CyberGh0st
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Posted - 2011.06.10 07:18:00 -
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Edited by: CyberGh0st on 10/06/2011 07:25:21
Originally by: Fiddles McGiggles If you start thinking of botting as a plague, disease, or infestation you'll understand that killing off the weakest botters (the ones that get caught) solves nothing. Why? Plagues, diseases and infestations all have some kind of "cure." Mainly: Pesticides and antibiotics. But do pesticides and antibiotics really fix the problem? In the short term of course they do. And in a few rare cases they have altogether destroyed a population of bacteria or pest. But in the long run there is a never ending battle to come up with stronger "cures". What pesticides and antibiotics do is kill of the weakest part of a population, maybe 95-99% of the weakest members of a given population. What is left is 1-5% of the strongest most resistant strain of that population. This is (un)natural selection. When that strain reproduces you have an entire population immune to the original cure. This begins the cycle going on today with antibiotics/disease and pesticides/pests.
Botting is a serious plague for all MMOs . And the typical solution is the ban hammer. Figure out how a bot works, or who is botting and ban a massive amount of them. Does this get rid of the persons behind the computer willing and able to use a macro to gain an unfair advantage over players that actually play? Those people will always exist. So banning that person only causes them to come up with more innovative ways to bot. And we see a cycle going on today with bans/botters. ItÆs the same in every MMO.
Banning wonÆt ever work to solve the problem. ItÆs only a quick fix until the next bot is developed. To solve a problem with out drastically changing the structure of an MMO you need to be equally innovative. Make an environment that doesnÆt foster botting. Incorporate botting into the game somehow. ThereÆs a lot of innovative ideas in these forums alone.
Banning botters just makes better botters. Stop doing it.
You should start reading up on what CCP sreegs has been up too lately.
They are definatly aware of the issue, and certain mind numbing tasks should be made less mind numbing, and semi automated, preferably with built-in automation tools, making it interesting for the players. On the other hand, there should also be a strong anti bot policy and enforcement, that is what CCP Sreegs is focussing on atm. Altho he promised a new dev blog and we are still waiting on that one ...
I think their current system of 2 temp bans and then permanent ban is a good solution. It will keep away many of the more "casual" botters. After that CCP can go focussing on the more "hardcore" botters.
Meanwhile PLEX are a serious alternative for illegal RMT, which competes with the illegal RMT sites but at the same time gives positive income to EVE and keeps away even more hackers and cheaters.
I think the main problem has been that CCP have been neglecting this issue for too long. But now with CCP Sreegs and his team, the future looks brighter.
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