Gold farming

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Gold farming is when a macro or a person who works in a sweatshop repeatedly does a task in order to gain money. Most of the gold farming activity originates in developing countries such as China and South Korea (though mostly the former), where it is profitable there to operate a gaming sweatshop due to the low wages and poor working conditions in the countries. The workers there play Runescape for very long hours gathering items that sell for large profits in-game (such as sharks, yew logs, or green dragonhide). They then sell their collected products to other players for runescape gold. The collected gold is then illegally sold for real world cash. However, they may also just sell the gathered items fore is because having human operated players makes them able to activities that are very difficult for macros to perform, such as fighting Green Dragons or dealing with random events. The second reason is because since they are not using macroing programs, it makes it harder for Jagex to detect.

Since the fair trade updates, gold farmers now go onto a coustumers account, and gathers gold on the actual account, erasing the "middle man." Many gold farmers will still use macros, making it easier for Jagex to ban the account.

Gold farmers usually break 2 or 3 rules at the same time: rule 7 (macroing), rule 12 (Real world item trading), and sometimes rule 6 (account sharing/trading). Any spamming bot used by the farmers will usually break other rules, usually rule 7 (macroing), rule 9 (encouraging others to break rules), rule 11 (advertising), and rule 1, if they're doing it constantly. Even though some gold farming bots are human operated and not using macro programs, they can and should be reported under rule 7.