Mezmeriza
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Posted - 2011.08.16 15:42:00 -
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Edited by: Mezmeriza on 16/08/2011 15:46:24 Which really means that CCP wants all the good people of EVE to police their own game. And has a few problems:
1) Finding the bots. Have CCP looked at the map recently? Look at the amount of space held by the DRF/DC/ Test/ROL/etc. If they wanted to bot, they could any number of quiet systems and leave them in secure knowledge that the only people that will even see them wil be other people in the alliance possibly doing the same thing. They aint going to get reported. Any of the large space holding entities will not be bothered.
2) Bots have a wonderful things built in like cloaks, warp to pos and even log off scripts. Some even have auto respond to messages in local. So once you find a suspect, you will probably have to sit around for a really long time to find out. If they cloak, they wont uncloak and continue ratting untill you log off / leave system. If they go to a pos same thing. And if they log off in some way. They may not log back in for 2 hours. You guna wait that long?? And feel free to say "Hi" in local, they will respond and then act like they're ignoring you. Going to a POS/ cloaking/ logging off doesnt always mean they're a bot, just not stupid if your a red/ neut. They probably wont if your blue but would you report a corp mate/ alliance mate?
3) Some of these bot owners will not give 2 tears about it, as they will have other accounts to use while 1 of their accounts is supsended for a gruelling 14 days. Oh NOOEES!! Thats a massive loss for them compared to the last 2 years theyve been running none stop 23/7/365 at 500M+ per day. And linking those bots to main accounts will be likely impossible due to transactions being done inside corps and you cant ban an enitre corp and that the people will more than likely be using dedicated bot PCs so as not to disturb normal eve play so IP checking wont help. And even if they get banned, its not a problem for it is just one char. They can just start another using the massive isk already generated to buy the GTCs till the char can fly a basic drake to perma rat.
A more simple solution would be to have a nice simple program that just logs time played per char. 1 person would be extremely unlikely to rat in 1 system for more than 10 hours a day. This action of being online and ratting solid for 10 hours using this program could/ SHOULD throw up flags to the CCP overlords. They can then investigate it properly by looking at actions and history of actions. Surely that isnt going to make that much difficulty for the servers. After all, all it is doing is logging time online. Capped at 10 hours is a fair thing. And any char online for 23 hours is a deffo bot if ratting that whole time. When found they should just perma ban that character, and IF they found the name of the main char/ account, that account should also get the ban. Another method of proof required to ban the account, the char will never have had a payment made to it. It will have been purely GTCs. Proof of alt as someone had to buy them in the first place. More expensive than subscribing to EVE directly, and no card/payment to link accounts.
To sum this up...
YOUR IDEA IS FLAWED
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