I get the feeling Bots = Money to Zenimax, less Bot's = Less money to Zenimax.

May as well just have made the game for all the bots because normal players are going to be out numbered prety soon.

Sylv3r wrote: »

Maybe a way is to accord only one char during a certain time, the time to let devs find a way to resolve this. I will not like it too much cause i have 4 char i like to play with but if its for a time and to be sure that TESO will take this seriously with force i will accept it.

If some have solution to propose, constructive one, i know dev are looking forums and may be can find one that can sit with their strategy, post it

This problem is killing the reputation of TESO at a fast rate
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/04/23/elder-scrolls-online-game-address/

I have search what kind of people is doing this kind of grinding .. took me 5 mn to find it
Here is :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IebefCcdpgU

Some said it is from china or russian ? Nope .. whois answer where this site is etablished


That answer some question ?

You do know *** use VPN's right? they are in Taiwan but tracking them will give you some random America location.

Well the bots were definitely worse and en-mass, far outnumbering the players, causing me to log off as I could not get any resources for crafting my new Sorceress' gear.

I have been reporting since the early play time, seeing the same names all the while, and still reporting. Sort of like calling 911, it's too late, they will arrive to take notes after the damage is done.

Like I said, they were so bad that I just logged off the game and stopped playing.

That means that my enjoyment to play a game, that I too pay for, was ruined by a computer coded system that has run amok and has free reign.

This was even after they had some GM announce they were in game to zap the bots. Either didn't do anything, the bots broke the GM, or the bots actually got a tea break before returning like locusts.

I am so sick of this I want to vomit!!
I log on (Bal Foyen) to quietly play a few minutes..really just to hang about and what is that I see? BOTS! not one, not two ,not three, not four, there are at lest eight or so running like mad in the little area I can see. All in prison clothes, all with these funny names and all running way-points, and all sprinting all the time.

DEV's WHAT ARE YOU DOING!
sitting on your backside, sipping Soda and putting as yet another band-aid on a hemorrhage? This game is sitting in pools of Blood and you do not even the basics of First Aid?

This Game is Good and has all the potential marks to be Great. However, from me the Development Team get 'thumbs down' and a - 10 in score. Why? Because they have lost the Control over their own product.

Seen some chain questing in Eastmarch.
Packed by 6 to 8 ... all reported of course

Oh...yes, there are plenty of ways to get rid of these Bot-cheaters. However, as someone did mention (i think correctly) there are so many cheating players in the game that the revenue impact of banning their accounts would be hurting sales revenue.
My personal opinion; at this point in the game's stage the Dev's rather close their communal eyes and ears and hope the issue will go away by some sort of miracle. They will only open their eyes and ears again if revenue falls to the point where something MUST be done to keep the honest players in the game.

It is a case of money speaking louder than player's wishes. However, there is a silver-lining on the horizon. You just wait until the Bots hit the new expansion and the Power players start to scream for something to be done. If the hot-shots of the game start to go onto the barricades, then something will be done.

So let us be patient a few more weeks.

Now they fly ... quest is done faster ...

quite honestly if they don't get a handle in the next week.. it's should be over for them

Just at daggerfall going to develyn mills or baelborne ruins - to wyrd forest you can't find nada - nothing

the underground bots never mind the top ones make it impossible

no jute - no iron - no wood and no plants - runes you can find a few - ...sparse
and hunting imps is another matter considering the bot trains are killing everything so fast all you see is 1- 2 mobs and lots of carcasses
and the mobs get hit by the bot trains before anyone else has a chance

just so you know catching undergound speedbots is not easy to do and not when you see multiple of them either

for me I can move on to other areas - but to new players it's not even fair
how do you get mats for your character?

go do harder areas and get killed more...and still have the same issues?

going into harder areas is not a solution because the bots are out in those regions already

they need to take serious action quick
meaning lots of GM's online all the time and fix the collision system
also remove the possibility of speedhacks and teleporting bots

It's basically denial of said services - because the bots take most of everything and do all the kills?
where is the game when there is nothing to kill or you can let the bots do your work and no sense collecting stuff when the material nodes are bare and the chests/drawers are empty?

