Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
Sadly someone in our FC posted a rudimentary bot script they found for free because someone was complaining about the length of time required with crafting. Cost is becoming less of an issue. Caused some issues within our FC since we found out they have been doing this for fairly long time.

Reputation is also kind of an odd one since as our FC mate said not like interact with strangers most of the time nor care what people think. Not like it sill hurt his sales, since people will just buy the cheapest itme possible and not care why it is cheap.

SE neess to accept outside evidence, or expand the STF or train GMs to deal with bots.
And vastly improve server code. The bot programs are memory hex editors at the core. This never ever works in online game environments if, one the memory pages sent to RAM are encrypted and two the server refuses the altered data as gospel.

The warping a character anywhere the bot program chooses to is a fine example of server code just accepting what the client tells it. They desperately need to improve server code and the game client to encrypt its own data so it cannot be as easily manipulated by memory editors as it currently appears to allow.

But this requires work, and quite a lot of it. Do SE consider it worth the effort in comparison to the effect it would have if they bothered. Would people play more, sub more, by mogstation fluff more, if they vastly reduced they freedoms bot programs currently have?