First lets clear something up.
There are two types of bans:
1. Automatic
2. GM-based.
---AUTOMATIC----
These bans apply when your character hits an automatically pre-set filter, this can be trading over 100.000g to a single character multiple times on a Vanilla account or something else. For you programmers it might look something like this:
----
If expansion is BATTLECHEST then
And If character trades 100,000G then
Shut down account and send automatic email
end if
end if
-----
Or it might look something like this
If character gathers > 1000 herbs / day
Shut down account and send automatic email
end if
Or maybe this:
If character online time > 18h/day.
Shut down account and send automatic email
end if
What these filters are, we don't know. But obviously they are designed so that "normal players" dont usually get cought in them. But I actually had a crazy guildy who farmed insanity achievement for 48 hours straight MANUALLY, he got banned.
So this is based on what you do with your character and if you hit these filters or not. It is not really the bot at all, the bot just makes it possible to hit them.
This always results in a closure of the account with a VERY high possibility to get it overturned to a 72h suspension (ONCE, NEVER TWICE).
This is what these E-mails look like, and they originate from WoWAccountReviewEU
-----------------------------
***Notice of Account Closure***
Account Name: WOW3
Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Unauthorized Cheat Programs ("Hacks")
This account was closed because one or more characters were identified using an unauthorized cheat program, also known as a "hack." These programs provide character benefits normally not achievable in the World of Warcraft. Such benefits include, but are not limited to, increased speed, teleportation, or running through walls/boundaries. Use of these unauthorized programs harms the game environment because they offer an unfair advantage over other players and supersede the intended limits of the game.
Even if this is the result of account sharing, the account owner can still be held responsible for the penalty because of the impact it had on the game environment.
We've found the above behaviour is many times directly related to groups responsible for compromising World of Warcraft accounts; we take these issues very seriously. To better understand our position against exploitative activity and the risks involved, please review this article: Impact of Buying Gold - Shop - World of Warcraft
The exploitative activity that took place on this account violates the World of Warcraft Terms of Use. We ask you take a moment to review these terms at Blizzard Entertainment: Blizzard Legal Documentation. Any recurring subscriptions on this account have been suspended to prevent further monetary charges.
If you believe your account was compromised, please go to the following website https://eu.battle.net/account/support/account-recovery.html. Our support staff will assist you as soon as possible. If you are unable to access your account due to the password being changed, please visit our Login Support site here: https://eu.battle.net/account/support/password-reset.html
For any disputes of this action or further information on Exploitive Activity, please visit the Exploitative Activity FAQ and contact page here: http://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/200783
Regards,
---------------------------------
-----GM BASED BANS----
These bans are when a GM manually teleports to your location and checks wth is going on with this character. If he thinks you are botting, you're screwed. This almost always results in a 72 hour ban.
The GM might teleport your character to some location or engage in conversation with you to check what's going on. I actually caught one of my bots getting a whisper from a GM and he let me go with a slap on the wrists, dont do that again please he said. Usually they still ban you for 72h even if you're at the computer. They monitor you prior to sending you a message. So they know what's going on.
This is to inform you that action has been taken against your account. Please read on for further information about the action taken, and more details regarding the reason:
This is what these E-Mails look like and they originate from WOWGMEU:
--------------------------------
Greetings,
This is to inform you that action has been taken against your account. Please read on for further information about the action taken, and more details regarding the reason:
Battle.net Account Name: XXXXX
World of Warcraft Account Name: WoW3
Account Action: Suspension (72 Hours, Final Warning)
Circumventing normal game mechanics has a negative impact on the game experience of other customers.
Type of Violation: Exploitation
Category of Violation: Third Party Program
Character Name Involved: XXXXXX
While we regret to take this type of action, we have determined it to be in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole, and for the integrity of the game.
Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences for your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination.
Also note, you must log into the game after the suspension has expired to update the status of the account shown on your Account Management page.
For further information, or to review our current Rules and Policies, please refer to:
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/index.xml?locale=en_GB&gameId=11&rootCategoryId=9740
Sincerely,
-----------------------------------
----------End of discussion-------
As you can clearly see, there are multiple types of bans. Ones that are automatic that contain really no information than "you cheated" and the ones that are from a GM which contains exactly what you did. Usually it says hacks, third party program, automation. I've gotten maybe 100 of these so they contain different stuff depending on which GM writes them.
And now you might ask yourself, so wth...why is this happening now? Well since I'm a long time botter, even back when pirox was around. I can tell you that these filters they use for automatic banning they change, sometimes they loosen them up and sometimes they tighten them down. Back when cataclysm came out you could bot 24/7 and not get a single ban except for GM-bans which are from player reporting or bad luck with GMs checking a certain area. Mid cataclysm they tightened these filters and you'd get banned if you botted for 24 hours, so most people started doing it for 16 hours. 16 Hours worked fine even in MoP, until now when they obviously have tightened it more. Now maybe 12 hours will get you banned? I for one don't know. It has to do with the filters, and I for one don't know what they are. And I don't have the economic resources or time to find out (i.e start up 50 accounts and do an empirical check). But it seems that they are targeting nodes/day or maybe even nodes/week and if that value is too high, you're fubared.
I hope I cleared some stuff up for ya, its tricky to understand how stuff works if you don't have the empirical data to deduce stuff (i.e dont own over 100 accounts and havent bottedn for 4+ years)
End sentence: THE BOT IS NOT DETECTED, THE WAY YOU USE IT IS.
