Loads of botters in Rivenspire EU PC

Troneon

Just found trains and trains of botters around this area in Rivenspire. Farming exp by the looks of it. Could tell they were bots following the exact same path and using exact same skills on exact same mobs..quite a large area, multiple groups of bots.

dtm_samuraib16_ESO

ZoS, time to perma ban!
And for crying out loud, STEP UP, DAMMIT!!!!!

Epona222

Farming trolls for oils by the look of where they are

Lava_Croft

Anti-botting code is working fine, move along!

Jim_Pipp

Wow. I haven't seen bots for years! The cheat engine is still chugging along then.

Were you in the regular, silver or gold version of rivenspire?

Has anyone ever seen bots in cyrodil?

Troneon

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Wow. I haven't seen bots for years! The cheat engine is still chugging along then.

Were you in the regular, silver or gold version of rivenspire?

Has anyone ever seen bots in cyrodil?

PC EU AD Gold Zone Rivenspire.

Ch4mpTW

Damn! I haven't heard talk of bots in a long time. @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Do you mind looking into this?

AzraelKrieg

The problem is prevelant in PC NA too in the same zone in the same location. The people behind the bots got smart and used unicode characters that players in America and Australia wouldn't or don't know how to use in their character names.

Troneon

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

Damn! I haven't heard talk of bots in a long time. @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Do you mind looking into this?

Just had another look, botters have moved on since I saw them over 12 hours ago. Either they changed location or will be back on tomorrow around same time 9am-1pm GMT

phairdon

Put them on ignore. Or at least that was the advice I got, after reporting some a few week back.

Universe

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Wow. I haven't seen bots for years! The cheat engine is still chugging along then.

Were you in the regular, silver or gold version of rivenspire?

Has anyone ever seen bots in cyrodil?

Cheat Engine issue is not resolved
I reported on two players just a few hours ago, they were speed hacking and using too much ultimate.
Also, one of them had a crazy health regen, it looked like 10k, no matter how close to death he got, he didn't die.
Though I have not seen a bot in the last few days.

sadownik

Lord wrote: »

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Wow. I haven't seen bots for years! The cheat engine is still chugging along then.

Were you in the regular, silver or gold version of rivenspire?

Has anyone ever seen bots in cyrodil?

Cheat Engine issue is not resolved
I reported on two players just a few hours ago, they were speed hacking and using too much ultimate.
Also, one of them had a crazy health regen, it looked like 10k, no matter how close to death he got, he didn't die.
Though I have not seen a bot in the last few days.

Though bots are real cheat engine has nothing to do with that one.

Recremen

Are you sure they're bots and not just regular farmers getting the best bang for their buck? Let's not go witch-hunting just because of the recent cheat scandal.

Troneon

Recremen wrote: »

Are you sure they're bots and not just regular farmers getting the best bang for their buck? Let's not go witch-hunting just because of the recent cheat scandal.

I am sure.

They all followed the exact same path within milliseconds of each other, every time they moved it was in a direct line and complete right angles, a human player does not move like that, all the bots used the same skills in sequence for each mob in repeat, none of them replied to zone chat or whispers, occasionally the bot route would get messed up due to changes in mob spawn times, the bots would get split up slightly, eventually the bot train would get spread in a line and one of the bots would die, when they did die to something a human player would never die from if they had half a brain and could press one key, they would instantly within a split second port to nearest wayshrine with no time delay from death to shrine, then run back the exact same line of sight and route and continue the pre programmed farm bot train. Sometimes the bots would hold position all on the exact same spot for say 10-15 seconds to allow for all bots to "catch up" with each other, this was probably put in to allow for errors in the bots to self correct themselves and allow for 100% afk automatic use of the bots.

There is more I could go on for a while but I think that covers most of it.

Epona222

Troneon wrote: »

Recremen wrote: »

Are you sure they're bots and not just regular farmers getting the best bang for their buck? Let's not go witch-hunting just because of the recent cheat scandal.

I am sure.

They all followed the exact same path within milliseconds of each other, every time they moved it was in a direct line and complete right angles, a human player does not move like that, all the bots used the same skills in sequence for each mob in repeat, none of them replied to zone chat or whispers, occasionally the bot route would get messed up due to changes in mob spawn times, the bots would get split up slightly, eventually the bot train would get spread in a line and one of the bots would die, when they did die to something a human player would never die from if they had half a brain and could press one key, they would instantly within a split second port to nearest wayshrine with no time delay from death to shrine, then run back the exact same line of sight and route and continue the pre programmed farm bot train. Sometimes the bots would hold position all on the exact same spot for say 10-15 seconds to allow for all bots to "catch up" with each other, this was probably put it to allow for errors in the bots to self correct themselves and allow for 100% afk automatic use of the bots.

There is more I could go on for a while but I think that covers most of it.

When people post that they think they have seen bots, I am sometimes a little sceptical (I know some people who wear fjords, steed stone, and other speed buffs for farming who sometimes get reported, but are real players controlling their characters) - but that clear description of their behaviour does seem to put it beyond any doubt in this case.

Soundso

I am behind this since over a month now.
First i noticed huge amounts of raw leather sold in some guild stores. For example one morning they had over 50.000 raw leather pieces for sale in just one guild. But they are active in several guilds. This is really massive and has a huge impact on the game economy. They earned 28 million gold in 20 days in just one guild!


I first assumed it is another exploit and made a ticket at Mai 7th. But found out later that they are bots.
At May 16th i found two of the botting locations in Rivenspire (Traitor's Tor and Lorkrata Hills). Two of the accounts i reported back then are still botting while i write.



May 19th i found 2 other locations in Bangkorai (Kerbol's Hollow). And one of the accounts i reported is still active today.



The location at Sanguine Barrows is new for me but i know some of the account names.

I am in Aldmeri faction but i know they are at the same locations at Ebonheart. Thanks to the extra char slots i am leveling up an Ebonheart char to investigate there.

I always updated my ticket when i got new information (160507-000557) and also reported each bot individually. Several friends of mine reported them too. But not much happened. It is really frustrating!
Sure a few bots are banned now but they replace them very fast.

I hope some of you check out those locations. If you think they are bots then please report them. Also if you know other botting locations please post them here!
Maybe this thread and more reports help to get rid of this plague.

SantieClaws

This one recalls the botting issues from the early days of the game. They were very easy to spot because their names all appeared to be randomly generated.

This some of the footage khajiit took in those early days for those who were not around.



Within a month or two they did seem to have a good handle on the issue and the sort of botting shown here had mostly gone.

It seems now maybe someone somewhere has found new loopholes to abuse.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Ch4mpTW

SantieClaws wrote: »

This one recalls the botting issues from the early days of the game. They were very easy to spot because their names all appeared to be randomly generated.

This some of the footage khajiit took in those early days for those who were not around.



Within a month or two they did seem to have a good handle on the issue and the sort of botting shown here had mostly gone.

It seems now maybe someone somewhere has found new loopholes to abuse.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

That was the golden age of ESO. I remember the bottling issue from back then, and ZOS handled them quite nicely. However, I fear we're dealing 2 different versions of ZOS.

Ryuuhime

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen bots in cyrodil?

Saw one in IC, on the first room with mobs (DC). In Cyrodiil itself, not that I've noticed.