He Who Iron

I'm He Who Iron, I have over 15000 hours on this account since I created it in 2015. I have been playing Runescape on and off since classic and pretty much exclusively across multiple accounts since Oldschool release. My account was rank 77 overall for ironmen and since about 3 years ago my goals shifted to being more efficient ingame and learning new skilling methods, ultimately wanting to work towards 200m all.

I want to clarify that this isn't anger targeted towards any Jmod, I believe that they are doing what they truly believe is correct according to whatever their unfortunately failing anti cheat system is telling them.

Since Ayiza confirmed my ban is for "using an unauthorized client", I will be speaking from post June 24th 2022, which is when the grace period for 3rd party client usage Jagex announced ended. With the first offence being a 2 week ban and "continued infringements" resulting in permanent account bans.

https://twitter.com/JagexAyiza/status/1746992766217851317

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/c=jJ-zslOUblo/third-party-clients-update?oldschool=1

This immediately sits weird with me, as I receive an instant permanent ban under a macroing major offence. I'm not going to pretend I know how or what differentiates a bot client from a 3rd party client offence but some clarification or an actual human response to my appeal request would have been appreciated.

Since the date above I have only used the official Runelite client, OSRS Mobile, Chrome Remote Desktop (whilst logged into the official Runelite client) and since the release of the Jagex launcher I have entirely replaced the Runelite client with Runelite via the launcher. I have never used AHK scripts, I have only ever used plugins downloaded via the plugin hub and I have occasionally used a foot pedal to thieve Tzhaars and Vyres/Elves post custom menu entry swapper addition. (All being 1:1 actions)

Something in this list is triggering false flags for me and likely many other people. My initial thought is CRD but like many others I've been using this for years whilst logged into an official client, with all inputs being 1:1. I feel Jagex really need to work with players to figure out what is consistently causing these flags to occur so often (but not always) on high level players.

I am not the first person to be falsely banned and I will absolutely not be the last unless something is put in place to protect and help players who put tens of thousands of hours into their game against false bans like this one. In the replies to my tweets the last few days there have been other players who tried to reach out, who are allegedly in the same situation. Some of which made a twitter account with the sole purpose to try and contact someone. This isn't normal, customer support has always been a meme in this community and yet next to nothing has been done about it.

I hope I am able to continue playing this game, on the account that I have worked so hard to achieve. But at bare minimum I hope this is used as an opportunity to finally realize that something is fundamentally flawed in the detection system and that a player needing to tweet 7 Jmods a day for 4 days to receive a response from an actual human regarding a 15000 hour account, isn't right. All while being able to go to any wilderness boss, or thieving spot and finding front page kc bots and 200m thieving bots. It's a kick in the balls to your loyal players.

For me if anyone's interested, will see what happens over the next week or so. I'm not gonna be that guy that begs on twitter everyday. I've been given a response and whether its true or not @ing Jmods everyday is just pointless. Probs just take a big break from being online and pick up some other hobbies.

I really appreciate the support everyone gave to help my initial tweets get noticed.