Suicide botting and protecting your main account?

[thedon19]

Hi all,
I was thinking of putting a new computer together for botting. I really miss it! But after my 6 month ban, I wont be doing it on my main account.

A few questions to those of you who bot heavily for gold...
- if you multi bot on one machine, assuming you have enough resources (cpu, ram), do you run each instance of wow just normally in Windows? Or have 1x VM running for each one?
- do you run a VPN on the machine?
- how do you launder the gold to your main?
- how long are your accounts lasting these days?
- is it best to have 5man dungeon teams running? Or gathering instead?
- what's some good bang for buck hardware to buy?

Thanks!

 

[Catmeat]

There is absolutely nothing you can do to protect your account. If a suspicious account is continuously giving gold to your main account, that will raise flags and you put your main account at risk. I've seen people put the gold in the guild bank of their main account in which they're the guild leader, but they can see the logs of your suspicious behavior. Just like when you get banned for buying gold ... it's because someone transferred an exorbitant amount of money to you all at one time. You're always at risk no matter what you choose to do.

 

[thedon19]

There is absolutely nothing you can do to protect your account. If a suspicious account is continuously giving gold to your main account, that will raise flags and you put your main account at risk. I've seen people put the gold in the guild bank of their main account in which they're the guild leader, but they can see the logs of your suspicious behavior. Just like when you get banned for buying gold ... it's because someone transferred an exorbitant amount of money to you all at one time. You're always at risk no matter what you choose to do.

Thanks for replying Cat, appreciate it.
You make a good point. Maybe i just bot for fun and keep my main account out of it.

What about from the technology point of view. Assuming that the main account is on a different physical pc, having the bots on a separate pc and behind a VPN, is this enough?

 

[Catmeat]

VPNs are useless since VPNs don't hide what you're doing, they only change your location ... although I'm sure they can easily tell where you are when you're logged into their servers, but who knows? I have no idea what their software does to expose your location. All your activity is logged to your account. You can't stop them from doing that. If I were you .. and if you have the extra coin .. is to have a third account for testing. So you leave your main account out of it ... and you transfer your gold to this third account from your botting account ... and see what happens. If your botting account gets banned and nothing ever happens to the third account ... then you'll have your answer. I have not tested this myself so I can't verify this. I'm sure other gold farmers here can give a better answer.

 

[thedon19]

Makes sense. I'm happy to try something like that out. Thanks!