Attention devs: Game Surveillance Unit re: open world Bots.

[Ivy_Dresden]

Still going..
5. Gathering. Bot users gather vast amount resources with actually lifting a finger to do so. This gives said players an unfair advantage
Through the use of 3rd party software. How do you combat this you ask? Patching you software to make it incompatible is a fools
earned. For person you have working on that idea Bot users have hundreds.
Solution: Add Captcha to gathering nodes at random. This should be paired off with yield buff at the gathering node for players answering
correctly.

[SilentSymphony]

add Captcha to gathering nodes

what about the bots that farm mobs, farm quests, gonna captcha those too? the open world bots aren't just doing any single thing they are doing everything that you can think of and more.

patching the game to get rid of some exploits that they are using however would be a good start, captcha would make everyone angry and even with a buff i think that it would not be acceptable by anyone.

captcha to create character, login, to login a second account from same ip, would probably not hurt normal players too much though

But even that would probably not stop most of the botting since its only 1-5 accounts per player that i've seen max and that wouldn't really be that much of a deterrent for player managed bots.