Or limit the quantity of unique items the boss drops to no more than X quantity in your bag at a time -- make X = 3 (or so) and the problem would disappear as well.

How about have a timer for each player there that increments and once that timer reaches a certain limit it teleports them out of the dungeon and says "Congratulations!!! You have killed everything here!"

Hire a bunch of GMs as active bot hunting squad.

Game mechanics are just a challenge to bot designers. Beating a human GM is more difficult. They learn and adapt.

Will be interesting to see if Agent Kenzie gets some company or if Zenimax is just in for the quick buck with their MMORPG.

Draekros wrote: »

There are portable repair kits so the bots would just use them every so often.

Yes, but that also costs gold, which slows down the farming quite a bit when they either run out or have to sell off and then go buy more, impeding their profit/time. Not an amazing idea, but one more thing that could help if they won't get off their asses and hire more people to deal with it directly.

All the methods suggested so far interfere with player enjoyment. Here's what I don't understand. The games that have removed gold spammers and cheats entirely keep the character data and that character's logs on the server. I know that all my character data and logs are not on my PC; if they were players would be giving themselves 100K Health, Magicka and Stamina. So either the staff at ZOS lack the software application to readily read and sort these logs or they lack the manpower to do it but the fact that "Roderick the White" has finished "X" quest, has "Y" achievements, has read the following Lorebooks, has killed the following named and has the following items and gold in his bank and on his characters should be readily available to ZOS on a database.

Any sudden increase in gold to an account should be flagged by this database as deserving attention. They look up that the 10K gold my sister gave me, check both accounts and let it through. They see that "qqccutye" is "giving away" 500,000 per day from a stream of accounts and peg him as a gold seller. They check his transactions and ban every single account that accepted sums of gold from the Gold seller and issue warnings across the screen:

"If you buy gold you will be caught and your account will be terminated immediately."

Word will spread like wildfire. Don't buy gold. The Game picks it up and you'll get booted.

You don't kill rats or cockroaches with a hammer. This "one at a time" culling will never keep up with the infestation. You attack their food source or their breeding cycle and if ZOS does not have such a database that will flag gold sellers and their transactions then all of their customer service issues are going to be labor-intensive with "conversations" with every petitioner to determine if they are telling the truth when they claim their "Epic Sword of God Power" simply disappeared from their bank. The cheap option becomes more expensive over time.

Snowman, I filled my pack up in Ondil three times from all the mobs before the bot farmers came and it was very handy; my trades guys broke it all down for tempers and trade levels but it was very different. Players moved around, they out-leveled the place, they did just enough damage to get part of the kill, there wasn't this automated dead in less than a second thing where no one else got a look in and you could chat with them. I certainly wouldn't see anyone miss out. Why would I?

The second issue is that the ad-bots aren't the problem and if you are going to rip out a tree you have to go for the root. If players know that buying gold will get them banned then all the clever hacking by professional botters is not going to restore their market. Ban a few gold buyers; publicize their banning and make sure every player knows that buying gold is a ticket out of the game and the entire problem will simply go away.

This is evil but these guys AFK and let a program kill for them. If we had a spell that could push players around, I'd love to push them just far away enough so they couldn't hit the mob. That would anger then and angering them makes me smile.

patrick.loiselleb16_ESO wrote: »

This is evil but these guys AFK and let a program kill for them. If we had a spell that could push players around, I'd love to push them just far away enough so they couldn't hit the mob. That would anger then and angering them makes me smile.

How about a spell to port them into the PvP areas.

round and round we go.

SIMPLE SOLUTION WHICH I'VE POSTED NUMEROUS TIMES.

1. Instance dungeons.
2. Option to scale based on solo or group play (doubt they'd have the ingenuity at ZOS to even attempt this)
3. Limit to how many dungeons can be cleared in an hour/30 minutes. Bosses will not respawn unless dungeon is reset.
4. ???
5. 5. PROFIT


THE END.

I am currently running in Eastmarch, and even here the dungeons are full of bots.
That made me think. I bet those bots never did ONE quest. All they do is level by killing those dungeon bosses.
How about using that against them?
I don't believe any legit players have leveled all the way to veteran rank without doing quests.