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ArchenTheGreat
Caldari
Nomads of Zen
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Posted - 2010.12.13 20:37:00 -
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You call it a blog? Learn to write from your programmers!
I always said PLEX is encouragement for cheating. If you want ISK go and play for it.
What CCP should do:
- remove PLEX
- add punkbuster style protections (it will never be bulletproof but it will help)
- make ISK-generating activities require brain
- allow players to fight bots (remove NPC corps, remove local in 0.0)
The last two are the most effective solutions.
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ArchenTheGreat
Caldari
Nomads of Zen
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Posted - 2010.12.14 13:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Shurikane
Imagine porting that over to EVE. I hop in my trusty Raven, wander my alliance's space, get a nice quiet system and go to town ratting while a corpmate trails behind in an industrial, quickly chaining my rats until I have almost nothing but the best and meanest pirate battleships with the biggest bounty. Oops! Too many kills in too little time. Too much cash in too few seconds. Botlike behavior. Banned!
If you do this for 23/7 than you are botting. And if not than you need a ****ing life and CCP will do you a favor by banning you anyway.
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ArchenTheGreat
Caldari
Nomads of Zen
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Posted - 2010.12.14 18:04:00 -
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Encrypting connection will not solve bot problems. As far as I understood article at EVE24 bots inject client MEMORY with their own scripts.
You can't really protect from compromising EVE client. You give it to players, and players can freely analyze and decompile it to learn how it works. Theoretically it's possible to create something like CCPs thin client. Bot communicating with servers using EVE protocol but without graphic overhead. You could run hundreds of them on single PC.
So, if you can't protect clients from bots what can you do?
You need to design game in such a way that no computer can play it. PVP works that way already, now it's time for mining and mission running.
Treat it like CAPTCHA on steroids (and more fun).
PS. to ****** who wants to introduce bots to EVE: EVE is a multi PLAYER game. Game for people not machines. If you want to play with bots go play chess against computer, see how much fun you will get from it.
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