By ensuring that one part of space is being "policed" more heavily, you would ensure that botting never dies,

News flash: scumbags will *always* find a way to bot in any game. All devs can ever do is minimise the number of them.

And the best way to minimize the number of bots is to target all bots, not to spend most of your time looking at Spot A in the hopes that a bot will walk past, right?

And the best way to minimize the number of bots is to target all bots, not to spend most of your time looking at Spot A in the hopes that a bot will walk past, right?

I still can't find where that number comes from, please provide a link so we can clear this up.

Yes and No.

There are a few bots which are designed for the sole purpose for mining and mission running. They are not your all in one bot.

I would wager that most of these bots which are designed specifically for mining and mission running are for the most part being used in HS.

What doesn't make sense is the argument that null should be effectively ignored just because that's how someone wants it to be.

You go after them all but you focus on the hotspots as that will get you more bans.

I'm not qualified to answer that. I'm not an IT expert and have absolutely no idea at all what's involved in detecting bots. If there's a difference in how the bot software operates in different areas of space to the point where detection methods also differ, and if the amount of resources CCP can throw at the problem necessitate priotising, then it does indeed make sense to focus on the huge blob of bots in highsec first.

Hint: I answered your question.

Hint2: It was answered in with a yes or no.

Hint3: Do I have to start double spacing everything for you again?

You're not going after them all if you're focusing on one area where bots exist over another area where bots exist... If you can catch a bot, you should catch a bot, no matter where that bot might be operating.

So you're saying you're not qualified to make an assumption, but you went right ahead and made an assumption.

I'm not qualified to say whether or not you did that on purpose. I'm not a psychologist, and have absolutely no idea at all what's going on in your head. If there's something going on in your head that causes you to show bias towards one area of space to the point where you don't want CCP to pay much attention to null sec, and if CCP paying attention to bots null sec would harm you or your friends in some manner, then it does make sense that you'd argue CCP should focus more heavily on high sec and pay less attention to the same activities in null sec.

Isn't that a bit of a leap?

I just think you've become biased, believing that high sec is full of bots and that null sec is full of good guys.

The reality is, however, that bots are a tiny, tiny minority in EvE Online, and because of this there is no reason what so ever that CCP should focus their efforts on any one part of space, or even that they should focus more heavily on one part of space.

You're not going after them all if you're focusing on one area where bots exist over another area where bots exist... If you can catch a bot, you should catch a bot, no matter where that bot might be operating.

You're not going after them all if you're focusing on one area where bots exist over another area where bots exist... If you can catch a bot, you should catch a bot, no matter where that bot might be operating.

Why did NPC alts turn this thread into some nonsense highsec versus nullsec crap again?

I agree with this statement, which makes the point of this thread irrelevant.

You do both, just because you focus more resources on one area does not mean you stop looking at the others.
With 80% of bots in high sec and a huge chunk of that in caldari space it would be foolish to not focus on the issue in that area.

Do you have numbers to back that up? Can you prove how many bots there are, as opposed to how many CCP tell us they've caught? Do you actually know what's involved in detecting them and, by extension, what's involved in writeing them; knowing how they work is surely key to detecting them?

Why did NPC alts turn this thread into some nonsense highsec versus nullsec crap again?

If you spend 10% of your time looking for bots in null sec, and 90% of your time looking for them in high sec, you're not focusing on bots in general. You're focusing on high sec bots. By intentionally weighting your search parameters so that they favor high sec, you're making it far more likely that bots outside of high sec will go undetected.

As for detecting bots in EvE, I have no clue. I don't work for CCP and as such I am not privy to their methods for detecting bots. As for how bots work, I've never owned one so, again, I have no clue. I can make assumptions, based on my experience with programming, but they'd be just that: assumptions.

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Do you have numbers that back up the assertion that bots are more prevalent in high sec?

Can you show how many bots there are in high sec as compared to null sec, or can you only show us what CCP tells us they caught?

Do you have numbers that back up the assertion that bots are more prevalent in high sec? Can you show how many bots there are in high sec as compared to null sec, or can you only show us what CCP tells us they caught? This kind of circular logic, where you argue that I can't prove anything, and I argue you can't prove anything, can go on forever. There is no way for either one of us to prove our statements.

When you have 60% of bots located in a handfull of regions in caldari highsec it would be daft to not put more resources into that location.

No. What would be daft is to take a universal bot program and ignore all the space it is used in just because it is used in one region more than others.

Lok, if you can't figure out if someone's a robot, ask the following in local:

"When Littlefoot's mother died, did you cry? (No lying, bots.)"

Lok, if you can't figure out if someone's a robot, ask the following in local:

"When Littlefoot's mother died, did you cry? (No lying, bots.)"

Bot^

Yes, I posted the video showing you this.

Again yes, I have already shown you this in the video I posted. I even linked you directly to the times they showed where the bots are located by region.

Do you have numbers to back that up? Can you prove how many bots there are, as opposed to how many CCP tell us they've caught?

"there's no evidence that highsec is home to most of the bots in the game because the only numbers show many bots have been caught, therefore, most bots operate in 0.0"

They wouldn't be ignoring anything.

Well they would have to be ignoring something at least some of the time, otherwise they wouldn't be able to spend the majority of their time and other resources watching high sec.

And now we get to the root of your misconception.

You're assuming that they already don't have their eyes on highsec.

We are maintaining that they already do. And that it should stay that way.