... oops that just slipped out.

 

Jagex is pathetic.

[Bamf]

Gf RSGP prices

[Jay]

notsureifsrs

[Turm Lmfao]

lol bye rsgp prices

[Cameron]

That's dumb, no other way to put it.

[Ahd f t w]

Gg