Bot-Nuking Day: Making RuneScape Fairer and More Fun!

To celebrate Bot-Nuking Day - the biggest bot-busting initiative in RuneScape history - we are running a series of bonus events this week which will be fairer and more fun for everyone. As well as the bot-busting update we will introduce a brace of brand-new reporting functions.

This week, from Tuesday until Friday, we will be running exciting events with XP and progress boosts for everyone who wants to get involved. Best of all, bots won’t be issue!

Here is a reminder of what’s coming up:

Tuesday:

Slayer skill day: All Slayer XP earned from killing assigned targets will be tripled, and some monsters will have a faster respawn time.

Wednesday:

Castle Wars day: Tickets earned from winning a game will be triple the usual amount.

Thursday:
Distraction and Diversion day: Bonus rewards will be given for the following:

Penguin Hide & Seek: Double points.
Evil Tree: Triple XP.
Shooting Star: Triple XP while mining it and increased final rewards.
Familiarization: Players will receive the lucky charm AND ingredient box instead of having to choose.

Penguin Hide & Seek and Familiarization will be reset on the day, so you can have another crack even if you've already done them this week. All other D&D limitations remain the same (i.e. only two Evil Trees a day).

Friday:

Soul Wars day: Players will receive triple the usual amount of zeal points.

These days will run from midnight to midnight (BST), with the exception of Tuesday which will run from game update time until midnight (BST). Unlike previous Bonus XP events, these modifiers will not deteriorate and will remain constant for the durations stated above.

We’re confident that today’s update will break the vast majority of bots in the game at the moment, but we still need your help in keeping RuneScape a fun and fair place to play. To help you help us we have implemented some enhanced reporting functions:

You can now right-click on a player’s name, or a line of their chat, to report them. This will make it easier to do and will help eliminate errors in reporting botters with hard to spell names. This can be enabled through the in-game options screen.
The “Report Player” button will now open a summary of recent chat, so you can easily select the part you’re referring to.
If you’re in a dangerous area and you need to report a player using bots or bugs to their advantage, you can now log out and send a report from the lobby.

We hope you all have an awesome time during this momentous week and we look forward to seeing you slaying slavering beasts, hunting fallen stars and dominating Castle Wars and Soul Wars!

The RuneScape Team

In other news...

Due to the complex nature of today’s game update, there may be a few minutes of down time while we update and test our systems. Thank you for your patience while we do this, and rest assured that we’ll get things running again as soon as we can.
As described in last week’s news post, it is now necessary to be running Java version 1.6 update 10, or above, in order to play RuneScape.
We’ve made some improvements to our graphical engine which will aid us in the future development of RuneScape’s look and feel. Players using Direct X mode will notice palette consistency for the first time with Open GL. Other visual improvements under development include our new water shader. We’ll be continually improving the look of the game over the months to come. We’re confident that this won’t impact upon gameplay, but if you do notice any graphical glitches please submit a bug report. Switching to OpenGL or Software mode in your graphics options will nullify any problems that do arise.
It is now possible to view the amount of resources a Clan member has collected by using a new button on the Clan Chat side interface, next to the Kick button, which give Admin levels and higher information on clan citadel resources gathered by any online clan member that week. This information is only given if the clan member is online, has membership, is not on probation and has visited since the last build tick.

Patch notes for this update: (Click to View)

Graphical:


The pernix cowl and dervish headwrap both no longer change the player's facial hair.
Small nets now look smaller than big nets in the player's inventory.
During Kennith's Concerns, Kimberly now has blonde hair on her chathead, matching the NPC model.
Pharoah sandals on male characters now uses the correct skin tone on the player's feet.
Snelms no longer stretch when resting.



Skills & Minigames:


Simon Templeton now gives the correct amount of money for jewelled golden statuettes.
Ticking options in the Stealing Creation rewards interface, then closing and reopening the interface now correctly re-ticks the checkboxes.
The Lunar Farm rewards interface no longer states that the vengeance spell reduces your produce points.
Players with 100% favour in Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup that haven't fixed any fences are now told why they cannot claim any trading sticks.



Quests:


Killing trolls during Swan Song whilst fishing for fresh monkfish no longer causes their bones to float if killed on water.
Squire Sam is now more talkative after starting Quiet Before the Swarm.



Other:


TzTok Jad's melee sound has been delayed by one cycle, and his Magic attack sound effect has been quietened slightly. He also now has a sound effect attached when he rears up to perform a Ranged attack.
The max and completionist capes can now be manually set to colour values of 0.
Surplus resources in a Clan Citadel now takes into account upgrades that have been partially paid for.
Overload potions now check a player's lifepoints before delaying a player.
The wicked hood's death altar teleport location has been updated.
Prayer altars in Dungeoneering now function correctly.
The Void Knight rangers now have attack sounds attached.
The chinchompa Ranged sound has now been updated.
Names of runes when trying to cast Magic spells have all been made lower-case for consistency.

Happy Days

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Damn, Worked Well..

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Looks like the game is still down for the update; I'm anxious to see how it turned out, but I won't be able to log on for another 8 hours. When the game comes back up (should be long before I get home) can someone post the results, please? I'd be very grateful, thanks!

Since I can't judge the effectiveness of the new bot system at this current time, I'll go ahead and comment on the improved reporting functions. I think the new features will be nice and pretty helpful for everyone. I find it really interesting, though, that right-click reporting will no longer be pmod-exclusive. Nevertheless, it's a handy feature to have, so it's good that others will have access to it now. One can only hope it won't be abused, but I'm sure it will be fine.

Looks like the game is still down for the update; I'm anxious to see how it turned out, but I won't be able to log on for another 8 hours. When the game comes back up (should be long before I get home) can someone post the results, please? I'd be very grateful, thanks!

Since I can't judge the effectiveness of the new bot system at this current time, I'll go ahead and comment on the improved reporting functions. I think the new features will be nice and pretty helpful for everyone. I find it really interesting, though, that right-click reporting will no longer be pmod-exclusive. Nevertheless, it's a handy feature to have, so it's good that others will have access to it now. One can only hope it won't be abused, but I'm sure it will be fine.

I think your right, there could be a slight possibility of this new reporting system being abused!

114 is now high risk?

114 is now high risk?

High risk what?

114 is now high risk?

High risk what?

High risk wilderness

114 is now high risk?

High risk what?

High risk wilderness

It gives that warning, yes. I haven't been in wildy so I haven't tested it out yet, but I think it's just a bug that they'll fix soon.

Spectacular!