Originally by: Dr Larry Goldstein

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It's possible to live in W-Space without being evicted / harassed?

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Originally by: NinjaSpud

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Originally by: Kraizer793

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But seriously though, nice work on this. It's high time that someone took it into their own hands on a larger scale like this. Yet, I think Hulkageddon still has you beat for upsetting Botters

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LOL o well. It's hard to compete with 20 thousand dead hulks...

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Originally by: Grakhan

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I find this thread hilarious. All of this anger at people who don't want to go through the boring mechanics of mining? Who should you be mad at? The people who are using a program that simulates keystrokes and mouse clicks, or the developers who have created a system so boring and trivial that simulated keystrokes and mouse clicks can accomplish it.

Like it or not you have one of two options to solve this issue for good.

1.) Create a more involved and engaging mining process. Don't just add fluff that requires you to prove that you aren't a bot, as the only thing you will achieve is a more annoying system for the normal user. Why do you think there are no bots for mission running? Because the missions are different with different objectives that can't be simulated.

OR

2.) Incorporate and embrace an automated process for mining. You could accomplish by creating new items in the game called "Mining AI." You could then have different levels of the AI, such that each level of the AI increases the usefulness of your bot. OR you could go the route of Planetary Management and make it something where you have to set up a mining outpost of your own and manage it that way.

Whatever the solution, you can't honestly tell me in a game with star ships and all of this technology that the races involved would be sitting in an asteroid belt, clicking a button and watching it mine.

Don't treat the symptom, treat the actual problem!

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The main question is not when your bot will be banned. Level replacement in advance and you will be with isks all the time. The main question is how to avoid mass ban. Dont make private transfers from your bot to main and back. Use public methods. Sell nonrefined ore for cheap, install regional order with your main to buy this ore. Refine, get money. Use money you bot gain from these sales to buy PLEXs for bot, better equipment, hulks etc. You will get less income of cause but will NEVER care about if your bot can get banned soon.

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Originally by: Ranger 1

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...If I made the decision to stop botting, I would move minerals/evidence out in an expeditious manner.

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This is something we are already doing, bots are removed from the game as we discover them. Known bots might under some circumstances find themselves escaping action for a few days if we're in the process of mapping out and removing said RMT operation in a full swoop, but we will never turn a blind eye to known bots for an extended period of time.

Dollar figures cannot be provided but the financial impact of banning bots is smaller than you might think as a lot of bots are funded through illegitimate means to begin with. Accounts do not mean as much to most RMTers as they do to regular players so RMTers will often resort to stolen credit cards for funding their accounts. They are in other words oftentimes operating under the preconception that the accounts they are using will be found and banned eventually; if not through normal investigative efforts of our anti-RMT team, the account will be taken out of business when the credit card is chargebacked or when the owner of the credit card contacts us regarding the illegitimate payments.

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Well over 3000 full accounts have been banned in the past month for botting or some sort of RMT affiliation (sans ISK spamming). If we include banned trial accounts and accounts banned for advertising RMT sites, we're almost at 5000 accounts. Information on future projections cannot be given.

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Originally by: Malcanis

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Action is a noun. Colloquially, it has been "verbed", There are already perfect good verb forms of the word, and not using them is rather clumsy, and has a corporate-speak feel to it.

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Originally by: Memorya

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Edited by: Memorya on 15/06/2011 13:18:17

"IF" CCP bans every single RTM'er and boters, next day CCP closes down. You like it or not, thats how it goes and thats why they will never ever ban all bot's, becouse they need MONEY.

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