Petition: SE Please Add Random Mini-Games to DoL Gathering (Anti-Bot Verification)

I think you underestimate how advanced bots are. A bot can look at your screen and know exactly what is going on (image recognition), there are a finite amount of possible images that can be displayed when harvesting/fishing/crafting so it's childs play for a bot to work around any visual (or text and visual) based system. All they do is add to the frustration of non-botters who are getting penalised over it.

For example, FFXI, the original fishing was /fish /wait 14 /mined for fish, people got to cap fishing by pushing Alt+1, now you have to watch the rod and push the rod in the opposite direction to the way it is currently going, get the fish down to 0% stamina, oh, and it's frame capped at 30 so sluggish as possible, fishing isn't enjoyable unless you enjoy stress.

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Originally Posted by Zoner

FFXI put a singular, very rudimentary "game" into fishing and made it necessary to play it with every cast, very easy to script indeed. However your telling me a script can play bejeweled, a virtual visual captcha, on top of other games designed to be anti-bot? Really?

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Yes. Every single mini-game that SE can possibly implement will likely be successfully botted within a couple of days at most. This sort of thing would only add annoyance for legitimate players, and not deter any botters.

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Originally Posted by Keres

Yes. Every single mini-game that SE can possibly implement will likely be successfully botted within a couple of hours at most. This sort of thing would only add annoyance for legitimate players, and not deter any botters.

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Fixed. Unless you want to see http://www.theinquirer.net/IMG/148/2...gif?1359563324 every time you try to harvest something you are SOL.