Quote Originally Posted by Commander_Justitia View Post
At this point the best they could do is allow botting. They don't have the tools to get cheater/botter and don't wanna get into an arms race with them, because that doesn't generate any money. They should really have a look at how other games make a GM visit a pleasant experience, e.g. when a bug occurs.

@Muutaras The GM won't invest as much time and effort to come to conclusions like you do. It is detrimental anyway because as a GM you would be on a constant witchhunt, if you would work like that. If you accept outside evidence you also risk getting faked information from players that want to see another player banned, as happened in the past. The majority of the cases GM have to deal with include harassment and griefing. And the bans we see are for RMT advertisment mostly from free trial accounts.
By the time a GM sees your report and checks & acts on it, the Restoration rewards will probably be out yet.
The GMs have nothing to do with investigating bots. That's handled by the Special Task Force. The most the GMs will do is forward the information to the STF.

The "outside evidence" may not be treated as actual evidence but it does give SE information they can use to check their own logs. It never hurts to submit what you have to help them pinpoint where and when something happened.

SE has started banning for non-RMT botting and now lists it as a separate category in the weekly notices. There's not a huge number of accounts getting hit but they are taking action against some. It could be interesting to see if there's a sudden spike in the number in the weeks after the leaderboard rankings end.