Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Well... how a rating bot works:

Its jump from belt to belt killing all rats... and when someone gets into the system, its warp to a safe-spot and cloaks.... when everyone leaves its resume the rating...

Solution: Cloak hunter ship. So players would be able to hunt down the Bot and kill it, this will make the actual bot system useless.... ( This will also fix the afk cloacker issue that makes so many ppl stop playing eve... )

have to be dumb to quit lol. I liked these for this very reason. Scared off people for hours so when I logged in it was first crack at belt system not wrecked by tards breaking chains if any there. If nice I might tell someone it was a known harmless cloaky. If a guy was an ass though I can be real good at keeping a secret .

you don't introduce game mechanics to enforce policy

Dont most bot programs work by automatically moving your mouse around to click various things, (at least mining ones do) if so, couldnt you add somethiing that monitors click location on anyone the is a bot, and if it is EXACTLY identical for even 5 minutes, its rather obvious that its a bot (or a repeating pattern)

Meh. I think CCP has a vested interest in botting and actually only pretend to be interested in fighting it. In high-sec, bot mining keeps mineral prices down by flooding the market with minerals and therefore the economy, which has its foundations in the mineral market, remains (artificially) stable.

Basically, it helps to offset the inflationary effects of other isk faucets, like incursions, that create severely unbalanced isk per risk-hour. We're seeing inflation in EVE but as long as legions of high-sec veldspar miners keep the price of trit down then it has a positive kick-back for all of us. I think CCP understands this and lets as much of it slip through the fingers as they can without looking like they intended to do so.

In Null sec you have 2 flavours. The drone Russians who RMT on a massive scale and create most of their supercaps from botted minerals, and the Goons... many members of which have more money than God because CCP only responds to *reported* botters who don't get reported in Goon space because they are hard to reach and identify. The same used to be true of the NC who sold a lot of supers to the DRF and then had to watch how those same supers were shoved down their collective throat.

I think the 0.0 bots are of absoluetly no consequence to CCP because CCP's business model revolves around keeping carebears playing the game. A small percentage of players actually play the 0.0 game and as long as the Goons ability to make isk and buy the really expensive ships is *about* equal the the DRF's ability to grind rats and make them ... they must be assuming that the whole bot-vs-bot game will cancel out.

but it won't... because (super)caps are currently being created at a much faster rate than they are being destroyed. I suspect that in a couple of years time the 0.0 game will become more or less unplayable at which point CCP will introduce something to make (super)caps a dead end weapon. At this point in time I can't see any other future, actually.

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You said bots warp to safe spot and then cloak when someone enters system. How then does the bot see who's in system? Could it have something to do with local chat? Instead of defeating cloaks, best solution is to not show anyone in local unless they say something. This should give you a fair chance to probe them down and drop the hammer, but without making it impossible for real players to evade you intelligently.