There are two types of bans:
1. Automatic
2. GM-based.
---AUTOMATIC----
These bans apply when your character hits an automatically pre-set filter, this can be trading over 100.000g to a single character multiple times on a Vanilla account or something else. For you programmers it might look something like this:
----
If expansion is BATTLECHEST then
And If character trades 100,000G then
Shut down account and send automatic email
end if
end if
-----
Or it might look something like this
If character gathers > 1000 herbs / day
Shut down account and send automatic email
end if
Or maybe this:
If character online time > 18h/day.
Shut down account and send automatic email
end if
What these filters are, we don't know. But obviously they are designed so that "normal players" dont usually get cought in them. But I actually had a crazy guildy who farmed insanity achievement for 48 hours straight MANUALLY, he got banned.
So this is based on what you do with your character and if you hit these filters or not. It is not really the bot at all, the bot just makes it possible to hit them.
This always results in a closure of the account with a VERY high possibility to get it overturned to a 72h suspension (ONCE, NEVER TWICE).
This is what these E-mails look like, and they originate from WoWAccountReviewEU
-----------------------------
***Notice of Account Closure***
Account Name: WOW3
Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Unauthorized Cheat Programs ("Hacks")
This account was closed because one or more characters were identified using an unauthorized cheat program, also known as a "hack." These programs provide character benefits normally not achievable in the World of Warcraft. Such benefits include, but are not limited to, increased speed, teleportation, or running through walls/boundaries. Use of these unauthorized programs harms the game environment because they offer an unfair advantage over other players and supersede the intended limits of the game.
Even if this is the result of account sharing, the account owner can still be held responsible for the penalty because of the impact it had on the game environment.
We've found the above behaviour is many times directly related to groups responsible for compromising World of Warcraft accounts; we take these issues very seriously. To better understand our position against exploitative activity and the risks involved, please review this article: Impact of Buying Gold - Shop - World of Warcraft
The exploitative activity that took place on this account violates the World of Warcraft Terms of Use. We ask you take a moment to review these terms at Blizzard Entertainment: Blizzard Legal Documentation. Any recurring subscriptions on this account have been suspended to prevent further monetary charges.
If you believe your account was compromised, please go to the following website https://eu.battle.net/account/support/account-recovery.html. Our support staff will assist you as soon as possible. If you are unable to access your account due to the password being changed, please visit our Login Support site here: https://eu.battle.net/account/support/password-reset.html
For any disputes of this action or further information on Exploitive Activity, please visit the Exploitative Activity FAQ and contact page here: http://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/200783
Regards,
---------------------------------
-----GM BASED BANS----
These bans are when a GM manually teleports to your location and checks wth is going on with this character. If he thinks you are botting, you're screwed. This almost always results in a 72 hour ban.
The GM might teleport your character to some location or engage in conversation with you to check what's going on. I actually caught one of my bots getting a whisper from a GM and he let me go with a slap on the wrists, dont do that again please he said. Usually they still ban you for 72h even if you're at the computer. They monitor you prior to sending you a message. So they know what's going on.
This is to inform you that action has been taken against your account. Please read on for further information about the action taken, and more details regarding the reason:
This is what these E-Mails look like and they originate from WOWGMEU:
--------------------------------
Greetings,
This is to inform you that action has been taken against your account. Please read on for further information about the action taken, and more details regarding the reason:
Battle.net Account Name: XXXXX
World of Warcraft Account Name: WoW3
Account Action: Suspension (72 Hours, Final Warning)
Circumventing normal game mechanics has a negative impact on the game experience of other customers.
Type of Violation: Exploitation
Category of Violation: Third Party Program
Character Name Involved: XXXXXX
While we regret to take this type of action, we have determined it to be in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole, and for the integrity of the game.
Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences for your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination.
Also note, you must log into the game after the suspension has expired to update the status of the account shown on your Account Management page.
For further information, or to review our current Rules and Policies, please refer to:
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/index.xml?locale=en_GB&gameId=11&rootCategoryId=9740
Sincerely,
-----------------------------------
----------End of discussion-------
As you can clearly see, there are multiple types of bans. Ones that are automatic that contain really no information than "you cheated" and the ones that are from a GM which contains exactly what you did. Usually it says hacks, third party program, automation. I've gotten maybe 100 of these so they contain different stuff depending on which GM writes them.
And now you might ask yourself, so wth...why is this happening now? Well since I'm a long time botter, even back when pirox was around. I can tell you that these filters they use for automatic banning they change, sometimes they loosen them up and sometimes they tighten them down. Back when cataclysm came out you could bot 24/7 and not get a single ban except for GM-bans which are from player reporting or bad luck with GMs checking a certain area. Mid cataclysm they tightened these filters and you'd get banned if you botted for 24 hours, so most people started doing it for 16 hours. 16 Hours worked fine even in MoP, until now when they obviously have tightened it more. Now maybe 12 hours will get you banned? I for one don't know. It has to do with the filters, and I for one don't know what they are. And I don't have the economic resources or time to find out (i.e start up 50 accounts and do an empirical check). But it seems that they are targeting nodes/day or maybe even nodes/week and if that value is too high, you're fubared.
I hope I cleared some stuff up for ya, its tricky to understand how stuff works if you don't have the empirical data to deduce stuff (i.e dont own over 100 accounts and havent bottedn for 4+ years)
End sentence: THE BOT IS NOT DETECTED, THE WAY YOU USE IT IS.
