Crime & Punishment

Hi!
I've heard numerous times that botting such as mining bots is a bannable offence in eve and have read hillarious stories of machariels and procurers getting ganked at belts since they were all bots.

Something I am wondering is if this also counts for scammers? I have seen numerous scammers at amarr posting the same thing over and over again and in my opinion it is highly likely some of them are bots just repeating the message over and over again because its the same people saying the same thing at very obscure times like in the early morning still in afternoon and when im home at mid day they are also there. How come this is okay? Scamming I understand is ok, but the botting part is what I'm questioning.

Proving this particular kind of 'botting is exceedingly difficult. How do you tell if someone is using a 'bot to re-paste the message or just copy/pasting it into local with annoying regularity?

Having said that, I'd say screenshot it and report it. I hang out in Amarr a lot too and I'd love to see less of them, but I just block them or ignore local altogether.

This thread's days are numbered.

I think you are mistaken when you suppose they must be botting. It would be interesting to verify if some of them appear not to sleep except at downtime, which would imply either botting or account-sharing, but it's quite hard for you to do that by yourself since you also require sleep.

The successful scammer won't be spending all their time pressing up-arrow and Enter - they've got to set up bogus contracts or Margin Traded deals, talk to marks, shill on second accounts, or whatever. It still strikes me as pretty boring but each to their own.

I'd _like_ to see some kind of enforced restriction on posting substantially similar messages over and over, myself.

Eventually.

Maybe.

Sorta.


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What was the topic again?

Terrible Idea. -1

Officially...

6-A

3) You may not use your own or any third-party software, macros or other stored rapid keystrokes or other patterns of play that facilitate acquisition of items, currency, objects, character attributes, rank or status at an accelerated rate when compared with ordinary Game play. You may not rewrite or modify the user interface or otherwise manipulate data in any way to acquire items, currency, objects, character attributes or beneficial actions not actually acquired or achieved in the Game.

Seems pretty clear.