Firmament Botting Out Of Control

[Xeronia]

I think my biggest issue as someone who elected to compete this go, why hold a competition if you are not going to oversee it for cheating? In my instances we find at least 1-5 broken bots in our lockouts who got stuck on terrain(going back and forth over a node)or have an error and are stuck constantly repeating a motion (mounting, class switching).

[RicaRuin]

No idea what you guys are going on about, exactly 1,5 Million points while not active for a few days now with place 2 so far behind is not suspicious at all.

[RicaRuin]

No idea what you guys are going on about, exactly 1,5 Million points while not active for a few days now with place 2 so far behind is not suspicious at all.

Update: Number 1 did about half a million more points in less than 24h. I do not craft to that extend, and I do know some people put a lot of time in, but I doubt that such numbers in such a time are legit.

[panderin]

Update: Number 1 did about half a million more points in less than 24h. I do not craft to that extend, and I do know some people put a lot of time in, but I doubt that such numbers in such a time are legit.

Someone on my server saved all his turn ins for the last 24 hours to shake things up. He ofc is at the top but some people just like to have that gotcha moment and he was one of these.

[Commander_Justitia]

Yo somebody defend him and say all people did it legit.

[Xeronia]

The botter I caught previously with the constant re-mounting in one spot when it broke took the number 1 spot for their server on miner. Why am I not surprised they didn't bother checking the reports first?

[KageTokage]

Strangely, a cheater in my server's DoL rankings did get removed, so whatever standards they're using to determine who they should/shouldn't get rid of seem very arbitrary.

[hqdm]

Strangely, a cheater in my server's DoL rankings did get removed, so whatever standards they're using to determine who they should/shouldn't get rid of seem very arbitrary.

ya, our prev #1 btn was found blatantly botting ytdy in instance, summarily reported, but i'm still a bit surprised they were removed from the rankings given SE's usual lackadaisical approach to the issue. Better than not at least.

Yo somebody defend him and say all people did it legit.

well, i ended up with 1.5x m... so it's plausible, given i took a 2 day break + my lax play schedule.
it's not that all player are legit, simply that if it's within realm of plausibility, shouldn't automatically be regarded as bot.
if he stopped turnin, then spike 500k, it likely that it was being hoarded.
skepticism healthy, but I think many skeptical ppl just prefer write off their lack of success due to "bots" rather than consider the effort + lengths ppl are going to.
The DoH boards were, for the most part, reasonable to attain a slot on given only 1-2h of crafting a day.

[ACE135]

Strangely, a cheater in my server's DoL rankings did get removed, so whatever standards they're using to determine who they should/shouldn't get rid of seem very arbitrary.

I was surprised when I found out that the number 1 miner on Ragnarok got removed too.

[Moonlite]

Remember the good old days when GMs used to randomly check for bots in game. Nothing like seeing a row of fishers getting yanked away from fishing to see if they recast or move back.



Not that this competition is super important. But a small wait and SE checking logs, for even just the top 12 for anything they feel was cheating would be nice.