Bots spawning

[Rikos]

Right now in behemoth a grat number of bot are showing in gridania aetherite plaza....
There are so many of them it reached the max number of people being shown here...

Can a GM come here?

[KageTokage]

This is regrettably a routine occurrence.

The bots will get banned eventually, but replacements get brought in instantly so it's really just a band-aid fix.

[Rasikko]

Yeah there is currently several borg cubes around the aetheryte in Spriggan..

[Rockette]

Funny how we got a big speech about GM's given new powers and so far all they do is ban people who swear. Or parse.

[KageTokage]

It's pretty sad to see even the RMT spammers I report every single time I go to Gridania often lingering for multiple days before they actually get banned.

They seem to actually know when they've been muted from being reported too many times as a replacement bot will conveniently show up standing on top of the original one after it stops spamming.

[Enla]

Sad thing is that enough people are buying gold to make these bots profitable for the people involved. I've said it once and I'll say it again, but I wish SE would take a page from Blizzard and actually sue the bot makers outright. You might not be able to go after all the individuals piloting them, but going after a few of the more high profile programmers would at least act as a minor deterrent.

[NessaWyvern]

^There's people who straight up advertise their bot programs on YouTube. If you confront them about it breaking ToS, they get defensive, saying its for those with disabilities so they can play, but I highly highly doubt its being used for that, especially when they advertise the bot gathering for hours on end.
Might be time to track down these programmers and advertisers.

[KageTokage]

The thing is that even if they manage to shut down one website that's hosting a bot program, they can't stop it from simply resurfacing elsewhere when it's already fallen into the hands of hundreds if not thousands of different players.

All Blizzard actually accomplished with their lawsuit was getting a healthy sum of money because the program they were trying to shut down simply showed up on a new website under a different name.

The only thing actually works to some degree is the enforcement being prompt enough to scare people into not even wanting to bot in the first place.

[Machi_Machiavelli]

The only real way to stop something like that is to change your game daily. Programs that interact with other programs do so by using IDs and such. So if you're changing your code the other programs can't function until updated. But you'd basically have to do that daily. Not sure if that even feasible, but that's the only surefire way.

[Reap00]

You could have found another thread about this topic and posted. A new thread is unnecessary.