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Guide: How to spot bots easy (Noob Friendly)

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#1

Hi, I will share a few methods in which I have used to detect bots

Also, just because a person matches one of these doesn’t mean it’s 100% a bot, you should only report if the person matches a lot of these listed below. For example, don’t just report a player if they have a weird name.

  • The Name
    This is an obvious one, most of the time if you see a name like “lajoaijvoaj” then it’s a good chance it’s a bot. Don’t report just cause the person has an unintelligible name.

Note: Not all bots have messy names, and not all bots are Cleric! It’s hard to spot them when they aren’t the above 2, but there are many ways you can.

  • Teleportation
    If you have good ping and your game isn’t lagging, and you see a person zipping around the map killing mobs, then they are most likely a bot.

  • Walls
    If you see a person just walking into a wall and continuing to walk into the wall, it could be a bot. Or it could be an afk person and something fell on the keyboard, who knows. Don’t report just for this reason though.

The above reasons are obvious, but here are a few more ways to detect well coded bots.

  • Movement
    Bots usually travel in straight lines, and never stop moving. Bots also tend to randomly jitter when traveling (lets say it’s moving left, and it will go right and then turn left again really fast)

  • Items on ground
    Kill a monster near a bot and try to make it drop an item, but avoid picking it up. A bot will usually try to pick it up even though they can’t. They will also do it over and over. (Trying to pick it up multiple times)

  • Following trick
    Have a group of mobs follow you, and the bot will follow those mobs. For example, I can check to see if it’s a bot by getting mobs to follow me in a circle. If it’s a bot, the bot will go in a circle as well, whereas a normal person would cut through or wait for the mobs to come to them.

  • Anvil trick
    Put an anvil on the ground, and a bot will attack it.

  • Whisper it
    Try talking to it and asking if it’s a bot. A normal person will say they aren’t. I know you could code a bot to respond to people by outsourcing or having pre-recorded responses, but from what I have seen, they haven’t done this yet.

Feel free to add more below if you want :stuck_out_tongue:

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#2

wow, informative -and- pretty formatting. nice :smiley:
lemme just add to a few points…

ugh, i hate how quoting doesn’t keep the formatting.

FIRST and ABSOLUTE #1: as of the Apr 12th maintenance and patch, there has been a “Report Bot” action located on the players’ right click menu. Right click any player, and at the bottom, just above the cancel button is “Report Bot”. please use it as much as needed to report anyone that you believe is a bot.

good hint. as mentioned, not a guarantee, but at the same time, it’s a good quick indicator. -most- players have enough pride in their characters to bother making an intelligible name.

always report these!! UNLESS you just came out of lag-freeze, then if someone is just blinking around the map, they’re hacking.

another very good hint, especially when there are several of them just traveling the same line back and forth until the monsters spawn, and then reset to that same line when the monsters are all dead.
be cautious tho: when moving in certain directions, sometimes heads will jitter. if it’s only the head twitching, like it’s trying to look back at the camera or something, this probably isn’t the same thing.

quick warning: don’t try to throw one of your own items on the ground. when if asks if you want to “discard” the item, it means destroy it forever.

be cautious tho! some people are don’t want to talk, or simply don’t look at their chat box.

another one to report… those Spammers in town, repeating for gold-selling websites. those are absolutely bots as well.

do NOT abuse the report function.
–bots only need to be reported once. sure, it’s hard to tell, when they’ve got scrambled names, if you’ve already tagged THAT one, and i doubt IMC will get too upset if you tag some bots more than once. However, it’s not an auto-ban, and repeatedly tagging the bots won’t make them go away faster. Someone from IMC still has to check all the reports, and make sure they’re really bots before booting them.

–players with long ranges may just come along and maybe accidentally KS you. you might be at (or beyond) the edge of the screen to them, or maybe they fired an AoE attack that just happens to tag your mob. deliberately reporting real players will definitely be looked upon as abuse, and may result in YOUR removal instead!

–players standing still doing nothing aren’t an issue. players standing still with the attack key held down are sort of a grey area, and don’t appear to be considered a problem, unless they’re using some kind of range-hack. if they’re only hitting whatever comes in front of them, it doesn’t seem to be a concern. if they’re hitting stuff with a melee weapon, much farther than the weapon can reach, that’s a hack, and should be reported.

again, add more below. :stuck_out_tongue:

#3

Alternatively, go in the Adventure Journal’s monster tab.

Chances are, if they have a hilariously high kill count for the top monster kills and have a facerolled name, you have a bot.

#4

i can’t be bothered trying to dig into that. most of the time, that’s a lot more effort than needed. just watch them for a minute.