Solution for botting

[Anthonybde-benediction]

There is technology out there that is commonly used on web forms called CATPCHA that could be used to help root out bots and other issues.

My suggestion is to implement this type of technology randomly for accounts, especially for those that are doing tasks that bots frequently do (at start of PVP BGs, rogues in instances without a full group, farming in a single area for a long time, etc).

Logic could be built in that detects when accounts take a long time to interact with the CAPTCHA form, which would be indicative of a botting account, and flag for further action.

Logic could also be implemented to determine over time that players are real and then remove them from getting CAPTCHA prompts.

[exorkismo-64882 (exorkismo)]

It wouldn’t surprise me if Blizzard owned the bots.

[Myrtardradys-aegwynn]

I think people have tried to recommend this type of solution in the past and for some reason people were heavily against it?

[Flamelink-zuljin]

@Anthonybde-benediction

Logic could be built in that detects when accounts take a long time to interact with the CAPTCHA form, which would be indicative of a botting account, and flag for further action.

Well, what about AFKers?
I afk in dalaran quite a bit, as I WFH.

[Singularity6-765955 (Singularity6)]

You ever fail a login due to a bad CAPTCHA?

[Tinera-grobbulus]

they already have a text captcha

[Singularity6-765955 (Singularity6)]

Where? I haven’t run into it, yet

[Holyseizure-whitemane]

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Capchas are annoying and personally I would rather deal with the bots than have to put in a capcha because I decide to solo an instance or farm something.

[Xubera-1751595 (Xubera)]

There are two ways to get rid of gold farming bots. Remove player trading and update the auction house to be more like a stock market where you can only set your buy/sell price as a +/-% of the current value. See Runescape.

The other way is to get rid of the economy. Just add a vendor who sells every ore, herb, enchant, etc. for 0c. Add a vendor who trades one badge of heroism for 1000g, and set the gold gap to 25,000g.

If players can’t trade wealth or in game gold has no value, then there is no incentive to for bots to farm gold.

Neither of those really work for an MMO.

[ZombieFodder-2214457 (ZombieFodder)]

@Anthonybde-benediction

estion is to implement this type of technology randomly for accounts, especially for those that are doing tasks that bots frequently do (at start of PVP BGs, rogues in instances without a full group, farming in a single area for a long time, etc).

Logic could be built in that detects when accounts take a long time to interact with the CAPTCHA form, which

Bot’s can solve captchas, so that won’t work.

[Noxranna-bloodsail-buccaneers]

Could also go the FF14 route and make gold effectively valueless for everything besides cosmetics and non-BiS crafted gear. It won’t get rid of the bots, but at least it’ll neuter their impact on the endgame

[Drain-windseeker]

Your “solution” for botting is little more than an annoyance for botters.

The only actual solution is a dedicated staff that hunts/bans botters. Blizzard claims to have this but really doesn’t. They only seem to do anything IF a character is manually mass reported by other players. This is a really lousy way to combat botting. It means botters are not banned until they’ve already profited over the cost of the account… meaning they promptly return to go right back to doing it.