So the top PvP player on Goblin is a bot. He/she/(insert non-binary gender) has been at the top for over a month now without getting banned. How can they keep botting for so long? I'm a fairly new player, so I don't know the bot situation all too well. But from all the PvP I've played at day time, I see mostly bots in frontlines.
People I've talked to say that SE doesn't ban bots. Is it because the bots pay for subscription time? What about the User Agreement?
It states under LICENSE LIMITATIONS>2.1 Cheating and Botting:
"You may not create or use any unauthorized cheats, bots, automation software, hacks, mods or any other unauthorized software or hardware designed to modify the Game and gameplay. In addition, you may not take advantage of game system bugs and exploits during gameplay."
So if they can keep doing this, does it mean that the User Agreement has the value of used toilet paper?
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03-13-2018, 03:07 AMLalaSoccerKnown botter top of the Goblin leaderboard for quite some time.
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03-13-2018, 03:15 AMZojha
Well if the bots had used Ungarmax, they'd have already caught them.
Alas! -
03-13-2018, 04:36 AMAlistaireRP'er? /10charQuote:
Originally Posted by Kisama
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03-13-2018, 06:23 AMsaucyshortcake
Aniko Shaw did nothing wrong
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03-13-2018, 06:43 AMSquintina
If you can prove using in-game-only means that s/he/it is a bot, sure they'll do something about it.
BTW you might be surprised how many people are -not- bots that people assume are.
*cough* I was accused once of being a bot just because I didn't do something they thought was obvious. That's called "I suck at pvp". It was my first RW match. -
03-13-2018, 07:00 AMBelev
I also see loads of bots in frontlines especially.
You can easily distinguish them, they tend to always pick range classes, they pick a spot and just go there, and attack anyone they can attack in their range.
Once they die, they return to the same spot and to the exact same thing.
If a crystal pops nearby, they rush blindly toward it and start hitting it , paying no attention to what is happening whatsoever.
And they go on over and over, for probably days. -
03-13-2018, 07:07 AMLalaSoccerIt's not about sucking in PvP. They play PvP all day long and do the same thing every single match. You can see the patterns like the poster above me stated. Common thing for bots to do is also stand at 1 spot and mount and dismount the whole match.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squintina
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03-13-2018, 04:44 PMCrit
If it's frontlines who cares, only 2% of the whole player base knows frontlines has a leaderboard and it has no real reward for it to even matter in the first place
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03-22-2018, 09:41 AMrxnin
SE doesn't ban botters only people who use Ungarmax.
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03-22-2018, 04:09 PMAstrophysx
GM’s can’t do anything about botting. Also, if players think it’s a waste of time playing with/against bots, just stop playing Frontlines! ^_^ Me personally, I like playing Frontlines to be that annoying AST that 6 players can’t kill, and that jerk MCH that avoids killing ice and likes pushing people off cliffs. Other than that, reality check everyone... SE WILL NOT FIX THIS PROBLEM. muhahaha gg
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03-22-2018, 04:19 PMShoukoSuspension isn't the same thing as a ban. Only thing that gets banned is your account, but you're free to make another one and pay for the game again, nothing new there.Quote:
Originally Posted by rxnin
Bots get banned all the time, but usually Gil Sellers or RMT, but they don't stay banned because the people that run them can just make a new account, buy the game again and keep botting. If you try to do something about the bots themselves they just get past the stop gap measures and keep going, you can sue the people who make them as they usually are in different countries that have different laws about it.
As long as there's money to be made in reality off a video game, people will make bots, cheat, hack, do shady things like Lootboxes, etc. -
03-23-2018, 12:16 AMStormfurI attack the ice but man I love that whoosh when people go flailing off the cliff. <3Quote:
Originally Posted by Astrophysx
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03-25-2018, 04:44 PMrxninWhere did I mention suspension?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shouko
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03-26-2018, 12:31 AMAstrophysx
I have a suggestion to make it difficult for botting - Captcha for each queue. That’s right, a verification that you’re human and not a bot in order to queue. This will annoy the hell out of other players, but I think it will work.
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03-26-2018, 12:35 AMDivinemightsI thought the number of bots on Primal is not a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Astrophysx
It is maybe about 5 or 6.
Bot issue is mostly Aether problem. -
03-26-2018, 01:02 AMCanadane
I don't Frontlines much these days but I've heard we have just a problem with bots as anyone else.
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04-02-2018, 08:32 PMLalaSoccer
The bot in question hasn't PvP'ed for 3 weeks! Maybe he/she got banned.
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04-02-2018, 11:44 PMStormfur
I asked a question about this to the community manager for the upcoming Letter from the Producer... it has 34 likes so far. We will see if it gets answered!
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04-04-2018, 05:57 PMKageTokageCapchas don't necessarily work on bots, especially not in a game like XIV that has little security measures in place to keep the data being sent from the servers from being decoded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Astrophysx
They could easily make a script that auto-inputs the correct capcha (And the RMT bots already do so during their automated account creation process), as they're actively reading the data sent from the servers to locate targets as well as react to variables like procs triggering. -
04-04-2018, 09:21 PMAstrophysxAh I see. Very well then... bot stomp this weekend anyone? XDQuote:
Originally Posted by KageTokage