Kill the bots!!

[aniria]

Numerous goldsellers spamming taking up players login and playtime and also several miners and gatherers in stealth mode running faster then a mount

[tukuiPat]

and plenty at the bramble patch as archers farming with their race gear still on.

[Thr33Swords]

Good god, they don't waste any time do they?

I wonder, how does botting work? Is there a way to detect proper control input from either a mouse, keyboard or gamepad? If that can be done, then implementing a system where it will automatically kick a player from the server if no control input has been detected for 15 minutes or whatever? I'm not a programmer (web designer lol) so I don't know if that's possible.

[PsychicKoala]

Good god, they don't waste any time do they?

I wonder, how does botting work? Is there a way to detect proper control input from either a mouse, keyboard or gamepad? If that can be done, then implementing a system where it will automatically kick a player from the server if no control input has been detected for 15 minutes or whatever? I'm not a programmer (web designer lol) so I don't know if that's possible.

A good bot is pretty hard to detect by a program. It acts just like a single minded rather slow on the uptake player as far as key presses and inputs are concerned. That's why bots are usually banned from in game reports not through some bot detection program.