Please IMC, bring a anti bot system so they cant log in.
ok, and how do you know that it’s a bot to block it from logging it?
They are using VAC right now…
Those bots are logging 10 accounts with one computer. If IMC find a way to stop them to do this, we win the fight againt them.
are they? how do you know this? or is it just “something you heard someone else say”
how do you know they don’t just have hundreds of computers?
or maybe each computer simply logs into several different games once each. it isn’t as though gold-sellers restrict themselves to a single game.
Cause it would be so much onerous for them.
Back to the topic, what if the system allow you to fight with someone who atack your anvil?
Stop it with the anvil already. Program bots to only attack the exact monster names in a map. Bye anvil strategy
Of course IMC is aware that banning them wouldn’t stop it. They know it way better than you that’s for sure.
But if they don’t constantly banning… well refer to this thread
“if ($target == anvil) { goto_next_target }”
it’s ridiculously basic to simply include “don’t hit this thing”
…besides, what about when you’re level 280, have been for months, and everything you own is +10 (or better). are you just going to start carrying junk items around to put down anvils?
“but add some other type of thing that bots will hit!”
…and then the bots get more restrictive. like sksben said…
"if ($target [does not match] $a_certain_list_of_monsters) { goto_next_target }
that “certain list of monsters” could be anything…
-good monsters to farm exp
-good monsters to farm silver
-specific monsters for a certain drop
-that one super rare mob on the map that is a huge pain in the butt to find, that the bots have specifically started targeting just to annoy players…
anything, really.
and what do you think they’re doing anyway?
there’s a couple of people watching a vast number of computers. they go around checking logins, doing the “manual” stuff like putting things on auction, and so on. checking on a couple of games at each computer isn’t any harder than checking one.
besides… it would be a lot of work to get multiple steam accounts running on the same computer without overlapping. why not just have one steam game, and a few other non-steam games? or even more likely, just a single game per computer.
and yea… it’s like @roflmaopapa said… you can either ban them, aware that this is not a permanent solution… or ignore it until the server is entirely flooded with bots.
I have already seen bots bypassing the Reaper bot killer in miner’s.
Sad to say it’s too easy for them