Hi
I was thinking of creating an account just for botting on seeing as though things are up in the air atm
Do you guys know if they ban the account you send all the money to also?
Say i have 1 acount for botting and 1 account private and i send all the gold i make from botting to my private account do bliz ban both accounts?
Whats the best way to move money from the botted account to a private account
Do they track my IP and ban all accounts connected with it etc
Snake,
I've been botting a few years now and - knock on wood - I haven't been banned yet but I really do go to extremes to not f#ck up. That said, the answer to your question (for me) has been one of two things:
Knowing that everything that exchanges hands in WoW is marked with at least it's previous owner's name (this was confirmed to me years ago by a GM)(I have never been able to determine if they mark items with even more, say perhaps the last 2 or 3 owners) there's no way to really "wash your money" certainly not hand-to-hand so please avoid that.
You could start a guild and wash it through your guild bank although a guild with just 2 toons will be hard to convince anyone else that it's legit, but it's something.
Use the auction house. You're botting, right? It's free gold. Why not assume the AH commission as a loss and post stuff from the non-botting toon at a ridiculous price (like a stack of teeth @ 1000 each tooth, or just sell a blue for 20k, it'll just look like you're crazy ;-) but it's more believable) and have the bot account buy it. Again, it's not impossible for Blizzard to figure this out but it's better than hand-to-hand.
Keep in mind that even through the AH, items are still marked with at least one previous owner's name (I don't mean the crafter's name, I mean the actual owner but we don't see that).
A combination of these things should go a long way to help you although if you're account is already flagged, and being monitored and/or recorded/analyzed, if one account directly benefits from the botting account, they will both be banned.
Please don't regularly use hand-to-hand as the obvious pattern will flag the non-botting account as either an alt to the bot or just as someone buying gold from a botter.
I hope these thoughts give you food for thought.
