Clever anti bot system

[BlazeX28]

The random spawn wouldn't work because if you are there, you obviously are going to comply with the GM and not hit it. GM Mesarthim is probably the best bot hunter on the GM team and has a good way of doing it. He literally gets all the "AFK not at their computer bots" canned, simply by just talking to them within a certain time frame and getting zero responses and then announces it lol.

As far as the pot thing goes it would work, but there are variables "What if it's not set to pot due to an absorb weapon" "What if they ran out of pots" "what if they are in a dungeon" and my counter statement would be along the lines of... well if you get cuffed you are rewarded 10k right? Well the GM will hand you let's say... 1 of each pot, and a 80% dungeon mount and make you do it right there, but the demands are slightly fast paced.

This would be a solution to try and attack the "monitored" botters.

well... the thing is to spawn it without alarming the bot. If a random spawn pops up its not gonna raise an alarm. but i can c how it would be hard for a gm to get near a bot without setting off alarms.

[Notyou]

Uh its not hard for gms to get close to bots. Infact they can simply create new chars if they see that every time they port near xxxxx bot it seems to dc. They do have several gm chars. They can create chars and make them auto 99 with all stats 9999 so even if they do catch agro they wont die. Especially with 9999 vit str and agi. Maybe mage mobs would hit them but the 500k hp they would have.. would make it so they would need to afk for a damn week there before dieing + their regen would probably keep them pretty well at max hp.

[beanie]

Uh its not hard for gms to get close to bots. Infact they can simply create new chars if they see that every time they port near xxxxx bot it seems to dc. They do have several gm chars. They can create chars and make them auto 99 with all stats 9999 so even if they do catch agro they wont die. Especially with 9999 vit str and agi. Maybe mage mobs would hit them but the 500k hp they would have.. would make it so they would need to afk for a damn week there before dieing + their regen would probably keep them pretty well at max hp.

except GMs can't attack players and vice versa.

[FatFreeMilk]

Uh its not hard for gms to get close to bots. Infact they can simply create new chars if they see that every time they port near xxxxx bot it seems to dc. They do have several gm chars. They can create chars and make them auto 99 with all stats 9999 so even if they do catch agro they wont die. Especially with 9999 vit str and agi. Maybe mage mobs would hit them but the 500k hp they would have.. would make it so they would need to afk for a damn week there before dieing + their regen would probably keep them pretty well at max hp.

except GMs can't attack players and vice versa.

Boomfarce can.

Oh, and most bots I've encountered only self DC when I attack them. So the GM can come in with an alt regular account and write down the names, and deal with it from afar so the bot won't know what's coming.

[BlazeX28]

Uh its not hard for gms to get close to bots. Infact they can simply create new chars if they see that every time they port near xxxxx bot it seems to dc. They do have several gm chars. They can create chars and make them auto 99 with all stats 9999 so even if they do catch agro they wont die. Especially with 9999 vit str and agi. Maybe mage mobs would hit them but the 500k hp they would have.. would make it so they would need to afk for a damn week there before dieing + their regen would probably keep them pretty well at max hp.

except GMs can't attack players and vice versa.

Boomfarce can.

Oh, and most bots I've encountered only self DC when I attack them. So the GM can come in with an alt regular account and write down the names, and deal with it from afar so the bot won't know what's coming.

those r just stupid bots... seriously DC when people are near or when get hit is so obvious... Hell at least if u come back 30mins later with people asking you if you bot, u can spam some lame ass excuse that no one would believe anyways.

[Vanic]

haha, blurb is so stupid. Also, kudos to everyone who made an alt account to post in here. Your posts have been successfully ignored.

As for the "make my food salty" comment, if you spent ANY time doing real programming, you would know that it's basically the same to say make something completely opaque or have a certain translucency value.

Having a system check for repetitive actions is possibly the worst idea in this thread yet. It's been discussed why.

I'm glad there is some decent discussion in this thread other than blurb's "LOL I STARTED COLLEGE 4 COMPUTERZ SO I PRO" garbage. This was initially meant to get the ball rolling, not to be an end-all hope for destroying bots.

[beanie]

remember that time vanic thought he had a good idea and everyone shot him down? hohoho.

[Vanic]

Remember that time beanie had a good idea and....oh who am I kidding. He's never had one. He just spams the forums relentlessly because he thinks a post count matters.

[Notyou]

Everyone at some point ends up making a mistake. At which point they get their ass spanked for it learn from it and move on.

However blurb seems to believe that he is ub3r 1337n355 when he is making it blatantly obvious he has begun arguing just to try and make himself seem correct. Which when I have a bachelors degree in Informational Technology, im A+ cert as well as minored in programming. Which im sure if I gave a fuck I could get my certs for c++, PEARL, and VB .net.

Secondly I just dont like writing new programs. Because when something fucks up you need to rip into the code then find that on like 347 you accidentally put a ; instead of a : which made the program go WOAH FUCK!!!!!!!!!

What they are recommending is a server monitor for repetitious actions. Which im sure they actually should have said a anti-bot program that runs in the game. Such as the traps in I think Repellez? Where its just something no1 but a bot would attack it.

But why bother with computers when there are no jobs for them in my area

[beanie]

Remember that time beanie had a good idea and....oh who am I kidding. He's never had one. He just spams the forums relentlessly because he thinks a post count matters.

show me one post where i spam.