Discussion: How Can We Handle Botting Better?

[Risvertasashi]

It's kind of pointless to even try to disrupt them as they mostly have fail-safes enabled that will ensure their scripts start working properly the moment they're left alone.

Some people really don't have any idea how to properly identify bots and might just use faulty methods such as "Selling too much stuff on the marketboard" as a reason to be suspicious of somebody.

You're very right, but I do have a big problem with people that trample over normal players because they think they've found a bot (and, obviously, are wrong).

It's also why trusting reports too much would lead to false positives.

I think there is some merit to "let a GM observe this person teleporting for 5 minutes" after enough reports. But if they start disguising their behavior well enough... anticheat software is, in the long run, the only way SE might make a real dent in it.