Running 4 toons at one time at level 60 thief I can make like 45-50 k an hour....... pretty bad.

All this needed 4 separate messages?

Thorn I disagree I feel like pick pocketing is far more difficult than most other trade skills. It's one of the few trade skills that you cannot afk at all, in order to get a decent gp return you constantly have to be clicking and rotating between toons. Now I'm not saying that the pick pocket drop rate at 10x was a good idea. What I am saying is that at the VERY LEAST it needs to be the same as the original runescape drop rate.

Thieving in its current state is not capable of making more than 50 k an hour and thats while playing 4 toons at one time.

the drop rate from pick pocketing I am proposing.

http://runescapeclassic.wikia.com/wiki/Thieving

Okay.. So lets think about this for a moment.. Nerf a skill because someone was botting doing said skill. The skill in question is one of the hardest skills to run multipul toons maximizing gp production.. I don't really know but I personally think that Thieving is probably one of the harder skills to bot due to the fact that the npcs attack you and are constantly moving.. I've leveled 4 toons to 75 thieving by hand at the same time. I've also leveled 4 toons to 80 + wc and fletch at the same time, and am currently leveling four toons for rune crafting. From my prospective thieving is soooooo much harder.

I understand that the dynamics of scripting are such that it doesn't matter how hard it is for a human it could possibly be significantly easier for a bot/script.

My argument really is if this is how we deal with botters on something as difficult as thieving.. What skills will be nerfed next?

From what I have heard there are now bots cutting magic trees, and fishing. So what now? Nerf fishing and WC'ing??  Just doesn't seem like the logical solution. I believe having better formally trained mods is the answer.  The people that police are server need to be smart, respectful, kind, patient, and have a clear cut policy on how to identify and deal with a botter. Not only that but maybe even working in a field training program where the prospective mod is in training and has to work along side another vetted mod while he is learning the ropes and to even see if they have what it takes to be a mod.

These are all things that law enforcement in the real world do. I don't think it would be a bad practice here.

Dayman out.