Is bot-ing possible in Cyrodiil?

bulbousb16_ESO

There is a large group from a certain faction going around right now, all following each other in a line, more or less, and acting basically in unison. Only without too much intelligence involved. The whole thing seems pretty fishy. I've seen this in other games where the players used macros, etc with multiple accounts. Is this common in Cyrodiil?

Mojmir

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

There is a large group from a certain faction going around right now, all following each other in a line, more or less, and acting basically in unison. Only without too much intelligence involved. The whole thing seems pretty fishy. I've seen this in other games where the players used macros, etc with multiple accounts. Is this common in Cyrodiil?

Bottling or not,it's typical zerg/herd behavior.

jhharvest

The first time I saw one particular zerg on Azura's NA PC I thought they were someone's CS master thesis on building zergling bot AIs. Most of them didn't even fight back when you hit them. But I think they were just really inexperienced players, maybe PVEers who'd been recruited to siege in Cyro.

bulbousb16_ESO

Mojmir wrote: »

Bottling or not,it's typical zerg/herd behavior.

No, it's most definitely not typical. Zerg/herd movement is pretty chaotic. This group is pretty precise. They all head in the exact same direction and they all change course simultaneously. What's more, the whole group seems to be pretty poor at targeting. They'll run right past you without noticing, and they pay zero attention to siege equipment.

Like I said before - really, really fishy.

Rohamad_Ali

Possible but not practical . There's too much travel between wayshrine and keeps to be practical .

Mojmir

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

Bottling or not,it's typical zerg/herd behavior.

No, it's most definitely not typical. Zerg/herd movement is pretty chaotic. This group is pretty precise. They all head in the exact same direction and they all change course simultaneously. What's more, the whole group seems to be pretty poor at targeting. They'll run right past you without noticing, and they pay zero attention to siege equipment.

Like I said before - really, really fishy.

human centipede confirmed

SirAndy

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

No, it's most definitely not typical. Zerg/herd movement is pretty chaotic. This group is pretty precise. They all head in the exact same direction and they all change course simultaneously. What's more, the whole group seems to be pretty poor at targeting. They'll run right past you without noticing, and they pay zero attention to siege equipment.

Bots...

I'm guessing either someone leveling other people's characters for money or they're part of a guild and someone is power leveling their guild mates characters.

FriedEggSandwich

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

Bottling or not,it's typical zerg/herd behavior.

No, it's most definitely not typical. Zerg/herd movement is pretty chaotic. This group is pretty precise. They all head in the exact same direction and they all change course simultaneously. What's more, the whole group seems to be pretty poor at targeting. They'll run right past you without noticing, and they pay zero attention to siege equipment.

Like I said before - really, really fishy.

That does sound like bot behaviour tbh, but I can't for the life of me think why anyone, or group of players, would do that. I can't think of any advantage it would give you, only disadvantages. Cyrodiil combat is the most reactive type of combat in the game; if a human isn't looking at the screen and reacting in real time the character is history in seconds. It could be for node/npc farming purposes but cyrodiil is the worst place to do that; everything is so spaced out.

Maybe it's just a strange rp guild out on a raid.

FriedEggSandwich

SirAndy wrote: »

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

No, it's most definitely not typical. Zerg/herd movement is pretty chaotic. This group is pretty precise. They all head in the exact same direction and they all change course simultaneously. What's more, the whole group seems to be pretty poor at targeting. They'll run right past you without noticing, and they pay zero attention to siege equipment.

Bots...

I'm guessing either someone leveling other people's characters for money or they're part of a guild and someone is power leveling their guild mates characters.

Actually that's a good idea, hadn't thought of that. You could have just one human in the group and the bot chars will get ap too.

Totalitarian

They're walking in a straight line to hide their numbers

Recremen

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

Mojmir wrote: »

Bottling or not,it's typical zerg/herd behavior.

No, it's most definitely not typical. Zerg/herd movement is pretty chaotic. This group is pretty precise. They all head in the exact same direction and they all change course simultaneously. What's more, the whole group seems to be pretty poor at targeting. They'll run right past you without noticing, and they pay zero attention to siege equipment.

Like I said before - really, really fishy.

This sounds more like faulty reporting than suspicious behavior.

God_flakes

One night in TF (and I admit I was inebriated) I was running around alone to resources and came up to Glade farm and Glade was in Ad hands at the time. There was a DC on the farm solo'ing it and standing on the flag.

I ran up to help and he messaged me and said, "my name is Darrien Whitestrake and I like having my home keeps."

I just sort of stood there stunned trying to process who he was and why he said that and suddenly he ran to the lumbermill. I've never in two years seen anything like it. FOR SURE it reeked of bot behavior.

Crispen_Longbow

God_flakes wrote: »

One night in TF (and I admit I was inebriated) I was running around alone to resources and came up to Glade farm and Glade was in Ad hands at the time. There was a DC on the farm solo'ing it and standing on the flag.

I ran up to help and he messaged me and said, "my name is Darrien Whitestrake and I like having my home keeps."

I just sort of stood there stunned trying to process who he was and why he said that and suddenly he ran to the lumbermill. I've never in two years seen anything like it. FOR SURE it reeked of bot behavior.

God_flakes

Kas

there was a certain someone that I could never figure out if he was really sleeping and basically a bot. a relatively high-ranked running into his death without really fighting back. every single time you met him..

Serjustin19

Kas wrote: »

there was a certain someone that I could never figure out if he was really sleeping and basically a bot. a relatively high-ranked running into his death without really fighting back. every single time you met him..

This. The last part at least. Totally sounds like me. I have been doing the same. Not sleepin mind you. But running to my own deat and not fight. Mostly everytime. AD ask me why do I get myself killed. Why do I not fight back? Well because it is fun. I actually enjoyed this. Plus we wern't doing anything interesting. I just run to my own death.....

Dreyloch

If you see this again OP, try to take a video and report it. To my knowledge, there is no /follow command in this game and the only way to move as your describing would most likely need a macro program to do. Which of course, could be ban-able. It'd be nice if the game allowed /follow command, because sometimes ya just need to get up from your chair while a long horse simulator has been enacted by the group/raid lead rofl.