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Properly reporting a bot
malakut
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I know that "Report Spam" sends a red flag against the reported person, but does anyone know what the exact procedure is to reporting a botter? I know I've seen a thread on here about it before but it escapes my mind. If a community Mod or anyone of you could please re-direct me to the appropriate thread or procedure, that would be great!
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there are bigger evils in the game, like RNG and useless grind
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that thread shows you how to do so.
Enorla, Oh so devoted cleric.
After the negative values on the AH fiasco, these bots are actually helping to stabilize the economy.
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication
or other information which may be considered objectionable.
A Tool used by those with power to stay in power.
I object to your objection
No, they encourage deflation on some goods (refining goods, potions) used to make complementary revenues, make it more difficult for players abiding to the rules to gain AD.
Edit to complete :
On the other hand, they encourage inflation on other goods by injecting AD in the system by selling it with real money.
So they destroy any attempt of a working player driven economy.
Enorla, Oh so devoted cleric.
No, they redistribute the wealth that was unlawfully gained via various exploitation's to the community while lowering the insane costs of refining items.
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication
or other information which may be considered objectionable.
A Tool used by those with power to stay in power.
I object to your objection
if your guild leaders are ok with a bot being in guild id suggest to change the guild
and now you need 20mil+ RP for all artifacts, in mod5 it will be 30mil, there is no way legit players can provide enough RP, so, sadly, bots are whats saving this game
Yes, sure ... What I said : it's sad.
Enorla, Oh so devoted cleric.
No, it's beneficial to the community.
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication
or other information which may be considered objectionable.
A Tool used by those with power to stay in power.
I object to your objection
To the community? The only ones getting any ad from this are the botters.
You may like the deflation caused on refinement points, but they
are one of the few items new players can make any real ad on.
If I'm not wrong most people with a decent ad budget hit the refinement
wall by now and are directing most of their income to those bots now.
I dont think 50% of the total ad made in this game would be
an overestimation, if not a huge underestimation.
The economy hasn't reacted yet appearantly (through inflation
of human/zen-dependant goods and the zax going insane again),
which makes me think most of that ad is currently not spent.
Some of those folks must be sitting on hundreds of millions of ad now.
Imagine what will happen when/if that gets released on the ah/zax someday.
If a future economy crash isn't enouph, you can also bet this will result in
more bound stuff. I dont like bound stuff, its bad for the economy.
If this was the wondrous bazaar doing a big sale it would benifit the community.
Botting however only benifites criminals, and will make the community pay for it.
That can be **** hard. You know most people fail
the turing test?
We had a recruit recently whit a strange name.
I wont spell the name for privacy reasons,
but it was verry pattern like,
like some of those bots you see in sharandarr.
Just send me a tell out of the blue 'can I join your guild?'.
I wasn't recruiting at that time, so I was a little suprised,
so I responded 'sure buddy' and send him an invite.
The second he accepts he gets offline, no 'hi', no nothing.
A few days go by without him ever talking to us, When a
fellow officer asks me if I know that guy, we start
to get suspicous. He tracked him down and saw that he was
just standing in tower district killing mobs with at-wills.
We start asking questions to see if he responds in a decent way.
If asked what he was doing he responded with sentences that
did not really made sence.
Soon after we had to let him go. We do expect members to be social.
And while we do have a verry hard suspicion this was some kind
of bot, we really can't be sure.
So how do you know he is?
What actions makes you think/suspect he is a bot?
How did a bot get into your guild?
Are your guild leaders OK with a bot in the guild?
Why do you want to get rid of the (suspected) bot, meaning, in what way is this bot affecting your game play?
I would really like to know, so, after this thread gets closed pls send me a PM!
I think I saw a post by a mod saying you have to use the Help feature and contact a GM. Because this way you can name names, and also the copy-paste is easier.
This said, I saw no action sa far taken by a GM against the Blacklake district bots or the Sharandar Reservoir ones, they're all still here.
"this week we banned 1000 accounts for boting, 10 for illegal AD generation and 3 for misusing a bug"
I won't react on any spammers/exploiters because, as far as I know, I could just as well write the name on a postcard an flush it down the toilet. No feedback.
As cryptic must be aware of the bots in various regions I guess they either don't care or have given up battling farmer bots.
I would love to explain to you how to catch a bot in action but alas, you haven't been on the game in over 5 days and you've only played for a total of 9 mins. If you'd like to reach me in game, please feel free to send me a PM.
Through careful analysis of his behaviour, map locations, responses to confrontation and such. I can explain further through the game though.
I guess you are reffering to my totally hidden "Join Date Jun 2013"?
If your idea of how to identify a bot is as good founded as your idea about my experience I guess you might have some reality perception troubles.
As for the playing time, I am playing with the old original client which does not track my playing time, as does this new ARC stuff.
Please do explain how you detect a bot in your guild, I still want to know. Also the other questions wait for an answer.
That is only if he is logging in using ARC , he may not even be using his in game account on the forum , I have played Neverwinter since the first hours of open beta but only show up as two and a half hours playing time and that isn't even neverwinter playing time , that was the two and a half hours I played on Swordsman , so that ARC page is meaningless until they make logging in using arc compulsory .
I guess you don't make many friends with your hostility but see below for your answers:
What actions makes you think/suspect he is a bot? : Intel from other Guild Leaders in the community as well as monitoring his Map Location being the same for 11 straight hours (in a foundry).
How did a bot get into your guild? : He's been in the guild less than 24 hours as I am currently investigating him during our 7 day probationary period.
Are your guild leaders OK with a bot in the guild? : I am one of the Guild Leaders hence why I am taking these matters into my own hands and need to be prepared if he doesn't heed my warning.
Why do you want to get rid of the (suspected) bot, meaning, in what way is this bot affecting your game play? : In the way that his behaviour is violating one of our Guild Rules. We DO believe in redemption and wish for all of our guildies to please listen to us. We rarely turn anyone away as we are one big happy family.
Now as far as the PvP and the length of time it took me to respond to your reply here's the information:
1.) I was pre-occupied with more important and pressing matters and don't live in the forums unlike some folks. .
2.) The location of the botting is not PvP related so I don't see why that would mean anything to you or why you would bring up PvP.
3.) I apologize for the misunderstanding about your play-time. I didn't think you'd get so offended over a simple mistake xD
I was less offended by the age mistake than by your way of saying "you are too young to understand and my words are too valuable to talk to you on the forum"
I have often perceived players as bots, in PvP and farming in various instances, but never in a talking way. That is why I wanted to know how you seem to be able to detect one in your guild.
I report every bot I see :-)