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Are bots back?
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I just recently came back to the game and last night I noticed a ton of level 3's standing ontop of each other in Rawl'kha. They all were wearing soulshriven robes and would jump occasionally.
I remember bots from when ESO first came out, the bots would teleport to resource nodes underground, but these were just standing still.
sorry for my ignorance, just wondering if i should be reporting them or not.
I remember bots from when ESO first came out, the bots would teleport to resource nodes underground, but these were just standing still.
sorry for my ignorance, just wondering if i should be reporting them or not.
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✭✭✭✭✭If they were just standing around and not really doing a thing it's prObably not bots.1 -
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✭✭✭✭✭ManwithBeard9 wrote: »Bots never left
Not really what he's saying. Earlier in the game one could not take a step through tamriel without running into a bot.0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Yes, bots are everywhere and ZOS refuses to do anything about it.
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They never left ...bosmern_ESO wrote: »Are bots back?
Plus, now we have Cheat Engine, which contrary to what some will tell you still works just fine with ESO.
Edited by SirAndy on November 30, 2016 6:55PM3 -
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✭I have seen Dolmen farming bots. They just stand heavy attacking or light attacking the spot where the dolmen boss drops. I have reported them a few times and encoured the other fellow Dolmen destroyers to do the same thing"If a stick of fish is a fish stick, it will stick like other fish sticks stick"
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DragonBound✭✭✭✭✭I find it hard to believe tons of bots will spend money on buy to play mmorpgs, bots are usually in free to play.1
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Your beliefs have no impact on reality ...CosmicSoul wrote: »I find it hard to believe tons of bots will spend money on buy to play mmorpgs, bots are usually in free to play.
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✭CosmicSoul wrote: »I find it hard to believe tons of bots will spend money on buy to play mmorpgs, bots are usually in free to play.
It was even worse back in the Sub days. You couldn't get to the end boss of a delve without breaking through a circle of a good dozen bots farming that boss' spawn point. It's the reason they put a timer on how often you can get loot from a delve boss.
As for the OP... it's hard to say without more information. They could have been bots... but they could also have been a group of friends who were chatting in Teamspeak and thus not paying attention to the game.Edited by BlackSparrow on November 30, 2016 7:46PMLiving vicariously through my characters.
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Your beliefs have no impact on reality ...CosmicSoul wrote: »I find it hard to believe tons of bots will spend money on buy to play mmorpgs, bots are usually in free to play.
that is quite profound, really. I feel like i just received life advice, not game advice....
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Your beliefs have no impact on reality ...CosmicSoul wrote: »I find it hard to believe tons of bots will spend money on buy to play mmorpgs, bots are usually in free to play.
And you get to assume I do not know this? Also show me the facts, I am not going to believe it just because someone said's it, if anything its hypocritical.0 -
ConeOfSilence✭✭✭✭I saw the same thing the OP did was quite strange indeed must have been about 5 or 6 of them standing on the same spot.
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✭✭They might be roleplaying as bots?
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Your beliefs have no impact on reality ...CosmicSoul wrote: »I find it hard to believe tons of bots will spend money on buy to play mmorpgs, bots are usually in free to play.
And you get to assume I do not know this? Also show me the facts, I am not going to believe it just because someone said's it, if anything its hypocritical.
They are very much still around right now, I have been posting screenshots and locations of them here.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/306005/botting-locations#latest
I have even tested them by pulling the mobs they are killing away from their range and holding them and sure enough they walk the same jagged preset path looking for mobs to kill, and are oblivious to my presence just a few feet away holding all of the areas enemies on me.Edited by Caligamy_ESO on December 1, 2016 10:53PMlove is love1 -
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✭Are we talking bots? Or just pnewbie players that used to be confined to the EP?
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✭✭✭✭I went and had a look, and I am 99.9% sure they are bots. I usually reserve judgment on such things, but there were a whole multitude of them standing near the Rawl wayshrine just jumping in synch, it wasn't just 1 it was many. It was like whoever set them up missed a step in some "how to make a farming bot" instruction manual and accidentally ended up with a load in Rawl instead of wherever they were intended to be.
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Bryanonymous✭✭✭✭✭Important to clarify which platform and server, but they never really left.Enemy-of-Coldharbour wrote: »Yes, bots are everywhere and ZOS refuses to do anything about it.
This is simply not true at all. Every time I report a bot, they are gone within a couple days. The problem is they use a vpn and show right back up on a new account.0 -
SondreGrande✭✭✭Bots is a very true thing in ESO. But I would rather believe it is one of the following;
-Mule for Traders to store items
-Trading Chars
-Roleplayers (Though I hardly believe they would all RP in Soul Shriven starter-armor)
-Characters used for something else
I hardly believe its bots, considering that they just stand in Rawl'ka, and not out slaying or farming. Unless... Its a advanced trading bot..0 -
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✭✭✭✭SondreGrande wrote: »Bots is a very true thing in ESO. But I would rather believe it is one of the following;
-Mule for Traders to store items
-Trading Chars
-Roleplayers (Though I hardly believe they would all RP in Soul Shriven starter-armor)
-Characters used for something else
I hardly believe its bots, considering that they just stand in Rawl'ka, and not out slaying or farming. Unless... Its a advanced trading bot..
