Anti-botter addon

Mephz · 12-25-10, 05:11 PM

I would like to see if any skilled addon developers likes this idea...

I think that there should be a collaborative addon that allows people to basically add the name, race and type of botter to a shared notice board in each zone. So that if they come accross that botter they can create a GM ticket automatically from this information to get rid of these botters!

I was in twighlight highlands last night trying to level mining and blacksmithing which, blacksmithing is hard enough without 5 botters flying around stealing your veins.

Blizzard seem to be doing very little or at least very little that is noticeable about botters because they are absolutley everywhere, world zones and they infest PVP zones. Blizzard told me to report every botter, I believe that if we can get a large number of people collaborating and reporting botters that we can destroy botting, but the community needs to be involved it doesn't work if only a couple of people are trying!

acapela · 12-25-10, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Mephz

I would like to see if any skilled addon developers likes this idea...

i laud the goal... but, i would be at a loss to differentiate between a bot and a gathering-ninja live player who was simply mechanistically following their Routes route on the map

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in other words, simply reporting character names would be the "easy" part of the problem (possibly as simple as adding something to the "target" unit contextual menu). heuristics for reliably identifying bots, based on observed character behavior, would be a different matter...

Mephz · 12-25-10, 05:22 PM

Bots are super easy to detect, try fighting the person if they are opposite faction and watch their reactions, run around the bot in circles very close to it and watch it have an un-human focus on you spinning around in sync with your character. Watch for players that instantly release, watch for them instantly reserecution sicknessing. They are so easy to detect, watch some youtube videos of botters. Same faction, maybe tell the person that you are reporting them for botting...?

The player is the one that says who is a bot. The addon basically allows for players to talk to each other about it via a noticeboard and then create automatic GM tickets from this information. The addon doesn't need to detect bots, it is all about making it super quick for players to report botters, at the moment it requires effort and they can't see if anyone else is reporting that player. Like I said, if its just one person reporting someone then nothing will happen to the bot, if its a group of 5-10 people reporting the same person blizzard will probably ban them. Its the collaboration of botters names and info and then the ability to create an automatic GM ticket to ban them very quickly and easily...

Does that make sense? Let me know if u need more info

tranthy · 12-26-10, 01:08 PM

umm why go through all this trouble JUST to catch a botter. You can simply and easy enough to just go to another location to mine. It's not hard honey.

Mephz · 12-27-10, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by tranthy

umm why go through all this trouble JUST to catch a botter. You can simply and easy enough to just go to another location to mine. It's not hard honey.

clearly you haven't played cataclysm yet when there's 20 mining bots circling every zone hey. it's good that you think its fine for people to be rewarded for afking

Jigain · 12-27-10, 06:56 AM

I'm not sure I like the potential misuse and indeed abuse of such an addon.

Tagging mobs just before I engage them, then leaving me to kill them for you or die myself? Reported for botting.
Other faction camping my corpse? Reported for botting.
Blocking a quest NPC with a dragon? Reported for botting.

And as if that wasn't enough, anyone who comes across the innocently accused automatically accuse them as well... it shouldn't be THAT hard to fill out a ticket by hand, and few, if anyone, would spend time reporting innocent people via tickets if they had to write them themselves.

Not to mention the other end of the bargain... I don't know about your realms, but on mine, GM response time varies between 48 hours and 72 hours. If they had to deal with people being innocently reported over and over again due to automatics, I can easily imagine that waiting time rising dramatically.