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:

 

1. As chosen by the administrators/scripters select free scripts (such as goldfarming ones) will be forced to become premium
2. No undercutting prices. If a premium script goes out it has to be for a reasonable price (as chosen by the administrators/scripters)
3. Payment option to donate 100% of script profits to OSBot directly if the script maker so chooses
4. 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
5. 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.

Edited December 24, 201312 yr by Swizzbeat

No support. This will get out of hand, keep this free and how it is. It's up to the scripter to do what the want.

absolutely agree, it's for botting future

100% agreed! 

Sometimes the free scripts are even better than the premium ones.

No support at all, we all have plenty of premium scripts, it's a free market.

Edited December 23, 201312 yr by zScripz

I support this for some of the scripts however. Like a free mercher? That just shouldn't EVER happen. 

it's the scripters choice if they want to have their script for free or payed you can't force them because you don't agree with it.

Ups and downs with this

I would support this if we were the only botting client out there, but that's not the case.

This would be pretty useless in the grand scheme of things.

 

Dude I honestly love you, I'm here right beside you to fight for this. I've been seeing way too many free scripts lately and it's killing the vibe! 

Updated OP with the idea to have free scripts be single use only.

 

I would support this if we were the only botting client out there, but that's not the case.

This would be pretty useless in the grand scheme of things.

Every other large client requires a monthly fee to even use scripts. The ones who have completely free ones have a user base of 10 so it doesn't really matter.

I would support this if we were the only botting client out there, but that's not the case.

This would be pretty useless in the grand scheme of things.

OSbot is the most stable osrs bot out. Legit we own the majority of the bots in osrs right now. So this really would be useful. 

No support at all, we all have plenty of premium scripts, it's a free market. You're just scared that people will replicate your minotaurs and skeletons script because they realize how simple it is.. 

It's just the matter of time, when people will do free herblore script or something .

This would kill OSBot. Do you guys not resize that * is better in every other way? Script quality, API quality, dev uptime. I'm not hating on OSBot, I love OSBot but you guys have to face the facts

Edit: @Pit, if someone wants to put in the time to do that, good for them! Like I said, I support the free market

Edited December 23, 201312 yr by zScripz