b_radd2009b14_ESO wrote: »

There's nothing wrong with farming a boss and nothing wrong with macro's...it's part of the game. Node botting is the real issue. And if you can get a hit off on a boss you're using the wrong ability, use an instant cast like poison arrow and you'll get it every time.

Go try to get the Centurion in Dashaan on a Templar of the same level as the boss when the bots are there. Seriously, I want to see someone do it and get credit. I stood there for about 45 minutes last night discussing the problem, and listening to player after player complain that they couldn't get credit because the mob was Dead before they could land a hit, or that they had time for 1 hit which wasn't enough to get credit.

blauschwinge wrote: »

I doubt theres any botting yet

You must have missed the official statement that they have already banned Thousands for it.

And that there are 3 major game hack/bot software distributors already selling the Bot scripts for ESO.

And the endless stream of videos of the Teleport hack harvester bots running..

Or the further videos of those same tele hack harvesters, bots, and other script users Bragging about their use of these things and having Not been banned yet.


I Wish it was just gold spammers... but I would still want them gone too

I saw some bots earlier in Auridon: there were 2 groups of 4, clustered together in a mass, running back and forth an hallway in a dungeon, stopping only to mob respawning enemies and then start running back and forth again, while being completely unresponsive to any sort of query.
I even got a picture of one of those two groups!


They were constantly clustered together, so I might have reported one twice or simply missed one or two.

blauschwinge wrote: »

I doubt theres any botting yet....

You cannot be serious?

Two prime examples..
1) Google: Elder Scrolls Online Bot
You will see that there is a site selling automation scripts to Grind/Harvest...etc.

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ0jFeUXn9U
ESO: Botting Players
You can see that there are 2...perhaps 3 players moving and trying to complete their quests or get their damage enough to qualify for loot. All the others are perfectly centered around the boss. Happens this way in a lot of public dungeons.

ESO can either Instance the dungeons or force the 'Phasing' is such a way to have to leave the dungeon then return to get another boss spawn. Instancing means finding groups to do the dungeon.....leaving and returning could be botted as well but at least would force the botters to take time to leave and return all the way in again. Very much complicating their scripts.

Only 1 method to stop all botting scripts. NO ADDONS period. Multiboxing is rough with ESO because of No Follow and the quirky combat.

ESO needs to lock this down....simple as 1 update to disallow client based stuff.

Perhaps pissing off a whole new group of players. XD

I saw my first ever resource collection bot last night the name was "ahdfjk" and "she" was in the starting clothing, with the starting weapon. "She" would collect a node and then..'BLINK' and she was at the next node....'blink'...next node. I watched the bot for several minutes and tried to get "her" to respond but "she" just kept teleporting from node to node collecting resources and moving on.

I did report the incident, but there was no way to include the screenies that I took but I will post a couple below. I don't know how to record video of my game, now I wish I did.

Good thing is those bots will never be able to do group dungeons where the real loot is, or even make it into public veteran dungeons which are pretty deadly sometimes.
ESO is way less important over loot since you can craft almost anything.
Some people might want full Sets, but I am pretty sure theres alot of crafting stations out there where you can craft most of the good sets, and choose the traits yourself aswell.
Just outlevel those bots.

And in order for them to even get into the veteran area they'll have to do the main quest which can only be soloed. Then again the pvp reward boxes also hold good items even setitems which can be upgraded to rare+epic ones.

Only thing I would worry about when they pick all flowers for alchemy, the rest you can get much faster from mobdrops by deconstructing, even runes.

Maybe we could get Zenimax to teleport the bots to Cyrodiil ... right into the middle of a siege ...

Jadeviper1974 wrote: »

I saw my first ever resource collection bot last night the name was "ahdfjk" and "she" was in the starting clothing, with the starting weapon. "She" would collect a node and then..'BLINK' and she was at the next node....'blink'...next node. I watched the bot for several minutes and tried to get "her" to respond but "she" just kept teleporting from node to node collecting resources and moving on.

I did report the incident, but there was no way to include the screenies that I took but I will post a couple below. I don't know how to record video of my game, now I wish I did.

