Hey guys I started this to share my experience the past week since I started playing runescape again. I quit Runescape a week after old school came out and haven't played since.
So here's what's happened so far this week alone!
Created 2 accounts to bot and one mule account to store my wealth the beginning of the week.
First account I fished until 60 fishing and then purchased membership and continued to fish until 75 doing lobsters and fly fishing (12-18 hours a day) . I have also botted 90 fletching 18-20 hours a day since then and the account is still active!
Second account I created on the same day, didn't purchase membership and botted 1-45 woodcutting doing normal logs/oaks with a bronze axe! Took 8 hours and was permabanned while the script was running (was logged out and couldn't log back in). I was banking all logs.
The first account had an email registered to it while the second account had a made up email..
So I decided to log into my old OSRS account to bot as I had never previously botted on this account and figured that I'd have a lower chance of being banned on this account as it has so much legitimate play put into it, so I went woodcutting.
This time I reached 70 woodcutting and during the time created a mule account to transfer my wealth to after learning from my mistake the first time.
2 days after I stopped using this account it got banned which I thought was a bit strange but I figured that maybe they flagged my IP and decided to check other accounts from this address even ones which hadn't been logged in for days.
Now this is where I'm a bit confused.. The reason I didn't change my IP was that I wanted to get as much raw information as possible on these bans. It appears to me that even though I'm botting nearly every hour of every day on my account with membership it's not been picked up by Jagex (yet). Are jagex waiting not banning me because I've got a recurring membership payment setup on this account? It's possible, they are making money from me..
All botting has been done on the standard client and with free scripts, until yesterday where I bought Auto Fletcher Pro from Novak, which works flawlessly might I add, I'd 100% recommend the script to anyone who wants to get 99 fletching!
I think it could be to do with the fact that my other accounts were essentially F2P gold farming while my "main account" is displaying behaviour more similar to someone who's just botting their main for personal use.
My mule also hasn't been banned as of yet and all wealth was traded over via the trade function in game (not duel arena or drop trading).
Hope some of this information helps! Let's see how far I can get with this account that's still active before being banned!