12.18.2012 - Ban Information Consensus

[dragonxdraco]

Instead of whining and complaining, I'm trying to gather overall information about the current situation.

I've been visiting other botting websites to see if they got hit as well. So far, there's incoming ban reports for:

-AH Bots
-DB
-TNT D3
-RUSH
-Hades
-D3Mimic?? Still trying to find information on this


Thoughts:
1. The most significant thing I find so far is that people who have been up for a few hours to a few weeks <3 have been banned. I lost a barb (1/6) that was only doing 10 hours with breaks last time and this time I lost 1 DH (1/8).
2. Blizzard must be stepping up their game.
3. After reading the official DB statement and checking the forums...some honest players seem to be getting banned. Debating if I should try to appeal for my barb and hope it gets mixed in with honest players hahaha.

Any useful thoughts on the subject, i'll add to the topic.

OFFICIAL DB MESSAGE

 

[k_laurent02]

1/1 champion hunting banned today after several months of botting 24/7.

only thing i changed recently was i upgraded from 1.634 giles trinity to the newest community edition.

 

[cosbeowulf]

1/1 champion hunting banned today after several months of botting 24/7.

only thing i changed recently was i upgraded from 1.634 giles trinity to the newest community edition.

Lost 1/4 EU(3 safe running tinnkaizer 0.4). was trying a new profile on her today(Skyhigh, as well as new giles community edition). using isboxer to run them simultaneously(not safe, i know).

weird thing is, the account found about 12 legendaries in the hour before it was banned, then after it ID'd them i didnt get the NMA messages(while i was still getting from the other 3).

TL;DR
running 4 bots through isboxer, practically no protection. only the one running skyhigh+giles CE was banned. on top of that it started behaving strangely 30 mins before it was banned.