Gold farming

The money generated from real world money transfers makes it profitable to operate sweatshops in low wage countries where humans are required to play RuneScape for very long hours in poor working conditions (known as "Gold farming"). Often, the characters play for extended periods of time and perform tasks that are too difficult for macroers to perform. Fighting Green dragons and Blue dragons and dealing with random events is not easily automated, as they are very complicated. The sweatshop workers can actually perform such tasks and still make money for the shop operators. These accounts may be in breach of rule 6 (which forbids more than one person using any one account), but a stricter enforcement of Rule 12 (real world trading) is the most important part in eliminating the sellers and buyers of this collected gold, as well as the collectors.