i've had my skiller mistaken for a macro more times than i'd care to count.
i've tried...
1. talking excessively. actually starting conversations, believe it or not. i tend to keep to myself when playing, and since may, virtually never say a thing unless i've been talked to in a manner i can't ignore. that's why it's a nightmare when i start playing on my main, but forget that i'm playing on my main and not on my skiller...
2. starting off by raising stats no macro would ever raise. namely, the most boring, useless stats that i don't even actively train on my main (not that i actively train anything, really...) because i simply don't see the point of it. namely, firemaking and rcing. i got firemaking up to the hiscores sooner than i did any of the other skills. after that came runecrafting. hardly any bots seriously rc on f2p servers, after all, if it's nature runes they're after.
3. dressing tastefully. not that macros don't ever do that, but i tried dressing something radically different from the usual combinations.
4. showing off items a level 3 character shouldn't have. not showing off in the explicit sense of the word, seeing as i can't quite afford that many items. not wearing items worthy of of much attention, like trimmed robes or rares. wearing items that are quietly expensive, rather. common items that you wouldn't give a second thought to, but items that just don't belong on a level 3, as most would think. exemplified by coloured gloves, holy symbol/power ammy (prefer the holy symbol), fire staff...
5. not following a set routine. using lumby tele sometimes when mining near the lumby swamps, but walking to draynor other times. not following a set pattern when banking, or mining at certain rocks. changing clothes between bank runs. and so on.
i've tried all that, and still i get that "macro!", "macro?", "macro or friend?"...
well. at least that's a start...
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Wow, I never thought about such problem. Do you also get reported a lot on your skiller account? Or people just check all the time?
I'd love to think people check, but when it's some (usually)well-meaning player who's been wcing for the sole purpose of reporting macros every one minute interval, sometimes it irritates them so that they just indiscriminately type in any name that has '-3' besides it. By the time they've proceeded to gloat about it, after, it's rather too late. Not that it means anything bad for either of us, but it either gets them down, or gives them more faith in people.
And the people who do check usually aren't so cynical or task-oriented that they can't be pleasantly surprised, or better still, not at all because they've figured it out themselves :)
Both happen often enough though. I'm trying to get used to it. Seems better an alternative than buying something hideously expensive like trimmed robes or a santa...
I always look up stats on the hi-scores before doing anything, and then I watch their activity for awhile. It's rather obvious when people are skillers and when people are bots; I don't get how people mess it up >.<
Well, its kinda obvious if a player is a skiller anyway, they usually have names that suggest they're a skiller (ie 'Skiller123' - lol) whereas macroers will have an assortment of random letters and numbers. It does help if skillers have other ranked skills, its all less suspicious O_o
It doesn't just happen to level 3's it happens to 125's, I injured my arm and couldn't type for 3 days and I was reported countless times for macroing for not speaking when spoken to.
In fact when they start talking about me macroing I either act like a macro or do everything opposite to what they say as and when they say it.
Don't worry Jagex have very good macro detection software, a macro will be banned if reported a skiller will not, so keep reporting macros's it's better to get rid of the cheats, the innocent wont lose their accounts.
Good blog. I wish the background color wasn't so light. Try something like on Runescape
I'd rather be defined as a person than a skiller, so my username isn't remotely skillerish. Or macro-like neither, come to think of it.
But those people who report tend to be the overenthusiastic who think periodically sending in multiple macro reports at a time will get them modship. They do it more for the quantity than anything else. How right it is usually doesn't come up, just how unfair it is to them. It's kinda sad.
Thanks y'all for the assurance though :) In the meanwhile I'm trying to remember that there are people who care enough not to do things for the sake of doing them. As for the reliability of the macro detection and general reporting system, Steve, I'll trust it for as long as my inbox remains empty, which it has for long enough a time :)
w13, thanks for the suggestion but seeing as I know nothing of html/website design/formatting, I don't have much of a choice, actually. Though it's also a matter of opinion, and I do prefer light blue to dark.
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