(not a ban report, so not putting in the ban report forum)
Just curious ... I'm currently "botting up" a couple of new accounts via RAF and dungeons (not always botting). Which means so far things have been fairly safe as I'm only doing stuff for XP and mats that I'm using on my own alts for profession leveling.
However, man, I've collected WAY more mats than I'll need. And my 2nd account (which I'll be giving to my wife if she decides to play again) won't be needed much once my RAF time is finished.
Any idea how far back Blizzard typically looks in the logs to determine patterns? I doubt anyone can give a firm answer here. But I assume that they only keep around a month or so of logs -active- (I'm sure they keep more detailed logs archived for a longer time but I doubt that they pull those out for most investigations).
What I'm thinking is I will let my 2nd account go "stale" for a month or two after leveling and then start bot farming mats for some AH profit after that. I'd be playing this account for botting solely from a ***'ed IP so that my main account IP and the bot account are fully separate (and I have access to a private ***, so it should be much less visible when they look at ***'ed addresses).
I wasn't smart at the beginning and I've pretty well linked my 2 accounts via IP address for the last couple of months as I didn't decide to bot until very recently and I wasn't thinking things through.
Again, I realize know one here may know for sure ... but interested in what people think about it. I'm guessing 30 days is about as far back as they investigate on average, so 2 months gives me plenty of "break" time. And when that account starts appearing on a different geographic location via IP after a couple months of no payment that it will give me a decent chance to claim "halp, been hacked".
But ... if they keep basic IP logs much farther back, it might still be a problem.
Just curious ... I'm currently "botting up" a couple of new accounts via RAF and dungeons (not always botting). Which means so far things have been fairly safe as I'm only doing stuff for XP and mats that I'm using on my own alts for profession leveling.
However, man, I've collected WAY more mats than I'll need. And my 2nd account (which I'll be giving to my wife if she decides to play again) won't be needed much once my RAF time is finished.
Any idea how far back Blizzard typically looks in the logs to determine patterns? I doubt anyone can give a firm answer here. But I assume that they only keep around a month or so of logs -active- (I'm sure they keep more detailed logs archived for a longer time but I doubt that they pull those out for most investigations).
What I'm thinking is I will let my 2nd account go "stale" for a month or two after leveling and then start bot farming mats for some AH profit after that. I'd be playing this account for botting solely from a ***'ed IP so that my main account IP and the bot account are fully separate (and I have access to a private ***, so it should be much less visible when they look at ***'ed addresses).
I wasn't smart at the beginning and I've pretty well linked my 2 accounts via IP address for the last couple of months as I didn't decide to bot until very recently and I wasn't thinking things through.
Again, I realize know one here may know for sure ... but interested in what people think about it. I'm guessing 30 days is about as far back as they investigate on average, so 2 months gives me plenty of "break" time. And when that account starts appearing on a different geographic location via IP after a couple months of no payment that it will give me a decent chance to claim "halp, been hacked".
But ... if they keep basic IP logs much farther back, it might still be a problem.
