IMO, the most user-friendly way to having a Lite/Premium bot is to limit the bot based on time usage. Authors currently have to implement the tracking of runtime in some creative way on their own. Since this data is already collected by Runemate to show overall and bot specific hour usage, it would be much nicer if authors could access this data to use for their Lite/Premium bots. Optimally, we would be able to get this usage time in the format of minutes, hours, or days, within a specified time window (Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly).
Honestly, storing it in managed properties is so easy and requires so little effort to implement, that I don't see why you wouldn't take that approach.
That is my current approach. But this data is already there, and would be nearly impossible to tamper with. I'm not sure how hard it is with managed properties; I've never really looked into it.
I'm using a class that is created by @Savior that has a method that stops the bot if it's over the max you set it to, and updates the managed properties in runtime with the time spend using the bot. If you hit me up on slack I can share it with you if that's okay with savior. That you can't tamper with the usage statistics form runemate is a moot point because you can't tamper with managed properties too.
Nice idea, even though it may be easy to implement, using managed properties for this feels kinda janky. If the bot only has access to its own statistics I cant't see any reason against it.
