Hey guys! I haven't really been on the forum for a long time but I have always botted in RS when it was first introduced in RS2. (When RID was really big and known)
I have over around 100 accounts banned and never used a VPN. I recently started to play again and gotten over 10 accounts banned. I know the number is not a lot compared to a gold farm. I just use the bots for resources for my main. (WC, Mining, Fishing). I directly trade with my bots and never take any precautions. My main is still fine and I have botted a couple times on the main before.
So recently I have switched most of my botting over to OSBOT from a different RS BOT. I was really skeptical of "mirror mode" and believe it wouldn't work. But the other RS BOT had a free feature that wa simillar to "mirror mode". While switching over I have found my accounts banned even when carefully botted. Only 4-5 hours a day, babysit and often reply to people in F2P. I bot for 4-5 hours and then switch to a different account and bot. Used a normal name, dressed like a RS player and wasn' level 3. I am not trashing OSBOT, I'm saying that mirror mode is really useful.
"Why did you switch over?"
OSBOT has a better community and more updated scripts. Every other site is dead.
VPN is useful but you don't need it. My IP should have been "flagged" But I have gotten over 15k lobsters, 20k willow logs, 14k iron ore, made 5k steel bars, made over 10k bronze bars combined on all my accounts and transfered between main and my bot accounts. Keep in mind it only has been around 3-4 weeks with free scripts semi-heavy botting. I play with aleast 4 bots and a main account at the same time with the same IP.
Soon I am going to invest in mirror mode to maximize my botting. And I believe mirror mode is superior to alot of other bots in the current market.
edit: I use to do the samething in RS2 and before it turned into RS3.