Curse

Puliver · Apr 25, 2007, 08:39 AM // 08:39

I think that all we must do is to create the most fitting description (in the meaning of behaviour) for a bot. What is it doing or what is it not doing and from that we can try to make a "vaccine", an algorithm that can at least alert ANet of possible misuse of bots. So you are welcome to write down your suggestions.

My suggestion is that bots are:

- mostly using the same area whole time.
- not sleeping (account is used for many hours/day)
- used to farm something

tytons · Apr 25, 2007, 09:30 AM // 09:30

im sure anet knows wat is a bot..n theres plenty of reasearch papers/journals on it.i personally wrote my thesis on bots. pretty pointless to teach a maths teach math

Numa Pompilius · Apr 25, 2007, 10:02 AM // 10:02

1) The bots are supervised by a human. One person can be in charge of a dozen bots, but there IS a human there, to answer whispers from moderators and to unstick bots which get stuck or confused.

2) ANet does ban bot accounts. I know this, because I've reported several bots, added them to my friends list, and watched them go offline permanently.
So what do the botters do when they get banned? Buy a new copy, of course! Prophecies costs, what, $35? That's what the botting companies charge per 300K gold. A bot running continuously makes that amount of cash in a couple of days, so unless ANet catches it in less than a week, the botter still makes a profit.

Actually with the introduction of the Hard mode I expect botting to increase; there are now some areas which are not only very easy to bot, but way more profitable than they used to be.

freekedoutfish · Apr 25, 2007, 10:25 AM // 10:25

If you see alot of bots in one location, I think Anet likes to trap them there to deal with them later on.

I've seen it before in prophercies and the odd thing was that none of the bots were moving. It wasnt like they were running in, and running out and back and back out. They were trapped.

But you can tell a bot, because its movement are pre-set. And if you try to try to talk to it, all you get are automated responses. And they tend to have really stupid names which look like they were run off from a programme.

Oh and if their a W/mo or a mo/w and their is a staggering number in one place, its a big give away.

Puliver · Apr 25, 2007, 10:35 AM // 10:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius

1) The bots are supervised by a human. One person can be in charge of a dozen bots, but there IS a human there, to answer whispers from moderators and to unstick bots which get stuck or confused.

2) ANet does ban bot accounts. I know this, because I've reported several bots, added them to my friends list, and watched them go offline permanently.
So what do the botters do when they get banned? Buy a new copy, of course! Prophecies costs, what, $35? That's what the botting companies charge per 300K gold. A bot running continuously makes that amount of cash in a couple of days, so unless ANet catches it in less than a week, the botter still makes a profit.

Actually with the introduction of the Hard mode I expect botting to increase; there are now some areas which are not only very easy to bot, but way more profitable than they used to be.

Then it's nearly unpossible to detect a bot supervised by human.