and Im not even getting into the broken game

bobsrevenge wrote: »

no player can do anything but report that's it yes it will take time to resolve , and when you see these items for large amounts of cash , I would like to see evidence on these items being sold at the prices you state, I mean I can sell some thing rare for 1 million but will it sell .
I am new to the game but its the same in all games show evidence of this , no one even eso has to abide by these rules call it company policy but I think these prices are hear say , maybe a few might have paid for some of them they are the wallet warriors, but in general I think in general not

Methinks thou dost protest too much. o.O

Ugh. Spent yesterday competing with bots in trying to do quests and get mats. I saw at least 10 different bot trains, each 4 bots long and each bot a freaking templar. If I had any coding skill, I'd create a bot that reports it's fellow bots, so I can play the game rather than spend a good half my play time reporting bots!

Making the reporting process easier would be nice. Have time, date, location already filled in and all we have to do is list names, why we think they're bots and what they're doing. Maybe have something similar for the spam in game mail, where it copies the content of the mail for us and all we have to do is hit send.

I don't understand how hard it is to simply restrict the use of names such as "adskfje" this alone should reduce the problem in half. A second more permanent solution would be a more thorough credit card verification to create an account. Zenimax, i've never immagined bots in a game would ruin my experience but they sure as hell are in this game. Please do something more significant than PR stunts like announcing you're there to ban bots.

After reporting 50 or so, I will no longer bother to play police. It's a great game, which I'm very happy to pay money for, but I can expect them to do their job in return.
We see people reporting bots like crazy, we see screenshots and video evidence for all the exploits, but the situation has got out of hand. I've been playing a couple of hours per week (don't have a lot of time for this) since first beta weekend.
Up until a week or two ago, you could walk around and collect some mats alongside your quests and would have plenty to craft whatever you needed. Now, you walk around for half an hour and will be lucky to find iron ore or jute in places where hardly anybody would look. Even wood is gone now, although there was more than plenty enough of it out there (you need much less wood than you need jute or iron).

As long as bots gather things without much impact on everybody else (apart from the economy), it's bearable. Now, however, it affects pretty much everybody, at least in the lower level brackets, because they can't gather mats any more and have to compete with an army of bots when fighting quest mobs, too. It's ridiculous.

Again, great game, but about to be totally ruined by bots. We're at a tipping point now, I think. If the bot situation doesn't change very quickly and in a sustainable way, people will wander off. Some already have. And, although I would be sad to do this, the decline from beta onwards combined with dreadful communication from the mods (canned responses, without any "meat") might make me consider other games, too.

It really is time for ZOS to step up their game (pun intended) and do more than acknowledge the problem and send a GM for 15 minutes once a week. This can't be resolved by reporting and manual bans. A permanent working solution has to appear in one of the next patch notes! Failing that, ZOS have to make an announcement which states what they are going to do about it and when precisely.

What about making gold account bound...? It would not stop it, but maybe tone it down? They could even make low and mid level mats and items account bound, for all i care.. But that might be frustrating to people who actually like to trade and stuff..

Duno, just getting sick of this :-/

Dalexander_89_ESO wrote: »

I don't understand how hard it is to simply restrict the use of names such as "adskfje" this alone should reduce the problem in half. A second more permanent solution would be a more thorough credit card verification to create an account. Zenimax, i've never immagined bots in a game would ruin my experience but they sure as hell are in this game. Please do something more significant than PR stunts like announcing you're there to ban bots.

all that will do is create a script that pull legitimate names from a book of names

it will only slow them down long enough to write a modified script

Gillysan wrote: »

Took me 20 minutes to report 6 bots. Reason being that this running clumped together hides their names and makes it hard to F reach the report player on that dial. The targeting reticule is quickly flashing through several names. I got a few with F but then had to follow them and patiently memorize their names to write it in manually one by one.

It's a pain to report them and also time consuming. I have to be in a patient mood to do this, otherwise I grit my teeth and actually go play the game instead of this bot reporting meta game. *groan*

I highly recommend using the FastReport mod. You don't have to continue targeting a player in order to report them and it also provides the precise location for the GM.