EVE General Discussion

It has been some time since I have played, and bringing myself back up to speed on scripts, scripting, what is allowed and what is not, I don't understand why CCP are allowing the obvious spamming of the local channels in the trade hubs, jita, amarr etc by obvious scripted bot controlled accounts.

Why is action not taken, obviously 99% of it is scams, which are allowed, but the automation of such shouldn't be permitted, should it?

Action IS taken if someone REPORTS them

Click character->top-left menu->Report Bot.

Trust me, it works.

However they do have to be breaking the EULA in terms of acquiring stuff at an accelerated rate rather than just spamming scams which nobody falls for. Edit - this means you might not see immediate action but once they make iskies via the autospam then they get the banstick.

You can also get the "anti-spammers" who spam whitespace/images muted if you ask nicely too. Edit2 - thats a harassment ticket BTW

tl;dr CCP does in fact take action but not pro-actively on local spam/scams driven by macros

Its not really feasible to monitor all of the local traffic and analyse it to see if there's a repetitive event leading to "increased acquisition of stuff" given the multiple ways there are to do this. Jita market @ 2100 system pop is horribly slow already.

Don't get me wrong it is entirely do-able but it'd cost more than it'd be worth if you see what I mean? Eve has a rep as the "anything goes for PvP" space MMO anyway.

So report the ones you suspect & CCP will take a look without grinding the blades to a halt

Worth pointing out that Jita spambots are rarely that simple, they normally rotate the scam/spam and have a pseudo-random interval (within fairly short boundary conditions) to repeat. Thats pretty easy for CCP to detect if you report the bot.

However do remember this is Eve. Much of what you think you know, you don't. This is true of everyone

Happy New Year to you all.

Nope

Bots and ISK scammers can be reported from right-click menu. Everything else requires a petition.

There was a period of time when they actually sat in jita kicking them off of the game, not sure if they were banned too



When it comes to bots / macro usage some of them are actually pretty easy to spot, it just depends on how much time you spend noticing them and not just jump to the conclusion that its a bot straight away. Theres one in jita thats pretty obvious at the moment, the past 3 days it has been spamming the same text with no interaction with any other person other than potential wallet transactions due to people falling for it.

Technically they can open up the in-game Notepad and type in their text bits, then cut/paste each one to the channel manually, and in that case they're not a bot.

However, some of them do bot, and it just bugs out on them, sending different message literally every 2 seconds isn't actually doable manually.

Simplest option is to just minimize the channel so you don't see it.
Second simplest is to block them; about 50 blocked people will make the channel completely quiet in Jita.
You can also report the ones that you think are bots.

Some of them were asking (as a joke, I think) for people's logins and passwords, I reported those, as it's against the EULA to try to trade accounts.

I vaguely remember Chribba did a monitoring of Jita local and something along the lines of the top posters were doing it more than humanly possible. As in 24/7 posting or posting etc.

Yet nothing was done on CCP's part to put an end to it.

Edit... As yes. There was an article about it:

https://www.themittani.com/features/chribbas-jita-spam-bot-research

4 years later and still nothing done about local bots.