Trade bots ever banned? Reporting feature exist?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Sigh. They would just change their message. You can't beat these people unless you really want to impose on legit players. They've figured it out. They're better at it than you are.

Yeah, of course they'd change the message. But there are elements of the message that have to remain consistent. Keywords if you will.

Currently the only filtering we have is a text filter that's in GGG's hands, which means that the spammers have a lot of "up" time between blocking events. (I don't think they've actually changed the base text of the message at all this league).

Pushing the filter down to the level of the individual player would erode the "up" time for the spammers because they'd have to re-format the message much more often.

I'm not suggesting it would be a perfect solution, but it would still be a step in the right direction.

You think they couldn't automate that if they had to? You're really not giving them much credit.

Most of the trades you are doing in softcore leagues are through botting. And honestly I feel bad each time I trade with some one because I don't even use a trade overlay, meaning they have to wait more.

However I don't think that those dudes are what make the game worse, quality of updates is a bigger factor. I'd prefer having to deal with bot traders than more leagues 3.14 like with metagame scrambles for the worst(because it felt it was good for the longevity of the game), barely no content, rocky start and optimisation backsteps.

Man today I got up at about 7am and have been on pretty much all day no lifing PoE. During a good portion of the day the botter must've been active on his account because he was constantly undercutting by 1c down to 26c and wouldn't sell. Later on he finally stopped undercutting and set his price back up. He had a stock total of 21 maps. He has been online the entire time and now all of a sudden he's undercutting again with a stock of 33 maps. Now keep in mind the entire time I have been on all day I've been snatching up the items and who knows what his bots threshold is for buyouts.

Who wants to bet that this guy is now awake and controlling the account and will be online for the entirety of the day?

I will be logging off probably within the next hour. Maybe I should run a script to refresh the trade site and screen record his ass online for the remainder of the day.

As I suspected and expected with an extremely high degree of certainty! Our friendly neighborhood botter is still online choo chooing away!

I guess the message is clear boys! You can bot till your hearts desire wishes no more!

All jokes aside I hope within the next few days something is done otherwise what else is there to say.

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Elgerez wrote:

I forgot to add. Yeah sure they can just make another account but it costs money to sell items in this game. Trade tabs are not free.

You can list things that are indexed without public stash tabs, it's just a pain in the ass (for humans). It's how trading was done before public tabs. It was not fun.

I wonder if that old third party app with the marauder all decked out as a rich guy still exists.

There is nothing left to say. There was nothing left to say six years ago. People bring this up time and time again and seem to expect some magic solution to materialize. There are solutions. The problem is that they impact the play of regular people playing the game. If you draw a line that can't be crossed there, you start getting into solutions that are simply impractical... like your "ban the bots" strategy. They don't work... or they would require a huge expense to make work.

The people running the bots are good at it. They've had lots of experience with it in other games. They've learned to deal with the strategies that companies have used in the past.

If you're against the bots, you have to stop interacting with them. At all. That means to turn off Chat and to play the game solo. They won. It's time to see that.

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Elgerez wrote:

All jokes aside I hope within the next few days something is done otherwise what else is there to say.

I'll leave this here, just in case.

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dW2005 wrote:

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Elgerez wrote:

All jokes aside I hope within the next few days something is done otherwise what else is there to say.

I'll leave this here, just in case.

If I could favorite a post, this would be it.

My parents also happen to have that particular art framed in the house.

This clown is still online. I guess the message is clear. Create an alt account and bot on it.