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Not only do you seem to have great difficulty in seeing that real life is not the same as a video game, but I get the impression you come from a rather corrupt area of the world and seem to be rather bitter about that fact.

It's not my job to hunt down and fight criminals on behalf of the police*, and neither is it my job to hunt down and catch botters on behalf of CCP. Perhaps if you reined in your seething rage over ZOMG SPACESHIP CHEATERS you'd be able to join an adult discussion on the matter, without resorting to trite cliches or evading word filters because swearing is so edgy.

*although I did enjoy the film Super

It is your civic duty to report a crime in RL, if you are witness to it, no matter where in the world you live. I agree that you do not need to apprehend the criminal- but you cannot justify not reporting it to the police.

Well if you don't want to put much effort into it I can understand. However if you see an obvious blue bot you would report it right?

That sounds illegal. It probably is and the ones using it will get probably banned soon (if its first time then rather temporarily). If in doubt you can always petition and ask if something you plan to do is legal in EVE. No need to guess.

It has been posted several times by devs and GM's what they consider illegal in EVE. As a rough rule of thumb - if it automates the game to the point where without your input the game "plays on its own" its illegal. And it does not matter if you are sitting at computer and watching it to do it or not.

Now fancy keyboards n stuff are a bit of a gray area, but there are limits what CCP allows in there as well. I know as I petitioned a while ago asking if one thing is legal and was told not to do it as it would get me banned. I was asking about old PI system which was very damn clik heavy and a mouse driver which were able to record the mouse movements and then replay them. So it would have been relatively easy to record the mouse movements once and then replay them every morning for 20 minutes it took me to refresh my PI farm while just sitting there and sipping my morning coffee. Ofc as I was told to not do it I did not and continued wasting 20 minutes of my life every morning clicking on PI crap until I got fed up with it and stopped doing PI.

It's ok to use fancy keyboard to activate hardeners or launchers/turrets with one button press. It is not ok to make the same keyboard macro activate the launchers once every ~3 minutes, load up with FoF and go watch TV (also, by the same logic, putting papewrweight on F1 is bannable offence, as it allows "AFK play"). Anything that allows "AFK play" is not allowed, regardless if it's fancy hardware, clever python script, some recorded pattern of movements or even just plain old rock put on F1 on the perfectly ordinary keyboard.

THANK YOU, this means allot to me.

In the name of our whole corporation i want to thank you guys for taking actions against these people.

We have made real friends while playing the best game ever and would love to keep doing so.

I just hope the "three strikes" dont mean three chances for botter (...fill in your favorite offense here...) to refine their software.

+ awesome pic
- no graphs and why the hell is it that expensive to go to fanfest once the special offers are sold out Next year i will be with the early birds

Cheers
Gal

I think it should be

1 warning with a 30 day ban and a year character lock
and if they do it again perma ban.

Why give them more then one warning? it makes no sense....

I dont care if only 3% of people get a third strike Why let people bot for 2 strikes? I know a guy who said he botted for 2 years and got 2 strikes in that time and stopped botting. BUT HE BOTTED FOR 2 YEARS BEFORE STOPPING.

This is not good.

It must be PERMANENT lock.
In any other way they will only have more accounts.
This is banned, make new, this is banned, make new, this is banned, first is unlocked, sell char from first, make new acc, buy new char. And here is cycle closed again. With more accounts botter have the same thing as now, when is banned, sell char, buy new char on new acc.

THIS CAN NOT HAPPEN, SO LOCK MUST BE PERMANENT!!!

How about making a way for the bots don't work anymore? this is a bot site with its description vids and whatever so you guys from ccp can start with it: http://www.reboot.gr/ I saw it on my facebook and i had to post it here, it will help understand how bots work.

Bots are usualy dumb, they can't handle against the intelligence and determination of good players.

I already saw many drakes in null-sec using this feature. Since my corp and Alliace are totaly against botters we usually get a tackler fleet, put 1 player on each belt of the botter system and then everybody logs off... then we log back again at the same time and we try to point it down before it warps away and cloaks. and we repeat the process until it is tackled. Then we kill it, and then we help the char back to a station PODing it back home.

Today we need about 10 players to kill a botter, but as soon as CCP delivers the cloak hunter ship this number will go down to 2 or 3. Because most of the botters use the safe-spot+cloak strategy. And as we get able to track the "botter cloaker" we can decloak and kill him easly. So it it get way more dangerous for bots, this will reduce significantly their numbers... ( Althoug this will also end the afk cloaker griefing... since it is a way to play the game afk, and also a form of bot imo.)

Please CCP, you guys don't need to hunt most of the bots. You can make the own system and players hunt the majority of them for you.

Also remove the mineral drop from Drones and give them bounty. So there will be more profit on mining and more minners and players will go to null-sec. removing the space of the botters. What will left for the botters will be hi-sec... but it will impact less the economy and can be easily spotted and reported.

Bot banning is a corrective measure. What you guys need are preventive measures... The more bots you need to ban the less your game is working!

So if the light assault launchers are called 'Arrays' now - the new name implies every loaded missile can be shot at once.


Not a good name change for a launcher as it's less accurate/descriptive than the old name.