Seriously.
The nerf to mage farming and rogue pickpocketing for SoM sounds great, until you remember that the real bots are just fly hacking through instances anyway. /who on Arugal, and there’s a level 66 mage farming Botanica right now. You can’t even report him, because you can’t report in /who.
These hacks have been in Classic since the beginning, and will still be in SoM in two weeks. I’m not a game developer, so I don’t know why it’s so difficult to detect these hacks. If your programmers can’t beat the hackers, at least make reporting them easier.
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I find it amazing that they haven’t worked on automation yet to detect these things.
We know a GM will never be hired to handle cheats directly, so lets just get that out of the way.
Surely they could create logic to detect fly hacking and just autoban or autoflag the player as soon as it’s detected.
But logic also points towards bot sub revenue.
I’ve never seen anyone fly hacking in-game…
And I’ve put some time in the game.
Anyone else have a similar experience?
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Most of these hacks are being used inside instances, so yeah, you probably haven’t seen them if you’re not looking for it. The Botanica one is the most obvious, since there is literally no other way to get there without a flying mount (level 70)/druid flight form (level 68).
Here’s a great video with a couple of the best examples; the fly hack up to Botanica Solheim recorded, and it also contains a clip of the wall/fly hack Jokerd caught on stream.
The other two notorious ones are in ZG and Stratholme, mages are aoe farming while flying over mobs in Strath, or up to pathing exploit cliffs in ZG. And yes, these are happening on live servers, not private.
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That would have been my next question. Thanks.
