last 2 days i have not gotten any currency, very peculiar

[brittanycolumbo]

I have changed nothing mf wise.
I usually get at the minmum, 1-2c +1ex +1-2vaal orb in a 24 hour period and 1 unique every 12-24 hours, but for past 2 days have gotten nothing but rare drops, its weird cus ever since I started botting, beginning of month; always got some currency daily... does poe disable your account from getting currency and unique items if your account is unders suspicion of botting?

 

[pushedx]

I have changed nothing mf wise.
I usually get at the minmum, 1-2c +1ex +1-2vaal orb in a 24 hour period and 1 unique every 12-24 hours, but for past 2 days have gotten nothing but rare drops, its weird cus ever since I started botting, beginning of month; always got some currency daily... does poe disable your account from getting currency and unique items if your account is unders suspicion of botting?

Yes, this is known as "currency flagging". Basically, it's their automated "soft ban" system for when there's not enough info to out right ban your account. If you ask support to look into your account, they will check over your logs and determine if you were botting or not based on the info they have collected.

For some people, they get their accounts restored, while others are banned for botting/RMT.

Their system is still pretty unpredictable, as there are legit players getting flagged (and then unflagged once support checks them out) and then there are some botters who pass the checks, and others who do not. It's entirely server sided, so there's no way to avoid it, especially if certain unknown actions can lead a legit player to getting flagged. Your best bet is to start a new account, change up your botting patterns / time.

As time goes on, we do make changes to the bot to help users avoid these issues, but right now, we've not seen anything in the bot that would lead to mass flagging (in which case, we would change up a lot of stuff again).

 

[Thecamel]

As push said, Its not the bot being detected,

There are just certain patterns that can arise from botting, No way to avoid it because even humans that play in a bot fashion (ie farm one area over and over) can get flaged.

 

[thunder]

i have run my bots for months without stop since the new EB released, but last week i got 90% of my accounts banned or flagged, some of them were still leveling by going through quest. Guess GGG has changed their static somehow. Will try to change my botting style to see if this was just unlucky.

 

[pushedx]

I think it's safe to say by now GGG has (or is in the process of) changing up what they are looking for on the server to try and find people botting. Right now, it seems like quite a few people who have been pulling longer botting sessions are getting tracked down. It's not alarming at this point, but you can just assume the number of people getting caught will gradually increase.

This is expected, as it's always a back and forth thing. If we need to change anything in the bot, we will, but for now, I think people should start watching how much they are botting. We'll keep an eye on this though, but just keep in mind, there's no such thing as consequence free botting. If the devs are doing extensive data collection on the servers and then analyzing it to find botting patterns, and you're botting a lot, chances are you're going to get caught.

Since the past few months since the rewrite, things have been pretty quiet, so you can assume the bot detection pattern evolution is catching up again. We do have some bot changes coming soon that are unrelated to this issue, but that might help for a little while again if the new changes are actually tailored to the bot (which I don't think they are, though). If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to PM me.