STOP Banning Bots !

Thunderchief · June 2014

I know I know. You are all thinking, "...but Thunderchief you are being silly. We must ban bots so we can get rid of them!"

I posted this idea as a joke on another discussion weeks ago and now when i see a bot I still think about it.

My idea was to create an item that can not be destroyed and once a bot is identified a GM loads up that entire accounts bank and inventory space with this item. The bot then continues to run around from node to node without being able to loot anything. The bots handler will then check in many hours later to find he left his computer on all day for naught.

Another idea is to mark known bots with some icon above their heads. Have a reward drop in those pvp chests that allows us to charm a known bot for 1 hour. It can then run around and follow you like it is a familiar.

Recently I was in the Ivarstead Inn in The Rift (the one before you go up the 100 steps). I noticed a bunch of players (they had pvp ranks beside their names) emoting the script of some long play. They were walking (not running) and behaving like the Inn was a stage. Either they were six hardcore roleplayers or someone was having creative fun with bots.
How about if confirmed bots were forced into roleplay hell. They could be forced into prison cages or forced to play the role of an enduring husband to a bitchy npc wife.

Anyone got any other creative ideas on how we can play with cheaters and bots?

phaneub17_ESO · June 2014

I posted an idea of putting Bots into Cyrodiil where they are teleported in a chasm or corral that prevents only them from porting to player or wayshrine. Players from other factions can come down anytime and kill them relentlessly, the closest available wayshrine would be in the center of it.

AinGeal · June 2014

Perhaps ZoS could bite back. Patch the game so they can prevent targeted accounts from creating a new character. Then fill up the inventory like you said. So now, the gold farmers won't be able to make a profit off of the account but the account is till active so unless the gold seller shuts it down themselves, they'll continue to pay ZoS monthly for a useless account that can't do anything.

ExiledKhallisi · June 2014

Or zen can just get an active gm team...you know...like in other mmo's where you actually see GMs interact with players and running around....if my main was a gm..i could make every bot in cold harbour glenumbra etc vanish in 5 mins... but their dumb email system is a whole new world of fail.

Aureli · June 2014

I like the idea of an item that will fill up the inventory. It needs to be destroyable though, otherwise normal players who pick it up would get screwed over. An email verification code that you have to punch in to destroy it would work just fine.

born2beagator · June 2014

Maybe its just me...but I have seen ONE bot in the past week.

Thunderchief · June 2014

born2beagator wrote: »

Maybe its just me...but I have seen ONE bot in the past week.

True. I have seen few since I hit The Rift but then I go to some out of the way place like Dhalmora and they are still there. I think they are avoiding highly populated areas so they don't get reported.

david271749 · June 2014

born2beagator wrote: »

Maybe its just me...but I have seen ONE bot in the past week.

They go where the money is. It's not here anymore.

Inco · June 2014

Go visit lowbie areas... They are out in force. They have moved to the next stage of giving them almost readable names and random patterns of movement. Teleporting ones are easy to spot (Not catch names), but they ZIP from node to node.

NordJitsu · June 2014

Thunderchief wrote: »

I know I know. You are all thinking, "...but Thunderchief you are being silly.

I haven't stopped thinking this.

Thunderchief · June 2014

NordJitsu wrote: »

Thunderchief wrote: »

I know I know. You are all thinking, "...but Thunderchief you are being silly.

I haven't stopped thinking this.

Fair enough!

born2beagator · June 2014

david271749 wrote: »

born2beagator wrote: »

Maybe its just me...but I have seen ONE bot in the past week.

They go where the money is. It's not here anymore.

Yeah this is something that has been in the back of my mind. Either zen has somehow gotten them under control....or the population is falling so fast that its not lucrative anymore.

I've even noticed a significant decline in gold spam mail.

Thevampirenight · June 2014

Or they could do this with the for when they do housing make them vampire thralls and name them that or cattle and you can kill im off by drinking them dry, also add like hidden vampire basment things in the inns where vampires can drink the thralls dry. Then they are deleted and banned also can palce them in vampire safe houses that vampire players can enter and drain the cattle and do the same thing and do this for all there accounts and ban them and do what the others said force there invortery where they can't sell or do anything and any mail they sent somewhere that gives items is delated or place a track and if there bot accounts track to the mains and ban the players that buy gold and 100k or something from them and keep tracking every move they make by a computer to find patterns and what then need to do to ruin them all

zgrssd · June 2014

All very nice ideas. Except it won't do squat against botting.

It is a business. Banning thier acounts is the most effective way to hit them. Every idea like this would be less problematic then a ban for them.

Wintersage · June 2014

Thevampirenight wrote: »

Or they could do this with the for when they do housing make them vampire thralls and name them that or cattle and you can kill im off by drinking them dry

Oh, I like this. Let the PvPers go to town on each other in Cyrodiil and let the PvEers go to town on the bots and rmt everywhere else.

Very nice.

Thevampirenight · June 2014

zgrssd wrote: »

All very nice ideas. Except it won't do squat against botting.

It is a business. Banning thier acounts is the most effective way to hit them. Every idea like this would be less problematic then a ban for them.

I lot of these Ideas some would add new things to kill others could do both and make it harder on them the harder on them the better they should also force that you have to have a ip address and can't hid it behind a proxy to play so if they ban them it will make it harder for them to return and to ban all there accounts with that ip address they could also currupt files on there game version forcing them to renstall the game they can also put a number on the launcher so they can keep track and prevent them from playing the game with it that can't be changed or deleted for that laucher so they have to also renstall a new game all together.

Fleymark · June 2014

I loled.

Thunderchief · June 2014

zgrssd wrote: »

All very nice ideas. Except it won't do squat against botting.

It is a business. Banning thier acounts is the most effective way to hit them. Every idea like this would be less problematic then a ban for them.

Still I think the GM's would have a lot more fun with this than swinging a ban hammer and would possibly be more motivated to go bot hunting. They could do something different every time. Leaving the bots in game with some sort of symbol beside their name would be a visible sign to legitimate players that GM are doing something. If they ban a bot but there are still bots around we just think they haven't done anything.

Thunderchief · June 2014

New fun idea!

Create an arena setting in the game like the Colosseum in ancient rome. Put some boss mobs (mountain lions?) in the arena with unlimited HP. Put a resurrection point in the center of the arena. Then throw those bots that are scripted to attack the nearest mob in the arena. Allow players to enter the arena and view the bot catch of the day. fkgjgk and hjkghj with a hundred friends will resurrect over and over in an endless battle.

Belitseri · June 2014

I've seen those RP'ers lol. Pretty sure they're not bots. I've seen them interact outside of their group a bit, and fix typos lol. My daughter and I stood there for like an hour to watch them all RP the other night because it was like a soap opera. Alas, the vampire girl was found out due to turning her companion into a vampire to save his life and is now feeling the displeasure of seeing her unrequitted love interest ignore her. She agonizes, everyone drinks and sighs, and drinks and sighs... while another friend assures her that no one hates her for being a vampire.

Thunderchief · June 2014

SPOILER ALERT!@!!! sheesh...

Chrysa1is · December 2021

Touché

ZOS_Icy · December 2021

Greetings,

As this thread was originally created in June 2014 and the information contained within may longer be relevant to the game, we decided to close it down. In many cases, it's better to create a new thread on a topic that you want to discuss as opposed to bumping one that is rather old.

Thank you for your understanding.