Lately OSBots been bombarded with new coders and the amount of scripts this client offers has risen drastically. While this is absolutely fantastic, this brings about a whole new issue; free scripts.
While many people want to receive compensation for their work and make their script premium, others release things for free. Every client needs free scripts, and lots of them, but they should be controlled. Releasing a free Willow chopper, for example, is completely fine as people can get their levels and not do any harm to the economy. Now lets say someone releases a free AIO Woodcutter, what happens? Log prices crash, worlds become overpopulated with goldfarming bots, and Jagex starts mass banning.
What I'm saying is there needs to be slight restrictions on what can be released for free. I'm all for a free market with source codes being shared and everyone building off of one another, however there HAS to be limitations if botting is to survive. Why were the big bots like RSBot and RSBuddy eventually taken down? Because they got so big and had a free script for anything. RuneScape was covered in goldfarmers and people training their skills, almost no one online was playing legitimately. They had to do something about it, and what they did was take legal action. I propose the following solutions:
As chosen by the administrators/scripters select free scripts (such as goldfarming ones) will be forced to become premium No undercutting prices. If a premium script goes out it has to be for a reasonable price (as chosen by the administrators/scripters) Payment option to donate 100% of script profits to OSBot directly if the script maker so chooses Limit free scripts to singel use only (preventing mass goldfarming but still keeping the script free) VIP/Sponsor will still be allowed to run more instances! This is directed at people who have not supported the site Waiting for more suggestions to add
Not only will this limited control of scripts save profitable methods of making money from dying, it will also save us from further analysis of the client by Jagex. The more people who are using scripts the more data they gather concerning how the client actually runs. There will be a plethora of scripts available in the local/SDN sections for free for casual use, however the more "profitable" or "could be highly abused" scripts should be controlled. Thanks for reading, and post any opinions that you have on the issue below.