How will Intrepid combat botting?

I bring this up because other MMOs have become infested with bot farmers and it's really annoying for regular players not to mention extremely damaging to the games economy.

This also relates to the multiboxing issue. Take Wow for example everywhere you go you can find parties of 5 boomkins botting afk farming mounts, gold or levelling and Blizzard can do nothing because it's not against to ToS and it's very hard to prove they are botting, even if you can clearly see they are. All it takes is for a person to be there to reply if a GM sends them a message.

Now the problem WoW has is there's dynamic respawn meaning the more mobs are killed in an area the faster they will respawn until it's literally instant respawning. I would highly recommend not having a similar feature. Other than that I don't have many ideas but I really hope you guys at Intrepid will keep on top of this problem because it's a plague in other games.

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BobzUrUncle

Here we go again. Oh well, another multibox / botting thread to ignore.

arodicus

to answer how will it be combated, the devs and GMs will be very prominent in the game world. if there is a character suspected of botting you just report them and they will investigate.
They have software that will detect 3rd party apps if someone is macro farming etc. they will detect it on their own.
Ban hammers will fly for bot accounts

Beekeeper

GrimmLiberty wrote: »

I personally think that they should make a public spectacle out of botters and gold sellers when they ban their account, bring the characters (played by GM's) to the public square of the node they were active on, and publicly "execute" them! Examples for all!

The node get's XP for how many people attend the executions. Win-Win.

They could do it like the Runescape team does it, that would be hilarious.

Khronus

With open world pvp, I don't see how botting will survive in AoC. I will slay every single person who appears to be botting and I will camp them if needed. Takes me out of the fantasy world and reminds me of RMT's when i see bots. The scum.

Chaostastic

The runescape method would be best. Have someone stream regularly and ban botters. Not showing the actual catching since that will help botters find ways to avoid it. Other gms find the botters and once confirmed the streamer tps over and starts messing with them before eventually banning. Good deterrent for botters as they will be publicly shamed and very enjoyable content that's gonna be good marketing as well.

Shaladoor

GrimmLiberty wrote: »

I personally think that they should make a public spectacle out of botters and gold sellers when they ban their account, bring the characters (played by GM's) to the public square of the node they were active on, and publicly "execute" them! Examples for all!

The node get's XP for how many people attend the executions. Win-Win.

I love it! In addition, I suggest putting their characters in prison for all everyone to see. If they are banned from playing for a period of time, they can spend that time in prison so everyone can see the offenders. Even if they log out, the game could keep their characters visible.

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