Elder Scrolls Online Overrun By Bots?

[motomonkey]

These are most likely not bots...

They are Gold Farmers!

Big difference and they don't really do anything wrong which is why they dont get banned.

A bot is a computer program that plays the game for you and in most MMO's using 3rd-party programs to assist you is a ban-able offense.

A gold farmer is a person who's real time job is to collect ingame currency and then sell ingame currency for real money to a trader (the guys who shout ingame advertising the ingame money) Cant ban a gold farmer until they are caught for doing multiple trades to a trader and traders delete their characters often so they don't get banned. not easy to track and not so simple as to mass ban an IP range because you purchase a game then you have the right to play it.

They are annoying but usually dies down after a few weeks after a game release. then again so does every MMO gaming community.

They are bots. GOLD farming bots.

when you report someone in TESO, it shows the account name, not the name of the character, %90+ of the character names I have reported, and I have reported hundreds, are the typical gold sells random string gibberish account names they all use.

the problem is slowly getting better as the GM's stomp the hell oout of bots, and modify the way resources spawn and quest mobs work.

There was also a bot resource farmer that used an exploit to teleport to all the resource nodes and harvest them. I think THAT got stomped fairly fast. you could walk up to a node, and before you could touch it a damn bot would pop in and start harvesting it.

 

[octoberasian]

Please if you dont know how bot works dont try to post "solutions"
Plenty of bots have randomized delay between action to look more human like
beside tha facts differnt in ping makes action evne mroe random delayd from the server end.

if you do the scanning on client end to make it more precise and negate ping time effect. that you protection is running in user end space and its removable/hackable.

also chahging people to a mob would be working liek 1 day then bots will now detect that feature and work again..

you solutions is maybe worth 1-3 days then its useless again.
no drumroll

Yup, bots are getting incredibly sophisticated and often times a step ahead of the developers that try to put things in place that limit the usefulness of a bot.

FFXI, for example, with many players complaining of claim bots, Square-Enix moved HNMs and many NMs to pop item-based meaning that they require an item to pop them. Resource points such as mining and harvesting introduced fatigue and decreased quality if gathering for a prolonged period of time. Fish bots were notoriously famous in the early heydays of FFXI. SE introduced not only fatigue mechanisms, but made fishing more and more involved where you had to pay attention to the screen. However, from what I've heard so far from players in-game, it doesn't matter. The fish bots can also monitor pixels, sound and movement. There are still botters and now include power-leveling bots, AH bots, and many more. A friend I knew years ago told me he paid around $50 or so for combo bot and warp hack. Hell, I'm getting flack from other players in FFXI for not getting a power-leveling bot to level alt characters to help my main character finish a Relic, Mythic and Empyrean item to item level 119. One player boasted to me that he finished a Relic weapon in under a week using his main character and three alt characters he power leveled to 99. It's stupid on the level of laziness some players are, yet they call me lazy for taking the long way to finish just one Relic weapon.

In other MMO games, such as shooters like APB: Reloaded or your run-of-the-mill FPS shooters like BF4 or Titanfall or CS:Go, the bots will do headshots almost always but are programmed to occasionally miss to not attract the attention of GMs or botters. And, as someone mentioned in a Titanfall bot thread under [H] News, smart players will not use the bot repeatedly to draw suspicion and will be smart enough to play poorly to give the impression there's still a human being behind the character.

Bots are sophisticated pieces of software, many times with basic AI programmed into it and will monitor everything and emulate key strokes and mouse movement. Players are willing to pay $100 or more for the more sophisticated ones out there. Many of the reasons are usually along the lines of not doing repetitive stuff like gathering resources in an MMO so they can spend time doing something else. Or, to boost one's rank in a ladder or give an advantage over other players.

Developers can scan the player's system memory for bots or known botting programs, but even then, many of the software will mask themselves. We see that with a lot of malware and viruses out there-- mask themselves as legitimate software to avoid detection.

No matter what is done to a game, botters will exist because the players that use them will find an excuse for their laziness or players will use them for RMT purposes to make money off of it. As long as the human trait for laziness exists, and the excuse for taking the easy way out is often-used, they will resort to botting regardless. RMT websites employ the use of bots to do repetitive stuff in MMOs for gathering and power-leveling, and doing in-game shouts for advertising their website ad-nauseum. You can report them all you want, but they will never stop.

In FFXI, when the anniversary event comes around, I check the Moogle for the amount of times I have reported someone to a GM. It's nearly 80 to 90 times I've reported players over the course of nearly 10 years in the game. A big fraction of that are botters and RMT players.

 

[Galvin]

They should do what Blizzard does. Sue the source that makes the bots. Blizzard has done this several times.