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4/4 right now

rootz said:
No dude, i dont know what is gear swap, and im not use it, loss 3 characters para 500+ ghom 24/7, was running 7/7 in ban moment, 3 - banned, 4 is ok, mistic!
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if your saying you lost 3 accounts that seems to be the trend, most every one that has been banned is running 3+ accts, no idea why they got banned
 
ya im just taking a break for a while, i have gotten all i can really get, got over a billion on hc and sc and 500+ para on both and all legendarys you have now will be replaced after 2.1 so no real reason to bot atm. better safe then sorry i might actually play the game again after 2.1
 
Just came back from first free weekend since RoS started:

2/3 eu 1/3 US i start to use Gear Swap in last week ....
All account botted since 1,5 year 24h/7

All saved account had no gear to swap or only 1 amu, All banned had full amu + nemesis.
 
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Hm, strange. Definitely adds weight to the whole "gearswap got me banned" thing if true.
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I have no reason to post false information. I smoked little to much in last week and start to clean stashes from legendary --> on 3 saved account i just salvage all items in backpack (include amu + nemesis) so they used gear swap less than hour.
 
rootz said:
No dude, i dont know what is gear swap, and im not use it, loss 3 characters para 500+ ghom 24/7, was running 7/7 in ban moment, 3 - banned, 4 is ok, mistic!
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the account you didnt get banned with, were you running Ghom?
 
pussmagnet said:
my theory of bans is:
* excessive games per hour - more than 4 gets a ban
* excessive client ids from the same hardware id - d3 sends unique hardware id to blizz, if too many clients are logged for too long on the same hardware means ban - VMWare does protect from this
* excessive errors from a client (game creating)
* enormous game time like 10k hours
* joing public games with a bot - people will report you
* using a program for disabling rendering device (to speed up graphics)
* using strange plugins (I dont think gearswap is safe)

So any 1 of these conditions can get u a ban. In my case I was protected only from the first 2 ones, all other not.
They also manually somehow check each case after finding out these behaviours.

Anyway all bans are Tuesday night or Saturday night, wonder what will happen tomorrow.

I have botted since the release of vanilla d3 and read most ban reports since. And btw. I was running 33 accounts all banned last Sat, this is what was left from gold farming days and RMAH.
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I stopped reading your "theory" after you said bans happen on Tuesday and Sunday. You've obviously got a huge hole in your scientific reviews since the bans happened on Friday 7/11. All the rest of the theories you talk about is obvious.
 
jason805 said:
I stopped reading your "theory" after you said bans happen on Tuesday and Sunday. You've obviously got a huge hole in your scientific reviews since the bans happened on Friday 7/11. All the rest of the theories you talk about is obvious.
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The only real banwave (where a huge majority of users were banned) was on 18th December 2012. Tuesday. A few days before that, a "miniwave" hit a quite smaller percentage of accounts. He is actually right about MOST bans happening on Tuesdays and saturdays, I can assert that on my own experience too.

Also, it could be me, but I find his post quite more accurate and useful than yours. Even if it is stating "obvious theories" to you. Maybe you know something the rest of us do not.

As much as I wanna believe the "they don't care about botting cause BoA and crap" theories, I'm afraid the increasing QQing on the official forums regarding bots and multiboxers dominating ladders could force Blizzard to make a marketing move and ban bots. If they actually kept flagging accounts, with almost every botter running 24/7 for months now, they could ban a gazillion of accounts now.

Whether that would be a good marketing move or a terrible move due to severely lowering playerbase (bots do count as actual players for all accounts and stats) remains to be seen!
 
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Irrespective of what's happening right now I feel like 2.1 is almost certainly going to bring either a significant ban wave or at the very least a marked increase in the number of bans. Blizzard will not be able to ignore the inevitable QQ of the player base when botters have what will finally be a "meaningful advantage" in an aspect of the game that "matters".

Whether they'll explicitly target players that bot seasons or simply ban indiscriminately I can't predict ofc, but i definitely feel like this golden age of an infinitesimal chance of a ban will be coming to an end soon. What Pimp said above kind of echoes my personal sentiments which is that frankly, Blizzard is likely well aware of who's botting and who's not and could move to ban swathes of us at a moments notice if they so desired!
 
as for what im reading the ppl that have gotten banned 3+ accts seems to be 100% plus most were using gear swap but not all. Are there any botters out there running 3+ accts that did not get banned, and of those ppl that did not get banned are you using gear swap, maybe thru some common info we can pinpoint what the ppl with 3+ accts got banned and why the ones with 3+ did not were all the accts tied to the same bnet acct ect, ect
 
hm got banned too on eu server i had only 1 account that im botting on. im botting like 6 hours a day ghom/act 1 caches and all acts key farming. i used gear swap aswell for lvling a dh 1 week ago but that dont mean gearswap is unsafe i think. seems like im very unlucky tho :(
 
marczel said:
hm got banned too on eu server i had only 1 account that im botting on. im botting like 6 hours a day ghom/act 1 caches and all acts key farming. i used gear swap aswell for lvling a dh 1 week ago but that dont mean gearswap is unsafe i think. seems like im very unlucky tho :(
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can you please answer the questions on the first post? how long have you had your account for? from what I'm seeing it seems like Ghom and Gearswap = bad

I've used Armory but not gearswap hmm...
 
jason805 said:
can you please answer the questions on the first post? how long have you had your account for? from what I'm seeing it seems like Ghom and Gearswap = bad

I've used Armory but not gearswap hmm...
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the account excist since diablo 3 vanilla release
 
pewpewLazor said:
EU.
And pls dont ask stupid questions - 24/7 for months
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Don't ask stupid questions? There are people in this very thread who are posting that they are also banned and only botting 6 hours a day...
 
marczel said:
hm got banned too on eu server i had only 1 account that im botting on. im botting like 6 hours a day ghom/act 1 caches and all acts key farming. i used gear swap aswell for lvling a dh 1 week ago but that dont mean gearswap is unsafe i think. seems like im very unlucky tho :(
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Ouch, this really sucks :( Sorry to hear you lost your account and also sorry that it seems the multiple account botting theory is partially debunked. :(
 
3/3 EU accounts all running ghom or chest runner pretty much 24/7 and not banned

my GPH on Ghom I purposely kept under 50gph and never received the error creating game message and never used gearswap
 
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