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Barbara Nichole
Cryogenic Consultancy
Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2011.06.11 20:58:00 -
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Banning botters just makes better botters. Stop doing it.
So you're claiming that the solution to botting is to do nothing? flaw. So if we fight bacterea with antibiotics some small subset of the bug population will become more resistant and that means we shouldn't try to save lifes and stop the bugs? We shouldn't try to enforce the EULA...?
How is not doing anything to stop botting going to reduce their numbers? How is not doing anything going to be seen as anything other than an unspoken nod to keep up the breach of the rules?
I disagree with your conclusion.. if this is a never ending battle let it never end but that doesn't mean we should not fight it.
I agree with finding new methods to fight .. but there are some that are not a good idea..because you'll hack off your player base at the same time. Sure you can fight baterial infection by hacking off a limb but is that really the best plan? especially when there are other ideas that are less dramatic.. say identing the offending party and bannishing them?
The way I see it bot enablers have one huge blind spot, they make their product available to anyone who pays them. This leads to research on ways to identify use of their "product" in game.
If the botters finally come up with skynet AI trying to out think us then they will finally kill their host and die with it, move on, or be terminated by their own product.
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Barbara Nichole
Cryogenic Consultancy
Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2011.06.11 21:03:00 -
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Originally by: LHA Tarawa
Originally by: MaiLina KaTar
It's quite simply a matter of designing the game in a way that doesn't discourage botting, but rather makes it completely impossible. And as it turns out, features that are impossible to automate tend to be the ones that are also the most interesting and fun to play.
Two birds one stone so to speak.
Mining, easy to bot. I do this a few times a week.
PI harder to bot. Tore down my colonies 9 months ago with plans to relocate them, but haven't bothered as it is just toooooo.... BLAH!
Therefore, your claim that less bottable is more fun is fail.
you're admitting to botting two or three times a week?
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Barbara Nichole
Cryogenic Consultancy
Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2011.06.11 21:07:00 -
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Originally by: Constantinus Maximus
Originally by: Fiddles McGiggles
Incorporate botting into the game somehow.
For those technically minded people for whom botting is the challenge in gaming then this is clearly the best solution.
Mining shouldn't be boring, it should require a logistical design by an intelligent human with an in-game market in bot scripts/parts/tools.
I still remember my first day seeing mining in Eve.... "WTF... This is the future, why am I grinding rocks, this a kids game like Runescape?"
mining does not make the money it should because botters ruin market value.. CCP want you to play their game in person .. not absentee. You can sit in a belt afk and do nothing all day I will not care.. if you are automated mining and out selling me.. I take great offence because you are cheating.
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