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Dungeon botters need to go...
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crush83✭✭✭✭It seems like no matter how many of these threads pop up, ZOS isn't taking the hint.
I'm getting close to calling it quits too, sigh. The botting is getting worse, not better.
Seriously. Send some damn GMs in to the freaking dungeons and ban the obvious botters. It's not hard. It's really, really not.2 -
Fenbrae✭✭✭ZOS is actually banning bots by the thousands.
The problem is that botters abandon an account after a few hours.
Accounts that get banned are already abandoned by the time they get banned, while the botters now use different accounts.Currently playing:
Swims-In-Sap - CP200+ - Argonian Templar
I like my healing like i like my characters: generic1 -
crush83✭✭✭✭ZOS is actually banning bots by the thousands.
The problem is that botters abandon an account after a few hours.
Accounts that get banned are already abandoned by the time they get banned, while the botters now use different accounts.
Two holes in your theory:
1. How are bots leveling up to 31-32 before they are banned?
2. How are the runners of these bots affording so many accounts?0 -
Fenbrae✭✭✭ZOS is actually banning bots by the thousands.
The problem is that botters abandon an account after a few hours.
Accounts that get banned are already abandoned by the time they get banned, while the botters now use different accounts.
Two holes in your theory:
1. How are bots leveling up to 31-32 before they are banned?
2. How are the runners of these bots affording so many accounts?
#1 would be that not every botter blows their cover at the first public dungeon they encounter. Some level on and raid higher level dungeons to get better loot to sell. If botters were banned within the first few levels, there wouldn't be people selling max level boosts. (That's not a thing yet in this game, but it has hit other MMOs and ESO will get hit by it too).
As for #2, that's not something i can explain since i'm not a botter. I personally think they use the goldseller way and hack into other peoples accounts to fulfill their little schemes.
Currently playing:
Swims-In-Sap - CP200+ - Argonian Templar
I like my healing like i like my characters: generic0 -
NevsSoul ShrivenFew solutions were already posted in other threads.
1. Make big cooldown for loot drop from mobs in public dungeons and caves. It will make botting there meaningles.
2. Set the limit of players that can be in the same pd/cave to 4 or other small number. This will make killing boss task not so easy and spawn time for mobs longer.
Somewhere ZOS mentioned that they want to go first way. Hope this will happen asap.0 -
Laerrus✭✭✭ZOS is actually banning bots by the thousands.
The problem is that botters abandon an account after a few hours.
Accounts that get banned are already abandoned by the time they get banned, while the botters now use different accounts.
If this is the case, then they need to take a more extreme route and ban the IP addresses/ranges (especially, to include even proxy addresses).
This strategy worked for Rift after it's launch, there was a huge decrease in the bots and spammers after their Devs tightened down their shards.
People from China don't need to be on the NA or EU servers anyway.2 -
crush83✭✭✭✭#1 would be that not every botter blows their cover at the first public dungeon they encounter. Some level on and raid higher level dungeons to get better loot to sell. If botters were banned within the first few levels, there wouldn't be people selling max level boosts. (That's not a thing yet in this game, but it has hit other MMOs and ESO will get hit by it too).
So they level up until they get to the appropriate level for the boss they are going to farm?
I saw about 15 level 24 bots farming a level 32 boss though. Is there a minimum on level for loot rights, or is it only a maximum?0 -
PlagueMonk✭✭✭✭✭In the simplest of terms......YES.
I was in Triple Circle Mines yesterday and there were no less than 10 bots camped on top of each other. Once the mob popped they would literally take it down in less than 1 second. This made it extremely difficult to get your own damage in to get credit for the kill and complete the dungeon.
Needless to say I took the time to painstakingly report each and every one of the ********'s.
And banning the bots isn't the right approach, you have to make the boss mobs less desirable. All you have to do is allow say a 3 kill limit per boss (before cap level). After you have killed them 3 times the exp drops to 1 per kill and you get no more drops......problem solved.0