Amsterdam Conversations
   |
Posted - 2011.08.27 03:22:00 -
[1]
 Originally by: Sealiah
I think people are just over reacting, accusing everyone of botting... Not everyone in 0.0 is a bot, and people just accuse them of botting because they don't reply to local / eve mails / etc.
I don't talk in local if you'r not my friend. I don't talk a lot when mining and usually if I do talk, I do it on TS...
From the outside perspective - I don't talk using the client, I must be a bot D:
And the author of this thread doesn't really check any data , does he? Go to some botting forums and see those tears about CCP banning bots. Once they discover the pattern of a certain bot, they ban them in batches.
Looking at who you are (even though you are surely an alt), your alliance affiliation tells me more than enough that you have no clue about 0.0. And by this I mean spending lots of time with 0.0 solo or with a friend. This is not meant to be personal, I just want to point out that people who haven't spent years of their time running around wildly in 0.0 will surely have no clue about what is a bot and what not.
There is some obvious bots, there's less obvious.
But yeah there's obvious beyond obvious. A solo Tengu ratting lonely in a system for months end, 10 hours a day, is most definitely a bot. It becomes even more obvious when 3 of them are over 3 systems and in the same 10 man corp. Even more so when they belong to "famous botting alliances", which are mostly renter alliances.
Typical bot behavior other than that includes sitting afk in POS all day long when a neut afk cloaks in system, logging when entering local, no delay of warpout after hostile enters local. A player WILL do mistakes after a couple of weeks... missing or completely nonsense bios, missing or useless corp descriptions. None of these things are a proof by themselves, but linked together they create a very clear picture of a ratter.
I have killed maybe 50ish botters over the last 1 1/2 months, a dozen of them Tengus. How do I know they were botting? The way they responded to my tactics, to which a player would never fall (because EVE bots have no sort of AI like many programmers say).
I really mixed things up for a 60 man bot corporation, fortunately they got banned a week later and kicked out of their renter alliance. Another 12 man corporation got banned too.
Still ~100 remain in my addressbook. CCP seems to have cared about them until a month ago, I haven't seen anything happening over the last 4 weeks. Nothing at all.
|