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

[Lexxuk]

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.

[Keres]

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?

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.

[Horg]

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.

Fixed. Unless you want to see every time you try to harvest something you are SOL.