No-one out of those categories you suggest stands in the exact same place in Rawl for more than a day jumping up and down, without logging out, moving, or interacting with anything. With a large crowd of normal players (ie people wearing all sorts of different gear and costumes, interacting with each other and talking about the bots) gathered around them, wondering why Zeni hadn't done anything yet, because they have been there for a while now.
Normally I would be sceptical too as I often see people getting upset about "oh this person got to a node before me, must be a bot", but I have seen this phenomenon with my own eyes on NA PC server. I think they are bots that have been misprogrammed, proabably by 1 account holder.Edited by Epona222 on December 1, 2016 9:42AMGM - Ghost Sea Trading Co - NA PC
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Bryanonymous✭✭✭✭✭SondreGrande wrote: »Bots is a very true thing in ESO. But I would rather believe it is one of the following;
-Mule for Traders to store items
-Trading Chars
-Roleplayers (Though I hardly believe they would all RP in Soul Shriven starter-armor)
-Characters used for something else
I hardly believe its bots, considering that they just stand in Rawl'ka, and not out slaying or farming. Unless... Its a advanced trading bot..
No-one out of those categories you suggest stands in the exact same place in Rawl for more than a day jumping up and down, without logging out, moving, or interacting with anything. With a large crowd of normal players (ie people wearing all sorts of different gear and costumes, interacting with each other and talking about the bots) gathered around them, wondering why Zeni hadn't done anything yet, because they have been there for a while now.
Normally I would be sceptical too as I often see people getting upset about "oh this person got to a node before me, must be a bot", but I have seen this phenomenon with my own eyes on NA PC server. I think they are bots that have been misprogrammed, proabably by 1 account holder.
I'm trying to think of what reason the person would have to remain logged in for extended periods of time. Perhaps avoiding some type of log out mechanic. Who knows. Maybe as simple as them not wanting to do the verification email from their vpn. It is suspicious, and perhaps there is some kind of trading going on between them. Just report what you see and move on. Innocent players would just need to submit a support ticket to clear their name.Edited by Bryanonymous on December 1, 2016 9:58AM0 -
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✭✭✭✭Bryanonymous wrote: »SondreGrande wrote: »Bots is a very true thing in ESO. But I would rather believe it is one of the following;
-Mule for Traders to store items
-Trading Chars
-Roleplayers (Though I hardly believe they would all RP in Soul Shriven starter-armor)
-Characters used for something else
I hardly believe its bots, considering that they just stand in Rawl'ka, and not out slaying or farming. Unless... Its a advanced trading bot..
No-one out of those categories you suggest stands in the exact same place in Rawl for more than a day jumping up and down, without logging out, moving, or interacting with anything. With a large crowd of normal players (ie people wearing all sorts of different gear and costumes, interacting with each other and talking about the bots) gathered around them, wondering why Zeni hadn't done anything yet, because they have been there for a while now.
Normally I would be sceptical too as I often see people getting upset about "oh this person got to a node before me, must be a bot", but I have seen this phenomenon with my own eyes on NA PC server. I think they are bots that have been misprogrammed, proabably by 1 account holder.
I'm trying to think of what reason the person would have to remain logged in for extended periods of time. Perhaps avoiding some type of log out mechanic. Who knows. Maybe as simple as them not wanting to do the verification email from their vpn. It is suspicious, and perhaps there is some kind of trading going on between them. Just report what you see and move on. Innocent players would just need to submit a support ticket to clear their name.
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Bryanonymous✭✭✭✭✭Bryanonymous wrote: »SondreGrande wrote: »Bots is a very true thing in ESO. But I would rather believe it is one of the following;
-Mule for Traders to store items
-Trading Chars
-Roleplayers (Though I hardly believe they would all RP in Soul Shriven starter-armor)
-Characters used for something else
I hardly believe its bots, considering that they just stand in Rawl'ka, and not out slaying or farming. Unless... Its a advanced trading bot..
No-one out of those categories you suggest stands in the exact same place in Rawl for more than a day jumping up and down, without logging out, moving, or interacting with anything. With a large crowd of normal players (ie people wearing all sorts of different gear and costumes, interacting with each other and talking about the bots) gathered around them, wondering why Zeni hadn't done anything yet, because they have been there for a while now.
Normally I would be sceptical too as I often see people getting upset about "oh this person got to a node before me, must be a bot", but I have seen this phenomenon with my own eyes on NA PC server. I think they are bots that have been misprogrammed, proabably by 1 account holder.
I'm trying to think of what reason the person would have to remain logged in for extended periods of time. Perhaps avoiding some type of log out mechanic. Who knows. Maybe as simple as them not wanting to do the verification email from their vpn. It is suspicious, and perhaps there is some kind of trading going on between them. Just report what you see and move on. Innocent players would just need to submit a support ticket to clear their name.
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Your beliefs have no impact on reality ...CosmicSoul wrote: »I find it hard to believe tons of bots will spend money on buy to play mmorpgs, bots are usually in free to play.
And you get to assume I do not know this? Also show me the facts, I am not going to believe it just because someone said's it, if anything its hypocritical.
You were the one who choose the word "Believe", you could of worded the your post differently! i.e. why would tons of bots spend money on a buy to play game?
however to answer your question, do a search for bots and go back a few years at a time when the game was buy and sub to play!
They do this because the can make gold and then sell the Gold on Gold selling sites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVi2xi-XKzQ this is a link to you tube video of bots farming a boss in a dungeon. 0
