viable option to continue botting?

[japika]

I was just hit with a 72h ban on my account that I actively play on. I just bot to make gold.

I have 2 80's on 2 different servers. One of the servers I do not play on anymore. It has a hunter on it.

I was thinking, I could just get a new account, not link it to battle.net, and run it through a fake email address (one on gmail), and transfer my hunter over to it. Different account + different server.

Then bot with that account.

Then when I want to transfer the money, I could just put items for sale with my main account on the AH for retarded amounts of money and just buy it with the other account (hunter account).

The accounts would share an IP address.

What are the chances blizzard would see through this and hit my main account with a ban, if my alt account got caught?

 

[adexia]

You are doomed because they share the ip

 

[keroshie]

there is only two options you have 1) delete every trace of wow aka format cause any ban placed by blizz puts a hidden marker in your wow folder that you can get rid of by formatting your comp or 2) the expensive way frind an ip scrambler that allows u to access the game or any server for that matter using a different ip every time.

(source: wife was a blizz employee and dev for 5 years)

 

[djlorenzo]

a hidden marker in your wow folder... Really? you really going with that?

 

[leenelson97]

a hidden marker in your wow folder... Really? you really going with that?

LOL.... I haven't heard of the hidden marker theory before. I bet its that WTF folder that keeps showing up every time I delete it. Gotta be blizzard tagging me for botting. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[wajke]

there is only two options you have 1) delete every trace of wow aka format cause any ban placed by blizz puts a hidden marker in your wow folder that you can get rid of by formatting your comp or 2) the expensive way frind an ip scrambler that allows u to access the game or any server for that matter using a different ip every time.

(source: wife was a blizz employee and dev for 5 years)

1 post of this forum, I wouldn't consider you a valid source. Blizz could just store a marker on the account in a database, would be retarded if they tried to store that sort of information on anyone's computer. IP scrambler made sense, but then again Warden could flag the account due to rapid changing of IP adresses.

 

[kaihaider]

ip doesn't matter...


I thought everyone knew that by now...

They sometimes will monitor ip's if it seems like alot of illegal activity going on, but for normal people who are running a few bots with disconnected information in the accounts, I think it's been shown time and time again they don't even look at ip...

 

[emmark]

I ran three bots and a nonbotted acount on the same IP. Lost one of the bots, and the other accounts haven't been touched. I really doubt they use IP for anything concrete. I used to live in a apartment complex where over 100 people shared the same IP.

 

[ashworth10]

Wow. A lot of ban talk today. I may just lay low for a few weeks until I see how this all plays out.

WTF folder? WTF is right...as in W.T.F. blizz!