Food for Thought: Botting and the LB

[Zylx]

Quick, short, and sweet:

Does the very recent release of new elite AP's and their pretty quick completion of certain LB players not arouse suspicion on botting, which is apparently against the rules but unenforced? Especially when some of them may or may not have been caught botting in the past? Im certain investigations would be fruitful. It's simply not fair for people to take advantage of technology to surpass everyone, and with no action being taken about it. Especially when its very apparent to a majority of the community who weren't born yesterday.

As an average player who has invested time and money in the game, i'd appreciate investigations to be done and actions to be taken about this issue.

Just food for thought.. thanks for reading..........

-Concerned Player

[Visiting]

Anyone who you think is botting probably just has a $5,000 gaming chair and a whole lot of Adderal :O

[Ssneakykills]

Sucks the game was/is ridden with players like that in pocket legends too and nothing was ever done about it.

These new aps are just screaming for players who bottled in the past to do it again

[Zylx]

Sucks the game was/is ridden with players like that in pocket legends too and nothing was ever done about it.

These new aps are just screaming for players who bottled in the past to do it again

Exactly. This just ruins the integrity of the game.

[Ssneakykills]

Exactly. This just ruins the integrity of the game.

I kind of feel sorry for those players who are legitly grinding out the new elites just to be taken over by people botting them

[Schnitzel]

I agree with Zylx,

It's kind of ironic to say "Don't do this", then turn the blind eye when it happens.

I have my suspicions, and I'd rather be proven wrong than right
But if the staff isn't going to do anything about it,
then whats the point of having a rule when it won't be enforced?

Just my $0.02

-R

[CouchPass]

Theres nothing we can do about it, unfortunately, except reporting. Hopefully the devs, realize this is a huge issue, espescially with the new grinding elites AP. Nobody wants to run the same map a million times. Of course I wouldn't bot but sts is typr of digging its own grave in this issue.

[Suentous PO]

Sts definitely repeats like a mantra-
"Botting is against the rules land we take it seriously, report them. "
yet they do little/nothing even when a player is reported by more than one person.
We just saw it happen, someone botting for days on end in a locked map, every single run lasts the same time for days as he pads fake stats on the lb.
a slap on the wrist 7day time out, and they let him back in game and reinstate his fake lb status and keeps the inflated kdr!
Pl is overrun with botters "double ur $" nubs, and black marketers who openly fearlessly break tos, leading any new players to see for themselves how to get ahead quickly.

It's just *insert bannable adjective*

[konafez]

Back before the expansion when there was nothing to do but farm teeth, I spent months down in wt4 getting kills to improve my kdr. I was so proud of my kdr (350k kills 3000 deaths) till I ran into a botter with 400k kills 250 deaths ....then I just thought what is the freakin point.

I pride myself on having one of the best work ethics in AL. If I need gear, I farm till I can afford it. If I need to get better kdr, I lock myself in wt4 till I get the kills I need. If I need AP's I get my guildies together and we go earn them

But seeing these botters just makes me think why bother. I don't have much interest in grinding for days when someone else just fires up there bot and goes to bed

[Dragoonclaws]

There is a simple idea to go against botting... and it's a time limit. After X hours of gameplay, the account MUST log out and must be warned an hour and 30min before. Login allowed 5min - 15min later. Therefore, StS will have an idea of who hit those time limits most and they can investigate

[kinzmet]

Is there a way to detect bots?

[Dragoonclaws]

Is there a way to detect bots?

There are ways. Usually, bots use a PC. They don't use the mouse, but playing AL doesn't require a mouse, you can use WASD and all the other keys.

[tomsawer]

Maybe, just maybe this is a set up by s.t.s.to find bots and get rid of em ..I mean seriously if players (bots) are getting these achievements in a matter of days or a week it should be extremely obvious their bots ...
But then again S.t.S. wouldn't have to go through so much trouble to find em it should already be known .

[Iheybeautiful]

Maybe, just maybe this is a set up by s.t.s.to find bots and get rid of em ..I mean seriously if players (bots) are getting these achievements in a matter of days or a week it should be extremely obvious their bots ...
But then again S.t.S. wouldn't have to go through so much trouble to find em it should already be known .

Setup for 5 years? Yeah sure.

[bonjovi3223]

My well geared mage can still not solo nordr elites & hence I still do not have even the initial ap for it.
If that Is the case I do not understand how ppl could be botting them. Can someone pls explain.

[tomsawer]

Setup for 5 years? Yeah sure.

Was intended as a joke plz don't take seriously ...or am I

[Edward Coug]

I agree with Zylx,

It's kind of ironic to say "Don't do this", then turn the blind eye when it happens.

I have my suspicions, and I'd rather be proven wrong than right
But if the staff isn't going to do anything about it,
then whats the point of having a rule when it won't be enforced?

Just my $0.02

-R

I completely agree. It's kind of like how the player who impersonated a dev and tricked players into selling paras and eyes with a fake announcement was never punished.

[Visiting]

I completely agree. It's kind of like how the player who impersonated a dev and tricked players into selling paras and eyes with a fake announcement was never punished.

I'd say trolling is a far step away from actually breaking the rules of the game :/

[Edward Coug]

I'd say trolling is a far step away from actually breaking the rules of the game :/

I think the players who were tricked into selling paras and eyes would disagree. And impersonating a dev is most certainly against the TOS.

There's a reason the guilty player won't fess up to doing it.

[Visiting]

I think the players who were tricked into selling paras and eyes would disagree. And impersonating a dev is most certainly against the TOS.

There's a reason the guilty player won't fess up to doing it.

They sold their items upon their own volition, if they didn't check to see if the source was credible, they're partially to be blamed as well. As far as impersonating a mod, I'm sure it's against the ToS of the forums, but the picture in question here was posted on a third party application, not the forums, thus out of jurisdiction of STS..