[Solved]2 Many Many Bot

[Boklek]

too many bots. and no GM is ONLiNE. more fun inboting., where are you guys if i need you

and you tell me to SS them. how can i prove that they are bot in the SS? DF

[Seraphine]

All you have to do is take a couple SS(Screen shots) which show suspicion of a potential bot and then make a ticket with them(make sure to have the potential bots name highlighted with your mouse cursor) and we will further investigate as to whether they are bots or not.

[thePast]

You can also try to record them ( that is, if you want ).

Try using fraps or Xfire

I'm not sure how they work, haven't try them yet. :s

[Meka Meka]

One effective way of catching bots is using FRAPS, then SS the FRAPS video. This is because it's usually to hard to hover over a bot and SS manually to catch their name because they auto-teleport away.

Edited June 28, 2012 by Meka Meka

[Boklek]

sS is useless. BTW, i bc the name of the botters. i think the botter saw in. because after that he closed the bot. but after 10-20 mins. he returned and change his bot program. before he warp walk a bit then SG then warp. after the change the bot became warp sg warp. so fast that can't SS the name.

BTW there is guy BC telling that. "Sorry dude, Botter cannot been IP banned."

Edited June 29, 2012 by lek0218

[Lightofheaven]

if you caught a bot just ss or use fraps to show the GM that is really bots and make a ticket about it

[Justice]

Try not to bc to the bots. It brings unnecessary attention to the matter and it scares them off temporarily, making it harder for us to catch them. The best thing to do, hands down, when you see a bot and no GM is online is to take SS or just report the name of the bot and the map in a TICKET.

[zergling]

a SS cannot actually tell a bot since a screen shot is a still image. if you can fraps them repeatedly and highlight their name repeatedly then it can be shown as a potential bot. other than that a GM would have to be there to test the potential bots. but IMO the GM's need to be more active such as 1 on at all times perhaps? maybe even hiring a police staff that only hunts for bots and program users?

[Beautiful]

a SS cannot actually tell a bot since a screen shot is a still image. if you can fraps them repeatedly and highlight their name repeatedly then it can be shown as a potential bot. other than that a GM would have to be there to test the potential bots. but IMO the GM's need to be more active such as 1 on at all times perhaps? maybe even hiring a police staff that only hunts for bots and program users?

i believe GM if they are on not doing events that is a role they usually do. they usually bot hunt but then again Frapps is the best way. a suggestion would be if u see them record it and then record urself pming the person

if they reply then it could be a farmer but if it happens multipul times chances are its a bot. think about it if someone pms u saying " reply or reported " chances are if ur a normal person farming ull reply being WTF but if its a bot then no real reply. just an example u dont have to do it

[zergling]

you can actually set a bot to reply to PM's which is why it's best to actually have a team of GM's that hunt bots and that's all they do. hence the "hire a police staff" the GM's are doing everything they can but they don't just hunt for bots and program users they are also helping players and doing events. the best way to catch a bot is to have a GM freeze the bot and then do a PM if the person replies with the same things repeatedly then unfreeze the person if they tele or walk immediatly then it's a bot if not then it's just a player wondering what the hell is going on. i know this because it's what i used to do.(the bot hunting not the actual botting...)

[Bishop]

We already have quite effective ways to figure out whether someone is a bot or not. However we can't always check all maps to see if there's a bot online. If you happen to suspect someone to be a bot , as justice said, take a SS or just report the name of the bot and the map in a TICKET.

Do not attempt to PM the bot or B/C about it as it will only help the botters out more than it helps us.

[zergling]

from what i hear the tickets are slow to be answered unless they are marked "questionable GM activity" and if they are as slow as i hear then the player using a bot can run a bot for maybe 6-12 hours and get far more than they need just strip the char and delete it. then they would be gone without a trace. as i said a SS is not a way to prove a person is botting since it is a still image and even fraps causes the file to be too large for the forums to handle. i'm not trying to say the GM's are doing a bad job but as was said you can't be everywhere at once and the GM's are busy. that's why i suggested the GM police that way they can monitor the server and prevent a lot of the third party programs that i have seen being used (which actually pretty much can be seen everywhere you look but nobody wants to do anything about it).

[Genesis]

Gms do a sweep of popular bot maps every few hours. We are currently pushing for them to do that more often. I'm going to try and make it harder to bot in farming grounds as well.

[Boklek]

heheh. do my suggestion in seed dun, gen :) it will do a lot program but use full in anti seed bot :)

or hire me as a police in seed dun :)

[zergling]

all i'm saying is that the GM's already have a lot on their plate so having a few more hands around to police the maps and such would be a good thing to have.

[Perseverance]

I am going to render this solved as this issue has been discussed

and I'm pretty sure you know the way to handle it when you come across

bots by now. If you need to report a bot, you know you just have to

make a ticket about it.