Bot trains have operators, that was a real person telling you off.

-cheers

I wish we could capture them and interrogate them. Find out where the bot queen nest is, nuke it from orbit.

Might you have mistaken a multiboxer for a bot train? Not saying you did, just asking if you think you might have. It would be a little funny, lol.

it was a multi boxer. keep on annoying the arsehat

Vandril wrote: »

Might you have mistaken a multiboxer for a bot train? Not saying you did, just asking if you think you might have. It would be a little funny, lol.

Multiboxers rarely do the constant repetitious motions like a bot train does where they follow a fixed scripted path.

I have a few multi-boxer friends and they play just like normal but with a train of toons along with them and just do the same quests / actions as most players. You see them in PVP or PVE.

Also the composition for multiboxers usually vary, a tank, a healer then some dps usually in 1 party.

subecsanur wrote: »

Vandril wrote: »

Might you have mistaken a multiboxer for a bot train? Not saying you did, just asking if you think you might have. It would be a little funny, lol.

Multiboxers rarely do the constant repetitious motions like a bot train does where they follow a fixed scripted path.

I have a few multi-boxer friends and they play just like normal but with a train of toons along with them and just do the same quests / actions as most players. You see them in PVP or PVE.

Also the composition for multiboxers usually vary, a tank, a healer then some dps usually in 1 party.

While I know all that, there's nothing to say that the OP might not have encountered multiboxers before. For someone who's never seen them, they can very easily seem like a train of bots.

And since every class can do all three of the trinity roles, Templar having the more variety of healing capability and a still-potent-when-in-large-groups cone AoE, as well as fair tanking capability, I can very easily imagine a multiboxer making a group of all Templars for the sake of ease of setup, rather than having multiple classes and coordinating them accordingly.

The OP didn't mention gear and there's no need to use more than a single Biting Jabs (if you're using it on 5 toons at once) to kill something in the zone he spotted them in. This means that they could very well have been setup in the classic 1 tank, 1 healer, 3 DPS setup, but they never needed to heal or tank because mobs were being killed in a single cast (from each toon). The OP also didn't mention that they were following a strict route, but only that they were stacked together. Obviously, multiboxers often stack like this, too.

Given the information made available by the OP, I figure it's as likely to be a multiboxer annoyed that he was falsely reporting them (which would entail a bunch of needing to get some of his accounts unbanned, explaining his situation as a multiboxer) as it is to be a bot coordinator getting pissed at being caught and reported, especially at such a high level.

If the operator got pissed at you OP, then you are doing the right thing.

Turelus wrote: »

@zgrssd do you have an official statement from ZOS that multiboxing is not allowed on ESO?

@Turelus‌
"Your use of the Services":

You agree not to use any hardware or software or any other method of support that is not authorized by ZeniMax or that may in any way influence or advantage Your playing abilities, or influence or advantage Your use of the Services. Third party tools, the use of ‘bots’, “speed hacks”, “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider”, algorithm or other programs that copy or monitor any part of the Services (including, but not limited to, the Game(s) and/or forums), software that transmits, manipulates, or distributes (including, but are limited to, “mirroring”) the data stream or any aspect of the Services to another computer, server websites or other publication or distribution media, or software that permits You to use Services without human input are examples of methods not authorized by ZeniMax.

It is pretty inclusive without having note everything.

And before you even can multibox you have to make more then one account. I am sure there is a "I verify I have no other account with you" rule when registering.

The bots are starting to be verbally abusive to players now!!???!!?!
Something big and permanent really has to be done about these *** now!

What ever emotion they feel for being reported pales in comparison to the loathing I feel for them. If I could I would write a virus that would install Gentoo Linux on their systems after formatting the drives.

NaughtyDog wrote: »

I was in Cliff of Failure (Cold Harbour) today grinding for some exp for my class skills to level up. Suddenly, I noticed a group of five bots showed up out of nowhere (the typical train of templars following same route jabbing everything). As a player who loves the game, I thought I might as well try to report them since they were right there anyway. Since they were all running the exact same route stacked on top each other, it took some time to wait for them to unstack to report (around 3-6min). Keep in mind that I am following them every step trying to get their names while trying to not double report a single avatar. As I submit the report on the 3rd bot, the last one stopped suddenly. He walked back to me and paused. It shocked me, I thought I was going to get ddos or something, I never seen a bot did that before. Then out of no where the bot whispered me "[snip] YOU!" followed by "[snip]!" 20second later, the train of bots disappeared.

So...they do have emotions, or was it advance scripting?

Well from this, I guess Zos do ban bots if it made one of them emotional about getting reported.

[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Cursing & Profanity]

I have noticed some bot areas (recent: Reaper's March/@ structure that crosses road west of Vinedusk Village) the flow was in the scores. I found a point where they were dropping into the ground and hit "F" and reported. One bot stepped out later and was moving/gesturing differently. I was thinking that some of these are not just automated, but the botters are having a "controller" (read: human) that sniffs out "player cops" to adjust strategy.

Zenimaz responded quick to that report [I included screenshot/location]

I use FRAPS to record what they do, and FastReport add-on to make sure I get location of area etc.

I will report bots and multi-boxers. Can't tell the difference with jibberish names and 5 people stacked on top of each other (reported a group of 6 sorc, all with clannfear and twilight pets, all using shard spell etc). All wiping out entire areas of mobs in a set path.

*shurgs*

'you' are ruining gaming for others, simple as that. Let Zenimax sort out what is what.