I saw the same thing (different "player" name) in that very spot. I tried to get a screenshot, but they disappeared too fast from node to node. Yesterday, I also ran into a bunch of invisible harvesters where I would get to some node, click "E" to harvest, only to be blocked out and hearing some invisible person grunting away with a pick clanking and then the node disappears. Haven't run into boss farmers, yet. On the couple of occasions where my kill was scooped, I still got credit, and loot.

ZOS_MichelleA wrote: »

Hello, all! As stated in our Community Code of Conduct, we do not allow posts or threads that are created for the purpose of “naming-and-shaming” other community member(s). “Naming-and-shaming” is the act of creating a post to call out an individual or group by name, and making them the subject of public accusation, ridicule and/or shaming. Generally, naming-and-shaming involves an in-game situation and/or Terms of Service violation, which the ESO Community Team is unable to assist with.

Thank you for your diligence in reporting this to us, but if you genuinely believe someone has violated our Terms of Service, we ask that players please report them in-game via the support interface (/help) rather than post it on the official ESO community forums. Thank you!

This is satire, right?

Go into any main town.
You'll be spammed with guild invites from gold tellers. Zone chat will be filled with gold selling spam.

Go into any low level dungeon (I'm assuming it's the same higher up too) 4-8 people with random characters for names, very obviously running a script every time the boss spawns. Grouped too.

Report them via the support interface? Seriously? This isn't about *a* single character who may or may not be botting, it's about the POLICY of dealing with bots, and the apparent absolute lack of action in tackling the issue as a whole.

Obviously automated strategies will take longer to implement, but why not have a room full of minimum-wage interns (or hell, outsource the job overseas) logging into dungeon instances and towns and physically removing the offenders and all associated account. For the income the game generates over the first month (where everyone buys the game and then pays their first subscription) it's a tiny fraction to enable them to walk through town without being deluged with goldselling spam, or actually (god forbid) kill the boss of a dungeon they fought though in a level appropriate manner.


I can appreciate you're just following a set of rules on what's allowed and what's not allowed on here (partly because of legal issues), but when the issue is seemingly being ignored other than to tell us what we're not allowed to post, it doesn't inspire confidence.

Zershar_Vemod wrote: »

OP, these are mainly other players, not bots. It's VERY common if not something like 2/3 dungeons will have players farming a boss.

Sounds legit!?

p.hurst1b16_ESO wrote: »

They need to buy the bot themsleves and then detect the code on entry and delete the character permanently and warn the account that after X number of botting infractions the account will be banned.

Alos remove all automation from the LUA. Let us have the feature addons but nothing that automates any action whatsoever.

I say ban them on the first offense, to heck with waiting and warnings, they got a warning in the TOS.

bwilson.homeb16_ESO wrote: »

Go into any main town.
You'll be spammed with guild invites from gold tellers. Zone chat will be filled with gold selling spam.

Go into any low level dungeon (I'm assuming it's the same higher up too) 4-8 people with random characters for names, very obviously running a script every time the boss spawns. Grouped too.

Report them via the support interface? Seriously? This isn't about *a* single character who may or may not be botting, it's about the POLICY of dealing with bots, and the apparent absolute lack of action in tackling the issue as a whole

The whole gold-seller experience for me is many times worse than it was with Neverwinter launch. I've never seen anything as bad as this - and no -before anyone says - I don't care about 'well, you must never have played X...'. I'm not playing X. I'm playing ESO and paying handsomely.

What I do care about is spam mails, spam notifications and spam guild invites.

And the endless lines of **********Gold******** crap in Chat.

Baxter2064 wrote: »

Maybe we could get Zenimax to teleport the bots to Cyrodiil ... right into the middle of a siege ...

Asheron's Call gms used to do this. They had very active game masters and if you were reported for botting, they would just send you a tell and if you didn't respond after, I think it was three tries, and answer their question correctly, they teleported you and flagged you. After so many flags, banzored.

Anyone watching this video:

The Elder Scrolls Online F***ing Bots [ESO] (youtube: watch?v=jrm7i1pEz_Q)

telling me those are not bots has a serious problem with his conception. Today I saw them in a level 35 dungeon! They move higher and higher since Zenimax seems not to be able to get rid of them in time.

Its not just dungeon bosses now though, its node harvesting too. No wonder I can't find any runes to level enchanting. Thanks to all that are posting their bots vids, everyone recording their play should do this and hopefully something will be addressed.