Originally by: Apollo Gabriel

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The Pink Bunny Test is the last, best hope for banning macros, here is how it works:

1) Allow GMs to turn off mining modules (and only mining modules)
2) Allow GMs to minimize all active windows.
3) Allow GMs to spawn a Pink Bunny over the module buttons.
4) Allow GMs to open a chat box irrespective of client restrictions directly above the modules
5) If the player reactivates their modules then bot, otherwise enjoy the funny conversation which will follow.

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Originally by: Vincent Athena

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Originally by: Apollo Gabriel

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The Pink Bunny Test is the last, best hope for banning macros, here is how it works:

1) Allow GMs to turn off mining modules (and only mining modules)
2) Allow GMs to minimize all active windows.
3) Allow GMs to spawn a Pink Bunny over the module buttons.
4) Allow GMs to open a chat box irrespective of client restrictions directly above the modules
5) If the player reactivates their modules then bot, otherwise enjoy the funny conversation which will follow.

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6. Bot program, seeing something on the screen it cannot handle, brings the offending screen to the front and sounds an alarm so the bot manager can deal with it.

This would stop simple "timed" macros, the more basic bots, and the bots run afk (but even those could just simulate a DC, leaving suspicion, but no proof). But the actively managed bot farms (30+ per person, person always there to handle issues) will keep right on grinding.

Now if we could have a webcam looking at the keyboard....

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Originally by: Arithron

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It was a pleasent change to see (for the first time- never read it confirmed by CCP before) that Market bots are acknowledged. These buggers are the ones that really hurt the game and stop any sort of 'open-sandbox free economy'. Some of the earlier bots were easy to spot )and indeed fool quickly into making their owners large losses. However, they have got better and now are harder to detect. However, they must be accessing live API (?) or something also, as they are actived across multiple commodities at any one time. Why have live API...delayed is surely safer and as usable...???

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