A better way would be to having laser cycles that don't last long or don't automatically repeat. Or you can fill the ice fields with bumpers who target the AFK.

I believe CCP has already stated they will never use CAPTCHAs anyway.

I came up with a simple solution that wouldn't require could get rid of 90% of the mining bots without changing game play much. Anyway, here it is.

Temporary Mining Licenses

There would be a dialog you could pop up from anywhere, with a CAPTCHA and that's it. You fill out the captcha and get a 1 hour license to mine. The license allows you to activate strips, mining lasers, or issue mine/mine repeatedly commands to drones. If the strip/drone/laser would auto-cycle after the license runs out it shuts down instead.

End result is that the least the afk bot-miners would now have to check in every hour to renew their license. If that doesnt seem to work well enough you can just shorten the license to 30 minutes. Eventually making bot miners pointless, unless your captcha is really bad.

Is so simple on the player side of things that it would throw the real miners, for however few are left into a tizzy.

If you hate the botters like every real care bear does, give this a bump, maybe CCP will take it to heart.

I came up with a simple solution that wouldn't require could get rid of 90% of the mining bots without changing game play much. Anyway, here it is.

Temporary Mining Licenses

I do not like the idea. This would interfere with my ability to multibox, which is a valid and completely legal way to mine.

Also it would be extremely emersion breaking.

Also what most people think are bots are really just players multiboxing. Just my opinion.

As for that 3rd world stuff. My X runs a web development firm they do front end and back end web development, what ever that means? I know nothing in depth about computing or code. Any way she gets contracts to build websites here and she out sources all of her work to Pakistan. She tells the firm that she is doing all the work but then sends the work to Pakistan and pays Pakistani wages via paypal for work where she is getting European wages for, she was taking 5 salary's at one point while only spending a few hours each day sending and reciving the work and finishing touches. Needless to say she is making a lot of money. Some of the work they send back needs finishing touches so she spends a few hours a day doing the finishing work making it perfect for the client. I worked out one day while playing eve at her house that she makes around $600 phr on a really good day, like I said she does not put man hrs work in but is becoming incredibly wealthy still. The Pakistani's get a good wage too compared to other jobs in the area. She said that she only gets the best developers as she pays much higher wages than the local developer.

It something that I have looked into doing as you don't really need any skills just contracts here in the UK and a handful of kids in the 3rd world. I'd say the job description is more a recruitment agent fencing himself as a specialist while outsourcing to the 3rd world.

Just keep killing all miners in highsec. You'll get the bots in the mess.

Just keep killing all miners in highsec. You'll get the bots in the mess.

That's the plan...

Haven't you quit yet...isn't your wife waiting for you to go play WoW or something?

Keep up the good work.

I can do both, nobody is going around ganking folks in WoW. The Guards work faster than the griefers there.

No crying, fully accepting it now. You guys convinced me. It's a win win. And it's obviously the solution here. Gank the miners, solve the bot problem.

Look let me fill you in on some info about bots. CCP likes bots, bots pay to play the game they pay $15 a month through plex just like you and I. Botting is a grey area and CCP's punishments for getting caught botting just prove that it's against the rules in writing but meh if you get caught we'll just warn you.

CCP does not care if you bot. What CCP cares about is when people start complaining about your specific bot as it is upsetting their other customers and thus hurting CCP's profit.
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If however your bot is running and making reasonable amounts of ISK while not annoying people CCP will not give a care.
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They did release information about the average CPU used pr player, after they did the unholy rage thing, and I think they banned, what, 5k accounts, and I believe the average CPU used pr player dropped, across the cluster, with 10% or so.

Too bad the casual botters are in hi sec but the real dangerous ones (RMT) live in blueballed nullsec, never touched by any initiative like Hulkageddon and similar.