Potential Tool for players to use against BOTs????

So, it would be nice if we can just kill Botters w/o getting corruption but alas, we cant.

OR CAN WE??????????????????????

I wonder if there is a way, or a system that can be created that isnt abused - where if bots has been reported X amount of times, they can turn purple and stay purple until the GM can finally review.

NOW YES OBVIOUS - AS IS - ABUSABLE BY ALL HELLS. How can we prevent Abuse?

Unique "IDs" of sorts.

example

Player 1 ID --- 48392
Player 2 ID --- 43892
Player 3 ID --- 68318

When joining a Guild - a guild ID is added to their player ID
Guild ID - G382

so player IDs will look like:

Player 1 ID --- 48392G382
Player 2 ID --- 43892G382
Player 3 ID --- 68318G382

The report system will identify it is coming from a guild, trying to mass report. it will not flag the potential botter.

The report system will also identify if a mass report is being done in a very short time. IE 10 ppl reported within 2 minutes or less.

Reports must be made seeing the character - so it's not like you can open a menu, type a name to report. you got to see the bot in person and click on them to open the report menu as well.

So with something like that - Maybe you are the 20th person walking by someone you suspect is a bot. You then report the bot, now you get a prompt or you visually see this person gets flagged purple. This is an indication that multiple ppl have reported for suspect bot activity and you are free to kill. Lucky you, you won the Gacha Bot

Also when Reporting players - you have an internal CD to report another user. To prevent all players going around and reporting like mad, creating false flag & getting innocent legit players flagged.

thoughts? found a potential exploit? let me know or share your resolution to that hole.
Or know of a better approach, let's hear it!

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Strevi

until this game releases, bots will become self-aware and demand rights
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/meta-researchers-create-ai-that-masters-diplomacy-tricking-human-players/

Wandering Mist

You are never going to get rid of bots entirely, and Intrepid knows this. There is no system you could use to elliminate bots from the game. No matter what, there will always be a very small percentage of players who will use them for various reasons.

The goal instead is to prevent 90% of players from using bots, and the best way (in my opinion) of doing this is to make it so that the majority of players don't feel the NEED to use them. The majority of the time, when the average person uses a bot it's so they don't have to manually do some very tedious but necessary task. If players are resorting to bots rather than actually playing the game, that is a failure of the game systems.

Why should I spend 8-12 hours a day manually farming gold/mats for raiding when I can just have a bot do it for me while I sleep?

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