Runescape classic maps generator#

Turns out it was a linear congruential generator which was in principle brute forceable given a few consecutive rolls. I took an educated guess that the channel operators were running bots with mIRC, and reverse engineered the random number generator in the mIRC client (which was fun, because it was written in C++). Later on there was also a gambling culture of 'dicing' where you'd join an IRC channel, type a command to a bot like '/roll', and get paid in-game if the 'dice roll' came out in a certain way. Joke's on me though, because that game consumed several years of my life and I spent a lot of money buying several years worth of 'members'. I was also not hit by any of the big banning waves, since I didn't rely on reflection in Java or use any of the popular 'frameworks' for macroing. I never got hit with random events (in-game captchas), because I never stayed logged in for more than a minute or so. I'd then sell them in bulk for several times more. The bot basically world hopped constantly, 24 hours a day, and bought cheap items until the general store was depleted. This defeated a lot of the randomisation that Jagex applied to stop bots, since the text was always in the same place, a consistent colour, etc whereas everything else was pretty well randomised.įrom there, it could 'read' enough to find the right places to click to buy things. I wrote a cool function to count the number of letters in the text, as a kind of rudimentary OCR. To find the store operator NPC, the script would move the mouse randomly over the game window and detect the yellow text in the top left. I made a sizeable sum of GP in the early RS2 days by writing a bot that automatically bought items from underpriced general stores.

Runescape classic maps