Bots (Bleakrock Isle, PC-EU)

Latariel

I do not speak English very well, but with the help of Google translator I want to show all our rich bestiary and all the lawlessness that is happening on the island all summer this year. I apologize in advance for any errors.

1) The fastest bot on the island. Probably dressed in sets for running (coward gear or jailbreaker). Rushed with it hundreds of circles, rested from under the nose tens of thousands resources, countless provocations and trolling from my side - no reaction.


2) It is similar in behavior to the previous one (running exactly on points, the same route, delay before collection, no reaction to private messages, provocations and theft of resources). Winds circles around the temple and along the north coast.


3) Runs practically along the same route as the second, only in the opposite direction. The behavior is the same as the previous ones.


4) Sorcerer with two pets. Does not use sprint. Drowsily he hobbles between the spider caves and the clearing behind the way shrine.


On these four I wrote already countless number of tickets, I shot even a video - all to no avail. ZOS's simply does not care.

5) Just stands and digs the only two spots in the south. It is harmless.


6...) Well, an endless crowd of identical, newly made Templars. Every day, at about three o'clock in the morning Moscow time, a new bundle is produced (6-8 pieces each). Just a bunch of cockroaches. I do not even pay attention.

marc5477_ESO

That really sucks. The team really needs to investigate this. No excuse not to.

Latariel

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RouDeR

I like bots , they make the stuff in the guild stores cheaper so the PvPers like me don't have to do mindless material grind so they can upgrade their gear : )

Latariel

UPD: Well, it seems that the epithet "identical, newly created templars" is no longer relevant. Today, at six thirty in the morning Moscow time, on the farm of released here are such fashionistas.

Hokiewa

The templar pack is obvious but you should know that some people who farm the newbie islands, including myself, have done it so many times that the pathing is automatic and seamless. I've had people try to "troll" me while running a harvesting route, thinking just like you that I'm a bot. Best way to counter a endless path runner is.......<I won't tell>

Bots should be purged but sometimes a bot really isn't a bot

Nyladreas

Hokiewa wrote: »

The templar pack is obvious but you should know that some people who farm the newbie islands, including myself, have done it so many times that the pathing is automatic and seamless. I've had people try to "troll" me while running a harvesting route, thinking just like you that I'm a bot. Best way to counter a endless path runner is.......<I won't tell>

Bots should be purged but sometimes a bot really isn't a bot

It's extremely obvious when it's a bot. A real person always always always shows inconsistencies. Bots flow like water.

SlippyCheeze

Latariel wrote: »

I do not speak English very well, but with the help of Google translator I want to show all our rich bestiary and all the lawlessness that is happening on the island all summer this year. I apologize in advance for any errors.

1) The fastest bot on the island. Probably dressed in sets for running (coward gear or jailbreaker). Rushed with it hundreds of circles, rested from under the nose tens of thousands resources, countless provocations and trolling from my side - no reaction.

This is awful behaviour, and you should be ashamed of yourself. If you are right, the bot will not care, but if you are wrong, you just tried hard to make life miserable for someone.

You should simply report these using the in-game option to report players, and move on. You do not need to do your own investigation to determine if they are bots or not. ZOS will do that, regardless of what "investigation" you made, because they are the people who enforce their rules.

Posting to the forums like this is worthless. No action will be taken. You literally wasted your time, and you let the botting continue because, well, forum posts == useless, in-game reports == banned.

Viscous119

SlippyCheeze wrote: »

Latariel wrote: »

I do not speak English very well, but with the help of Google translator I want to show all our rich bestiary and all the lawlessness that is happening on the island all summer this year. I apologize in advance for any errors.

1) The fastest bot on the island. Probably dressed in sets for running (coward gear or jailbreaker). Rushed with it hundreds of circles, rested from under the nose tens of thousands resources, countless provocations and trolling from my side - no reaction.

This is awful behaviour, and you should be ashamed of yourself. If you are right, the bot will not care, but if you are wrong, you just tried hard to make life miserable for someone.

You should simply report these using the in-game option to report players, and move on. You do not need to do your own investigation to determine if they are bots or not. ZOS will do that, regardless of what "investigation" you made, because they are the people who enforce their rules.

Posting to the forums like this is worthless. No action will be taken. You literally wasted your time, and you let the botting continue because, well, forum posts == useless, in-game reports == banned.

If they never respond when you /say hello then they are most likely bots. IMO there is plenty of evidence there to report them as such. Bots are a pain in the @ss period.

SlippyCheeze

Viscous119 wrote: »

SlippyCheeze wrote: »

Latariel wrote: »

I do not speak English very well, but with the help of Google translator I want to show all our rich bestiary and all the lawlessness that is happening on the island all summer this year. I apologize in advance for any errors.

1) The fastest bot on the island. Probably dressed in sets for running (coward gear or jailbreaker). Rushed with it hundreds of circles, rested from under the nose tens of thousands resources, countless provocations and trolling from my side - no reaction.

This is awful behaviour, and you should be ashamed of yourself. If you are right, the bot will not care, but if you are wrong, you just tried hard to make life miserable for someone.

You should simply report these using the in-game option to report players, and move on. You do not need to do your own investigation to determine if they are bots or not. ZOS will do that, regardless of what "investigation" you made, because they are the people who enforce their rules.

Posting to the forums like this is worthless. No action will be taken. You literally wasted your time, and you let the botting continue because, well, forum posts == useless, in-game reports == banned.

If they never respond when you /say hello then they are most likely bots. IMO there is plenty of evidence there to report them as such. Bots are a pain in the @ss period.

I don't respond when you /say hello to me, and I especially don't respond when someone whispers "u r a bot, u butt, u r ruinz gayme." I am, on zero occasions, a bot. ...but that is literally beside the point because:

Why do you care? If you think they are a bot, report them. ZOS will look at the logs, etc, and determine if they are a bot or a human. They will then take appropriate action.

Nobody suffers from this. There is no penalty for reporting you think someone is a bot, and being wrong. There is no penalty toward me if you report me as a bot, and i'm not.

All you do is waste a bit of time saying hello to robots, and/or get fooled by the simplest chatbot in the universe built in to the software, which notices /say hello and emotes wave, or says something back. I mean, if this becomes an effective method of detecting bots, and leads to bans, guess what the bot writers are going to do?

(In fact, many of them already do automate chat, specifically because of suckers who think this is an effective way to play "bot or not".)

mocap

several days later...

Templar

• Aedric Spear
  • Puncturing Sweep: Decreased the damage done from this ability by 90% and healing done by 80%
  Developer Comments:
  We nerf this skill to wayrest sewers cuz... you know... current meta skill for bots, no offence, k? )

Epona222

I hope I never run into you when I am farming a newbie island - I know my routes like a pro, use jailbreaker and swift jewelry, and have pms turned off so that I don't get rage tells from the (sometimes very angry yet slow) people I beat to nodes.

That makes me dedicated to node harvesting, not a bot.