Styth spiting
Ion Corp.
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Posted - 2012.02.29 09:42:00 -
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I don't understand why you feel like you need to validate what you are doing in the name of harming bot miners. Its pretty obvious from many of your posts you are simply just destroying industry ships regardless if they are botting or players.
If you were putting 1/2 the effort into efficiently and effectively targeting bots as you were responding to people in this forum than maybe something good would come out of this and some damage could be done to the people who continue to screw everyone over. But with the current "system" you and your friends are using is simply making more of these bastards. Because every time you kill an actual player (who is most likely inexperienced, fairly new, and can't afford losing everything) you give botters more of an excuse to create more accounts (less miners means more demand, so more bots).
You want to target bots and not just continue to use this lame excuse to just to target industry? Then get more active if you think its a problem then simply destroying every mining ship you see.
Why are there no sites / tools / lists of known bot accounts? When an account is confirmed to be a bot it's added to the list and other players are encouraged to add these players to their contacts as hostile. This way whenever anyone sees them their ship gets destroyed. Killing a bot every week or two isn't going to stop the player from botting. All you will do is cause them to make a little bit less isk for that week. But if the bot was known to hundreds of other players he would get podded before he could even make it to a belt.
Why not have a channel where people can post sightings of known bots? How great would it be to have 2 dozen people all racing off to the same system to be the one to take the bot down?
Also as a miner I myself would post in a botting channel if I were to personally see a bot in a belt, since the only thing worst then gankers are bots.
Target corps / alliances that harbor or use bots. If a corp is running 1 or several bots chances are they are the ones making all the isk, so why not make them pay a little. Make it so its not worth it form them to continue using them.
Those are just a few suggestions. But like I and others have said, you are doing noting to harm bot users, only the real players who are not cheating. If you really want to do do something productive and actually capable of harming these cheating pricks you have to do more than targeting all industry / mining ships. Hell it wouldn't even be difficult to setup, and after a few weeks you wouldn't be able to keep up with the number of bot sightings. And you know what? It would be a lot more fun.
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