are player reports, still and always has been!
Now here is something new, I noticed since patch 5.1:
And since Blizzard takes reports way more serious than a year ago, that's where all the bans come from.
Now let me give you an example:
The Quest Gather the Intelligence is bugged at the moment (Blizzard Thread):
The crate you are supposed to loot is empty. Now since this quest is in Kickz profile A LOT (!!) of bots are running from the crate to a hotspot and back again (Hotspot->Loot->Hotspot).
So a couple of days back I monitor my new Gatherdruid leveling 80-82 in Hyjal, bugging at that quest and got 4 whispers saying that these dudes (assholes tbh) reported me.
My account is now gone, as of today (bummer).
=>There are many places your bot can and many places your bot will stuck or bug!!
Now with a highly customized bot it's not that dangerous. But with a public profile (Like Kickz, or BGBuddy), you are VERY likely to get reported)
There are people saying: "HEY I ONLY USED LAZYRAIDER", well yeah and you probably used some other part of the bot and got reported, sorry mate!
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So what can we do about that?
But those are just a couple of ideas I had on this, if you got an idea how to cope with this, feel free to share it!
So that's what I noticed lately and I think it's not really something absolutely new.
If they had a different method, I would like to believe there would be way more people on the BAN Forums these days.
Greetings,
Kjn
Now here is something new, I noticed since patch 5.1:
- -A couple of quests are bugged and pretty much a bot grave (more on that later)
- - BGbuddy is unusable at the moment, it's just way to obvious you are botting = report
- - Gathering "should" be fine, but you if you didnt set up the bot well it will be easy for any other person familiar with HB to detect you as a bot
- (- GMs porting players, to see if they really are bots (Only if you got reported before!))
And since Blizzard takes reports way more serious than a year ago, that's where all the bans come from.
Now let me give you an example:
The Quest Gather the Intelligence is bugged at the moment (Blizzard Thread):
The crate you are supposed to loot is empty. Now since this quest is in Kickz profile A LOT (!!) of bots are running from the crate to a hotspot and back again (Hotspot->Loot->Hotspot).
So a couple of days back I monitor my new Gatherdruid leveling 80-82 in Hyjal, bugging at that quest and got 4 whispers saying that these dudes (assholes tbh) reported me.
My account is now gone, as of today (bummer).
=>There are many places your bot can and many places your bot will stuck or bug!!
Now with a highly customized bot it's not that dangerous. But with a public profile (Like Kickz, or BGBuddy), you are VERY likely to get reported)
There are people saying: "HEY I ONLY USED LAZYRAIDER", well yeah and you probably used some other part of the bot and got reported, sorry mate!
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So what can we do about that?
- Add a button: (BUGGED) to Honorbuddy, so as soon as you see this bug it get's sent to the devs immediately and possibly make that profile send out a warning before it hits that bugged spot (quest, WP, whatever)
- Detect those control-teleports and let the player chat->hearth when they occur, or something like that
But those are just a couple of ideas I had on this, if you got an idea how to cope with this, feel free to share it!
So that's what I noticed lately and I think it's not really something absolutely new.
If they had a different method, I would like to believe there would be way more people on the BAN Forums these days.
Greetings,
Kjn
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