Bot Train in Coldharbour Black Forge - DC alliance

Nebthet78

Can't believe we are still seeing bots in this game after so long. Ran into one tonight in the Black Forge.

There were two small groups of them ranging from V3-V6 and they would just go around in a circle killing all the vamps where the first point of the quest is.

The bot at the lead of this things runs ahead of the others and agros the mobs but doesn't attack, it just stands there, and then the other members of the train catches up and then starts attacking.. they are all templars and all use biting jabs and the seem to skip the enemies that have fear and snare abilities.

All of the toons involved don't have normal spelling names.. they are pretty much close to nonsense names like you commonly see in bots.


I did make an in game report.

Here is an image of what I am seeing.. I have the UI off so you cannot see names.

Xendyn

Well that sure sounds familiar. Hope they catch them, are they there all the time?

Nebthet78

Xendyn wrote: »

Well that sure sounds familiar. Hope they catch them, are they there all the time?

They were there for at least the hour I was there in between typing and chatting with a guildie watching them go round and round. I decided to move on with my quest after making a report.

jircris11

just report em they will get booted. the bots will never fully stop so long as people buy lvling and gold BUT they are far less then before.

Turelus

Nebthet78 wrote: »

Can't believe we are still seeing bots in this game after so long. Ran into one tonight in the Black Forge.

The first MMO company that finds a way to remove bots forever 100% of the time will probably be rich from selling the tech to other companies.

Tors

Turelus wrote: »

Nebthet78 wrote: »

Can't believe we are still seeing bots in this game after so long. Ran into one tonight in the Black Forge.

The first MMO company that finds a way to remove bots forever 100% of the time will probably be rich from selling the tech to other companies.

I agree with your point here entirely, but ESO does have an advantage over its competitors, in that it has a single server (2 I suppose, if you count the colonies) and far less instanced stuff.

While they can't easily get rid of the bots using instanced locations, the public areas can be policed easily with a small team of humans working off players reports in real time.

Phinix1

WoW hasn't had a bot train last for more than 24 hours for over three years, and they actually BAN accounts, PERMANENTLY.

BuggeX

Phinix1 wrote: »

WoW hasn't had a bot train last for more than 24 hours for over three years, and they actually BAN accounts, PERMANENTLY.

wath was this Storys with the boxer accounts? even my friend boted 24/7 for over 3 years with 5 Accs.

and just 2 off his 5 Accs where banned, the others may still farm

Turelus

Tors wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Nebthet78 wrote: »

Can't believe we are still seeing bots in this game after so long. Ran into one tonight in the Black Forge.

The first MMO company that finds a way to remove bots forever 100% of the time will probably be rich from selling the tech to other companies.

I agree with your point here entirely, but ESO does have an advantage over its competitors, in that it has a single server (2 I suppose, if you count the colonies) and far less instanced stuff.

While they can't easily get rid of the bots using instanced locations, the public areas can be policed easily with a small team of humans working off players reports in real time.

That costs money though, and you have to remember that this isn't a game with millions of subs raking it in. Also from what we have seen ZOS seem very much under the control of Zenimax Media in how the business side of things are done.

You just to look at some of the decisions of the past to see that Zenimax Media don't want to give ZOS money to sort issues they probably don't understand.

This is all my perspective of course, I have no inside knowledge of their workings.

Belidos

In my old WoW guild there was a guy who multi-boxed 5 accounts all the time, he was reported all the time but was never banned, he was even approached by an in game CSR who spoke to him about it and told him he was doing nothing wrong because he was in full control of each account and not automating them, apparently as long as their was one key stroke for one action he was fine.

So in WoW they ban bots, but they don't ban multi-boxing, the difference is subtle but there is a difference. I would assume the policy is similar here, so my point is... OP are you sure this is a Bot train and not a multi-boxer?

Nebthet78

Belidos wrote: »

In my old WoW guild there was a guy who multi-boxed 5 accounts all the time, he was reported all the time but was never banned, he was even approached by an in game CSR who spoke to him about it and told him he was doing nothing wrong because he was in full control of each account and not automating them, apparently as long as their was one key stroke for one action he was fine.

So in WoW they ban bots, but they don't ban multi-boxing, the difference is subtle but there is a difference. I would assume the policy is similar here, so my point is... OP are you sure this is a Bot train and not a multi-boxer?

Well considering the names on the characters involved were nonsense names and made no sense, like you see with bots that is a big indication, and I also PM'd each of them without a reply. Yeah someone may not be paying attention to zone chat, but usually 1 in 8 would respond.

I am also not sure, but I think multi-boxing is actually against the rules in this game. Either way, there is an official report so whomever gets it can work it out.

Alucardo

Really, if you're standing in one spot just heavy attacking the game should kick you after a certain amount of time, similar to when you're just idling too long.