How to detect a botter

[Ometecuthly]

Can someone explain me how Blizzard tries to detect bots? is it just searching for people who never log off and non-stop do runs that they find suspicious? i.e. If i do it 10 hours a day (which a normal person could do to) I will mostlikely never get caught? or how do they scan for botters? any ideas?

 

[cloud3]

magic

 

[Ometecuthly]

Like houdini?... nah serious haha... how do they do it?.... what kind of alchoritms xD

 

[ToeNisLubBer]

magic... what don't you get

 

[bangbang]

dude stop asking stupid questions, do you think anyone here knows bullshit about blizzard detection mechanics? already enough tinfoil crap

 

[aaron913]

they simply know nobody would play this game legit anymore. Therefore, everyone online is a bot, amirite

 

[Randar]

nice try blizzard!

 

[randomstraw]

lots of ideas

but i aint tellin' shit, and so will 99%.

 

[Groovy]

Haarp

 

[Gentoo]

gah, where am i

 

[Job2k9]

They use bots to find bots. Stop all the bot on bot violence!

 

[blista08]

The fact is we have no clue how they're detecting the botters. That's why there's a "ban theories" thread in the ban reports section still . If we knew 100% how Blizzard detected botters, we would be countering how they do it, wouldn't we?

 

[TouchMeGently]

Can someone explain me how Blizzard tries to detect bots? is it just searching for people who never log off and non-stop do runs that they find suspicious? i.e. If i do it 10 hours a day (which a normal person could do to) I will mostlikely never get caught? or how do they scan for botters? any ideas?

The fact is none of the bot devs know how Blizzard detects botting.

In theory there are two ways

1) Software detection: that means the bot program itself is detected, everyone who uses the bot will be banned. As far as I know DB counters this pretty well.

2) Behavior detection: this is what gets most of us, sometimes it's the behavior of players; sometimes the bots (not the same as software detection).

Behavior refers to things like botting 24/7, botting multiple accounts on the same computer, these are player's behaviors, but theoretically some of the bot's actions can get you banned as well (actions like self-buffing at perfect time and others).

If you do 10 hours/day you could still be banned due to bot behaviors.

The bottom line is nobody knows for sure. It seems it's very easy for Blizzard to find the 24/7 botters and ban them all, but apparently a lot of them are going strong. We just don't know what Blizzard does. Maybe they only ban us when they get enough complaints on the official forum. Maybe they ban us every few months like a ladder reset.

The best advice I can give you is never bot on an account you can't afford to lose.

 

[CodenameG]

The fact is none of the bot devs know how Blizzard detects botting.

In theory there are two ways

1) Software detection: that means the bot program itself is detected, everyone who uses the bot will be banned. As far as I know DB counters this pretty well.

2) Behavior detection: this is what gets most of us, sometimes it's the behavior of players; sometimes the bots (not the same as software detection).

Behavior refers to things like botting 24/7, botting multiple accounts on the same computer, these are player's behaviors, but theoretically some of the bot's actions can get you banned as well (actions like self-buffing at perfect time and others).

If you do 10 hours/day you could still be banned due to bot behaviors.

The bottom line is nobody knows for sure. It seems it's very easy for Blizzard to find the 24/7 botters and ban them all, but apparently a lot of them are going strong. We just don't know what Blizzard does. Maybe they only ban us when they get enough complaints on the official forum. Maybe they ban us every few months like a ladder reset.

The best advice I can give you is never bot on an account you can't afford to lose.

yea, that's basically it.

thread closed, due to the amount of trolling.