Cheating and bots

On September 4:
On September 23:
Nasty lag spike you got there Wraiven.

Did you kill the bot? Over and over again?

Indeed I did...but only for testing reasons...just to see how the bot reacts to a player attacking it.

This is where you need real old school PvP rules.. where you can loot his corpse into nekidness.

His point is obvious. That reporting them isn't working. That reporting them is seemingly being ignored. So he is using the forums as a platform to be heard in the hopes that a) people are aware b) that BW will answer for it. Not that hard to figure out.

^^^^kind of a point of forums, isnt it?

Wow, I commented on a dead thread. I should really pay attention to dates.

It was not dead, it was in limbo. I am uploading the video to Youtube now.

By the way, which is it?

Dead Thread = Bad (Hence, "Rising a thread from the grave...beating a dead horse)
or
"Why did you post a thread about this? Google is your friend. There are other threads on this already..."

You can't win...

I would like to bring everyone to the attention of THIS VIDEO in which clearly shows a player abusing the game using a hack program that is assisted by a "bot".

This player specifically has bee reported numerous times by the OP of this thread...yet almost a month later, this player is still permitted to exploit the game.


Confirmed at least one player.

Also confirmed. The Bot never attacks players, only NPCs.

Also confirmed. I am in full Partison PvP gear with one Conqueror Ear Piece on this particular character with almost all pieces Augmented. (Note, there is very little difference between Partison and Conqueror gear.) This particular Bot became very hard to kill, which indicates the bot used to hack, had an AI that activated cool downs at precise times.

The OP has a point here. All a Dev has to do is log on, and watch the bot in action. This post was made by the OP way back in 9/02/13. It is now 9/24/13. Yet, the player is obviously still using bots and it is obvious the GMs has done little, if anything, to prevent this player from doing it again. It is quite apparent this particular player has a clear and blatant disregard for the EULA.

Has it now become policy for the Devs to ignore reports made against hackers? I notice Gold Farmer companies who consistently spam lowbie worlds for their web sites also go extended periods of time without being removed from the game. I have to question the Devs on this one. You come to the forums and discuss forum moderation...you are instantly suspended from communicating on the forums. Action against your account is almost immediate. Yet a player can hack the game for weeks if not months and nothing is done about it. Devs...what exactly is your policy for the game now? Has your policy changed? When I see things in game like this, it truly makes me question what rules are overlooked if broken and which ones are not. Is it perhaps time to revise the rules and the tolerance levels coincided with those rules? Would sure make my gaming experience less stressful if I knew which rules were not worth my time to stop and report when I see players who abuse and exploit the game. If I knew which reports would be overlooked if not outright ignored, I could move on and not waste my time reporting these Hackers. I do not like wasting time to write out a report, if that report is going to be ignored.

After watching that video ... um ... I have never seen a bot before but that's not a human being behind that toon.

The game we're paying for has cheaters in it. The police in this game (devs? GMs?) clearly aren't doing their job. At this point, the DEVS need to be shamed more than the cheaters (shaming the cheaters does no good, as they are already cheating and apparently having no moral qualms).

If this thread accomplishes anything (and as a cynical 40-something, there is significant doubt in my mind that it will), I hope it will shame the devs into action. If we do nothing about blatant cheaters, the game will gradually be taken over by them.

This thread should be posted on every forum where it is even remotely relevant. Please put that last post up on the POT5 and PvP forums, at least!

If anyone isn't sure what a bot looks like watch that vid. Good work OP and Wraiven.

Several trolls in here owe the OP and apology.

OP - +10 to your troll resistance rating for having the tenacity to stick by this. Kudos