3/3 US Banned: Hand Levelled, VM+VP* each, Randomized Delays, Champion Farming, <12hr

[Gingerbread]

double post, oops.

 

[mephuser1000]

But i dont understand how that profile would work since this profile at pretty random... But if that theory youre saying is true, then we should be clear when we start to use the Random dungeon system!

Method #1: For example, from user posts:

Thank you Radonic & Savage for this beautiful profile.. its almost perfect.

Seems like they nerfed Act I in Inferno right? For some time I only got LVL62 yellow items.

Just noticed that I got stuck using 1.8 and the plugins recommended in this location after I ressurected from a death in there.

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Then Blizzard probably swarms to the stuck location like vultures by creating a server script that detects the particular stuck event.

Method #2:
Observe the activity on accounts flagged dirty through association, with the assumption that whatever movement/activity that is perform is "botting activity" and from there create a server script.

Method #3:
Combine #1 and #2

Blizzard wouldn't be spending $ to recruit new guys for Anti-botting detection if Anti-botting technology is going to stay stagnant ala WoW Classic years.

-> Blizzard Entertainment:Career Opportunities -
-> Blizzard hiring "Anti-Cheat Engineer"
-> Blizzard's Anti-cheat engineer position FILLED

EDIT: Apologies, I have derailed into "Ban Theories". Silly me.

 

[xenohadden]

one of the many reasons why are forums should be made private, have a public area with rarely used profiles on and the members only area with all the currently maintaed profiles. How it is for almost all other bot sites (and forum sites for that matter), not that have a major problem with it, but would just make sense.

 

[Gingerbread]

method #2.5 Observe a flagged account playing for a short time to see if it's a real player or a bot, if you know what to look for it's fairly easy to tell bot behaviour apart from actual person playing behaviour.

Rails? what rails?

 

[shaliuno]

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[mephuser1000]

Omg dude, thats really sucks.
Sorry for your loss.
Im just shocked because I'm using almost same setup +- minor fixes, and private profiles. Now I'm really worrying.


Could you tell me,



Did you logoff or not? Was Diablo closed when your bot takes breaks?

Did you logoff or not?
Ans: Yes, during the programmed "breaktime" as entered within the config of the external relogger software.

Was Diablo closed when your bot takes breaks?
Ans: Yes, the external relogger software would forcefully close Diablo once the profile runtime ends and "breaktime" starts.

In addition, I have a failsafe (not the sucky injection of SecureIPBind) that prevents Diablo3.exe, Agent.exe and etc from connecting to the Internet should the VP* Service disconnects.

 

[Gingerbread]

Ans: Yes, the external relogger software would forcefully close Diablo once the profile runtime ends and "breaktime" starts.

I don't use relogger s/w and log on off on mine manually. Does relogger wait for a "well done! next run!" event or a "player died" event before kicking into breaktime?

My main account that has never been botted and never will get botted tends to spend a lot of time idling either in town in game, or at the character selection screen. I'm playing and farming chasing some godly drop and the phone rings and I finish up the pack I'm on and TP to Town. Often I'd go meet some mates at the pub or wherever and leave the game logged in, just idling. Sometimes I'd shut down d3 but not always.

If you *always* do a certain thing a certain way then you look mechanical and bot like I think. If your relogger s/w usually shuts everything down, sometimes TP's to town and then just sits there, sometimes logs out to the selection screen, and sometimes logs out and sits at the AH this might help avoid getting flagged maybe (?)

 

[shaliuno]

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[mephuser1000]

Thank you.

Some more questions.

Did you use same main account from previous bans to trade with new bots?

How many bots you had in your friend list? And how many friends your bots had?

Did you trade gold just by giving gold or trading gold for some items?

Did you use same main account from previous bans to trade with new bots?
Ans:

- join games together to your main to exchange gear etc?
Ans: Main -> passes gear to Non-botted trade account. Non-botted trade account passes gear to Bot account.
Trade account doesn't come into contact with public players and doesn't sell gold.
Trade account has a Level 10 char that killed Skeleton King.

I won't deny that there is such a possibility, that Blizzard left the main account unbanned and intact so that they could trace future bot activity via association even if it's on a different IP/HWID.

This means that Blizzard has traced up to 2 degrees of association: Main Account -> Trade Account -> Bot Account.

How many bots you had in your friend list? And how many friends your bots had?
Ans:

Only Friend = Trading account which is not botted.

Did you trade gold just by giving gold or trading gold for some items?
Ans: Trade Gold with random blue/rare items. Mostly of trash/vendor value.

