bots, bots, bots

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Kingoko wrote:

So i got a question.

Cause i got spammed and recently cleared ignore list is full again now 2 days laterr.
So instead of RPM click ignore i will click report and :
Saying that, Hi my name is xxxx im constantly spamed by bots. Instead of ignoring them i will report them.
So my report message will looks like this : Hi it's me xxx again, another bot to check:yyy.
Hi my again xxx, again, another bot to check:yyy.
Hi my again xxx, again, another bot to check:yyy.
Is that a solution? :P

I am also doing a copy/paste report tonight. Plus, as I'm only lurking in my hideout at the moment sorting out my atlas I am inviting every single bot spammer to party and not cancelling any of those requests myself.

I don't care how many open requests I have as I'm not mapping and don't really have anything important to sell, so I will see if open party requests mess up their bot systems or not. Let's see how many open requests I have in the next hour or so..... lol


This is absolutely farcical in the year 2020 (almost 2021) that we have to deal with this nonsense. I bet if bots interfered with mtx then they'd all be eradicated within a week...

For those of you a little frustrated with any in game issues I have invented a new mini game.


Fill up your party requests list with these bots, then after a few minutes send out a whisper to each "thank you for proving you are a bot, you have been sitting idle in my party request list for many minutes now."

See how long it takes the "owners" to manually notice this message, panic in thinking they've been caught and drop the request as a result.

Yes, it's not the most interesting of games, and there are no prizes, but it's keeping my idle mind entertained :)

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AcrylicHercules wrote:

It's easy to see that tons of bots are running, you just have to put a common bot-friendly item up for sale and watch the whispers come pouring in from randomly named players.

I put up a Perandus Blazon belt (a 1-alch item) for 2C and the next five minutes was a flood of whispers. I've sold some 1-alch items for as much as 6 or 7 chaos this league.

[Removed by Support]

I changed the price to 5c (an outrageously high price for that belt, which no actual player would pay) and immediately got a whisper.


edit:
Apparently Advancing Fortress is another one. List that for 1c and watch the bots come rolling in lol

Absolutely....

Sad...

Sold 3x Advancing Fortress this season. 3C, 5C, 6C......

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AcrylicHercules wrote:

It's easy to see that tons of bots are running, you just have to put a common bot-friendly item up for sale and watch the whispers come pouring in from randomly named players.

I put up a Perandus Blazon belt (a 1-alch item) for 2C and the next five minutes was a flood of whispers. I've sold some 1-alch items for as much as 6 or 7 chaos this league.

[Removed by Support]

I changed the price to 5c (an outrageously high price for that belt, which no actual player would pay) and immediately got a whisper.


edit:
Apparently Advancing Fortress is another one. List that for 1c and watch the bots come rolling in lol

lol my post got edited for "naming and shaming", but they were all randomly generated nonsense bot account names. Don't you know, bots cannot be shamed.

You guys really think banning a bot does anything at all? Takes seconds for a new one to take their place. It's a f2p game, there really is nothing that can be permanently done aside from removing trade completely. Nobody wants that though so why make these threads, not like it's going to do anything when there is only one solution in which would kill the game.

I mean you could make a monthly premium subscription though in which enables trade if you have it, it would then be a loss of money to bots but then the community would rage.

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AcrylicHercules wrote:

lol my post got edited for "naming and shaming", but they were all randomly generated nonsense bot account names. Don't you know, bots cannot be shamed.

That's fucking hilarious. #HypotheticalBotsArePeopleToo

Thicc Bots

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firenovix wrote:

You guys really think banning a bot does anything at all? Takes seconds for a new one to take their place. It's a f2p game, there really is nothing that can be permanently done aside from removing trade completely. Nobody wants that though so why make these threads, not like it's going to do anything when there is only one solution in which would kill the game.

I mean you could make a monthly premium subscription though in which enables trade if you have it, it would then be a loss of money to bots but then the community would rage.

I believe there are solutions.
Like for example limiting to create 5 or 10 accounts from same IP. I mean who normal person will ever need more then 10 different acoounts.
Other solution, when you are flagged as potential bot cause for example doing some mathematical precision actions, when you try whisper some1 you get some sort of captch that only human can pass. Succesfully passed you are not bothered by this sysyem for this check for next month.
Other partial soultion (at least for me) not allowing league players to whisper for items that are in standard.
And i believe there is many other methods to fight bots, GGG just need to at least try do something.