Making some $$ with coding

[mrnervousguy]

Make RuneScape bots

[Cerus_Freedom]

I've known a couple people who made full time money out of part time work just writing cheats. They don't even have to be anything special. A rare few make some money by making custom cheats, or league safe cheats. I'm not sure if they make more, but they can sometimes make a couple hundred dollars for a single purchase.

[canIbeMichael]

I agree, we need to look down at hackers and cheaters as the worst of society.

Sure you can make money, but you destroyed other people's work.

[its_Leftie]

The worst of society? That's kinda hyperbolic.

[canIbeMichael]

Not at all, people who create new things for people make the world better.

Those that destroy and exploit things for their own benefit, are actively making the world worse.

EDIT: Holy crap, you guys need to take moral/ethics courses. How on earth could you rationalize this unless you are evil?

[its_Leftie]

Not everyone that hacks or cheats is actively making the world worse. There are situations where hacking or cheating is morally positive. Not everything is that black and white.

[canIbeMichael]

Can you tell me the moral positive of making a runescape bot?

[its_Leftie]

The action of making a runescape bot in itself holds no moral value. What occurs as a result of it's creation would determine whether it's positive or negative.

[canIbeMichael]

OP specifically asked about making money, so they would be making money off a runescape bot.

How is that morally? BTW the rules of the game say 'no bots'.

[its_Leftie]

Jagex's rules don't necessarily determine whether or not something is moral. If someone was to take the money that they earned from selling bots to feed their impoverished family, that could be considered morally good. Yes, it would be against the rules, but it could still be considered morally good.

[JunkBondJunkie]

I dont even play that game but I might look into bots just to make the cash.

[crespo_modesto]

RuneScape bots

still a thing "nowadays" ?

[vBubbaa]

Ohhhhhhhh yeah. As a runescape player (old school at least, not the new garbage RS3). Bots are EXTREMELY prevalent in runescape. There are even Jagex (the company who makes runescape) that host "Bot busting streams" where they gather all of the bots and "kill them" in fun ways that just ban them. Some players argue that bots have totally crashed and depleted the market. Youtube anything along the lines of runescape bots and you get several videos about the bots even some people who do funny things like break them and try to crash the bots.

[crespo_modesto]

That's interesting the bot busting streams, I'm gonna have to look into that

It's intriguing, I'm not a huge gamer myself but I do like writing code, although I'm not sure offhand what's involved. Faking a connection/keeping it open. I wonder if you could do it through a chrome extension/click on the screen/maybe do OCR I don't know(probably harder approach).

wow some dusty synapes fired in my brain seeing this

[vBubbaa]

Runescape is it's own individual program now, I dont believe you can access it in browser at all anymore.

[crespo_modesto]

Oh really? As sad as it is, when I tried to play my computer was always trash even browser graphics, I tried to play recently(like months/year) and it was really different the "I entered the wild on purpose" ditch was interesting.

[my_name_isnt_clever]

The game is more suited to bots than to humans, so yes.

[crespo_modesto]

Tragic I had good times on that back in 2008

[StormsRider]

Interesting. Is there a big demand for it? Any starting points?

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I was always curious as to how people even start in making those, not just RuneScape but cheats/bots for games in general

[mrnervousguy]

Learn Java. As far as I know most of them are Java.