how do you stop cheating?

Honestly in this day and age of trolling, perfect bots, and internal sales how on earth will this game function with all of these features? I have a list of a few questions of what can be done to stop this.

1. Players cheat at pvp. What is to stop a guild from having people get on their alts to force a metropolis node from being destroyed? For example you could just have 25 players join to defend and then they just go out naked and die over and over or open doors for the enemy or sit in a siege weapon and refuse to fire it on the enemy. being 25 players down on your defense or attack could easily just ruin this whole experience. People could initiate attacks on their own city at oddball times so that no attackers show up. You could flat out pay some gold farming company to do this sort of crap for you. What is to stop this?

2. How do you stop the massive influx of gold sellers that happen in every game? How do you stop the massive influx of resource farming bots that always come on release? I remember in wildstar you couldnt even grab a resource node because before you could get past mobs and get to it some bot would zoom in and grab it.

3. What about the server bloat that ALWAYS catches devs by surprise followed by the mass migration away from the game? It seems to happen every time. A new game releases. New players far exceed any expectations. Servers fill to bloating. Slowly new servers are added. There end up being way too many servers. The migration happens and 70% of the players are gone after a few months. Servers are dead and the devs wont allow free server transfers. Servers are "in the works" of being combined but for some dumb reason it takes months. Finally the low pop servers just die completely and eventually the game after about 2 years. What will be done to stop this before it happens?

The ideas for the game are amazing and sound great so i am curious what can be done about this sort of behavior.

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Wokal

I play Elder Scrolls Online (switching between WoW and ESO).....and in ESO i find out other types of cheats, that I am curious about will be possible in AOC.

Lag Switches and macro scripts.

When i got a tanky char in heavy armor, with 30k ish health and die instantly when 1 enemy charges on me, i read the dmg profile after and see the last 6 atttacks did 2.5k ish dmg each, meaning he wouldve done 15+ attacks instantly as soon as the charge lands.

Will this type of cheat/exploit be possible in AOC? I really want an mmo whith good pvp....there is none out atm.

PenguinPaladin

Alot of potential botting somewhat goes out the window with true open world pvp as well... see a bot fishing 24/7? Start killing it every time you see it.

HiddenDaggerInn

You can't stop it, only hope to contain it. Having nodes randomly spawn might slow down some of the scripter bots, Live GM's is a HUGE plus as long as they have enough of them. The single most important thing they can incorperate is LOGS! If someone is suspected of cheating and they recieve a report in game, have visual logs to see EVERYTHING that player did and who he traded with.

Cheaters are a satain on today's gaming fabric, My brother even showed me some "Undertectable" software highly advanced aimbottting, see where everyone is and much more, and they wanted 50.00 Euro a month lol. Some people take it that seriously.. Maybe they should practice more instead of cheating , but alas that's not the age we live in.

Biggest thing is protect the Economy!

darthaden

You will never stop all bots but Ashes will have anti-bot technology built right into it's core systems. Every server will have different levels of development for different nodes plus the dynamic weather system. The same bot program might not work on different severs due to mob spawns being different if your farming spot is in a village on one server but a metropolis on another. If your bot farm is in a cave it's going to be awfully funny if that cave gets flooded during spring or frozen over during the winter.

Ludullu

Otr wrote: »

Can bots survive in a PvP game?

They have lived in L2 for its whole existence, so they definitely can. Especially if it's gonna be beneficial to all the botmakers to go all-out on bot design/coding.

darthaden

Otr wrote: »

darthaden wrote: »

You will never stop all bots but Ashes will have anti-bot technology built right into it's core systems.

Can bots survive in a PvP game?

They just run back and continue after death. Ran into this playing BDO. Found A obvious bot (a wizard only using his dagger stab to kill mobs) killed him multiple times and he was back in a few minutes everytime running the same loop using his dagger stab.

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