Banned (Rule 7)

20 December 2008 – 11:56am

Yesterday I was shown the “ban” on RuneScape for breaking rule 7 which is;

You must not use other software to gain an unfair advantage in our games. This includes automation tools, macros, bots, or auto-typers. You may not circumvent any of our mechanisms designed to automatically log out inactive users.

The only thing I can think of to why they’ve banned me is for typing the same message (eg: selling dragon platebody 50m) fairly quick, this could look like I was using an auto-typer, however, the only other reason I can think of is from getting Herblore levels so fast, I’ve recently got 99 Summoning and haven’t been online (in-game) much, however, when I have been in-game I’ve been power-training Herblore (I was level 80, I’m now 89).

I was playing RuneScape at the time of the ban, in fact, I was making potions, I was then force-logged out (meaning I didn’t press log-out, the game logged me out by itself) so I thought nothing of it, tried logging back in thinking it would have just been some lag or something and I get the…

Your account has been disabled.

Any way, I’ve tried appealing (when I try click for evidence it says:

There is no evidence for this offence.

So who knows when or if I’ll be back, I can’t believe that I’ve even been accused of breaking this rule, keep me added if you have me added, hopefully I’ll be back soon.