Oh I don’t farm with this toon.And yeah,it’s boring I even fall asleep lol.
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I also received an automatic letter of thanks for sending the reports, but the bots continued to stand.
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Its an infinite army like in the movie The Mummy with Anubis Army all you can do is try to reduce their numbers but there is always going to be bots.
You should apply at Blizzard for a position so you can get these changes implemented.
I wouldn’t mind, but I don’t think they accept regular players.
I hate multiboxers, but that being said, a community “anti-bot patrol” would target multiboxers purposefully and accidentally so often that it would be useless.
I understand that you cannot completely get rid of bots, but the problem is that the bots have already become insolent, they do not hide and stand around the clock, these people are not afraid of anything, because they know that the punishment will not come soon.
The only concern I have is false reporting,I had this to happen to me once because I was herbling in valley of the four winds.So if happen to me whoes to say they wouldn’t do this for they’re own benefit.
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Will we each get out our bunks with dramatic pause when called?
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I understand you, I have also seen multiboxers many times. However, Blizzard seems to be quite loyal to this? As for me, this automation is no better than bots and should be punished in the same way.
But then what if the bot false bans?
Sure. We just need to select the siren sound and the special transmog.
This requires blizzard to not fire 800 employees.
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Wasn’t there an old game where rule breaker characters were transported to an underground cell where they were imprisoned for a long time? Someone told me about it once. Would be fun if there were a bunch of GMs who went around checking characters and if they found they were suspicious or obvious bots, they could grab them and lock them up in a cell somewhere, rather like the Stormwind Stockade, until they proved they were real people. And if they didn’t, they got banned.
I just have this vision of cells full of angry players demanding their release and a few hundred botts running in circles looking for herbs…
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Bots aren’t banned on sight because Blizzard doesn’t want to create an incentive for hackers to write bots specifically to seek out vulnerabilities.
If they all get banned days, weeks, even months after the infraction it is much harder for them to guess what set off detection on Blizard’s part.
Key cloning is not “automation”.
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I think that an instant ban should be given to obvious bots (for example, the same route, getting stuck in the same places, etc.). If the checking person is not sure whether the bot is in front of him or not, then send the report for consideration.
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I’ve heard this said, and yet I’ve twice received in game mail from Blizzard Support thanking me for my reports and telling me that the accounts had been ‘actioned’ (which seems like one of those terms you hear in movies like ‘terminate with extreme prejudice’).
And that was only days after my reports. I suspect that very obvious bots behave in very obvious ways and have certain aspects that make them more likely to be bots (starter gear, nonsense names, no guilds, repetitive patterns, etc) so a GM will see their activities, check their character, try to speak to them and if they get no response or the data shows them behaving in well-recognised ways, they ‘action’ them immediately.
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A sort of game purgatory. I like this idea.
then I know what must be done
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