Best option is to go for the player based solution, which tends to prove much faster and more effective than anything ccp could do. By this, i mean more players actively seeking out bots and blowing them up!

Every now and then something comes up as being simply impossible because of similar issues. I think POS code is mentioned every now and then.

I assume, then, that you're a first-year (at least) CompSci student, and are willing to instruct a group of professional programmers with nearly a decade of experience on how to do this? Even if they won't take your advice, please do enlighten us proles, for the sake of knowledge.

You so funny GI. I love you long time.

No...what you fail to mention is members of CCP are botting as players. They're also in cahoots with friends of theirs in other corps and alliances who bot. It's, after all, their sandbox first and foremost.

Tell that to Blizzard. They spent buckets of money and manpower on Warden and... surprise... the botters got around it.

If you had any evidence to back up your outlandish claims about CCP employees running (or knowing of) botting operations, I'm sure you'd have posted it, but just in case;

Do you have any evidence to back up your outlandish claim that CCP employees run (or have knowledge of) active botting operations?

]Wow. As if a Red Alliance aligned entity has any ground upon which to stand when it comes to botting discussions. Your space is filled with tengu and machariel bots that consistently produce 5k+ NPC kills per system, daily.

Revel in the ISK that you are making [for now] and stop pretending to own the high-ground in this thread.

Yeah, I've played this game before ad nauseaum, but,

What evidence do you have to back up your claims?

Furthermore:
A thread where another EvE-O regular and I tried to get someone making similar claims to back them with evidence for ~20 pages and he tried to weasel his way around the fact that he had none.

Not going to fall into that trap. Trolling 9/10.

CCP, as owner of the EVE IP and service systems, has all of the data available it needs to observe, document and take action on large-scale botting networks and yet they persist across vast regions of space and over the course of many years. It is CCP's choice whether or not they take action. From my perspective, it is clear what choice they have made: let the bot managers rule supreme.

You can just google for bots and look at their websites, manuals etc to see that you're wrong. All the popular bots use local chat to detect hostiles. In fact I couldn't even find one that uses another method of detecing hostiles.

The solution is to make Mining and other game mechanics that allow easy macro creation to be remade so you CAN"T mine without human intelligence.

TBH, I believe that CCP pays bot hunting lip service and turns the other way regarding the truly large botting operations in null-sec. The amount of botting subscriptions, whether they are funded with RL cash fees or purchased PLEX, allows Hilmar and his executive cronies those really nice rims on their leased Land Rovers. Plus, those investors need feeding every so often...

It's not rocket science to understand that EVERY PLEX was paid for with real money that landed in the pocket of CCP. Yet people like you fail to understand it.

Luckily that means I don't have to comment the rest of your post.

You can just google for bots and look at their websites, manuals etc to see that you're wrong. All the popular bots use local chat to detect hostiles. In fact I couldn't even find one that uses another method of detecing hostiles.

No, you just Fail period.

It is a know fact that many RMT Sites participate in acquiring goods using stolen credit card / banking details.

Let me spell it out for you step by step.

1. Create an army untraceable accounts by using a VM Hosting Service and fake details.

2. Use stolen credit card / bank details to purchase plex via 3rd party site

3. Redeem PLEX - sell for isk - transfer isk to idiot who has placed an order via your RMT site.

At which point does CCP receive real money.. that's right they didn't.

Also when talking about RMT Sites you will find that a large proportion of their stock of isk comes from buying isk from RL Players. This is much easier then having to employee people to farm 24/7 and if the botters are caught it has nothing to do with them.