hmskrecik wrote:K1RTH G3RS3N wrote:The hardest part about this job is seeking out the macro'ers and sorting them from the genuine hard working mission runners.
Out of sheer curiosity, how can you tell bot from genuine player?
And how do you kill them without being Concorded (assuming you avoided this fate, as loosing Legion pro publico bono seems too charitable to be true)?
it is a trick we use, very simple really just one key thing that seems to make it work but i'm not going to disclose it. more of a psychological thing than anything else. definitely not going to get my 1.5bil legion concordonked lol :P
as far as telling who is a bot, that is really hard, i have spent hours watching the mission hubs. there are a few key things i have discovered though.
1. ship type, mostly they will be in CN ravens, golems, macherials or tengu's. my guess is this is because of range, cap and shield boosting (can get crystals for huge tanks).
2. hours they spend online, sometimes i see them online no matter what time i log in to check, no human can mission run for <23hrs straight.
3. consistent pattern, they dock for exactly the same length of time at the same station every time, no pauses or breaks in their pattern.
4. ship names, corp names, player names etc. pay close attention to these details. for example, the corp the macherial pilot was in had about 5 members each member except the ceo all running in macherials with nearly the exact same fit for hours on end and each ship was REnamed to the first word in the players name + macherial i.e. 'angus macherial' this was a clue that they are all the same player separate accounts.
5. this is an odd one and i havnt yet figured out exactly what is going on here but... they sometimes will have shield maintenance bots out, and then sometimes said bot will be abandoned (i think). our best guess is if drones take damage then the program can release a maintenance bot to keep it alive, since you need that set of drones for up to 23 hours.
6. invite to conversation while they are in mission, if in mission not afk and SHOULD accept convo. if not accepted or auto rejected probably a bot.
7. some players are just called akjshas in akjshas corporation with corp description of 'enter a description of your corporation here' (as in, random mash names with no effort put into corp). unfortunately these one man corps are a waste of time so far, probably bots but maybe just farmers, and they scare too easily.
macro programs can be set up as complex as the player wants, they can even change ship get in a noctis go salvage then get a new mission < i'm not 100% on this it seems unrealistic but im surprised at what the bots can do anyway.