why does the delay in an applescript editor increase by itself?...***

Bots are perceived by various online game developers as a problem for various online gaming environments and communities — including Old School Runescape — and various game maintainers have implemented bot-related detection algorithms.

Put simply, I'd assume that the MMORPG has detected this bot and is rendering the bot less effective.

Inserting delays and access problems, intentionally changing the input patterns, dropping the network connections, reducing or eliminating the rewards received by a bot, and outright bans are all techniques available to game developers to make bot herding more difficult.

You could certainly try a simple AppleScript test of the delays that doesn't involve an MMORPG and determine if this is the game or something with the AppleScript, as I'd expect it's the game itself that's implementing the delays.

This particular AppleScript bot would be trivial to detect, and an increasing command delay within the game would be an obvious and comparatively innocuous evasion technique intended to discourage the bot handler.

Try can daley values like

delay 3.1

mix up all the times.

Robert

I sincerely think MrHoffman has the right pointer here - your delay is being affected by the game, not AppleScript per se.

As a test, try something simpler that doesn't interact with the game.

For example, make yourself a metronome:

beep

delay 1

beep

delay 1

beep

delay 1

beep

(or, even better:)

repeat 100 times

beep

delay 1

end repeat

OMM, to my untrained ear, I can't detect any change in pace, which indicates that AppleScript is doing what it's supposed to.

If your machine does alter the pace/slow down then maybe there's something else amiss with your system.

As for why other players don't appear to suffer, maybe they're using more sophisticated methods to circumvent the bot detection - using random timers, inputs, etc.

try it this way: save the following as an application (not as a script) and run it.

property texttosay : "Sample Text"

on run

display dialog "Text to say:" default answer ""

set texttosay to the text returned of the result

end run

on idle

tell application "System Events"

if frontmost of process "Old School RuneScape" is false then

set frontmost of process "Old School RuneScape" to true

end if

keystroketexttosay

keystrokereturn

return 3

end tell

end idle

this solves a couple of problems:

• it keeps the script from constantly trying to activate the OSR app
• there's no context shift from system events to OSR; the app is activated by system events itself
• is removes the delay commands and replaces them with a 3 second idle loop. an idle loop puts the app to sleep while a delay command merely halts the execution of the script. the former is much more efficient fromt he processor's perspective.

Well, ooee5.

There running a special variant of an autotyper program.

Runescape Auto Typer

There are a lot of Runescape Auto Typers out there but most of them are poorly made, have no anti-ban features and only work on Microsoft Windows.

Why should I use this particular Auto-Typer?

Because unlike other autotypers/auto talkers, this autotyper has unique anti-ban features that makes your messages look more natural such as by making typos, waiting a random interval between typing each letter and taking random breaks once in a while. Also, this program works on all platforms - even Mac and Linux!

http://www.runescape-proxy.com/runescape-auto-typer/

Notice that there is a Mac version.

Robert

ooee5 wrote:

how do i save something as an application versus a script?

Choose Save... (or possibly Save As...) from the applescript editor's file menu. In the Save File dialog that appears, look down at the bottom where it says 'File Fomat' and change the pull-down menu from 'Script' to 'Application'. Now find the file you just saved in the Finder and doubleclick it; it should run like a normal application.

You may get an error if OSR is not running...

You can't run a script application from the script editor. Close the script editor and run the script like an application.

Also, I forgot to add that when you save the script as an application you need to click the checkbox that says "Stay open after run handler," otherwise it won't call the idle handler. So resave it with that checkbox checked.

Patience please: things don't always work right the first time around. And (frankly) if you're getting stressed out because you can't cheat your game as quickly as you'd like, it's time for you to unplug your computer and read a book. Don't go back online until you've worked your way through Melville's "Moby Dick". Or maybe Camus' "The Plague", which may put your problems in perspective. 😝

The error message means that that OSR app has a different name in the system than it presents to the user. So you need to find out what that name is. Open a new applescript editor window and run the following:

tell application "System Events"

name of every process whose visible is true

end tell

This will give you a list of the names of the currently running apps. If the name you want isn't obvious post the list here, otherwise go back the the script app and replace "Old School Runescape" with the obvious app name. Then resave the app and run it again.

Don't use Script->Run Application for this. That menu command is intended for Cocoa-AppleScript apps, which is not what we've written here. Just save the script app and double-click it in the Finder.