There is a huge lack of diversity in this game

Jolipinator

When it comes to mementos that can move bots away from resource nodes. As far as I can tell we only have 2:

Questionable Meat Sack, from the Forgotten Crypts. Cooldown of 63 seconds.
Battered Bear Trap, from Toothmaul Gully. Cooldown of 30 seconds.

Last night I was going through all of my treasure maps and ended up on Khenarti's Roost. I saw a player in the distance with no armour or clothing on so I went to investigate. It turned out to be a bot, so I started using the mementos to move it. 2 other players showed up saying they had already moved it a bit, so we all teamed up and moved it towards some enemies, and watched it die and revive itself. Over and over and over again.

Then we got bored so we went around the other starter islands looking for more. We found 2 more on Stros M'Kai. We successfully killed 1, but the other wasn't near any enemies so we just moved it from the node. It was a great evening, but watching a bot vomit and trigger a bear trap is only so entertaining. I need more.

ZOS, please add more mementos which other players activate. They will be put to good use by bot killers, and possibly other players. Thank you.

Vaerth

Jolipinator wrote: »

When it comes to mementos that can move bots away from resource nodes. As far as I can tell we only have 2:

Questionable Meat Sack, from the Forgotten Crypts. Cooldown of 63 seconds.
Battered Bear Trap, from Toothmaul Gully. Cooldown of 30 seconds.

Last night I was going through all of my treasure maps and ended up on Khenarti's Roost. I saw a player in the distance with no armour or clothing on so I went to investigate. It turned out to be a bot, so I started using the mementos to move it. 2 other players showed up saying they had already moved it a bit, so we all teamed up and moved it towards some enemies, and watched it die and revive itself. Over and over and over again.

Then we got bored so we went around the other starter islands looking for more. We found 2 more on Stros M'Kai. We successfully killed 1, but the other wasn't near any enemies so we just moved it from the node. It was a great evening, but watching a bot vomit and trigger a bear trap is only so entertaining. I need more.

ZOS, please add more mementos which other players activate. They will be put to good use by bot killers, and possibly other players. Thank you.

Does ZoS not care about the botting? Seems liek they should have been reported and quickly banner, no?

KhajiitFelix

Ok...

BringerOfOmens

Wait....am I understanding you to say people have an account with a bot to camp a single node???

Ash_In_My_Sujamma

I legit didn't know that you could do this with those mementos. Now I want to farm bots!

Jolipinator

Vaerth wrote: »

Does ZoS not care about the botting? Seems liek they should have been reported and quickly banner, no?

Reporting does nothing. This forum is full of posts from players who say they have reported bots and found them again weeks later.

BringerOfOmens wrote: »

Wait....am I understanding you to say people have an account with a bot to camp a single node???

Yes. The nodes in the starter islands respawn fast, and some spots have 2 nodes next to eachother. All the both has to do is hold down the activate button.

Ash_In_My_Sujamma wrote: »

I legit didn't know that you could do this with those mementos. Now I want to farm bots!

Another player posted this technique a few weeks or months ago, I can't remember who. They brought it to my attention. Join us, it is fun and rewarding.

Starlock

We need one with a shorter cooldown so solo players can pull these punks away from nodes. It doesn't work with just one person doing it. I've tried.

Jolipinator

Starlock wrote: »

We need one with a shorter cooldown so solo players can pull these punks away from nodes. It doesn't work with just one person doing it. I've tried.

Agreed. We also need a larger pillar type of memento. The 2 we have now are too small and sink into the ground too easily. We need something large that is easy to activate.

Uryel

+1 Awesome

Tasear

😈 menentos for bots!

BloodStorm

Very few bots if at all on PS4. Glad I switched at PS4 launch.

Jolipinator

BloodStorm wrote: »

Very few bots if at all on PS4. Glad I switched at PS4 launch.

There are few of the bots I described, but there are dozens of bots on programmed paths, walking from one node to the next in an infinite loop. Don't know how to tackle those ones yet.

kojou

What about the jubilee cake? Witch mother's brew?

Noctus

easiest thing is to nulify the exp and material someone gets if he kills a certain enemy 10th time or so

Sir_ZoreX

random node locations…
or a radius of the node locations…

granted i have no idea how hard it would befor them to implement but it shld atleast take out most of the simple bots

ynimma

Love it, well done!

Ratzkifal

This is the easiest way ZOS can deal with the botting problem. They don't even have to do anything big. Just add more of these and botting will become a thing of the past or evolve to outsmart our outsmarting.

SugaComa

BloodStorm wrote: »

Very few bots if at all on PS4. Glad I switched at PS4 launch.

Alikr, bethnik, and other places all have bots on the ps4 they use remote play to script the automation ... Simple solution ...

Stop remote play on PS4 for the game

disintegr8

SugaComa wrote: »

BloodStorm wrote: »

Very few bots if at all on PS4. Glad I switched at PS4 launch.

Alikr, bethnik, and other places all have bots on the ps4 they use remote play to script the automation ... Simple solution ...

Stop remote play on PS4 for the game

NOOOO - how can I play ESO when I'm at work if I can't remote in?

radiostar

That's where all the Cornflower is going!

Operativ

If bots are an issue, then the best solution would be a server-side bot detector, similar to how Jagex developed one in their RuneScape game back in the day.

Unless one is already running and I'm not aware of it.

And thank you for the knowledge that we can actually interrupt people/bots with these mementos!

Michae

This is so awesome. I need to try that. But I've never seen a bot in this game tbh.

Xerikten

a new past time, "bot farming". how many bots can you move, kill and etc. think i'll try my hand at it. all we need is a achievement and title.

Zenzuki

Will these work for the bots standing around farming mudcrabs, etc. or just ones on nodes?

I always see these bot groups just standing around the shorelines and popping spells and aggro'ing mudcrabs. Report after report does nothing...

I'd love to have an emote (or more effective ones) to pull these bots away from their position negating their farm or into a mob for an infinite death loop!

C'mon ZOS, just create a few more of these. You'd only need to do the work ONCE in creating the emote..

You might find that the active community could be your biggest boon in removing these unwanted nuisances that irritate your playerbase and unsettle the games economy! Many (myself included) would enjoy stopping whatever I may be doing at the moment to "sort" these bots out when we come across them! Give us them tools...

Let's US... help YOU!