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Bots forever
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I'm just tired of this. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so unfair, while the rest of us spend real time on leveling up, farming, making gold, etc.
What does ZOS do? Nothing! Yes, NOTHING!
I laugh at that "Please report through the reporting tool"...
I did it so many times already that I have forgotten how many, and I shouldn't be spending my time reporting this! It's you ZOS that should be controlling your own game, not us doing your job.
Every zone I visit has bots, every and each of them, constantly; monthly, weekly, daily, and nothing being done about it. Just words...
So frustrated I am!!! But who cares how I feel about bots, right?
Thank you ZOS for your fantastic job on this matter.
Edited by Dragonnord on March 30, 2017 6:00PM What does ZOS do? Nothing! Yes, NOTHING!
I laugh at that "Please report through the reporting tool"...
I did it so many times already that I have forgotten how many, and I shouldn't be spending my time reporting this! It's you ZOS that should be controlling your own game, not us doing your job.
Every zone I visit has bots, every and each of them, constantly; monthly, weekly, daily, and nothing being done about it. Just words...
So frustrated I am!!! But who cares how I feel about bots, right?
Thank you ZOS for your fantastic job on this matter.
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✭I've noticed large unnatural influx as well on PS4, I did put in a ticket for it however and got a response so maybe it'll help if enough people report it0 -
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In before the obligatory:Every zone I visit have bots, every and each of them, constantly, monthly, weekly, daily, and nothing being done about it.
"But how do you know they are bots? Those could be 15 friends with insomnia running together all day and night!"
Edited by SirAndy on March 30, 2017 5:54PM7 -
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✭Same on PC NA. I've reported dozens and they seem to never go away. What a shame.2 -
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✭Yup. BS is BS.
Definitely don't need in-game GMs floating around from time to time...Wake up, we're here. Why are you shaking? Are you ok? Wake up...1 -
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Reported over a month ago, still there farming 24/7 ...Trinity_Is_My_Name wrote: »Same on PC NA. I've reported dozens and they seem to never go away. What a shame.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/323648/bot-train-pc-na-shadowfen/p1
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Delgent✭✭✭I've reported and received the canned responses, but the bots remain. I don't bother anymore. If ZOS doesn't care about the integrity of their product, why should I.
It's one of the things eroding my attachment to ESO.To live for good is to die in the name of honor.
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Reported over a month ago, still there farming 24/7 ...Trinity_Is_My_Name wrote: »Same on PC NA. I've reported dozens and they seem to never go away. What a shame.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/323648/bot-train-pc-na-shadowfen/p1
That's why I say ZOS does nothing about it, at least they are not putting enough effort on this issue.
How long it should take to ban an account? 5 minutes? 10? 1 day? 2 days? Not a month for sure.
They come back they say. Really? With same user IDs? Yeah!2 -
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✭✭Pffft. I reported those same bots 3 weeks ago. Maybe it's different accounts now but it's still the same "bot" in the same area.0 -
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✭✭Nelson_Rebel wrote: »I've noticed large unnatural influx as well on PS4, I did put in a ticket for it however and got a response so maybe it'll help if enough people report it
Didn't even know it was possible for bots to operate on console. They have somehow reprogrammed the PS4?0 -
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✭I'm not doubting the bots in this thread but I know a fella in game who, honest to God, does nothing but literally spend 99% of his time farming mats in the same zone on roughly the same path. Every now and then he will hop in to finish a dungeon but thats about it. He donates a lot to guilds he is in but that is what he enjoys in game.They nerfed magsorcs so hard stamsorcs felt it,lol - Somber97866
I'm blown away by the utter stupidity I see here on the daily. - Wrekkedd0 -
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✭✭✭✭I'm not doubting the bots in this thread but I know a fella in game who, honest to God, does nothing but literally spend 99% of his time farming mats in the same zone on roughly the same path. Every now and then he will hop in to finish a dungeon but thats about it. He donates a lot to guilds he is in but that is what he enjoys in game.
