Statistic of the day. Yesterday, players who used the gambling hosts in the Grand Exchange had a 35.50% win rate and the gambling hosts took away 5,299,964,271 profit. This gold is real-world traded, so keep that in mind and don't be dumb.
Collectively, another 19'805 accounts were banned yesterday and today from a variety of places. These are a mixture of RWT and macro bans. Just a little update on that!
Just a quick update. The increase of players botting and scripting at LMS has not gone un-noticed and is being investigated. We have just banned 5'831 accounts in conjunction with this today.
Another 40'000~ accounts were collectively banned over the last couple of days. This is a mixture of gold farmers, bots and real-world trading accounts.
We collectively (the anti-cheat team) have banned 152'115 accounts so far this month. That number is a split between mass-created bot accounts that don't make it into the game, and accounts in-game.
I went through the accounts reported by players yesterday and banned 887 accounts that were manually gold farming.
This should account for quite a few of the accounts that are generally considered to be bots.
Taken another look at the high scores for a couple of the bosses and have banned some of the illegitimate accounts on there. As always, this is a continued effort and we will continue to add to the numbers.
363 accounts using MLM and fishing areas to farm gold and real-world trade have been banned. This should hopefully see those areas becoming a bit clearer.
I have removed a few of the hidden gambling rings thanks to some tip-offs, and various other sources of real-world trading. I also banned some more bots, so hopefully some places should be clearer.
Whilst I respect the loyalty and passion our players display towards our content creators, I have been out of out office since Wednesday afternoon so I am unable to weigh in or really comment on any messages or tweets I've been tagged in as I haven't been in the loop.
Currently looking at bot accounts. Several more bans will be going out so hopefully that'll see areas starting to clear up. I have seen the messages in response to my tweets, and will also take a look at those reports in-between. Cheers!
I've banned some more bots today and continued to take a look at the gambling bots. They may re-appear for a little while, but should be gone again fairly quickly.
Gone through the player reported bots a little bit today and banned some of those. Also gone over common bot locations a little, and some more of the same with chat and gambling. I am going to quickly revisit chat in a moment.
Seems like the chat in most worlds for both P2P and F2P was pretty clear this morning without much input which is great to see. I'll still take another look later, though!
Tried to do a little bit of everything today, so I have looked into some of the people that are clearly botting in common areas as well as taking quick looks at the chat, and some more of the gambling in game.
Quickly gone over some more of the dicing bots. I also took a quick look at F2P and P2P chat and cleared it up a little bit. Hopefully there should be a little bit less spam than before.
Quickly gone over some of the locations people have mentioned including Zulrah, the Fishing Guild and Vorkath. I also went back and checked the chat in F2P and P2P (including outside of ToB).
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