 

[scarecrow]

HI guy,

sorry for your loos, it's frigthening

a little contribution to ban theories :

1 - Maybe an overprotected and stheal account will appears as really suspect; ( the more you hide, the more it's weird)

2 - how we would work if we were in the banham' blizz team ? for sure we would :
- for sure, prioritise accounts to ban, which imply some criteria to flag accounts. I would totally sort the suspect account list by the amount of gold dealed with; ( i would not consider that littles amounts of gold / currency dealed would be the first treat )
- watch theses accounts for repetitive routines, looking for some clicks sequence AND combat sequence ( the powers you cast is just another input sequence, just like clicking ). the point is that the longer your profile is, the more suspect it gets, cause finding a partially repetitive sequence is far more relevant on 35 minutes than during afew second
- i would also implement my warden to look at dumb evidence of botting ( for the "human checking" part for ban ) : i would ask warden to get the mouse position and see if it's moving; i would ask warden to check if D3 is on the top of windows desktop ( how could u play with firefox in front of your game ?!? )
- concerning hardware detection, obfuscation is okay only if warden doesn't try to check himself for hardware elements ID and serials. what if a windows call return a serial number and a direct call return another one ?

sorry if this is crap, i'm just speculating ^^. Also sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language.

 

[PapaBash]

If method #2 would be true, that means they would actually monitor what my main account does and to say the least if they would see that he would be gone a long time ago. He is doing a lot of more dirty stuff in regards to ToS then a simple bot

And my main had 4 accounts supplying him gold every day and they got banned so even at that point he could have been banned had he been actually looked into and not just because of the gold he gets.

Anyway saying method #2/#3 are true would mean to accept defeat because there would be no way for us to bot any further.

 

[Radonic]

If method #2 would be true, that means they would actually monitor what my main account does and to say the least if they would see that he would be gone a long time ago. He is doing a lot of more dirty stuff in regards to ToS then a simple bot

And my main had 4 accounts supplying him gold every day and they got banned so even at that point he could have been banned had he been actually looked into and not just because of the gold he gets.

Anyway saying method #2/#3 are true would mean to accept defeat because there would be no way for us to bot any further.

Well if you think about it. You sell large amount of gold and items on RMAH on your main account... You want to get that gold all the time. So by banning your "farm accounts" they will continue to get a part of your money and you will buy more games.

 

[PapaBash]

And if you think about it back then you know that we aren't samatarians. We only keep purchasing those bots if it is profitable for us. We don't feed them more money then we earn. At least for a big portion of us.

Being banned in under 2 weeks is not profitable or so borderline, that it isn't worth the trouble.

 

[sojufiend]

looks like you are like the only one banned for champ farming.. probably something with your account or your old bans or something youve missed.

 

[mephuser1000]

looks like you are like the only one banned for champ farming.. probably something with your account or your old bans or something youve missed.

Will be updating the ban user count from Inferno Act 1 Champions:

EDIT:
Update:
erimin5, Teivovo and mephuser1000 (myself) have botted Inferno Act 1 Champions before getting banned.

Quote from
Diablo 3 Ban Reports Go Here - Page 61

That's because thousands of people are using the champion farming. Repeated behavior is the dead give-away especially if there's more than a thousand people doing it, like I said find a unique area and make your own profile or if you're like me and still using IB find an area and let it run 2-4 minute runs to find something good.

The champion farming profiles do get stuck every so often, all it would take is a GM to watch repeated runs for the same exact movement/waypoints and boom your gone.

 

[da.nephalem]

May we just have to accept, that it's not behavior related. May they just detect DB (as what it is, a 3. party tool ) and don't ban all @ once because they wan't us to believe there is still the chance to bot without beeing catched, so we all gona buy new D3 Licenses and fall in the same trap over and over again.

That's the way I would handle you folks!

Just my 2 Cents.

 

[Silock]

Dynamic ip - you problem. Blizzard dont like different ip.

 

[packetloss]

I think their detection method is rather simple. Look at the time between commands, like Teleport and leave game etc. etc. If there is no variation, then it has to be a bot.

What I would like to see are more randomizing functions built into all the commands. Movement commands be random amongs multiple coordinates, teleport should allow for random intervals before it considers itself complete, etc. etc.


One other important thing, if you have the bot sell loot it does it WAY faster than a human could. To me that is a big red flag.

 

[shaliuno]

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[Ganondorf1]

Some ***s might be ip banned, or mark you as suspicous. Running in a vm would also make you suspicious. At that point a gm will manually look at your actions, and especially your timings, if they are regular to the milisecond, it's a bot. That's how i would do it. Doesn't matter if you were farming champs, DB needs to randomize ALL actions and ALL ticks, then if people not using vms/***s get banned, it means it's simply detected.