it's been 2 days since I posted this thread, and they're still here. 2 days, same bots, same place. I am horrified when I wonder how long they had been there since I first noticed it. Why is this not being addressed by the staff? I know my post caught their attention because a ZOS admin posted here. This is what you might call ignoring the elephant in the room. Here are these dozens of bots, just going unchecked, and Zenimax still hasn't sent someone to Coldharbour to do anything about it. Honestly, I'm beginning to think Zenimax is running the bots at this point, because they are just letting these bots run wild. How is this not of concern to them?

It's not allowed. Zenimax is just incapable of preventing it apparently.

This is evidenced by the fact that they have repeatedly stated they are doing everything they can to combat the situation.

Yet, we are able to observe that the bot situation is only getting worse.

butthurtlocker wrote: »

They are practically running a conga line out here. And all I get is "Please use the in-game report function. Thank you."

I'm not sure what these people are actually doing anymore. Must be more focused on the Craglorn update and the console versions or something. When something like this gets completely ignored, either they don't care, or they do care but they have other priorities.

I've been in some areas where I see nothing but bots. No real players anywhere. Makes me not even want to play, surrounded by nothing but what I consider RL criminals...using stolen credit cards to make accounts, etc.

I can't believe this Coldharbour thing is STILL going on even after you reported in-game AND had the issue addressed by GM in forum.

GreySix wrote: »

Haven't seen any bots over the past couple of days, but most of you folks are far ahead of me in gameplay, so maybe the bots are too.

They aren't. These bots are level 2 or 3 and still have the starter pajamas from the tutorial. But they're in a level 40-50 zone

I know it is Friday night, but I swear I am seeing a distinct lack of Zone spam for gold sites and a lot fewer characters farming the low level areas of the game.

To be sure, there are still people standing around the infinite spawn Jute, many of them normal looking characters, but iron farming level 5 Argonians named randomly and wearing Wailing Garb seem to be considerably thinned out.

I stopped and looked for the hackers that run around underground and did not see any tonight, either. Usually it is not hard to collect 3 or 4 names in a half hour.

The last time I saw a break like this was over the Labor Day holiday (May 1) when China was off work.

Am I just lucky and not looking in the right places?

the bot issue is getting out of hand, and the GMs aren't doing anything about it. banning an account of a bot is maybe a 5 minute setback minute setback for them. what the GMs need to start doing is banning the domain that the bot accounts are coming from, or get someone who knows how to do it.