CCP devs are apparently in the goons and goons have an open goon-botting tolerance policy, so clearly not.

Officially most alliances are probably anti-bot, kind of social suicide otherwise, so any answer you get here on an open forum will be irrelevant, tainted, flawed, outright lies.

CCP is getting better at it but they need to accept their limitations and involve the employers (corps/alliances) in the equation: Make employers partially accountable for employee behaviour and introduce some helpful tools (such as activity monitors) for corp/alliance admins to use to ferret out the culprits.

Might be PL would kick any botting char that got caught and blown. Not because it is ~immoral~, but because he is stupid enough to do it on a main and not on an alt in a renter alliance in some god-forgotten null system.

And on a more serious note, the answer is yes, at least one such alliance exists.

How in the great blue **** did your slicer get tackled by 2 supers?

It's pretty simple: any Alliance that takes a strong stand against botting will lose the 0.0 game as a result and no longer be a viable Alliance in Eve. It's counterproductive for them to report on their own ISK making activities, so why would they? No, it's CCP that needs to step up their efforts against bots...but wait, then they'll lose real life sub dollars, so why would they do that?? A never ending problem...too many people are on the take.

And the 'No Bot Reporting' rule originated in TEST when a bunch of mouthbreathers were mad about the sanctum nerf and couldn't find an empty one to harvest interstellar ***-gold from. So they started reporting people who were honestly just ratting to get them a temp ban until an investigation was completed.

Zero tolerance Alliance: Ivy League. But they hold no sov.

There are several that I know of that are pretty anti-bot in the CFC. I know for sure that Fatal Ascension is definitely anti-bot, and most of the other CFC alliances are also.

PS> Reading comprehension of this post is improved when tin foil hats are removed prior to reading.

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Disliking it when people cheat doesn't make you a 'white knight.' Thats something that bot users just call people who play by the rules so they can feel like they aren't actually cheating or ruining the game.

The "white knights" are the idiots reporting people who aren't even undocked for botting just because of the alliance they are in.

I guess first I'd have to question how Dotlan parses system jumps, primarily, does it parse people that arrive via jump bridge.

Then you'd have to take into account if that system has a station in it, or a friendly pos for the denizens of that system (which im sure it does) depending on the true sec of the system, with an outpost, its entirely possible that players dont leave that system, as most tend to rat where the can at least have an in system outpost/station to run back to and either drop off loot, or buy more ammo.

700 NPC Kills in 24 hours is about 20 Havens/Sanctums. Each taking a tengu about 30 minutes to complete.. Given that, i'm sure you'd find this more then reasonable.

In regards to the system in Pure Blind - 9 Jumps and 686 NPC kills in 24 hours.

No Stations and a system rating of -0.08

The system in Fountain 21 Jumps / 1486 NPC kills in 24 hours

No Station and a system rating of -0.22

Again I am not accusing anyone of doing anything, however would you say that if CCP are serious about clamping down on botters, would these kind of numbers warrant investigation?

Please lurk before posting, you are a ******* disease GTFO

Yep I have access to forums that in turn, have access to alliance financials; I should most certainly be punished and subject to immediate scorn for aligning myself with an online organization that wants transparency with its members.

I don't give a **** about botters, I don't care who RMT's... Honestly with the amount of effort you plebes put into this tin foil hattery, you could potentially realize there are better things to do then worry about what people are doing in areas of the game your afraid to step foot into.

Your as bad as that old ***** down the street- who sits around all day and counts how many times everyone in the neighborhood pisses, eats and fucks.

I was speaking directly to Cipher Jones.

:please don your tin foil hats before proceeding further:

Is there any proof that "report bot" has been used by CCP as more than a "feel good feature" for legitmate players?
Have there been any bots banned by CCP after having been reported using that tool?

As far as I know, CCP won't release any information along those lines. If they won't do that, then it is impossible to determine if the "report bot" feature is even valid. It may be that CCP put it there with no intention of ever using it beyond it fooling the gullible into thinking it is a legitimate way to get CCP to take action. Outside of CCP stepping in and showing proof, not just a dev post saying "yes we do", the community is left in the dark about it. As a result, speculation, accusation, and treachery will abound.

There is no way to truly know which alliances, nullsec or otherwise, actually police and kick members for botting. What we do know are which alliances bot and allow their members to do so...

*coughttestgoonswarmcough*

Sorry. I don't want to point them out. I hate finger pointing.

No one needs direct evidence, it's the goon's policy to not report bots, to look the other way. You hide goon bots among your other carebears then you say "It's CCP's job to try and find them"

That is harboring bots.

I understand that goons want to destroy the game, (do they not?) And yes, that's a good way to do that. Congradulations . But what I don't understand is why the CCP employees that are in the goons (... are they not?...) Don't say anything about this.

"Don't report bots" policies only do one thing, encourage botting. The reasons given for such policies as to prevent people from rage-reporting innocent people just doesn't hold water. Firstly, how is the alliance ever going to know who reported who unless CCP is sending that information back to the alliance. Secondly, a "Don't falsely report people as botters" policy doesn't directly encourage botting and is still just as enforceable as the policies as stated.

It's CCP's rule and it's their job to enforce it. This is not a difficult concept.

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