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.