Auto attack: A complete battle system

[kukurumei]

The difference is the volume of damage that can be done without instruction, if you can take 100% of a low level mobs health without scripting anything other than a single attack command, it is harder to scan for bots by parsing the commands given, it basically makes the admins job easier if you have to hit the same button over and over.

In your own example if your listening for footsteps, it is better to put your room at the end of the hall, as it gives you more steps to listen for.

It is a good point and brings the only posative I can see about not having an auto attack in question, but it does not respond to either of my inquiries.

That's utterly stupid. because first of all, easy enemies aka farming enemies, people would script a macro that put 1 x10 anyway. No one smart or stupid farms with both hands or eyes on the screen.

secondly, that makes it even harder to catch botters because it would increase your false positives 1000%. Thus making it harder for admins to catch more botters because for every one you get wrong, you let another one sneak away.

And by your excuse, listening to more foot steps means that every echo of people walking would lead to more powerful equipment to be run 24/7, need more maintenance, and need more guards to constantly check the trip wire. And most likely alert any real criminals of your security in the process. How many times would that security trigger a day? Dozens, hundreds. Walking around a hallway, what about sneakers, or boots, or double backing...insanely illogical.

By the same line of irrational thinking it's better to have auto attack to catch bots because if a bot decides auto attack is enough to win the fight, they will always do one action, which a normal person even afk will have deviations in pattern.

Less actions actually make it easier to catch botters because you have an easier time filtering and finding patterns.

In the end it's the most naive stupid excuse, and if it's true, then no wonder bots roam the wild so easily.

A better way to stop bots, is and always will be community initiative, follow by pattern matching or otherwise statistics, then followed by a sting operation.

Aka, real police work. You find a bot(s) based on community query, you observe it's patterns(day and time, length of hours, movement style, reaction speed), then you run it through a statistically pattern matcher, and then when you're confident you sting all the matches simultaneously before botters realize the sting and change their scripts.

Anyone, anywhere will tell you if you want to find a link between thousands of traits, you don't want to find the most generic, you find the most specific.

If even a tiny bit is ever related to the reason no Auto attack was conceived, people needs to get fired fast. Developers who can't realize their own pitfalls needs to be replaced before they caused other problems in the system.