Comment by temprs

The ecosystem around SCAR was really impressive, and with just enough drama to keep everyone interested as well. Basic color clicking in SCAR was a concept but not enough to make really sophisticated bots or to keep up with attempts at detecting repeated behavior. The mods caught on to exact pixel finding, abrupt mouse movements, and other stuff that a typical SCAR script would generate. The botting community developed the SCAR Resource Library (SRL) to generalize common operations in a way that would be undetectable (findObject, moveMouse, etc.), all with a sufficient amount randomness baked in. With this library you could write some _very impressive_ bots even though it all boiled down to pixel finding and clicking at some level. Over time there was some disagreement over the development of SCAR (it was closed source and had a single developer), and the SRL community rebranded to SRL Resource Library (SRL) as the first attempt to move away from SCAR as the only home for this pixel-finding-based library of advanced botting functionality. Some maintainers of SRL then introduced there own client as an open source alternative to SCAR called Simba.

I have had a 10 year career now developing software for the biggest companies on the planet, but to this day a lot of the most complex and robust code I've ever written was as a teenager in SCAR. Good memories. Would love to see some wiki history of this written up somewhere.