EVE New Citizens Q&A

How do you know thy are botting? Maybe it is just one guy with ISBoxer mining semi-AFK while he does something else?

Since neither of the responses answers the question:

You can report botting via the online petitioning tool.

http://community.eveonline.com/support/petitions/

I believe you can use either exploits or EULA & Terms of Service as a category heading. Perhaps someone will correct me on this. I seem to recall that there used to be a 'report botting' option but I could be dreaming that up.

You can attach a screenshot to your petition.

One option that you can do to test for botting is to fly your ship into their ship as they mine and observe the results. Some botting programs will immediately warp off, some will fly back to the asteroid, and some won't even react but a player will typically respond in local about what you just did.

Ummmm.... Does bumping work for those not ready to jump into full on ganking? That is, can you bump the barge out of range? You would determine pretty quickly if they were a bot or semi afk that way since you might get a erm.... Response from them if they are semi afk. Maybe bots adjust for this? I dunno.

I haven't seen a single piece of proof in your OP that makes that person a bot.



* Of course...how do you move around in system...also by warping (no proof of botting)
* Well. How would you kill rats...aggressive drones (no proof)
* Overview sorted by distance, select top one (no proof)
* Hit F1 - F2 (no proof)
* That's normal...even when you are ATK after each cycle the lasers take a small break in they visualisation (no proof).

What I see listed here has absolutely 0% proof of a bot and 100% of a typical multiboxing high-sec miner that does play another game / does real life stuff while mining.


And I don't talk or even look at local talk. I have it open in null to watch for enemies, but that's it. For chat channels I used actually channels with normal people in it and have conversations about normal stuff.

FIXED

Hmz.

Other then Flurk, nobody was complaining about the quality of his English.

Tbh, I don't see what's wrong with it (as a non native English speaking guy). I understand what he means, which in my opinion means he has typed a good OP.

Report them and let GMs investigate.

Also, send the New Order folks some intel on their location.

That way if they are completely AFK (botting) they'll get banhammered, and if they are partially AFK they'll just lose their ships and maybe pods.

Ok, I know I am WAYYY out of my league.
But forgive me for I am a 100% baby / Noob in EVE - are we not allowed to be Away From Keyboard?
Is there a time limit or something?

I don't have bots yet and I'm still busy with the tutorial so I do not have the skills or understand even half of what the original poster asked, but I too left to get some lunch while doing my mining tutorial. I even quit the game while on another mining run, only to "come back" the following day, with no Asteroids.

Or is it something that is just frowned upon. If the question is way off and stupid, forgive me but can somebody just clear that up for me........Thanx

Doing something afk particularly Mining isn't against the rules though many players frown upon it, it is the use of scripts or programs that tell your ship to do actions without player imput. For example telling the ship to target and fire on asteroids or npcs, or when to warp back to station or a safe pos.

by bots, i think we are talking about drones