Novice Network overrun with spam bots

[LadyCrim]

Despite reporting constantly we on Lou have a major bot issue, hundreds of bots spamming 0's have taken over the Novice Network so players cannot join. The 30 minute kick is not enough, our kick messages ended up still going on over 12 hours after we did them and I now question which is worse, 500 kick messages or 500 bots spamming 000. The bots appear to all be in parties farming duties and new players are failing to get the help they need due to this. Is anyone else experiencing this, I'm presuming as we are a preferred server we are the bots favourite destination.

[Soi]

Just to follow up, there's currently around 300 bots in the NN this morning.. it's going to restrict actual new players from joining when they are all online later.

[Novalla]

Mid afternoon and due to the bots the NN is absolutely full with no room for new players, something that hasn't really happened since ew release.

[Sinova]

Heya

See this as a kind of mass Report (and those Pictures are just a FEW for them)

They don't stop popping. and soon all the 412 Newbies will be Bots.

Btw as it seems nearly all Servers of Chaos are infested, making it unable to help new people in the Novice Network

Is that really the Way it's intentioned?

https://prnt.sc/PJNUsVdjIwoo

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Best Regards,
Tayaka Hono

[Sinova]

Just did count, there's currently 168/412 Non Bots in the Novice Network. Which means there's 244 Bots currently blocking spots of Newbies just on Louisoix. They stopped spamming the 0 , which is kinda good but really... NN was some kind of the last Place we were save of Bots...

Eureka is full of Bots, Goldsellers, MSQ Bots, Dungeon Bots (ye you even can run into bots on normal queues), Crafting Bots, Gathering Bots, sometimes MB Bots

Is there anything , besides reporting them to the STF , that players can do. Because people already do that but Reporting that mass of Bots, also require a long time. I can imagine that even that will stop at some time, as it's frustrating not to see any progress, when you report Bots over and over for Days / Weeks sometimes even Months.

I'm sorry but 5 Members in the STF are NOT enough, prove me wrong if you got more members but in the Credits of EW there were 5 while in ShB there only were 3... 5 People for something like thousand of Bots a Week is just a Fight they will lose at some point and I think they reached this point now.

Anyway, Still hope is up to outlive them. Just tell us players if we can help you with something else. If there was an official Call against Bots, people gladly would help out

Best Regards
Tayaka

[Sinova]

I'll just leave this here

https://prnt.sc/r-oAGGI9tW-l
https://prnt.sc/yXUiZDG5sytw
https://prnt.sc/rs3P6JZPpzrr
https://prnt.sc/eYdv_N--_l_x
https://prnt.sc/RgZGuX5gmWiW
https://prnt.sc/KaqS5ROlRibd

This is just a friendly reminder of the first 6 Pages of our Novice Network tonight.

Have a Great Evening

Best Regards
Tayaka Hono

[MilkieTea]

Who keeps adding the bots, even? JFC that sounds like a hot mess

[Sinova]

Heya,

We have No Idea since there's no "Log" or "Mentor xy invited yz into the Novice Network"

but kicking them is not really an option as they just rejoin after 30 minutes of kick. I think for newbies it's even an Auto-Rejoin while Mentors can join and Leave as they Wish.

You don't even need to be in the NN as a Mentor to invite people to it. So we can't even narrow it down on those.


Best Regards
Tayaka

[debleb]

we might as well call the place bot network at this point, so many of them

[Navena]

The problem still persists; could we have some insight on how it will be resolved, please?
Thank you.