or you could just literally go to a spot and see the walking path of the player, nobody walks in a “box like” path up and down in silithus to farm the twilight cultist. lets be honest the complex bot era of Honor buddy is long gone, the bots these days aren’t as sophisticated and hard to spot.
Have a look at these parts again
Glad I was not the only one to notice the word “suspension” being used to describe actions taken against proven bot accounts.
Just went out to Arathi and reported 4 bots in a short time frame, and i’m only on a med pop server
Part of the infuriating experience, is the analytics should be able to pick the repetitive behaviour up for investigation/ban, and not many people will take the time to go to these places to file individual reports.
Someone in the other thread called it. Banwave right on queue to distract people from them implementing the 2006 April Fools joke as a “solution”. Revert the instance cap - it CLEARLY was not what the designers of Vanilla intended or in the spirit of vanilla. The fact you guys think the instance cap is a good idea shows how much the current devs differ from the original ones, and just why classic with #nochanges is important. If we agreed with the ideas of the current devs being good ones, then we’d be playing retail, not classic.
Don’t get me wrong - I’m thankful you’ve removed the bots. It needs to be done and done more often. The ban waves are too far apart as it makes their business profitable. I’d be happiest if they happened at least weekly with egregious offenders (like fly hackers) being perma-banned on sight.
The issue though now is the inane instance cap though, and pointing at a bot and yelling “squirrel” is not going to distract us about it, nor make us like it any better.
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Fairbanks has just as long a queue as other nights thanks to the plethora of bots still running amok. “Powerful systems” indeed.
so the parts don’t state anything besides the vague statement that “bots could be legit players” a simple 2 mins look at elemental earth farmers and they’ll easily see who’s botting and who isnt. If an untrained player with no “sophisticated or powerful systems” can do it i don’t understand why the company that millions of players are paying 14.99 to cant or better yet wont.
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Maybe go WPvP instead of farm instances all day.
74,000 god damn so half of classic players were bots all this time
maybe not.
It’s not actually problematic at all. You’re right. What I’m saying is that this scenario of a druid running gnomer 50+ times in a single calendar day because that’s the only way they can play the way they want to, and now youre adding in farming their other raid mats in that same calendar day, is such an absurdly unique and outlandish situation that I think it’s a useless argument against the new system because it’s not even remotely realistic or representative of more than a tiny tiny tiny fraction of what bear tanks are actually doing. It’s not an actual example that is an actual argument about why this is bad. It was a technically possible hypothetical that has been taken away, but nothing more. It’s not different than a mage saying they’re quitting because they can no longer run SM 106 times a day because that’s “how they want to play”. Sure, it’s technically possible that someone was doing that, but were they really?
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There are PLENTY of people who have limited time to play, so you are 100% wrong here.
so because it’s not you, it’s not realistic? what even is this paragraph of nonsense…
May I suggest contacting the IANA and forming a whitelist of official and approved World of Warcraft websites? I don’t believe it would take too long to compile manually, and this could even be accelerated using a registration form for sites such as WoWHead to whitelist themselves.
This is literally the worst argument you can make.
Honestly, come up with something better. This meme is WAY old.
Can you give more than just 3-day suspensions? 
The new spin is “pOaSt oN uR 60!”
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Yea, sure it’s old. But way spot on. Why hide on a retail toon? Never get that.
Remove the thirty instance per day lockout. This is an absurd change and does nothing to curb bot farms. They operate multiple accounts spanning many different servers. This change only impacts regular players farming legitimately for gold/mats/pre-raid BiS.
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You don’t think that it affects the multibox bots constantly rotating through high level instances?
You don’t think it affects the mage bots doing boosts 24/7?
I think it’s much more than a tiny fraction. Almost every time I’m doing a set of Gnomer lockouts I see anywhere from 1-3 druids afk outside the instance waiting for the 60 minute lockout to expire while (presumably) doing things outside of the game or playing another account. I like more variety so I typically do open world farms in between my lockouts, but I still get the whole thing done in 1 day on most weeks. This is pretty common, as a lot of Classic players tend to play hardcore on just a couple of days per week due to real life commitments.
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