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#121 Jan 2016 16:54

Hi there, I'm wondering where we're at in terms of changing the sleeping captcha for the visually impaired? It is very hard to read. Get it wrong all the time.

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#221 Jan 2016 19:08

It's not just the visually impaired who can't read it. This update has done nothing to stop bots and just pisses players off. Revert back please.

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#322 Jan 2016 01:02

Hi Cafedunier,

For what it's worth, feel free to take a screenshot and pm it to me here if I'm in-game, and I'll tell you what I think the captcha is.

PS This might sound naive but is fatigue still necessary to help detect bots?

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#422 Jan 2016 03:07

Oxy said:

Hi Cafedunier,

For what it's worth, feel free to take a screenshot and pm it to me here if I'm in-game, and I'll tell you what I think the captcha is.

PS This might sound naive but is fatigue still necessary to help detect bots?

no its a dumb system. it didnt stop bots on RSC, and it doesnt stop them here. Why it has never been removed from private servers is beyond me. it was a last ditch effort by rscrevolution to combat them before the release of rs2, that has plagued RSC ever since.

the only useful part of fatigue on private servers was being able to ::fatigue playername and see if he instantly rests. but scripts detect when your fatigue magically jumps to 100 and shuts off. sure the odd script by a rookie doesnt, but the vast majority do now.

servers tend to keep it around due to nostalgic reasoning, but all seem to forget that aside from RS2 being released, this was the most hated update they ever did. maybe god spells, was more hated, but i dont think so.

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#523 Jan 2016 05:10

Oxy said:

Hi Cafedunier,

For what it's worth, feel free to take a screenshot and pm it to me here if I'm in-game, and I'll tell you what I think the captcha is.

PS This might sound naive but is fatigue still necessary to help detect bots?

Thank you for the offer, but it would take a lot of effort to screenie it and send, then wait for response. I'd rather try 5 times till I get it right.. or hopefully they can change it to clear words for us....

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#623 Jan 2016 05:39

The bot client injects itself into the game client, so it knows what the captcha answer is. Even if the question is 2+2 and the answer is 4, the bot will get the right answer because it knows what the client wants. My theory xd

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#723 Jan 2016 12:35

I thought I was the only one who has problems entering captchas lol I do have problem with my eyes tho. Would be awesome if someone reworked it.

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cafedunier Send PM

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#823 Jan 2016 16:09

Can a mod or admin please comment on this thread to let us know what your plans are?

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#923 Jan 2016 17:21

I get it wrong 1/5 times. I mean, even if you want to keep it as preventing measure of botting, make it readable. It is not like damn bots are looking at the screen and trying to figure out what is typed in this god-awful clusterf***.

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#1024 Jan 2016 09:20

puremax123 said:

The bot client injects itself into the game client, so it knows what the captcha answer is. Even if the question is 2+2 and the answer is 4, the bot will get the right answer because it knows what the client wants. My theory xd

The client doesn't have the answer for the captcha. It receives the captcha as an image and the bots use OCR to figure it out. The captcha isn't doing a good job so I might figure out something else for it.

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#1125 Jan 2016 07:52

Maybe something like a "Which of these is not like the others?" thing with 3 fish and a sword for the possible answers?

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#1225 Jan 2016 12:58

Thoth33 said:

Maybe something like a "Which of these is not like the others?" thing with 3 fish and a sword for the possible answers?

Actually a good idea, similar to the "school random event" from RS2, should be better than current system...

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#1325 Jan 2016 13:32

Just delete it all together so we can get rid of sleeping bags that have plagued our inventory since 2004.

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