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You need to know more than your local region's info to traverse the map on a large distance.
They would only tackle bots using webs for large distances. Most botting activity suffices with knowledge of the local region. Bots that used webs only needed to collect the xtea and change the decoding protocol for the landscape files in their web generator. Heck, not even that. I know for a fact that Nexus used a completely manual web in 2006. So who did it tackle at all?
I have a hard time believing it was to combat bots because I fail to see how it would have affected bots at all, if it was I'm more than willing to change my mind if you have any proof for it.
people knew about the landscape encryption dating back to 2006/2007. there were a few attempts at servers but it wasn't the landscape keys that was confusing people. There was a 46something server in 2007/2008, and then cellky's public release of the 474 server in early/mid 2008 is what sparked the new era of private servers.
part of the reason for this was because the 317 protocol was not fully understood by most people during the 2005-2008 era of rsps development. those who understood had already left, those who we consider as the greats were still learning general java programming at this time, and the rest were working on content for their 317/377 servers. it wasn't because of a lack of landscape keys that kept emulation stuck at 317/377, it was a lack of knowledge and understanding.
cellky's 474 server is when landscape keys became general knowledge amongst the rsps communities, although there was a lot of confusion as to what encryption it was, etc. it was known by a few but most people before this time never had a new revision server with multiplayer, rendering, etc, so therefore did not attempt it. cellky's public release changed that and sparked interest in people.
iirc the rs2 beta had similar encryption of landscapes but it was removed and not added back until the new engine came out. we can only speculate as to why but i firmly believe they did not do it to throttle rsps development.
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