Anti Bot System

[Naoki34]

I've questioned why this hasn't been implemented for some time now. And i'm only writing about it because i'm currently STARING at a bot in game. They have been on for about 4 days now (that my group knows of) and being as my group is on different hours of the day, we've checked to see if this person has been on during when we play. They have been on non stop thsi entire time. And bought over 1500 sublime solution and slithersand. After their time at the board they go up to the Mizzentmast Inn and lock themselves away from prying eyes.

Now. What does that have to do with the title? Well. I do not see why there is no system check in place after all these years to see if you've been logged in, lets say, over 24 hours. Yes, people afk. But there is also an afk kick timer implemented into the game. If someone was to go over a certain amount of logged in time with said system, it would mark them for GM survey to see if they are botting. Or for that matter, account sharing. Considering THAT is also against ToS and was a big problem during Firmament ranking. It really shouldn't be that hard of a system to put into place. IT's not intrusive and it helps mark these types of acts all around instead of relying on us, the player, to report what might not even be suspicious activity.

I think you don't understand the principle of bots, who would make a bot that stays afk 24h?

A bot or gold farmer, they are there to work for a player while he does something else.

An afk 24h can't be a bot. And for the people who are always farm, you can't be sure that it's a bot either, except in special cases. There are players who are able to farm comp for hours.

[Lecru]

I think you don't understand the principle of bots, who would make a bot that stays afk 24h?

A bot or gold farmer, they are there to work for a player while he does something else.

An afk 24h can't be a bot. And for the people who are always farm, you can't be sure that it's a bot either, except in special cases. There are players who are able to farm comp for hours.

Nobody ever once said "stays afk 24 hrs". The point was flag characters who were logged in LONGER than 24 hours. As for 1, there is an afk kick timer impemented for people to no congest. And 2, that would clearly mean that it's either somebody who doesn't have work or school OR it's a person using third party or account sharing. Which are both against ToS. Sure peopel can farm for hours. But at some point an actual human needs to sleep