Amanda Solette
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Posted - 2012.04.04 14:09:00 -
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My opinion is that botters should be marked, labled, or otherwise made publicly known for their crimes
Reasons for this
a) Corporations should know if they are recruiting, or have recruited characters found guilty of botting and/or associated with botting. Bots are a supplement to mains, so some other character is still benefiting from the bot. We should know who this is, because why shouldnt be able to be aware if we interact with a criminal, such as the sex offender registry
b) Players will know, without having to figure out and/or guess if a player was botting. If bots are marked, then players wishing to kill only bots will be able to make a cursory glance and punish those individuals further for their devious actions. this might be ganking, or just not interacting with them, or as boring as bumping them away from their destinations :
Now, this is the key to success with this program CCP will have to be absolutely sure of the character being marked, that they are infact guilty of botting, and therfore acting against the EULA, There should be no doubt what so ever as to the guilt of the marked character
It is already listed that characters found guilty of botting will be barred from the Character Bazzar, so we do not have to worry about purchasing a botted Character There were concerns about people being able to removed their marked status, and my answer to that is: There is no reason for this; if a character is marked as a bot, then your stuck with the consequences of your actions. As for the Sex offender registry example used earlier: If you commit the crime, then you will be known for yuor crime for life, why should you be able to hide from this?
Again, this comes back to CCP only marking characters that are guilty without a doubt
Also, as with other criminal offenses here in the real world, give them a benefit of the doubt for the 1st time with only a warning, maybe a few day ban, and a removal of assets and what not. Also you could reduce their security status, meaning that they will have to work their asses off to get back to empire and on the not so bad list again
However, if you are going to do it again, then shame on you. If CCP will not perma-ban you on the 2nd time, then you should be marked for it. Besides if you did it twice, why wont you try a 3rd time
As for anyone who will make the claim that some people are unaware of botting being against the EULA, then to you I say, Learn to Read or otherwise research your decisions. Botting is something that gives you an advantage over people who do not bot. If this were not illegal, then more people would do it and this game would be bots and PVP, therefore it wouldnt be an advantage anymore. If something gives you an advantage, then it is probably a glitch/cheat/ or against EULA or something. Someone else, somewhere else has already thought of it, so if it isnt comonplace, then somehing is wrong about it But anyways, to keep to the point: As summary Marked characters is a good thing for the rest of us. if your against this, then you are a botter and should quit doing it to aleviate those of you criminals that think you will be acused and marked even though what you are doing is wrong, but not botting, there should be a gaurentee that the mark will only be place on characters that have 0% doubt as to their guilt There might also be a warning before the mark for the idiots that for some reason had thought it was ok to bot. however if this is the case, let us all know... maybe we can all try botting 1 time until we get caught
The biggest concern for any of this: WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE CHARACTERS THAT ARE ASSCOCIATED TO BOTS? THE ONES THAT GAIN ALL THE ISK? ARE THEY ALSO BEING ADVERSLY AFFECTED? ATLEAST TAKING THEIR ASSETS? IF THEY HAVE A FLEET OF BOTS WORKING FOR THEM, THEN BANNING A FEW WILL JUST BE A SETBACK TO THEIR GREATER PLAN, SO THE CHARACTER IN QUESTION NEEDS PENALTIES AS WELL, OTHERWISE THE SAME OFFENDERS JUST COME BACK WITH A DIFFERNT NAME
This had to be caps so that it draws the attention to the real problem |