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ONE employee using TheZone addon, or better yet YOUR INHOUSE GM TOOLS, could BAN every teleporting hacker harvester in the game in ONE shift. All you have to do is spawn an ore node or a tree under the ground where the GM is standing and let them COME TO YOU! Yes, they will WARP right to you, you click on them and BAM, gone mother *cupcake*a.


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You don't need a smartphone. Authenticators can run on your PC - WinAuth or Authy for Chrome for example.


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Botters spam gold to everyone. Everyone is sent to single instance.... thats a lot of work lol


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If the bots weren't teleporting and just had to move, fight mobs and harvest normally like the rest of us, then a) the bots would have to be a lot more complex b) the profit per hour wouldn't be nearly as high c) the bots wouldn't be as annoying to ordinary players since they're not camping a single resource like mining nodes. Fewer bots and less annoying ones at that, yes please.


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Due to lifecost differences... If the target is profiteable enough, what you can have behind those "Bots" may be just online workers earning their salary pressing keys on a computer... Very hard to distinguish from a "legit" player unless you trace what's done with the "product" after it's gathered. But even here you can trust in the Greed... What Carbine should look for next is for "Bot Trains": A human driver that, using multicast software, controls n characters that do exacly the same as him to anihilate powerfull mobs by sheer brute force... Sadly there is a particularly well suited class for this "way to farm" and I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing things like this... ...I repeat it's all based on profit margins versus demand of services.


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You guys keep saying that but honestly I myself could do a better job at keeping them away.. Nothing seems to have been done to prevent these guys from going at it, even though as few small changes would make it pretty much impossible. It's good to see carbine employees actively participating in the community, but if all they do is promise and not deliver, its pointless. Over the last 4 days i have reported over 50! bots in 3 zones (thats on Ravenous EU) most of em are still online right now. Force players to use 2 factor auth, force a higher level to up gathering profs, or just use more people to detect and handle the botting reports. If things dont turn around A LOT of people will not keep paying for your game (myself included) I know some people will say: "i dont have a phone i cant set up 2 factor auth, i dont understand pcs etc etc." Well you wouldnt leave the door to your house open and unlocked.. You learned to lock that didnt you? People that dont bother locking their account properly and get hacked because of it should just be banned and never unbanned IMO. I wonder how fast most people would have their account on tight lockdown if that was the rule..


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Why are you not just implementing a serverside check that stops the teleporting between nodes? The teleporting is the major issue. Teleporting makes bots 20x more annoying and it makes each bot much more profitable. It's an easy fix and it doesn't involve banning (I'm not saying you shouldn't ban bots, but banning is a serious step and you have to be very sure to not hit players with it, while no one cares that you stop people from teleporting).


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Problem though is even if they did that, it wouldn't do anything. They have other accounts ready and will be back almost instantly. The only way we will see them gone is when Carbine rolls out hopefully good protection/changes.


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A - The /who command is horribly broken B - Get "TheZone" addon C - Run vid-cap software (or be quick with the PrintScreen key) My personal favorite is to use FRAPS (well worth the $30). There is a mode where if you hold-down the capture key for a few seconds, the FPS counter turns pink/purple. Then when I see something worth saving, I hit the capture key again and FRAPS records the previous 30 seconds plus all footage until I hit the capture key again to stop recording. So I can run around without worrying that FRAPS is using up all of my disk space. Note: FRAPS will drop your framerate slightly. It also works best if you have a separate hard drive to save the video capture files to.


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It does. I'm at least 90% sure that bots problem is not on top of priority list - and it have to be changed.


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