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IMC, Players= Solution to BOTS

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#1

IMC, you have promised us time and time again that you are working on it, that they’re about to be exterminated soon, but you and everybody else is losing time over this, you are not gaining any new players since you closed the game off, you are pissing old players due to the amount of bots we have and how they are polluting even the limited grind areas.

So heres my proposed solution

Give Players the ability to do the job themselves, give them the power to do something about it, give the Report Bot feature a temporary solution, make it so that reporting a bot in-game would teleport that bot back into the town.

Yes I am aware that they could write scripts and codes to make it so that they are being teleported back to where they we’re, if that happens, we teleport his ass back to town again and again.

Could this be abused? Yes, it could, it could teleport innocent usersback to town, so heres a SOLUTION FOR IT

Users are prompted to solve a bot-classifier upon logging in, be it captcha or whatever, upon logging into the game, Users will have a buff for 1 hour, a buff that makes you immune to being teleported, a buff that you could manually recast 10 minutes before its duration is up. The buff also does not wear in dungeons, PVP matches, Guild Wars or any kind of instances

If that’s still escapable, please refer to my earlier suggestion

#2

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#3

just fyi 100,000 captchas (any type of captcha really) can be solved for as little as $50

#5

damn you got mad game

did you make an account just to stalk me here?

#6

Edit: I’m half asleep and read this wrong. It sounds a bit too over complicated, or perhaps I need more coffee. Maybe if there was a way to simplify it, but this would just annoy people too.

The only captcha I ever seen players like was on Wakfu. You played a mini game that gave you a farming (for crafts not monsters) buff. The mechanics are pretty different, but perhaps if it was a buff that functioned on ToS, some how, it would be more appealing and less annoying. ToS as it stands annoys players enough combating bots.

#7

you want a really quick way to stop “losing time” over this bot issue?
stop typing up giant posts that just repeat ineffective suggestions that have already been written dozens of times.

captcha won’t work. most “simple” captchas are easy for bots to solve without any outside assistance. “complex” captchas can just call for a supervisor to do it. or forward it to a captcha answering service (other threads have suggested that those are actually a thing).

in the end this will mean that the bots will have this “anti-teleport” buff 100% of the time, and the entire method will be ineffective against them.
whereas players will occasionally just not care, and maybe have the buff half the time.

#8

I’m sorry but no… this would actually cause me to quit the game if it was implemented. This kind of inconvenience would cross a line and make me not want to bother anymore.

The game already has too many inconveniences as it is too…

#9

Only real GMs can properly ban bots, there’s no easy solution for it.

If you put a captcha or a trivia, you can certainly design it so that bots can’t answer it. If it just teleports or kicks you out though, any good bot coder can get his bot to be able to return. If you put direct ban that would certainly help against bots, but also ban hundreds of players daily that got the captcha wrong or made a typo in the trivia answer or didn’t realize that “ToS” isn’t a sufficient answer to “What is the game called you are currently playing?”.

#10

Captcha would kill any MMO

And teleport wouldnt solve the problem, we cant report every bot every time they back to they bot place