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Single computer, two bnet accounts, how to insulate main from bot to prevent ban.

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ekeefe41

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I have always Botted on my main, this last ban has convinced me once and for all that is a huge mistake. I went so far as to give away my password to these forums and BuddyAuth in order to never be tempted again (didn't last long, lol)


So, I am thinking... Bot on a separate bnet account just for farming and gold stuff. And play on main clean.


VMWare?


What practices do you guys do to insulate your main account from being ban for associating with the botting account?
 
To your first note, I'm not sure if reselling/giving away the license is against the TOS or not, I would imagine it probably is for HB.

With vCenter you can spin up a VM and the host acts as a hub, that is the VM has it's own MAC address, IP on your network, etc. Moreover, the VM doesn't know it's a VM (unless you install the vCenter tools... Which you probably don't need.) You could configure a VPN on that VM and have it always different than the "real" host. I believe you can get esx-i for home use for free or nearly free. (Plus learning esx-i is a nice skill to have on the CV.)

I personally use VyprVPN - which does get some flak, but mostly from software / media pirates because they respond to information requests and keep logging. Since I don't do that stuff, I think it's ok for me personally, but YMMV - I use it because it's really fast and they have a ton of exit points.

edit: Misspelled a word.
 
they wont bot an account that hasnt botted, too much paranoia
 
I agree with above I think he means they won't ban an account that hasn't been botted. There are likely exceptions to this but I have not experienced it.

I have one "clean" account with no botting who is leader of my guild. Bots are in the guild. Bots place things of value in the guild account so main "clean" account is not affected in the case of bans.

This has worked for me historically.
 
That is my experience as well. I have 2 accounts, my "main" one that didn't bot, and my bot account. Both on same bnet, same computer, no VMs or anything like that. During the last ban wave my bot account got hit, and my main account did not. I have not logged on to that account with HB ever. So, it doesn't appear that they go by IP or anything of the sort. Just if you've used HB directly with an account. I've even had two instances of WoW running at once. Bot hooked into my bot account and me running on my main account with no bot.
 
I've had my main banned in the past even with no botting at all
 
There is NO way to answer this, as WE nor the DEVS have NO CLUE how HB was detected the first or second time..

the only 100% way would be physical isolation (ie 2 separate computers)

HOWEVER ! ive been botting for years now, and have always had my main account (never botted) on and playing whilst my other bots run around, and have never received a ban..

So it would APEAR that HB detection happens once HB is attached to a wow process, so I would say you should be ok, just dont accelently attach it to your main accounts
 
i have found if you want to bot.
you have to ice your main account..
stop payments on it and never log into it.
Make a new main account.
 
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