Even with legal bots, why would hackers and gold sellers use them if they can earn more by using their own illegal bots? Your solution is not really much better than trying to clamp down on bots directly, since botters will still use their bots that have no penalty.
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There was another mmorpg i played where players could buy a scroll for 1 gold that summoned a little bomb monster, when a player attacked it they would instantly die and be forced to respawn in town, and if you killed too many it would alert a gm somehow. We could have something similar in ToS since we already lose durability on equipment for dying (plus we even have the adventure log which shows who killed the most of a mob), which would make it impossible for the bot to actually continue leveling unless it knew to go repair after a certain number of deaths. This way every player in the game is technically a bot hunter, maybe they could even add rewards for each time one of your own summoned bomb things gets killed by a bot.
The game already has an anti-bot.
If you bot in one map for awhile, the Grim Reaper boss appears ontop of you (this boss has a timer till it dissapears).
He will summon magic mobs that will hit 100% of the time, and needs skillfull play to defeat. Defeating him nets you 0 drops, and 0 money, but some okay exp for taking your time to kill it. Bots will have a difficult time dealing with it, although itās not impossible to deal with it.
But for it to get triggered, the bot has already killed 1000 monsters already. The bot has already collected the loots, so instant silvers to sells. Though the bot may die on the Grim Reaper, after spawn, the bot will just go back and repeat, kill another 1000 monsters.
Isnāt it much better to have something like a Captcha System, But instead of typing the answer, pushing a button for the answer is much better and faster.
This is just and idea though:
- Captcha System with Math equations as the Questions.
- 10 Buttons to choose the answers. With 2 additional buttons for the
confirm and Clear buttons. [0-9, Confirm, Clear] Needs to be
randomized like entering a secondary password on some other games. - Captcha window will appear either upper left, left, lower left, upper
right, right, or lower right of screen. We need to make it random so
macro programmers will have hard time where to click if Captcha
window appear. - 10minutes before the captcha ends. You can close the captcha and
reveal it again if you type /captcha or similar. So that if you are
fighting mobs in grinding area, you have time to enter the answer. - Captcha will not appear when fighting Bosses.
- If 1 minute left and still not entered the answer, the captcha will
appear instantly(canāt be closed until time limit or answered). - The question will appear like some simple math problems, like 45+31,
2x15, etc. - If the answers are 3 digits, you need to press 3 digits and Confirm
buttons. If you press wrong, you have a clear button and can repeat.
You have 3 attempts to enter the right answer.
For example:
Question: 5 x 10 = ?, Press 5 and 0 and Confirm.
Question: 20 + ? = 120, Press 1 and 0 and 0 and Confirm.
If for example, you spent 3 attempts wrong, you will be sent on a special map where there is a route needed to get to a warp to a city. The route needs to have jumping and moving platform so the bots can have a hard time walking to get out and go to the warp point. If the char fall out, it will go again in the spawn place of the map to repeat.
I dunno, its just an idea. To make them suffer a little, but if not botting, simple math with less than 5seconds on pressing the button can finish the captcha. If you enter the captcha correctly, 1-2minutes movement speed buffs is the rewards. So no overpowering like additional damage buffs to receive.
Bumping OP Post.
This is BY FAR the best counter measure against botting, the last problem are the Spammers & Gold Sellers.
But the two are related. If you stop the farming, where do you find your gold to sell 
?
This thread deserved to be Necroed! But I agree, I donāt want to see this game getting ruined by botters.
Necromancers.
Letās begin the ritual ! Advanced Revive !
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or make something like captcha every 25-30 mins for all player there will be captcha that will appear, and for 1 min if a player didnt successfully entered the captcha they will be automatically disconnect to server
Guess what, koreans dont care about bots because no one bots or hacks in Korea, they need to use their social security number to register for stuff online, and if you get banned from a game, you will never be able to play anything from that company again, never.
hahahah i hope NA tos do something about this