Possible bot honeypot in Nagrand

[Hans_S]

Not sure if I'm supposed to post stuff like this in this subforum or if it belong somewhere else, if it does, please enlighten me.

So basically, I found a possible bot honeypot in Nagrand with Sonar. It's an underground Nagrand Cherry - Item - World of Warcraft for the quest A Rare Bean - Quest - World of Warcraft located at (71.13, 47.33)

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/u3fWini.jpg

Stay safe, people. There are probably more of these around Draenor.

 

[ri0tc0re]

Blizz is getting smarter, but not smart enough haha. Good share.

 

[Loffah]

I'm sorry, but what is a honeypot and how did you detect this?

 

[Hans_S]

Honeypot is a term used when making traps for bots. Web developers use them to catch spammers (on forums or whatever) game devs use it to trap bots. It's usually a feature, object, whatever, that only machines or bots will see and interact with.

I detected it with Yeti Sonar

 

[Razzib]

I'm sorry, but what is a honeypot and how did you detect this?

Honeypot refers to a trap for bots. It's an item that you need to collect and you cant collect. The bot however can't figure out why it can't collect said item so it keeps going back to the item which is under ground and stands on o raround it and keeps clicking. Its not really a detection its an observation. and unless you blacklist the location of the "honeypot" then your bot (if ran unsupervised) will get stuck in the trap. Hope this Helped!!!

 

[OstensibleTree]

Honeypot? They should make landmines where if your toon tries over ten times to grab said-item it will blow up, deleting your account. Might as well make it exciting.