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Banning is not what it seems

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#1

If you look at the list of banned accounts, approximately 95% are gold sellers.

In the past 2 days I reported close to 40 bots who are OBVIOUSLY botting, (running around attacking everything in a very set pattern). I jot down their names too to check if they are banned. When I look at the list today, 0 of them are there and only 12 accounts are banned in 2 days for botting. Really?
I meet 12 bots easily in 1 hour of play.

It seems like IMC is not really going their way to punish botters but just ban a small number of them to “show us that they are doing something”. What do you guys think?

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#2

You may be right but its way better then it was before they started banning bots so I’m not going to complain to loudly.

#3

Perhaps, a lot of the Bots are Tied to the Sellers accounts. Who cares honestly, I’ve seen a HUGE drop in Bots over the last couple weeks.

#4

I think IMC staff shifted their attention on server transfert for the past week, and probably other urgent issues like dungeon dcs.

It’s easier to ban the bots in town as pretty much everyone report them, and the staff can easily see the spam in their logs. They probably need more time to verify the farming bots you mentionned. IMO, goldsellers aren’t stupid enough to create both type of bots from the same account.

Let’s wait to see what they will do in the upcoming weeks about those farming bots.

#5

For every bot they ban, another springs into being.

This will change when the game goes F2P. Then, for every bot they ban, ten more will spring into being.

#6

I guess you guys dont know about ban waves then.

Ban waves are a better way to do things because in the ban wave its harder for people to trial and error why they got banned for botting. So you have bots with many different things getting banned at the same time making it harder for gold sellers to pin down exactly what they got banned for.

If they banned one at a time, they could just trial and error, make adjustments and thus make it harder for them to get auto banned.

#7

It’s a good point, which I’m sure a lot of people, myself included, hadn’t considered.

However at the same time the intent is remove bots, to prevent them from damaging actual players game-play experience. The longer a bot can last before it’s banned, the greater damage they cause to the game.

So I suppose there’s merit to both ban waves, and instant bans following each investigation.

#8

Hail Hydra!

But seriously now, I think IMC bans a lot more people than what just shows up in those listings.

Kinda like the patch notes where they only put a few new stuff but there are tons of ninja changes.

#9

Honestly, when you see a map full of bots, shout it and summon other Bot hunters with that. Lots of people, me included, just love to report these pricks.

Hobbybothunters usually have a high botreportvalue ( especially the refugees from klai and orsha) and really make a difference.

If you are on fedi and I see a shout, I will run to that map and Report everything fishy, promised!

#10

[quote=“Seiryuu, post:9, topic:235749, full:true”]
Honestly, when you see a map full of bots, shout it and summon other Bot hunters with that. Lots of people, me included, just love to report these pricks.

Hobbybothunters usually have a high botreportvalue ( especially the refugees from klai and orsha) and really make a difference.

If you are on fedi and I see a shout, I will run to that map and Report everything fishy, promised!
[/quote]wow this is a thing? I know there was a thread on it but that’s pretty cool