Any point in reporting crafting botters?

[viion]

What is "blatant" to you, may not warrant GM action. People are not forced to respod to the chat if they don't want to. And if a GM asks the alleged bot, and someone is actually at it (even just watching the bot running) and responds, there isn't much the GM can do.

While I fully agree with everything you said and surprised at what you said, you missed what the OP said. This person was "crouching, standing, crouching, standing", obviously bot messed up or something. I really doubt some guy is going to stand and hit his craft hotkey for over an hour for shits n giggles.

But yes as fox said dont report to GM's its not their job (tho it should be but SE has a fail setup). Report to the stf and then cry because nothing will happen, ever. STF are just as bad as GM's at their job, ban innocents, leave RMT/violators.

[Abriael]

While I fully agree with everything you said and surprised at what you said, you missed what the OP said. This person was "crouching, standing, crouching, standing", obviously bot messed up or something. I really doubt some guy is going to stand and hit his craft hotkey for over an hour for shits n giggles.

I'm not sure why a bot would do that as well, to be honest. But I'm not saying it's not a bot. I'm just saying that not responding to other players is not "evidence", and that GMs cannot ban someone just because it looks "Blatant" to someone.
It's sufficent for the bot to be actually manned (like many botters do nowadays) to respond to GM inquiries, in order to pretty much void the danger of a ban.

[viion]

I'm not sure why a bot would do that as well, to be honest. But I'm not saying it's not a bot. I'm just saying that not responding to other players is not "evidence", and that GMs cannot ban someone just because it looks "Blatant" to someone.
It's sufficent for the bot to be actually manned (like many botters do nowadays) to respond to GM inquiries, in order to pretty much void the danger of a ban.

Yeh exactly. You could have Player 1 who is botting but chatting, and Player 2 who is to busy crafting away and misses chat as he's maybe got a movie on the TV and guess what the legit guy will probably get reported. And this is why the system takes so damn long to process and ultimately fails because its the players who instantly get spiteful and quick judge. Really annoys me tbh. A crafter isn't forced to speak to you, a crafter who's hidden in a corner isn't an instant bot, I craft in random lone places because its lag free makes my A's feel faster haha. The crafter might also not be English or moved the game off screen so only Craft box shows.

The only way you can kind of tell is when it messes up like in the OP or if you're so sad and really want to stick your nose in then set fraps to print screen every minute, stand next to the guy, go afk for like 70hrs, then when you come back see if he's in all 4200 screenshots