Hi osbot, I was banned today on my zerker pure account for macroing moderate. I am going to lay out as much information as possible and I'm hoping someone can provide me with advice for the future.

General info:

Account is around 7 years old, only started playing 07 in late August. Since then, I've botted 85 str, 85 magic, and almost 1200 total level and I'm sitting on 170 quest points.

 

Botting info: For the past week I've had a pretty regular schedule for botting. Over night, I've used an autostunner in the tzhaar fight caves to train magic. I take no breaks (since it requires a safespot) but I generally have it shut off after 5-6 hours. In the morning, I start it back up again for another 5-6 hours. Around 3-4 pm, I'll play legitimately for a bit (staking, pking, questing) and then I babysit a yak or ankou bot (paid) for another few hours. I am almost always active in the chat. Come 10 pm (or so) I turn my tzhaar curse bot back on.

 

What changed: Last night, I needed more runes so I ran xmautobuyer for about 5 hours at the pest control island, hopping and buying runes.

Today I ran my normal 5-6 hours of magic training.

 

What could be the culprit here? I haven't ran the autobuyer in a few weeks, so my best bet would be on that (very fast click rate, no movement aside from buying runes then hopping).

 

When I bot ankous, I make sure every random is done quickly and I don't let it get stuck. When other players are around, like I said I tend to chat.

 

For the future: I intend to A: cease botting for a week once I'm unbanned, or least revert to only while I'm babysitting with actual breaks.

B: If the ban becomes permanent, I will an email appeal method with some bullshit like I got hacked (will change IP) or I have autism.

 

Does anyone have any insight or advice? This account is way to close to being a perfect zerker for me to get perm banned. I'd like to play it safe but I really dont have the time to legitimately gain skills. What do?

Edited October 9, 201312 yr by djgrundleswick

IMO 170 qp = you've invested enough time into the account to where you shouldn't risk getting it banned by botting again, but I'd say it was probably the autobuyer that did it.

This is what you wanna do:

1) Don't bot money making things on it

2) Do high risk skills manually (like woodcutting or fletching)

3) Don't bot Ankous or Yaks

4) Only bot melee and magic, as those have a low ban rate if you know where to bot

5) Always choose the lowest ban rate over the xp/hour (if you have a spot with very low ban rate at 35k xp per hour, then a spot with higher ban rate but 50k xp per hour, then you should choose the 35k spot).

Anyways good luck, I hope you don't get a permanent ban! PM me if you have anymotr questions.

I honestly think you need a sleep pattern, specially while you're stunning constantly for straight 5 hours, then continuing it a few hours once it has shut off. Also you're doing a few hours on Yaks/Anks, both pretty high ban rate due to recent influx of bots focused on these specific targets.

I wouldn't risk botting much after this ban, specially after such a well looked after account with questing and being a pure and all.

Thanks for the responses guys. I think I'm going to avoid botting for a couple weeks in order to manually get 94 mage and a few other goals. When I start again I'm going to be quite careful. Shit, now what am I supposed to do for the next two days? HOMEWORK???