Carbonated
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Ok so I've been botting myself for about 2 years now and I just recently swapped over to Honorbuddy. Best decision I ever made but never mind that I want to share some "observations" of mine on bans from botting.
Now keep in mind this is probably going to be very controversial as a lot of my observations go against the general thinking of bot bans.
NOTHING SAID HERE IS FACT SIMPLY OBSERVATION FROM A LONG TIME BOTTER
First thing I've observed, 99% of bans are from player reports. I have never been banned ever from botting, why? Because I play on Illidan where botters are accepted as a way of life for the server. If Blizz really wanted to ban botters they would have a GM go in game type "/who uldum" whisper each one of the 85s there and ban 30+ bots.
Why don't they do this? Cause the botters are still paying a monthly subscription and they aren't really "affecting" anyone. In fact on Illidan botters are helipng the economy as its extremely cheap to go buy a stack of ore for 80g off the AH prospect it 4 times sell the Inferno Ruby (if you get one) for 200g and the other cut gems for 30-80g apiece making sometimes a 4x profit.
Of course the people who still actually do farming manually for profit (don't really know why you would) get kind of pissed off when an obvious bot steals their node, that percentage of the Illidan population is so pitifully low that they don't even matter. No one is going to leave because of botters and the botters are still paying a sub fee so unless Blizz gets a player complaint they won't ban a botter, its just good a business practice.
Now onto my next point, Blizz doesn't care how long you play there is no "magic" number for a safe botting timeframe. I say this because I leave one of my accounts on 24/7 with a relogger for in case I D/C and for the Tuesday maintenance, this bot has never been banned ever and has never been whispered by a Blizzard GM EVER.
I do not think that the amount of time you bot has anything to do with your chances of being banned but it does have something to do with your chances of being banned. Let me explain.
The longer you bot the longer timeframe there is for players to report you. That's why I say it has something to do with you being banned. There is no magic tripwire that alerts Blizz when you've been playing for longer than lets say 24 hours. There is no magic tripwire to alert blizz that you have been doing the same thing for 24 hours (or in my case 96 seeing as I haven't logged out since Tuesday). There is also no magic tripwire that alerts blizz that you have posted 5000 auctions every X day (X being a random day I choose to offload my massive stockpile of ore onto the AH).
All the aforementioned ban risks are from player reports. The more time you spend botting the more auctions you post the more chance that someone somewhere will report you its as simple as that. I could also be slipping under the radar as I play on such a larger server but I want to reiterate that if there were these magic tripwires that alerted Blizz I would've been banned a loooooong time ago.
Again NOTHING SAID HERE IS FACT SIMPLY OBSERVATION FROM A LONG TIME BOTTER
and I hope you enjoyed the read.
Now keep in mind this is probably going to be very controversial as a lot of my observations go against the general thinking of bot bans.
NOTHING SAID HERE IS FACT SIMPLY OBSERVATION FROM A LONG TIME BOTTER
First thing I've observed, 99% of bans are from player reports. I have never been banned ever from botting, why? Because I play on Illidan where botters are accepted as a way of life for the server. If Blizz really wanted to ban botters they would have a GM go in game type "/who uldum" whisper each one of the 85s there and ban 30+ bots.
Why don't they do this? Cause the botters are still paying a monthly subscription and they aren't really "affecting" anyone. In fact on Illidan botters are helipng the economy as its extremely cheap to go buy a stack of ore for 80g off the AH prospect it 4 times sell the Inferno Ruby (if you get one) for 200g and the other cut gems for 30-80g apiece making sometimes a 4x profit.
Of course the people who still actually do farming manually for profit (don't really know why you would) get kind of pissed off when an obvious bot steals their node, that percentage of the Illidan population is so pitifully low that they don't even matter. No one is going to leave because of botters and the botters are still paying a sub fee so unless Blizz gets a player complaint they won't ban a botter, its just good a business practice.
Now onto my next point, Blizz doesn't care how long you play there is no "magic" number for a safe botting timeframe. I say this because I leave one of my accounts on 24/7 with a relogger for in case I D/C and for the Tuesday maintenance, this bot has never been banned ever and has never been whispered by a Blizzard GM EVER.
I do not think that the amount of time you bot has anything to do with your chances of being banned but it does have something to do with your chances of being banned. Let me explain.
The longer you bot the longer timeframe there is for players to report you. That's why I say it has something to do with you being banned. There is no magic tripwire that alerts Blizz when you've been playing for longer than lets say 24 hours. There is no magic tripwire to alert blizz that you have been doing the same thing for 24 hours (or in my case 96 seeing as I haven't logged out since Tuesday). There is also no magic tripwire that alerts blizz that you have posted 5000 auctions every X day (X being a random day I choose to offload my massive stockpile of ore onto the AH).
All the aforementioned ban risks are from player reports. The more time you spend botting the more auctions you post the more chance that someone somewhere will report you its as simple as that. I could also be slipping under the radar as I play on such a larger server but I want to reiterate that if there were these magic tripwires that alerted Blizz I would've been banned a loooooong time ago.
Again NOTHING SAID HERE IS FACT SIMPLY OBSERVATION FROM A LONG TIME BOTTER
and I hope you enjoyed the read.