PvP Botting

[Djlovedrop]

Botters are pretty easy to spot.

They stay in the base and blow all of their cooldowns/buffs. They'll do stuff, provided an enemy is within range. They just won't do it well.

We also have ones that leave base to as tanks. They also do decent.

[Mupod]

Botters are pretty easy to spot.

They stay in the base and blow all of their cooldowns/buffs. They'll do stuff, provided an enemy is within range. They just won't do it well.

One of them on our data center is called Comfort Luvbunny or something like that. I've only ever seen them on the other team, though, as it plays a healing class these days. It used to be a bard though.

Comfort Luvbunny and Blade Montana are the healer bots I see often on Primal. If there's non-healer bots I can't discern them from really bad players because they don't do anything terribly obvious.

But yeah they've been reported countless times by myself and others yet they're still there in 40s and even 50s now. I can't queue solo during certain times of the day because I'll just end up waiting 20 minutes for this nonsense.

[Whisp]

EDIT: I will not name names, but there are two well-known Hyperion botters that bot PvP as healers in PRIMAL dutyfinder. They're also farming bots. It's one person. He bots fleece in Coerthas among other items. He occasionally comes to the keyboard, where he says horrible things to everyone around him. He claims he has been reported over 6,700 times, and that the GMs are cool with him because all he has to do is deny that he is using 3rd party software. His software moves his characters around in a very bot-like manner, slowly rotating and walking instead of running, but no one can ever outclaim his bots on sheep. We generally think he's manning his multicomputer workstation most of the time, which is why he has not yet been banned. But he has proven his contempt for fellow players time and again, trash talking people, spamming emotes, shouts, stealing camps, general childishness. It has culminated in this new PvP botting, which... has surprised no one from Hyperion.

[Whisp]

Both of his bots PvP on Scholar. His software turns his characters around the other direction and spams Summon and Protect, over, and over, and over. He makes zero effort to place his fingers on the keyboard to help cure. And thus the battle ends quickly. If you're lucky, you'll get some of his patented harassment before his software queues him up for another go at it.

What this does for other players: his teammates are guaranteed a 100% loss chance, and his opponents a 100% win chance. We just abandon duty and get locked out of PvP for half an hour. It's ruining the experience and needs to be addressed ASAP. If there are no rules against this sort of behavior (botting, harassment, exploitation), then there need to be rules ASAP.

[Whisp]

Furthermore, if you confront him, and he's actually at his keyboard, he will say, "I'm reporting you for harassment. The GMs are my buddies, they don't care what I do, but they will ban you."

[Ymbryne]

If that's true... wow.