Bot(Novice) Network

[ICountFrom0]

Yha, the botscript folk have figured out how to get them to worldhop, sending the add in the instant before world transfer, so there's no time to kick them.
So now any server that lets any in, show up everywhere.

[Minali]

Yha, the botscript folk have figured out how to get them to worldhop, sending the add in the instant before world transfer, so there's no time to kick them.
So now any server that lets any in, show up everywhere.

Okay, I would not have guessed that this is how they're doing it. Thanks for solving this riddle for us.

So, today is the day where the bot ban should've cleaned up everything. I must have reported 150 or so bots over the week for Alpha, together with plenty others. Yesterday evening it looked like a few were missing but it seems they were just offline. It's thursday morning and around half of the 264 sprouts in the chat are bots rotating in Amdapor Keep or on their way to doing this. And we still have plenty of bots spamming 0, where some seem to be able to dodge kicks now. And yet the bot report says it's around 2000 more bots that were kicked than usual. This gives me an awkward feeling that this is not just trolling or whatever but a preparation for something, like spamming advertisment without getting kicked. :/

I really wish we would get at least some sort of acknowledgement that not only the support / STF is aware of it but also people higher up in the food chain. (Considering in what short time this problem grew into this massive mess, I could imagine they feel as overwhelmed as we do by now if they can't keep up with deleting anymore.) I don't know, at least give us a lodestone message apart from the weekly standard "x accounts were kicked, pls keep reporting". Tell us you are aware of not just "there are bots" but "the novice networks are flooded".