Let us steal from bots!

hydrocynus

That would be a good way to stop them......

Elgarr

Awesome idea, must be a way they could detect it for us to use.
Justice system 1.0
That would give more to do also.
Grab the pitch forks, form an orderly posse and head out bot hunting.

Gisgo

Awesome idea, too bad if you could label every bot as a character you can steal from, you could as well ban them all and save some time.

Slash8915

Steal what? Kills, gold, items? Let's assume ZoS were to implement this idea. Let's also assume no legit players were to be affected by the change. We would then have people complaining because a few players would have hundreds of thousands of gold, while they have nothing. Not to mention the affect this would have on the game's economy.

Psychoke

I can already see bots stealing from other bots

Blackwolfe5

I can already see players getting wrongly labeled as bots, then being robbed blind by actual bots!

AlexDougherty

hydrocynus wrote: »

That would be a good way to stop them......

First, two wrongs don't make a right.
Second, you have to be able to prove that they are bots, Zos can do this, we can't.

Soloeus

I don't want bots left in the game to be robbed, I want them gone. How do you prevent a bunch of griefers from flagging you so they can rob you? Maybe botters would just use throw away accounts to mass flag people to rob them?

Shiaxi

While I agree with all the sentiments about bots, the ideas are never really implementable; it always comes down to how should the game determine who'sa bot and who's not. As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, if you did find a reliable way to determone this, why not instakickban them?

Salsadoom

Great..let's start the Bot farming is OP threads...

isengrimb16_ESO

I'd still like to see a "flagged for lynching" tag be introduced, which a GM does manually by following reports or monitoring places the bots are known to be at the moment (Coldhardbour, public dungeons). Then he can see the names, and try to make contact with the bots - no answer, and you get flagged, baby. Instead of looting the bots, put in a bounty system with nice rewards for killing so many.

They might not care about getting banned, but they might care about their bots being constantly hunted.

hydrocynus

That was my thinking. If you ban them they come back but if you take from them what is valuable to them (gold, loot etc) because players can get it for free by stealing it then there is no point in them coming back after being banned

I see all your points though. Not quite practical this stealing thing.

I think the only way to stop them for good Is to make what they are after somehow worthless to them.

twev

Psychoke wrote: »

I can already see bots stealing from other bots

Give it another 2-3 weeks, and they'll be the majority of the player base anyway.

esoone

Is zos necroing these old posts? Keep seeing old posts popping up like there aint something better to do.