covenant_merchant wrote: »

They might be actually playing with TBS for all you know

It's different way to tell if they do or not via addons. Also, they admitted on ts and made fun of me for not exploiting and taking this game to seriously since zos doesn't give a *** anyway. Actually, that part I agree on.

CarbonX wrote: »

Same with bots. I've seen the same exact bots for days on the same exact spot, again; same exact bots on the same exact spots, reported several times with video and screenshot proof, so ZOS know EXACTLY where they are, but their accounts haven't been banned. Why?

I have given up reporting bots. I would report bots and they would continue to bot and sell for another week on a guild trader in a guild I used to be in, getting millions in gold sales.

My hypothesis as to why bots haven't been banned goes like this (and again, this is a hypothesis, not a theory, so I have some flexibility in my argument):

Patch 2.7 (I think that's the new patch version, correct me if I'm wrong) is coming out in about a week. So, I hypothesize that because bots are probably trying to make a lot of gold so they can buy their dream house when it comes out on February 6th, ZOS will send their strongest message ever by, during patch maintenance, banning all accounts they found are botting. What they are doing right now is gathering up all the reports, and then on patch day do one swing with their gold quality Ban Hammer and throw the bots out of Tamriel.

Again, this is only a hypothesis, and by no means can I see into ZeniMax's mind. But let me just say this...if I were banned after botting for 2 weeks to try and get my dream home, I would say "Not worth it" and not come back, thus accomplishing ZeniMax's goal.

CapnPhoton wrote: »

Bans take time and after sufficient investigation. Unless you did it yourself, are you sure the reports were submitted?

if WoT has the capability to ban someone right on the spot while you know you are doing something wrong, i'm sure any game can.

Runs wrote: »

The last botter I reported took something like 6 months, including a thread about him where he could be found and multiple people reporting him with video evidence.

Even now I am not convinced his ban was permanent as he is still on my ignore list. Perm banned players are supposed to be removed from ignore lists. So my guess is it got a 3 day ban but they thought it was permanent and never came back.

I would not trust them to be removed from your list.

OrphanHelgen wrote: »

covenant_merchant wrote: »

They might be actually playing with TBS for all you know

It's different way to tell if they do or not via addons. Also, they admitted on ts and made fun of me for not exploiting and taking this game to seriously since zos doesn't give a *** anyway. Actually, that part I agree on.

This will be fixed soon as you won't be able to see their buffs any longer.

Forget about this everyone, you're wasting your typing energy which could've been put to better use like playing the game and racking in EXP, APs and yadayada.
Incompetent ZOS don't give a fark about this issue.

OrphanHelgen wrote: »

I know some exploiters who have got atleast 5 reports with high details written. I still see them in game every day. Why?

That's nothing, we got perma banned players that are back on new accounts, almost over 400cps (meaning they've been playing for awhile), exploiting and causing mayhem as we speak (just saw one the other day with two scamps, 2 munduses, a twilight and bugged poisons that double proc). I would be happy if the perma banned trouble makers would actually stay perma banned.

arena25 wrote: »

when it comes out on February 6th, ZOS will send their strongest message ever by, during patch maintenance, banning all accounts they found are botting. What they are doing right now is gathering up all the reports, and then on patch day do one swing with their gold quality Ban Hammer and throw the bots out of Tamriel.

Right, farm bots are the biggest problem ZOS has. It is not folks running cheat engine or however the hell you now have folks using class abilities from classes other than what they are running in PVP.

I say leave the bots alone to wander the country side. If it wasn't for them we on PC would have 20k tempering alloys like the folks on console have. God bless them for mitigating the complete lack of management of the in game economy on ZOS part. I once reported a guy I was pissed at for botting when I caught him doing so and he did, in fact, get banned and come back in a few days. I'm actually glad he is back as I am no longer pissed at him and he is a rather valuable member of the community.

Now all we need is bots that target folks running cheat engine, mixed class builds, and I hear multi-mundus is back. Maybe folks running bots can fix that problem just like the economic ones.

Bots, as long as they are not lined up in endless ques with names like [snip] I really could not care less. They were a problem at launch but I actually think they are a net benefit to most players through material cost savings now. My enjoyment in game is far more damaged by folks cheating and killing me than by folks running bots around the countryside at night when I am asleep anyway. I might add that it is much easier to catch the cheaters than the bot runners as well. You can catch cheaters with a simple cheat sniffer that occasionally back checks client side numbers for plausibility. Bots generally require individual human intervention to detect as they act indistinguishably from a player farming. The fact that after the great cheat purge most players were let back in and only the most rudimentary anti-cheat features were installed is the real burr under my saddle and I am not about to shut up until it gets fixed for real.

[edited to remove random player name]

I'd rather it be hard to get someone banned than having an angry player report someone for no reason, getting them banned instantly.

Read my Sig. Thats why

From what I have seen Zeno max prefer fixing the game so these bugs cannot be exploited. Like double mundus which I beloved is fixed so should not be possible as well as the double ultimate bug and banker exploit for using the same survey. They are either very slow or do nothing about the actual players a lot of the time and just focus on fixing their game.

Victimize wrote: »

I still want to know why i got a ban for naming my character "Redguard Lives Matter"

Anything remotely political will end up with a name change because it could set people off depending their personal feelings regarding the subject.