Detecting questing robots!

[Naus]

I normally check in on my robot every 15-20 minutes while I read the news, or play Minecraft.

Anyways, I was running a questing profile and noticed my robot was chilling at a boss spawn point, and there was another robot chilling there too! I didn't know he was a robot at first, but I started sending him whispers, and a group invite so we didn't have to wait for slow spawn time. At this point I had disabled Honorbuddy, so that I wouldn't look so obvious incase this was a real person, but after some time I'm pretty sure it's a robot.

With my profile turned off, we both camped for that quest spawn. Him being a robot, and my profile disabled, he instantly tagged the mob. I was a bit frustrated, but it's just a game, so no big deal--it's cool.

But it got me thinking! If I wasn't involved in this community, and looking out for my homeboys. This is exactly the kind of behavior I would have reported in a fit of anger. I mean what else would a legit player do while they wait 5 minutes for a quest mob to spawn, because some robot sniped it from them? Alt-tab and file a botting complaint! So while I don't want to call out that player, because this isn't about internal fighting, I was curious if anyone knows of a way to minimize these kinds of encounters in the future (for the safety of bots).

Is there a way to have a robot act more human in these kinds of encounters. That is, while two or more people socially wait for a rare spawn to appear? Or will it always appear that the robot is obvious and risk a potential flag?

 

[xwozone]

tap insta cast spell, over and over... i do i all the time because its mindless spamming

 

[xwozone]

IE tab + shadow word: pain

 

[r0LcSfgb2l]

If you need to find & kill a mob... use makro and spam it.

[macro]
/tar "mobname"
/cast "spellname"
/script SetRaidTargetIcon("target",2)

 

[Naus]

Just to clarify, I'm asking about methods to improve botting, so that legit people who compete with them don't recognize them as bots and report them as such and bring fourth an investigation that could lead to the suspension or banning of a botter's account. I'm not asking at all how to tag mobs faster than a bot, but simply saying that this is a very easy and apparent way to detect a bot. This is why I posted this in the discussion forum section focused on banning.

Targeting and attacking a mob was not the focus of this post, but rather explaining the circumstances that can lead to a legitimate player reporting another on suspicion of botting.


(Edit): I do appreciate the suggestions for faster tagging. I don't really want to leave it unsaid that I (and many others) do greatly appreciate it when the community is kind and helps one another.

 

[gosikbig]

Yeah, i am sell powerlvl in wow over 7years. And today 1-87lvl i got ban for quest, i am pro with boting in wow, but now Blizz see HB. I think and other bots too.

 

[Aion]

Yeah, i am sell powerlvl in wow over 7years. And today 1-87lvl i got ban for quest, i am pro with boting in wow, but now Blizz see HB. I think and other bots too.

7 years are not enough

Sometimes experienced botters do tend to do more mistakes than rookies here: For a single reason - confidence!

Their botting background make them "believe" they are experienced enough to not do mistakes, which is false enough of course! No one is immune to do the stuff wrong, and the botting business is very dynamic.


Some stuff, which were pretty safe for years, can be be hazard right now.

So the only way here is to adopt! Just like Blizzard adopt and change with our botting, we are supposed to do the same, to keep the pace of cat&mouse.

But everyone choose for themselves to be the mouse ... or the cat