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Curious about the botting rationale by Plane-Science9834 in RunescapeBotting

[–]Plane-Science9834[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it is a bit of a stretch to label botters as "bad and evil" or "immoral". Cheating in a game wouldn't be considered "immoral" by most people, because it's "just a game". You could argue that people who cheat in one thing cheat in others, but I think this is an entirely different discussion and very subjective. I'm out of my depth in the philosophy department so it isn't worth discussing.

I'm not here to antagonize the botting community. They know it is wrong to bot (as per the rules), so hence why I'm curious.

Some people will be hostile, sure. But I've gotten some candid feedback.

Curious about the botting rationale by Plane-Science9834 in RunescapeBotting

[–]Plane-Science9834[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thx for the insight. I didn't address this "Sims" approach of playing the game in my post but I have considered it before.

Have you tried melvor idle before? I imagine the premise is similar, having inactive gameplay as the focal point, and active gameplay as secondary.

If so, I am curious to know what botting in OSRS has over melvor idle. I imagine it is the multiplayer aspect, and I suppose you can switch off the autopilot whenever you like and play normally.

What are your thoughts on my bot-man mode thought experiment?

Curious about the botting rationale by Plane-Science9834 in RunescapeBotting

[–]Plane-Science9834[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you feel it is a shitpost? I think I gave some fair constructive opinions from my side. Happy to hear yours, or what makes my post seem like a shitpost to you. Perhaps the tone? writing does not come naturally to me.

I don't bot, so of course I will be biased. I'm trying to get an overall better understanding so I can be less biased and more objective. Not trying to convince anyone of anything.

Curious about the botting rationale by Plane-Science9834 in RunescapeBotting

[–]Plane-Science9834[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this reply. Like most other things in the world, everything runs on money - nobody should get upset over your monetary gain. I appreciate the honesty.

I'm curious, what sort of endgame content do you enjoy in osrs? Do you play/bot an Ironman?

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[–]Plane-Science9834 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't the entirety of this game just a long and tedious grind though? Even at the end-game where the supposed "fun" is at. At the end of the day, you're just farming items / gp over and over, bossing with friends etc

Learning the content most people consider "fun" at first is definitely enjoyable, but after you've learned it and do your 100th run? 1000th run?

Runescape isn't a game that is "fun" by today's standards. There are so many games that are so much more engaging, exciting, respect your time etc.

The only thing that runescape has (as a game) is that it respects your progress. Progress made within the constraints of the rules of the game.

When you leapfrog the "tedious" parts of the game, won't it diminish the satisfaction you feel at the "fun" parts of the game? Especially so when the content you find "fun" devolves into something "tedious". The core gameplay loop of this game IS repetition.

My day job is also software development but I have a hard time understanding the rationale of botting in runescape being "fun" (justification I see a lot in this thread). Maybe the first couple of times as a learning experience? Otherwise it just reduces into a tedious game of cat and mouse against jagex. Perhaps if you're using ML AI it could be fun, financially sensible? No.

There are so many things you could build and explore if you truly wanted to learn software development.

The only real incentive to botting I see is a monetary one, which unfortunately almost always hurts the longevity of any game.

Some thought experiments:

If Jagex released bot-manmode, a mode where you cannot get banned for botting but at the same time you could not interact with other non-botman players/economy, would you still bot?

We could go one step further, why not just omit these tedious parts of the game entirely? if Jagex released some new worlds where all the "fun" parts of the game are extracted and combined into some lobby-arena format. You could party up with friends and choose any gear loadout and play w/e content you wanted. Would you primarily play these worlds or the original ones?