Quote Originally Posted by sharlim View Post
@Verendal, I feel you on this. I think the best way to keep the bots out is to up the difficulty on the activity. If it's easy enough for a bot to do it, then it's too easy. Right now people aren't training their own ML models to completely mimic their behavior (yet). Botters copy-pasta and perform basic edits on some script they find online and press execute.

Some people in this thread mentioned captchas, and while this is a little more prescriptive than I can contemplate at the moment, I at least agree in principle.
The problem with throwing more hurdles in front of people is your going to always have someone that figures out how to shortcut it, while the hurdles only frustrate the legitimate users.

Something that may work is once the house goes on sale it does a check at the top of every hour (or however long the window is) where it sees if someone bought a raffle ticket, then holds a raffle for all entries. If no one bought a ticket, the house stays open.

That way you create a limited time window so someone that wants the house is going to be checking it... but once the window opens they just need to pay full price for their house ticket, and hope they get it. By making it a limited time system (where you only have an hour to buy the ticket) it will help cut down on some of shenanigans with the housing mafia... but also stop with the insanity of people needing to be the first clicker for the house. A shorter time window would probably be better as that will help cut down on people bringing in the alt accounts for it.

Either way... the current system, while better overall than the older system, is still not a very good system and needs more adjustments.