I don't get your point. He's obvioulsy not a bot then, as 99% of the other players in this game. We're talking about bots here.
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✭✭✭Alternative fact: They aren't player created bots. They are dev created to test performance of groups with pets over long periods of time. They need to do it on live servers to get accurate results. They wont admit it because it takes away from our overall gaming experience. So they will run them till the test is over than give themselves new @ names instead of letting us know the truth.
It's one big damn conspiracy and everyone's in on it! Including her...
Runs| Orc Nightblade • Chim-el Adabal| Dunmer Templar • M'air the Honest| Khajiit Templar
Oddity| Altmer Sorceror • Drizlo| Orc DragonKnight • Lady Ra Gada| Redguard Sorceror
Taste-of-Hist-Sap| Argonian Nightblade • War'den Peace| Khajiit Warden • Little Warden Annie Altmer Warden
Ports with Blood| Breton Templar • Dirty-Old-Man| Dunmer DragonKnight • Eyes-of-the-Sun| Argonian DragonKnight
Bleak Mystique| Nord Warden • Polychronopolous| Imperial Sorceror • Bullcrit| Khajiit Nightblade
PC NA CP 1250+ and still a noob
At Writs End - A place to complete master writs2 -
Dragonnord✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Alternative fact: They aren't player created bots. They are dev created to test performance of groups with pets over long periods of time. They need to do it on live servers to get accurate results. They wont admit it because it takes away from our overall gaming experience. So they will run them till the test is over than give themselves new @ names instead of letting us know the truth.
It's one big damn conspiracy and everyone's in on it! Including her...
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✭IcyDeadPeople wrote: »Nelson_Rebel wrote: »I've noticed large unnatural influx as well on PS4, I did put in a ticket for it however and got a response so maybe it'll help if enough people report it
Didn't even know it was possible for bots to operate on console. They have somehow reprogrammed the PS4?
I'm not sure how it's done exactly but it is possible.
There were about 12 at vulkhel guard where it was obvious these characters were continually auto heavy and light attacking, I personally sat there for 30 minutes observing and it was zero change the characters didn't move it was just a loop of light and heavy attacks for all of them for level 30's and below.1 -
SBC✭✭✭✭Nelson_Rebel wrote: »IcyDeadPeople wrote: »Nelson_Rebel wrote: »I've noticed large unnatural influx as well on PS4, I did put in a ticket for it however and got a response so maybe it'll help if enough people report it
Didn't even know it was possible for bots to operate on console. They have somehow reprogrammed the PS4?
I'm not sure how it's done exactly but it is possible.
There were about 12 at vulkhel guard where it was obvious these characters were continually auto heavy and light attacking, I personally sat there for 30 minutes observing and it was zero change the characters didn't move it was just a loop of light and heavy attacks for all of them for level 30's and below.
If it was at the dolmens those are just rubber banders. I didn't buy into the whole console bots thing until my friend sent me video from his phone, showing 2 groups of 3 doing it on PS4. All were crouched while waiting, all had same rotations and timing, and the groups took turns running the route. I haven't personally seen any that I notice so blatantly though.0 -
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✭✭✭The ironic thing bots these days all have legit names
I remember back in Swg all the bots were named like Azdcadfsasdf1231232 -
phbell✭✭✭✭I hate BOTS as much as anyone here. I also hate the other forms of cheating, whether it be the use exploits or CE. In fact, i no longer go to Cryodiil because of it. I report BOTs whenever I come across them in the manner requested by ZOS and yet no evidence of correction is visible.
The only explanation i can arrive at is that ZOS (as a business) sees a poor return on the time it has to invest to police these problems. For example: A player named X is reported for BOT'ing. ZOS then has to investigate the report and if deemed valid censure the player - either by warning or banning. Then what? The player simply creates one or more new accounts and continues. (This is one of the unintended drawbacks of F2P. There is no financial consequence to losing an account. ) ZOS spends time/money investigating and banning players, yet there is no net gain for the effort.
The games integrity continues to be tarnished, but until it starts affecting revenues there is little business reason for ZOS to address it on the necessary scale. It is far cheaper to let us rant and vent in these forums.
