Perhaps bots don't work on Leap Days?

There was a bot slaughter, but from what I heard it affected mostly 0.0 ratting bots. Would be pretty nice if they finally swept up some of the Jita market bots that are on 24/7.

Hey fellow traders

I've noticed the same, orders not sniped for hours, across all types of items.
Where they have been sniped I'm seeing less frequent updates, more consistent with someone
checking their orders every half hour or so. I am not seeing whole stacks of orders moving
every 5 minutes they way I'm used to.
But there isn't enough data to go on yet to determine if this is a fluke or something else.

If it's true that CCP has finally taken action against market bots after all this time, then we're seeing just
how staggering their impact on us human traders has been.

I hope that CCP realize how big a problem bots are - and if this is actually what Jita is like without them -
then I hope that people will never allow it to go back.


Lady Godwynn

Don't get too excited, bots will be back and if ppl catch wind of Jita being more trader friendly again, human competition will pick up considerably. I've already stepped up my trading activities there since I found out. Many more will follow, nullifying a large portion of the banned bots.

Don't get too excited, bots will be back and if ppl catch wind of Jita being more trader friendly again, human competition will pick up considerably. I've already stepped up my trading activities there since I found out. Many more will follow, nullifying a large portion of the banned bots.

What does that have to do with fighting a computer over .01 isk every 3 min?

I think you missed the point of this thread. We're happy that one major problem has been visibly dealt with, even just a bit. We're not looking to solve every problem that the eve economy has by banning bots. If you want to whine about the problems therein, go start a thread about it. The rest of us will enjoy this mini-victory in the mean time.

Whats been going on, I wake up this morning and I have orders actually filled, Noticed there's been a **** load less 0.1 iskin. Is it a holiday or have the bots been silenced?

If the latter we should make it a holiday

Your reading comprehension is a bit lacking, but it's what I expect from a troll account.

Fine, lets talk about Bots, Goon Jr.

FA, Provi Loop. it's not about the crime it's about getting caught now isnt it? In the infamous words of the trailer, I was there ************.

Care to keep going?

Perhaps you should look at corp histories and corp alliance dates before running your insanely uneducated mouth. But please, feel free to sperg further and continue to look dumb.

I can't see any change in Rens so far. Maybe they aren't actually bots there or something.

But I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed on this one for sure.

Clearly all alliances are the products of botting.

Yours too? You should really drop back to a noobcorp and put your money where your mouth is. Actually never mind, I just reported you and your alliance for botting. thanks for admitting it.

Try again.

those who have bee experiencing less competition recently 'x' up while those who had a harder time earning money stay silent in shame and CCP Sreegs tells us how 10 accounts were responsible for the efficiency of the Jita market.

I noticed that Hek was much quieter than normal yesterday...And I liked that just fine! (Now buy my other character's Domination Large Shield Booster someone, kthxbai.)

2 days later and I see a noticeable difference still in my orders not getting sniped anywhere near as much. strange how the jita local doesn't appear to be down. Could this mean that only a handful of these guys existed and they cause that much havoc or more of a case of more traders appearing almost instantly? If it is the result of bot bannings, cudos to CCP!

And I was about to throw in the towel lol...

10 botters with max skills, assuming even half were in jita that's, what, 1500 items on lockdown by machines. Market bots swing far out of their weight. Also let's hope those accounts get locked down with several hundred billion worth of assets on the market.

I could be way off on this but are hardware banns out of the question?Im not sure on how the mechanics work on such but i know it was pretty effective in games like bf2 and others.I do know from reading up on it in the past that there were ways to bypass(proxies,ips etc.)depending on wether or not you have a static ip.I know its not a permanent solution by any means but i was just curious about it.

has there been a DELAY put in place when you try to do simple item sales? When I now try to do simple item sale and right click sell item the sale window now takes between three to FIVE seconds to open and allow me to sell the item. Is that the new normal now? Last week I could sell almost as fast as I could click. Waiting 5 seconds to do a simple sale may not sound like a lot but do that for over 400 items and it sure adds up! It that worth doing a petition over?

In my opinion is seems to have had the opposite affect in Amarr. Seems to be more botters than normal. Perhaps some moved their focus to alternative hubs as a way to avoid CCP monitoring?

[quote=Lucinda Hamu]
Amarr seems ok for the past week or so since Iv restarted playing, come on over, be my competition, keep local open, its the Chat hub of eden =)

The Market bots are back over the last week.

I am not entirely sure the CCP sees bots as something hurting the game (and thus hurting the fun players have while playing), hope i am wrong though. Even better, i hope to be persuaded by their actions, e.g. when i see all the bots not doing what they deserve ban for. But still nothing happening.

This. All those bots made things cheaper this time last year. Fully rigged Rifter (and sometimes fitted) for ~80M this time last year was awesome. Paying 300M isk for an empty one is something other than awesome.

I will sell you all my rigged and fit rifters for 80m/u. I do bulk discounts too.