Bots and Botting.

Dexxadude · March 2018

Heya!
Firstly I'm sorry this is most probably in the wrong part of the forum as its not a bug BUT! in my self defence the caption is "Report issues you've run into while playing ESO". - And this is definatly an issue.
22:20 @ Laeloria in Grahtwood across a bot train which is "an issue i ran into while playing eso".
I made every attempt to report their names but i couldn't report more than 2 of them as their so heavily bunched together i can do anything!
Below i have added a video of said "Bot Train" and you can make out a majority of their names.

PLEASE! do something @ZOS_GinaBruno.

I don't normally write on the forums as a rule and I've defiantly never tagged

but felt this needed seeing too.

Thanks.

https://youtu.be/MMFwpmhqkU0

regime211 · March 2018

Lmao

Shadowshire · March 2018

Congratulations!

While I was playing World of Warcraft a few years ago, my character was included in a party by the Dugeon Finder. Three of the other four characters were identical to each other, and they moved simultaneously in coordination with each other. I wasn't sure about the fourth character, as they seemed to just be playing along with whatever the trio and my character did. The trio was pharming the dungeon NPCs and bosses, of course, for armor, weapons, and other loot. But they didn't loot any containers or crafting material nodes. While my character did those things, the trio stopped and did not resume until my character was ready to continue.

Although I've seen individual character bots in TESO, this is the first time that I've seen a group. ....

schattenkind · March 2018

For a few weeks I was reporting daily at least 15-20 accounts... with no effect as it seems. So I gave it up... if ZOS doesnt care, why should I...

Turelus · March 2018

If you submit a report on just one of them and include in the report that they're part of a bot train then ZOS check the area when doing the ban pass (from my understanding).

There is also a PC add-on which helps with mass reports. http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1818-BotScanner2000.html

If you have reported these ones already you can always post your support ticket number here and any ZOS staff who see it can escalate it.

beetleklee · March 2018

Found a bunch farming Harpies in Rivenspire the other day, reported as many as I could. Mostly MagSorcs and a couple MagDKs.

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Lotka · March 2018

lmao

Elsonso · March 2018

beetleklee wrote: »

Found a bunch farming Harpies in Rivenspire the other day, reported as many as I could. Mostly MagSorcs and a couple MagDKs.

That is a popular place, and ZOS does come through there and clean them out on a seemingly regular basis.

Turelus wrote: »

If you submit a report on just one of them and include in the report that they're part of a bot train then ZOS check the area when doing the ban pass (from my understanding).

I report them all, individually. While I do not doubt that ZOS will clean up other bots in the area, I can testify that some bots will vanish from a train while others stick around. ZOS action or some other cause, I cannot say.

Also, one of the CMs (Jessica?) indicated that the number of reports against an account helps to determine whether they should look at it. That means that if there are 20 bots, and 20 people each report one, but a different one, ZOS might not look at the reports right away.

This last case is where I am when I report lone bots out farming. Chances are few people notice them out in the zone. (Maybe they notice them in the guild stores when they are selling off boatloads of stuff. By then, it is too late.) If I am the only person reporting them, that does not raise ZOS awareness to a level that they will take action. I don't report multiple times, mainly because the same person reporting more than once does not increase the reliability of the report.

aquiella · July 2018

I reported possible bots through Xbox console in Alik'r when I was going to take a boat to Bangkorai. THey were all killing mudcrabs. All level 4 Sorcs. Sadly the email response back from Bethesda directed me to block, contact Microsoft, or other alternatives.

I thought it was weird because I haven't seen bots on console before, so I captured pics and video of them.

Jerkling · July 2018

every time you guys use the word "bot" in this very wrong context god kills a kitten!

xirub17_ESO · July 2018

Cool video! Usually on PS4, the bots all use sorc's with two pets out... And there are usually 7-12+ of them at once.

Elsonso · July 2018

Jerkling wrote: »

every time you guys use the word "bot" in this very wrong context god kills a kitten!

When used in the proper context, it would be nice if ZOS killed a bot.

The Rivenspire images that are a couple posts up are probably bots. While I don't know about those exact accounts, there have been bots there in the past.

Mystrius_Archaion · July 2018

Shadowshire wrote: »

The trio was pharming the dungeon NPCs and bosses,

It's "farming" like literally growing corn/beans/tomatoes and harvesting them.