Gathering BOT

Who ? Lisasa Lisadas (miner lvl. 35 at this time)
Where ? Copperbell Mines on Leviathan
When ? always
How ? gather iron, teleporting from node to node

FYI, I reported this bot last week (and did take much of my time to do it conscientiously) and it was already there at the beginning of the week. No result. It's just part of the surroundings now.

I'm sick of seeing it everytime I go gathering some iron. Not only do I have to bear the mere existence of that parasite for the time it takes me to fill 99 irons, but I can't do anything about it except reporting. And with the current UI, it's just a pain players hardly wish to endure, so please SE, give us some respect and react. I can understand that with the number of reports, things can take some days before reacting but... seriously ! At this rate, the game economy will completely fall before the end of the year. What will you do then ?

How the hell are these bots teleporting in the first place? That is what I want to know.

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Originally Posted by ntall1

How the hell are these bots teleporting in the first place? That is what I want to know.

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Roughly : reverse-engineering the network packets, bypassing the client, sending false informations, servers not checking consistency... whatever. This is far from beeing something new in online gaming.

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Originally Posted by Radamanthe

Roughly : reverse-engineering the network packets, bypassing the client, sending false informations, servers not checking consistency... whatever. This is far from beeing something new in online gaming.

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Yea... but don't you think that would be the easiest thing to detect and punish? That is why I am so baffled.

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Originally Posted by ntall1

Yea... but don't you think that would be the easiest thing to detect and punish? That is why I am so baffled.

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It is not as easy as it seems in the first place (as many things in development). What seems obvious to your human eyes is not to a computer. I guess SE servers do not check for data consistency, or it's just a simple bug exploit. Expect speed bots anytime soon.

I wish SE would be a bit faster about banning those bots.

Yesterday for example, server Odin, outside Ul'dah, lv1 mining spot I saw about 20 bots...they're hanging undergound, can only see part of their names, even if u see whole character you can't even select them usually. And some were quite high level already from mining those lv1 shards....which takes quite long even for a bot coz of XP penalty. Guildie said he reported them idk when and they still hang around.

I have a worry that the bots are lagging the game for the rest of us with their hacks.

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