Each Diablo game some bots are developed to destroy the game economy…What can Blizzard do to minimize or make botting useless? Some of my suggestions…
What human plays a game more than 10-12 hours without hurting their muscles/eyes? Why not make each player have those normal 10-12 hours of playtime each day which they can choose them selfs when to waste? Personally I think even this much is way to much gaming but hey, lets leave some room for the blasters. After these hours tick out you will have to wait 12 hours until your next allowed session. This will minimize the typical “leave the bot to farm when doing something else”.
Make both servers that are purly none-tradable and tradable. Many people love the self-found, why not make such a server? Those that like the bots and trading, let them have their server. Still If you play in groups each person should get their own loot that is not sharable. This way you can farm by yourself or you could group up and still get loot for your character.
On tradeable servers all loot must be traded thru the action house, this way Blizzard can keep track of all sold loot and who is trading what and when. Have AI that can snipe boters trading the action house. Botters typically have more loot to trade as they farm 24/7.
Restrict how much loot you can trade per day, typically botters trade a lot of loot.
Anyone else have any suggestions or feedback on how to crash the botters?
That would be uneccesarrily restricting for some people. They probably shouldnt play more than 12 hours a day. But the game should not prevent it.
Also, it doesn’t really prevent any botters. The botters can just bot 12 hours each day then.
Better yet; make ALL servers non-trade.
As for botting, only one thing truly works;
Detect and Ban. Every single day. Hunt down the cheaters.
every computer has its own unique IP number so start a blacklisting and before people start saying you oh you can spoof an IP yeah well most people that bot are not hackers and they couldnt even set up a spoofer program but itll help weed out those that do since a hacker would easily know how to spoof IPs thus revealing they are once again cheating
at some point IP blacklisting would become too expensive since most botters wouldnt be able to afford a new PC everytime they got blocked
admitibly it isnt by far a perfect system however merely banning botters clearly isnt getting through to most of them since they can simply just buy another copy and start all over with a new game licence
Can’t speak for other countries but here in the UK, most ISPs providing service for domestic customers do not assign customers a static IP address, that’s something usually reserved for commercial customers. They are, instead, dynamically assigned, with fairly short TTLs. That means that if a naughty person was on a particular IP address on a Monday, and Blizzard banned that address, the naughty person could be on a completely different address on Tuesday, and an innocent person could have been assigned the naughty person’s Monday address, and would therefore be banned for something they didn’t do.
well as a joke i made once on the D3 chat “until you launch a low yield warhead into orbit and set off an EMP pulse that fries the internet of countries that condone bots as a viable income generating source nothing will change” someone replied so youd risk starting a war just to get rid of botting and i replied back “i never said it was a good idea”
Until you convince every human being not to lose their minds, be hateful or angry, you can never stop murders.
True. But you definitely can, and should, always try to catch them.
That part is fairly irrelevant. Bots exist without being able to spend money. Trading should just not be allowed. But the fight against bots will remain even then.
Hunt them down. Relentlessly.
Don’t punish actual players because of bots, 12h per day? Worst idea I have seen, just employ 1-2 people per region that takes care of botting, once you know how they act it is very easy to spot them as most of them use the same software, moving the exact same routes etc.
Looking at you Lost Ark (trains of bots speedhacking the open world) lol
1.) Restricting game time isn’t a good idea due to some that can go for some really long times playing just blasting away. Where they are all set to blast because they have some food and drink along with a bathroom close by to be able to blast for longer hours than that for a day and a half all without any great harm to themselves.
2. I don’t think that this will actually hurt bots because they would be on the tradeable server. Having the system they have in place for all right now is better. Some items are tradeable without limits (probably the items that are common as dirt). Some items are bind on trade (BoT tradeable only once) (items that are not quite as common as dirt). Then the rest that is Bind on Account that are untradeable. That way it is not profitable to bot to get the best items because you can’t trade them.
