Quote Originally Posted by Scruit_Bigtime View Post
seen as you seem to know alot, how do you go about breaking botting scripts without negatively affecting honest players?

...i'll wait
They've been able to break some bot scripts at times (usually the ones involving out of bounds hacks). Or they don't necessarily break the scrip but set up traps that get triggered by bots going out of bounds. I had a few weeks of amusement while leveling a new character watching bots get killed by a trap below the entrance to the Waking Sands. I had noticed damage numbers drifting up thru the floor and checked my combat log to see a stream of obvious bot names taking damage. Most of the bots would reappear at the entrance instead of below it a few minutes later and I was able to verify the damage taken matched their total HP.

But you're right, that's part of the challenge in dealing with bots - they don't want the steps they take to counter bots to negatively impact normal player experience. Bots using the out of bounds type hacks are easy to identify and ban. Bots that are sophisticated enough to mimic close to normal player behavior are not.