Fighting the good fight.

Cool, but a waste of time. They just continue to run when you're not paying them any attention. Wish ESO/ZOS would actually do something about bots.

How do you upset a bot, isn't the point of a bot that it doesn't require human interaction. It'll just carry on when you get board and keep on its job.

Axoinus wrote: »

I like to think that the delay is just ZOS letting them get nice and fat, and then dropping the ban hammer after they have sunk all the computer up-time into it.

I've wondered if you could gather enough players around them if it would crash them out.

You can continue to think that if you wish, but considering the number of people who have been reporting the same bots in the same places for weeks/months, and considering that the stuff the bots harvest gets mailed [several times/hour to keep the inv space available], to a central collection to be sold for realworld cash, I'd say they never get fat and they definitely never get banned.

They just keep making $$ for the bot-master.

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

What needs to happen is get Gamemasters back in the fold to deal with these bots. They haven't been around since what, launch? When botting was rampant. Well, it's happening again, and we need those people to get rid of these.

This isn't the issue. The issue is that the report bot function sends a ticket into Oblivion.

When we give ZOS ticket numbers, bans happen that day, however the normal system it seems tickets are made and for whatever reason just end there, nothing happens. We shouldn't have to continually pester ZOS with ticket numbers just to get escalations on them before action is taken.

As I keep saying over and over and over and over...

Report feature needs refinement, it should be one click then a confirm from us to submit all the info the GM/Dev needs.
ZOS needs to sort their end so those tickets land instantly on the desk of someone who can take action within 48 hours at most.

I'm starting to see quite a few people in Rawl'kha and in dungeons using bot accounts they have purchased. They aren't hard to miss due to the naming convention.

I played Dire Frost yesterday and bumped into one. A level 56 sorcerer, equipped with a Maelstrom staff ( yes, a Maelstrom staff), hard casting frags while trying to sell ambrosia and golden mats super cheap. The guy dropped down dead at every mob, every boss fight, and even died from fall damage.

At the end of the dungeon, mind you, there's four of us, I wrote in group chat, " How much did you pay for your account?" I didn't specifically ask him, but he was the first to reply. "Wut?! No way man! What's buying an account?" I told him that his name was a dead give away. He replies " I ran out of names to use"........

So, you manually did what the Bots do? The only problem with that is you literally won't even slow them down.

They're scripted to go to follow their path until they enter combat, so they'll just move on to the next location.

Unless groups want to spend hours and hours defeating them this way, it does very little. Eventually, they'll just go to one of a dozen other locations and do the same.