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✭jlmecub14a_ESO wrote: »Nelson_Rebel wrote: »IcyDeadPeople wrote: »Nelson_Rebel wrote: »I've noticed large unnatural influx as well on PS4, I did put in a ticket for it however and got a response so maybe it'll help if enough people report it
Didn't even know it was possible for bots to operate on console. They have somehow reprogrammed the PS4?
I'm not sure how it's done exactly but it is possible.
There were about 12 at vulkhel guard where it was obvious these characters were continually auto heavy and light attacking, I personally sat there for 30 minutes observing and it was zero change the characters didn't move it was just a loop of light and heavy attacks for all of them for level 30's and below.
If it was at the dolmens those are just rubber banders. I didn't buy into the whole console bots thing until my friend sent me video from his phone, showing 2 groups of 3 doing it on PS4. All were crouched while waiting, all had same rotations and timing, and the groups took turns running the route. I haven't personally seen any that I notice so blatantly though.
It could have been but the sheer coordinated number tells me it wasn't just a rubber band group for 12 different characters. And this wasn't the only dolmen either. there are multiple places where the same light attack stationary low levels are there for hours on end in multitudes.
I know that bots's have not been possible in the past for console but the way this is happening is undoubtedly bot behaviorEdited by Nelson_Rebel on March 30, 2017 7:52PM1 -
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Reported over a month ago, still there farming 24/7 ...Trinity_Is_My_Name wrote: »Same on PC NA. I've reported dozens and they seem to never go away. What a shame.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/323648/bot-train-pc-na-shadowfen/p1
This is why I do not think that we are seeing a violation of the ToS, and why I don't bother reporting anything like this.XBox EU/NA:@ElsonsoJannus
PC NA/EU: @Elsonso
PSN NA/EU: @ElsonsoJannus
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Jemcrystal✭✭✭✭✭I don't believe in witch hunts. It leads to people with legit gaming practices being accidentally banned. The dolmen bots were greatly reduced on PC-NA. I believe there were GMs spotted in game as well in connection with this.0 -
Pwnyridah✭✭✭There need to be harsher penalties on repeat offenders. I know people who have been banned for rubber banding at a dolmen and they got just a 3 day ban. Penalties need to be harsher.2
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✭Nelson_Rebel wrote: »IcyDeadPeople wrote: »Nelson_Rebel wrote: »I've noticed large unnatural influx as well on PS4, I did put in a ticket for it however and got a response so maybe it'll help if enough people report it
Didn't even know it was possible for bots to operate on console. They have somehow reprogrammed the PS4?
I'm not sure how it's done exactly but it is possible.
There were about 12 at vulkhel guard where it was obvious these characters were continually auto heavy and light attacking, I personally sat there for 30 minutes observing and it was zero change the characters didn't move it was just a loop of light and heavy attacks for all of them for level 30's and below.
While you can be banned for that it is not botting. A bot would be a program that automates the toon. People don't consider rubber bands as bots. But just because they aren't using third party software doesn't mean they won't be banned. Zos has already stated that it is a bannable offense.
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aquiella✭✭✭I get more frustrated when I am trying to complete a quest and people are farming the boss I need to kill. I had this yesterday trying to complete a quest in Craglorn. Seriously, if you're going to farm for gold just steal from safeboxes and NPCs.
I tried to do another quest and people were doing it again. I do not think these are bots because they are using the text chat to sell or tell people NOT to kill something. I couldn't even do the World Boss during the Hew's Bane anniversary because too many farming for motifs.
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Nord girl in skimpy forsworn armorAlternative fact: They aren't player created bots. They are dev created to test performance of groups with pets over long periods of time. They need to do it on live servers to get accurate results. They wont admit it because it takes away from our overall gaming experience. So they will run them till the test is over than give themselves new @ names instead of letting us know the truth.
It's one big damn conspiracy and everyone's in on it! Including her...
Yes somebody made an mod skimpy forsworn armor.
Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.0
