Bot(Novice) Network

[Minali]

It's groundhog day again. Yet another bot ban wave kicked (almost) all bots out and gave us a moment to breathe until the new wave came in just a few hours later. For some reason the bots we get are not entirely new though in the last two weeks, they are already somewhere around level 50 and hanging around in Coerthas, so fairly far in the ARR MSQ. So at least they aren't spamming "0" the whole week because they reach Amdapor before that. But nevertheless it is exhausting. Kicking bots all evening and reporting 200 bots per week via the support website is certainly not what I planned on spending my sub money on. (And this happens on all four new worlds in EU, plus a few that are travelling from their original new world to another established world.) But if we don't do that, it seems nobody does, or cares. Of course now with the afk kick gone it is unclear if that person in question invited those bots three weeks ago when the bots lay dormant until they were needed, but then it would be a bunch of level 3 bots. So whoever invited them still seems to be able to play the game and keep doing their thing. There was one suspicion and a report was send, but if there were consequences, they weren't enough, because it keeps happening.

I wonder who exactly in the team is aware of the issue, aside from GMs and STF. So far it seems to be focused on the new EU servers and I doubt the devs from the Japanese team are hanging around there. Maybe it would help to send a message on Twitch during the Live Letter, if anyone of you can speak decent Japanese and is awake at this time? (It's 6:30 am here when the Live Letter begins and my Japanese begins and ends with ohayou. xD) Of course it shouldn't end up in spam and be polite, but I honestly feel like we're out of options of what we can do.