Some people turn off their chat, especially if they use teamspeak (or other voice com), so them not responding isn't proof they are bots.

Having us report all suspected bots, and having a GM investigate means that if they aren't bots and they get wiped, they will be reactivating their chat to ask what just happened, and you won't have to say "sorry we all thought you were bots".

By the way, best place for this is probably "Dungeons" in "PVE Content" forums.

@AlexDougherty it would not be in a chat, but an actual on screen message (like press E to gather), and it sticks on until you either say yes or no (with a random Yes and No key picked on a keyboard, to avoid scripting of the answers).

Sorry, I should have specified this.

@ZOS_SofiaC Thank you for the Edit on the main thread . Would you kindly be able to add that the message would be a system message/interaction/group invite message (similar to the gathering/grouping messages?) rather than a chat message as I might not have explained it clearly enough

@utzpretzels it would be an onscreen message, like "press E to gather" or a accept/deny group invite, not a chat message

It is also suggested that the keys needed to be pressed for the answers, be randomized everytime, making it impossible to script the correct answer

Like I said (by suggesting 15minutes), making it slightly larger than the auto kick for being AFK would solve this issue, as you'd be kicked from the game before this could be triggered I put 15 minutes, as I believe that is the autokick time. If not, adjust the time to be slightly longer than that

You could easily after the buttons needed to accept or reject be random as long as they are not associated with moving, E, or R. They could add a second portion that is you are flagged as a possible bot, are killed, and do not revive with in 15 minutes that you are automatically reported as a bot for a GM to investigate. Or if the dev's wanted to have some fun with it, once your account is flagged as a bot you are stuck in PvP mode until a GM clears your name or bans you.

sadly...like diablo 2--- a pvp invite would likely be spammed by griefers.

No. Too easy to get around for the bots, too open to abuse from the players.

Besides, if you think a PvPer is going to wait around for 15 minutes, you're nuts. They would be jumping around, running in circles, spamming AoE abilities, and talking trash in chat. No PvPer is just going to stand there and patiently wait for a flag.

Let the GMs sort it out. This is part of their job.

e.gamemarkb14_ESO wrote: »

If you believe someone is a bot, F1, report them, and move on.

We would, but half of the time, it is impossible. Now they fly, and multibox. A more agressive measure has to be taken. A CD timer longer than an idle/disconnection with a single invite per hour will work as an anti abuse... If anyone wants to follow me for one hour to invite me to duel, well, good on them .

And what happens when a character is afk, is he now a bot and you can freely kill them? So we'd have people going around purposely challenging everyone in the hope that they get no reply to simply kill low lvl characters. I'm sure they'd also be able to figure away around this, when you challenge one, then relog. How likely are people going to stand around for an hour waiting to kill 4 bots as each will have a 15 minute timer. How about people that will go round spamming everyone to challenge just to be annoying? Even then once you do kill the bot, they will simply use a soul gem to res and you'll back at square one. I spent maybe 30 minutes in a public dungeon once getting archer mobs to aoe kill about 5-8 bots, but made no difference, they ressed and carried on.

Sorry, but like most of the "this is how to resolve bots" it's a stupid idea. Zeni are working on it and tbf it's getter much better then it was at launch and will continue to get better over time.

No MMO has had no bots, most MMO's still have bots and gold farmers months and years after the game came out, look at WoW they still have bots and gold farmers 9 years after launch. You can NOT prevent bots, they are always going to be there. Zeni just have to continue to reduce the number of them until they are not recognised so easily and you don't see them everywhere you turn.

Where as I like the idea of players killing bots and this is at least out of the box thinking for a solution the simple fact of the matter is that the people behind the bots would simply turn off/block this in game. These guys can get online and play without even paying anything, teleport to wherever they want, auto detect nodes, mobs, crates, and chests, hell I've even seen a bot walk right through all the mobs in a dungeon without pulling any of them and go straight to the boss. This would not be a difficult piece of software for them to get around. We need live, thinking, self aware people in game with the ability to ban on contact. Spotting a bot is Very easy in game for a person.

No, gm hopping wont work either.

Two per zone, 24/7/365.

Done.

Squishy wrote: »

@utzpretzels it would be an onscreen message, like "press E to gather" or a accept/deny group invite, not a chat message

It is also suggested that the keys needed to be pressed for the answers, be randomized everytime, making it impossible to script the correct answer

I dont see 95% of those and when I do catch it X to decline, always.