Bots should be dealt with by the players and not only by the developers or the company. They don’t have the manpower or resources to. I don’t know why gaming companies are still running decades behind in terms of dealing with botters.
Honestly, I think we the players should be able to report other players(bots). If enough reports are stacked onto a player(bot), it should place them in a “blacklisted” channel. In here, they can still play but only interact with other blacklisted players. Think of this as a soft ban. They are still around, but out of our sights at least and not kill stealing everything.
When placed in a blacklisted channel, it gives enough time for GM’s to start looking at these “players” and verify if they are legit or not. Botters will be banned, douchebags may get their blacklist repealed and whatnot.
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If you are just a douchebag and end up in a blacklisted channel, you deserve to be in there.
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If you are somehow mistakenly placed in a blacklisted channel because of trolls, just send a ticket to support and repeal your blacklist in under 24 hours. Player history will be logged when reporting another player and whoever unfairly reported you without a good reason or evidence will be banned themselves. This makes this system have consequences if others try to abuse it.
Only allow players with Premium Tokens to report other players. We don’t want every freebie troll to be reporting everybody they hate.
I think this is really the best solution in getting these bots out of our way. It doesn’t solve RMT, but it’s a start somewhere.
