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What's your reaction/action when you see a bot?

Dragonnord
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How do you feel when you see a bot? What's your reaction?

You just don't care? You feel angry becasue they're cheating and you are earning your stuff/gold honestly? You feel frustrated because you see them constantly? You feel angry, frustrated and everything else? You don't report them? You report some? You report every single bot you see?

How do you react? What do you do?
  • Megabear
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    I immediately drop whatever I was doing and report each and every one of them before resuming whatever I was doing.
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  • Sigtric
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    Report and move on. It's been a long time since I've actually seen a bot though, but I don't usually go where people have been saying they are, either.

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  • Mattock_Romulus
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    I tend to fall out of my chair and curl up in the fetal position.
  • Cadbury
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    Pray
    "If a person is truly desirous of something, perhaps being set on fire does not seem so bad."
  • Caligamy_ESO
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    I think I make a face something like :|

    Then I: feel angry because they're cheating and I am earning my stuff/gold honestly, feel frustrated because I see them constantly, and then I struggle to report them because its clunky as hell to hold some key while following 10 people in a small little clump of clanfears and twilights on their erratic unchanging path.
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  • Triumviri
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    Wonder how they truly get away with it...
  • geonsocal
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    I wonder why the heck mats are still so darn expensive...
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  • Rohamad_Ali
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  • Luigi_Vampa
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    I wish we had open world PvP.
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  • max_only
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    My reaction is bemusement.

    My action is to take screenshots and try to write down their names because I've yet to figure out how to report a character without spelling their name perfectly (which is difficult bc bots have nonsense names). I wish I could right click on the avatar and report from there (which would still be difficult because they run around stacked on top of each other).

    When the bots finally see me following them, struggling to keep up, they tend to disperse and come back 10 minutes later.

    I wish there was another way to report this though, the drop down menus in the game are very confusing.
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  • Demycilian
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    I listen to Bonnie Tyler - I need a Hero

  • oaflet
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    So... how can I tell if someone/something is a bot? Like, what do they do that causes them to stand out?

    I've never seen one that I was aware of, and have been playing on NA PC since the start. I must've seen plenty without realizing I was seeing them?

    Yes, I really am that oblivious to my surroundings. I got lost driving to work last month. The same work I've been at for 8yrs. The SAME EXACT route I drive everyday. So I could probably have walked through bot Grand Central Station and never noticed.
  • Enemy-of-Coldharbour
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    I report every one that I see. I hate cheaters.

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  • max_only
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    oaflet wrote: »
    So... how can I tell if someone/something is a bot? Like, what do they do that causes them to stand out?

    I've never seen one that I was aware of, and have been playing on NA PC since the start. I must've seen plenty without realizing I was seeing them?

    Yes, I really am that oblivious to my surroundings. I got lost driving to work last month. The same work I've been at for 8yrs. The SAME EXACT route I drive everyday. So I could probably have walked through bot Grand Central Station and never noticed.

    About 4 characters (or more) who are running either inside each other or perfectly behind each other in a line, in a repeating pattern. Usually they kill mud crabs or bears. They seem to know exactly when and where the next mudcrab will spawn because they are killing them in a predictable pattern. They all attack the one mudcrab at the same time. Usually each character is a sorc with two pets. Sometimes they are stuck against a wall and you can watch for 5 min as they run back and forth into the wall. A real person would have changed course or jumped over.

    Real people who are farming in a group of 4 will gather mobs together and burn them with AOE in bulk, usually zombies. They tend to stop for Master chests, columbine, and other useful environmental stuff. Also they don't follow each other in a perfect line/ run inside each other the whole time.
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  • Caligamy_ESO
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    geonsocal wrote: »
    I wonder why the heck mats are still so darn expensive...

    Not as expensive as they were, for sure.. remember when 1 Kuta was 8k instead of 2k? Or when dreugh wax would set you back quite a bit to gold a set of armor..

    Here's what botters undercutting the economy looks like:
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  • Loralai_907
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    I get irritated because I know that ZOS either isn't going to take care of it, or is going to take until I am 85 to take care of it. I report some, all if I can. The group in Grahtwood that has been getting on my last nerve I don't think I reported all of them. I submitted like 15 screenshots the first go around a couple weeks ago. Went back the other day and individually reported several of them. That bot train is bizarre. When it is noticed that I am watching them a few different smaller groups break away from the main group. There were 3 of them doing unique actions and behaving like they were not bots for all of about ten seconds and then they went right back on the path of the others, running off to a spot and all turning once the reached the exact same spot and reunited with the main group after maybe another 30 seconds.

    Just let me throw them into a box until someone at ZOS can properly review them.
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  • NukeAllTheThings
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    I shed a tear, stop and come to the forums to start a thread about how these bots took our jerbs!
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  • Tasear
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    Too me they are like dragons... I never seen one.
  • Cadbury
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    Tasear wrote: »
    Too me they are like dragons... I never seen one.

    That sounds like something a bot would say... -_-
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  • ThePrinceOfBargains
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    I let them do it. I'm through with the constant reporting because nothing ever gets done about it, and what's worse is that ZOS apparently thinks these guys don't deserve to be named and shamed. I just act like they're not even there whenever possible.
  • oaflet
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    Thank you @max_only for explaining- I probably just never noticed them, am in my own little world most of the time :)
  • LadyNalcarya
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    I try to report them, but report system isnt very convenient so its hard to report every bot in a train. :/
    Also it doesnt seem it helps, bots are still there.

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    CarbonX wrote: »

    You just don't care? You feel angry becasue they're cheating and you are earning your stuff/gold honestly?

    They dont care about ingame goods, achievements, or even the game itself. They only want rl money.
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  • Azzuria
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  • NordSwordnBoard
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    I feel like Sisyphus...
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  • disintegr8
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    I'm on PS4 - wouldn't know a bot if I tripped over one.
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  • oaflet
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    I feel like Sisyphus...

    If only we could wipe out the bots with the boulder...
  • phairdon
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    Take screenshots. Post screenshots on the forum. Gave up reporting after getting the same response time after time "put them on ignore".
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  • Hanzus
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    I tend to fall out of my chair and curl up in the fetal position.
    @Mattock_Romulus , I am still ROFL on your answer, LOL!

    Anyways, don't see many, but I do report them when I see them.
    Edited by Hanzus on July 19, 2017 12:24AM
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  • raj72616a
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    dolmen bot, report
    resource gathering bot, thanks for lowering material market price
  • Geroken777
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    Report. Screenshot. Name and shame. Wipe them out of history and for the last:

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    Fingers crossed that they are banned and stalk them as much as i can.

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