Surely jagex can detect the usage of 3rd party software?

[Molly]

The idea about public vs private is this.  When you use a public script you are using something that potentially thousands+ of other people have used, maybe even across many accounts.  Now let's say the script sleeps between 1000-4000ms after an action, if Jagex were to collect data on players doing a specific activity and notice over time tens of thousands of accounts sleeping for 1000-4000ms after doing the action that could look pretty bot-like. The script would of course have more points that would have this type of behavior so with enough data collected it would theoretically be pretty easy to flag accounts suspected of botting based upon the collected data.  Now, if you use a private script you remove this risk because odds are you are not going to be running tens of thousands of accounts yourself on this same script so the patterns will take longer to form and it would theoretically be harder to flag your account based upon those patterns.

That's the idea anyways, we don't actually know much about how Jagex gathers data, how effective their systems are, etc. We know that this could be something they do and if they did it could be an effective method of flagging or banning accounts.

Edited November 21, 2017 by Molly