Crime & Punishment

Sadly nobody gave a good answer.
C+P, you're failing at this one.

Try this :
(assuming he's not mining in caldari space)
buy a griffin
fit it with a few gallente ECMs
get in his belt
jam it (easy even with low skills) -beware of the drones aha-
wait a bit
stop jamming him

1) he's complaining => maybe not a bot (but a few people use bots while looking at the screen ; just to lazy to click on the lil' lasers)
2) he stops mining until the DT => a bad bot
3) he is mining back immediately => a good bot.

That sounds like a blast, I might actually set something like that up even without a botter in my corp.

Careful he will shank you with a filed down toothbrush

It really doesn't surprise me that internet nerds cry to CCP when someone breaks the precious rules. I mean, after all, you've been doing that your whole life, amirite?

Lets just agree that some of you like to cry and whine to whoever feigns interest when the bad men do bad things, and some of us keep our mouths shut and do our ******* jobs, and don't get involved with the business of others, mmm'kay?

I don't support botting, because I don't do it. Do I give a **** if someone else is botting? No, they'll get caught in due time. If they don't get caught? CCP sucks at doing their jobs. It's not my job to rat out botters, I would rather applaud them for evading GM's and people parsing through log data.

I knew gamers were a soft bunch, but for the love of God, grow some kind of spine, please, it's just plain embarrassing.

"Mommy, that man uses a program to push buttons, BAN THE BAD MAN MOMMY! BAN HIM"

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E - I'm now WAaaay off-topic, and also I don't care anymore, so this'll be my last post here. Ciao

E2 - just going to remove the whole thing, useless arguments anyways

That's great, but I'm not the OP, FYI.

Thanks for playing

This is very true. I was surprised to see support for botting in this thread. By "support" I mean people who help those that bot. If you know someone is botting and just ignore it you're it you're no better than the botter.

Yes it's CCP's job to catch these people but remember Eve is all about the players. We make the game and can have a much greater influence than a few CCP employees. Make your game better not worse!

I don't think the miner bumper crowd helps the game in general but with people who think botting is acceptable I can see they have a purpose.

i dealt with one once, here is how i confronted him:

1- i suspected he was botting, and others were too and mailed me about it

2- i started to follow him around durring his mining sessions, tried convo etc... to no avail

now, on the convo thing, it by itself doesn't means "bot" because you CAN deny automatically any convo (see eve settings), AND we were at the time in conflict with ppl "abusing" mass convo during fight, so most of us had this setting up and running

tho, he was not responding in intel chat

3- followed him for a few days, noticed a clear pattern especially on the timing

4- when he undocked, i started bumping him to prevent warp (out of corp alt so not posible to scram with concord)

-> the bot might have crashed or entered a random loop because after 20 sec of bumping, he started burning away of the station.

gone to sleep, in the morning, his hulk was still on dscan from the undock, quick probed him, was still burning away.

kept following him

then his main account connected, and hulk suddenly turned away, warped back to station and dropped connection.

had a quick talk with him, and corp CEO, was reported as bot and kicked from the corp.

this was a year ago, same player is still botting with same toons (there are 3 at least) tho, despite he had been reported several time to ccp

read: you need to play in the sandbox the exact same way I play in the sandbox or else it's not fun.

you don't understand the sandbox concept.

this is what i think, not what everyone shall think.

i like that i CAN get involved with others business, and provided i put enought effort, ruin it.

this is not guaranted tho, and they can, provided they in turn, put effort, protect themselve from ppl who want to ruin their business.

i ruin some ppl business, while i help other's business by doing so.

it is not how you want to play, fine with me, but that is how I want to play