Blizzard bans bots regularly, but it’s never done here or there. It’s always after careful investigation and done in a mass ban wave (deliberately, to cause as much disruption to the botters without giving them warning they’ve been detected).
Part of that process involves working out how to detect a particular bot or type of bot, working out a solution to break the bot without breaking the game itself, and going through a deep investigation before any account action is taken.
After I know my rotation. I ALT-Z and play without a UI .
Also since I free play… I can not use the chat unless I am in a DG, So that is also turned off…
I only play one account…
Honestly no way of knowing if someone is botting or not. Some times you can take a educated guess and then report them.
If you see someone running the same pattern in a small area over and over again with out variation it could be a indication. But that is not proof, that is why blizzard will investigate to know 100 percent for sure.
I was once fighting up in a zone where this character was running the same exact route, over and over and over. it would kill mobs, en mass, and then loot. it never varies this pattern. It would keep running over an area where no mobs were. Again and again. It would “stumble” over the same exact tombstone every single time without fail, it also bounced off the same tree. It reminded me of an episode of Star Trek TNG when Data met his mother and he realized that she played the viola the same exact way each time. My mother played violin so I knew that was impossible before finished what he said. This is the same kind of thing. It would be virtually impossible to follow the same exact route over the same tombstone, or tree the same exact way every time.
if your friend, due to his disability, has a hard time moving from a line, or a pattern that could explain it. I know that that’s very hard to distinguish, but patterns like that will always get the attention of someone, but not the game itself. The game is way way to complicated and algorithm intensive to distinguish Bot patterns from someone whose restrictions with keyboards and mice, due to an arm or hand disability, make it hard for them to vary pattern, or routes taken.
When that person I reported kept going over the same exact spot dozens of times, I knew it was an issue since I always move to a new place to farm, or just find a different area to do something different. I was at the spot trying to finish a quest line that took me in and out of that zone maybe half a dozen time. Each time I came back, which was often, there that character was.
All of this speculation is a waste of time. It’s between Blizzard and the player, and the result of their appeal(s).
Blizzard has much better ways of detecting activity than “well, they’re running the exact same route non-stop”. If you suspect someone of botting/cheating, then report it immediately. And then: move on. You aren’t required to spend hours observing, getting details, gaining support, or anything like that. It’s a simple process: right click, Report for Cheating, hit Send.
That’s it. Let Blizzard investigate, let them decide on appropriate actions, and let them handle any possible appeals.
standard keyboard, mouse and in game key presses, thats it. You will never be able to multibox the way you used to again. It sucks, I enjoyed it too. But its how it is. Just play the game as intended as a single toon log in at once.
Players could report you because your armor was blue - it doesn’t mean you’re going to be suspended. All the report does is flag your account for a GM to look into things and from there investigate. If you’re doing nothing wrong, absolutely nothing would happen no matter how many reports you received.
Doesn’t matter. Appeals are for a fresh set of eyes to look over all of your data. It’s not for you to plead your case.
The game was not created with the intention of people to multibox. They recognize some people choose to play that way, so they don’t outright ban it but it is absolutely an unsupported style of play.
They will never do this. The policies are always shifting and changing to try and keep up with the illegal botters and cheaters. Even something so simple as legit add-ons, you will never see a member of Blizzard staff giving the “okay” to that they can use it without fear of account action.
Also, I do not know if you are OP’s friend who was the focus of the initial post or if you are someone unaffiliated with them, but if you’re not that friend - hijacking someone else’s thread to go about your account sanction is not kosher.
I will also warn you that was incredibly hard to read with it being one big block - just as a by the by.
The rules are extremely vague because they are banning the outcome not the method. They don’t want you to be able to multi-box in the way that you used to. As far as you are concerned, for your goals, multiboxing IS banned.
If you want to have more than one account you can alt-tab or directly click between windows using the most basic built-in windows functions available.
You can not multibox like you used too, Not any more. The new rules basically killed all but the most basic of having to switch to each console screen and repeat the actions for each toon independently.
I guess some people cannot take a hint. Blizzard made multiboxing next to impossible to do, not so subtle way of saying “We don’t like it in our backyard, so stop”.
That may be, but it would come after you’ve shelled out money needlessly when you’ve got a very simple solution to your problem that has been suggested several times over now.
Because people would ignore it and still stick to regular servers. A lot of people who box do it to take advantage over having their own mob versus a single player. Be it for farming or PvP or whatever other facet of the game, they want that advantage over people playing the game like it was meant to be played.
That, and while there are plenty of folks who enjoy multi-boxing, there aren’t enough to merit their own server. Comparing it to the want and demand that led to Classic and such isn’t on the same level.
And that keybar looks to me like hardware that helps to streamline your play. Cannot have that. No hardware or software outside of the “standard” equipment.
The problem wasn’t just multibox, the problem is that software used to help players do so was hijacked by companies bot gold to sell against the terms of service. Boxing is still allowed, use of anything to facilitate the process though is not. And Blizzard’s probably not going to make separate servers just for using software or hardware to make it easier.
Bots are always gona be there as long as theres players looking for the easy path there are cockroaches like gold sellers and bot makers that prey on the stupid. Rember people real friends dont let friends bot or buy gold.
If there is a way they will do it.
Cheaters and rule benders are always there and its a shame.
Mining a node and right after many other toons swoop down on the same node and on to the next, its a circus.
Maybe a pvp event where one kills bots??!!
also bots can look alike and follow the same pattern…i.e. bot
Not to be confused with the Horde…jk
Nothing wrong with being a Horde…jk!!
Peace
There where times I was out farming some might have though me of being a bot. Would travel the same pattern over and over again for hours. In BC I did this and purchased epic flying that way in short order.
