Some thoughts about Botting in general

[Whoda]

There are some topics I'd like to discuss about in this thread.
For one there are questions and on the other side there are just opinions.

As I am sitting here, waiting for my friend to come over to play, watching his and my bot farm together, I got curious.
I am using it on my main account, as does he. My friend, whilst new to botting, doesn't seem much concerned about it as he fully trusts me that I will look after his account.
So, the thing is that I just invited his char into a group and accepted it, running around together, farming.
I've been using this profile for about a week and made 200k yet I can't stop.
I am worried but on the other hand; I don't care if I get banned.
I've been using this one profile almost 8 hours a day and sometimes afk overnight (knowing that the profile sometimes bugs out and I get disconnected for doing nothing at all), but knowing I get disconnected at one point.
Even if my bot remains farming when I wake up I just get on the PC and either raid or log into another char and play the whole day.
I've probably used my bot combined with own playtime for about 18-20 Hours / 7 Days.

The thing is, I am just really wondering why not a single GM has been suspicious about it yet.
Making 200k in a week and "playing" everyday for over 12hours should at SOME point wake interest.
Is it because of the holidays? Are they really expecting people to play this long?

Yes I do go to my garrison between my farming accepting and finishing the follower missions and I also use the time to go to the AH to sell my stuff but thats like 30min of doing something else and going back to farming.

I really won't believe it that I am either stupidly lucky or that they haven't been suspicious yet.
They have the technology to watch over us. They could probably even just (far fetched) press a button to bann every single bot user from their whole game.
Concerned about their money? Do they realize that probably 1 out of 10 players (if not more) use a bot?

Staying on this, why do they care at all? Yes there may be some "game breaking" users who might use bots for evil (bla). Farming can ruin the whole warcraft economy but then again, without those people who are farming at the moment we'd have a fucked up economy eitherway.

I for one bought this because I'm an angry gamer. I get frustrated very fast and it's stressing me out.
Using the bot reveals the stress.
My problem was this: Imagine a Rated Battleground where you, yes you, put most effort into it. You are the guy which the enemy team fears the most, you are that one guy who's just concentrated sitting infront of your game and leading your team into victory. And even with all the effort put into it your teams looses. You just loose game after game after game which gets so frustrated. Your fingers hurt, your head aches and you overall just feel miserable.
With the bot I don't have this problem at all because I don't put any effort into it anymore. I let the bot do all the stressing stuff that I don't want to do or don't have time for anymore. And I can still enjoy the game as if I would play it normally!

This were some of my thoughts and opinions.

 

[DrStrider]

I've probably used my bot combined with own playtime for about 18-20 Hours / 7 Days.

This is nothing, there are plenty of people out there that put in these hours by hand WEEKLY. I doubt this is enough to trip the parameters of any automated flagging system. Blizzard would have thousands of trips a day.

 

[Whoda]

Not that you missunderstand me, I didn't mean that I used it just 20Hours over 7 days but 20 hours per day for a week. Yes I know there are people who can really do that by hand but if there were a timeline of how I played this game you will never find a single day where I've been playing for 20 hours straight.

 

[Drayven]

also remember one ban is one less subscriber.

 

[DrStrider]

Not that you missunderstand me, I didn't mean that I used it just 20Hours over 7 days but 20 hours per day for a week. Yes I know there are people who can really do that by hand but if there were a timeline of how I played this game you will never find a single day where I've been playing for 20 hours straight.

I definitely misunderstood, 100+ hours a week is absurd for anything. I still don't get why you're worried about specific GMs being suspicious of your behavior, it's not like Blizzard has hired some anti-bot force who is specifically tasked with looking for offenders. If a GM checks out your account, 99% of the time it's due to a player made report.

200k in the grand scheme of things isn't *that* much money. I made that the old fashioned way during the first two weeks of wod. Now if you go about trading sums of gold that large you are going to set off some alarm. If they investigate you after that there are a bunch of little things that could add up, but without an initial report it's all just conjecture. All of your concerns go back to being reasonable, I would encourage you not to permanently grind 20 hours a day, because that's a recipe for disaster in the long run. You are pretty much suicide botting right now.

if there were a timeline of how I played this game you will never find a single day where I've been playing for 20 hours straight.

This is what you need to ask yourself, all the time. Is this bot performing a reasonable action for a reasonable amount of time, would a human do this?

 

[ipazo]

Been using HB since 2011, just mix up what the bot is doing everyday and they won't notice anything, don't just farm the same profiles, do fishing, do archeology, do whatever, as long as you mix it up they can't tell the difference really from a normal player.

 

[haxxus777]

Simply remember the ban types we got

Autobann are often call in the bann email "exploit activity found" , that means the same action over and over again like dungeon runs. Complete dungeons always logged in your Charakter history..... but normal grinding doesnt get logged......

Its a very complex and a very successful System !! I just heard 2 or 5 people who was banned wrong in over 8 years botting expierience of my.....
They can spot everything you do at the Moment with your Char everytime they want. I think blizzard wants botting people but another case they dont want to have a huge Number of them....

Btw ... i make 15k with 1 char a day in 24/7 running time ... wow doesnt have a auto log out Feature , u can stay in game for days/weeks.... so that doesnt matter

Blizzard are scared about system and economy destroying things like u farm everytime only one thing like 50 dungeon runs in one day.....