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    Baxcel's Avatar
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    Baxcel Farshot
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    Lamia
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    Why not a simple caption box like most webpages do? Before you can click buy enter the text in the box... I know it's old school and this isn't some F2P Korean mmo but still you gotta admit it would be effective to limit bot activity in a lot of places..

    Wanna do a shout enter the caption or be muted for x amount of time.. passing the caption removes the prompt for an hour or so..

    Updating prices on a retainer.. enter the caption or you can't sell anything for a day or so.. would prevent the mass crashing of new items..

    Something with crafting, gathering and maybe even combat..

    Captions boxes work on most bots from what I've seen.. sure real players hate them but they are effective at controlling bots
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    Jojoya's Avatar
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    Jojoya Joya
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    Coeurl
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    Bard Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Baxcel View Post
    Why not a simple caption box like most webpages do? Before you can click buy enter the text in the box... I know it's old school and this isn't some F2P Korean mmo but still you gotta admit it would be effective to limit bot activity in a lot of places..

    Wanna do a shout enter the caption or be muted for x amount of time.. passing the caption removes the prompt for an hour or so..

    Updating prices on a retainer.. enter the caption or you can't sell anything for a day or so.. would prevent the mass crashing of new items..

    Something with crafting, gathering and maybe even combat..

    Captions boxes work on most bots from what I've seen.. sure real players hate them but they are effective at controlling bots
    If they were a great solution, they would have been getting used by games years ago. It's not like it's new technology.

    A caption box is effective against a bot only if the bot's programmer didn't have enough incentive to bother breaking the code then programming the bot to solve it.

    Add them to a game and the bot programmers will happily figure out the code then program their bots to solve them, just as they've figured out how to get the bot to solve all the other parts of game play. Nothing gained except annoying the real players who will probably end up quitting over the frequent disruptions to their game play.

    If you want to be rid of bots, then you need to get rid of the cheaters who use them and/or their services. Once the bots no longer have customers, they will disappear from the game. As long as there customers for them, they aren't going anywhere.
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    Themarvin's Avatar
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    Kurotora Iga
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    Zodiark
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    Monk Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Baxcel View Post
    Why not a simple caption box like most webpages do? Before you can click buy enter the text in the box... I know it's old school and this isn't some F2P Korean mmo but still you gotta admit it would be effective to limit bot activity in a lot of places..

    Wanna do a shout enter the caption or be muted for x amount of time.. passing the caption removes the prompt for an hour or so..

    Updating prices on a retainer.. enter the caption or you can't sell anything for a day or so.. would prevent the mass crashing of new items..

    Something with crafting, gathering and maybe even combat..

    Captions boxes work on most bots from what I've seen.. sure real players hate them but they are effective at controlling bots
    It wont work to well with a caption box, people has suggested a rafle, but but bots then from outside of the playerbase will join that rafle, knowing that, they can get people to pay massive amounts of gil for a house when it become a shortage, limitations to how many times you can click PER plot per day, flushes out people camping, using 3rd party tools and botting tools to keep on clicking the plot, and yes people are definately using them.

    This makes it fair for all, time your daily clicks well, if you lose one plot, go to the next one, eventually would be the first one to hit it spot on and be getting a house plot for use, no ones gain any advantages using a system like this, and it puts all in the same box, but in a manner where all interested will be getting a fair chance.
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    Last edited by Themarvin; 02-05-2021 at 06:01 AM. Reason: Fixed a major typo