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Sreegs! The bots are back. :(
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Verocity
8 Virtues
#1 - 2012-03-20 03:49:59 UTC
Well it's been roughly 3 weeks but I'm seeing the same signature. Entire systems of belts stripped down to 3-9k of ore left in each roid. It's been 3 weeks of bliss where I could mine belt after belt but today it's back to how it was before Feb 28th. Please do another sweep and ban these fools who think Eve is a botting paradise.
Gantz Tleilax
Divided Unity
#2 - 2012-03-20 06:53:49 UTC
Dude . . . Fanfest in underway, need to wait till next year before that happens.
Dyniss
KarmaFleet University
#3 - 2012-03-20 07:08:21 UTC
Botters giving you problems? Gank them problem solved
CatreX Nolen
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-03-20 07:25:18 UTC
Gank em. that's what I'll do the day I find those bastards around my home.
Florestan Bronstein
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2012-03-20 07:39:56 UTC
Verocity wrote:
Well it's been roughly 3 weeks but I'm seeing the same signature. Entire systems of belts stripped down to 3-9k of ore left in each roid. It's been 3 weeks of bliss where I could mine belt after belt but today it's back to how it was before Feb 28th. Please do another sweep and ban these fools who think Eve is a botting paradise.

most bans were 2-week temp bans
Bubanni
Game of Drones
The Initiative.
#6 - 2012-03-20 08:04:48 UTC
Florestan Bronstein wrote:
Verocity wrote:
Well it's been roughly 3 weeks but I'm seeing the same signature. Entire systems of belts stripped down to 3-9k of ore left in each roid. It's been 3 weeks of bliss where I could mine belt after belt but today it's back to how it was before Feb 28th. Please do another sweep and ban these fools who think Eve is a botting paradise.

most bans were 2-week temp bans


And the two weeks have passed... now the bots are botting again.... good thing CCP doesn't do a first strike, perma ban.... because most botters will become lawfule citizens when they been busted... yes clearly...............................Attention

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Parsee789
Immaterial and Missing Power
#7 - 2012-03-20 08:11:40 UTC
Quick CCP we must smite these unrepentant botters with the BanHammer of God.

Then call upon God to Cast their souls into hell, where they will be tortured with burning and impalement till the end of Time.

bornaa
GRiD.
#8 - 2012-03-20 09:22:33 UTC
Sreegs, push that red button from the fanfest.
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Sasha Azala
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-03-20 09:30:26 UTC
Verocity wrote:
Well it's been roughly 3 weeks but I'm seeing the same signature. Entire systems of belts stripped down to 3-9k of ore left in each roid. It's been 3 weeks of bliss where I could mine belt after belt but today it's back to how it was before Feb 28th. Please do another sweep and ban these fools who think Eve is a botting paradise.




3 -9k ore left?


So they scan the roids before mining. I wouldn't have thought botters would bother scanning.
Tobiaz
Spacerats
#10 - 2012-03-20 09:40:31 UTC
Whenever Sreegs starts swinging the banhammer, all botters scurry away and hide in the crevices. Good chance that these specific miners weren't banned, but just were waiting to see on their little botting-forums what CCP's next step was. And now they think they are safe, they are back.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#11 - 2012-03-20 11:14:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Confirming strangely emptied belts in Thiarer in Ammatar and next door in Orva.

.....and coming off of a Monday ?????

They are indeed back.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#12 - 2012-03-20 11:15:39 UTC
Verocity wrote:
Well it's been roughly 3 weeks but I'm seeing the same signature. Entire systems of belts stripped down to 3-9k of ore left in each roid. It's been 3 weeks of bliss where I could mine belt after belt but today it's back to how it was before Feb 28th. Please do another sweep and ban these fools who think Eve is a botting paradise.


Confirming that tritanium at 5 isk per unit has nothing to do with what you are seeing, only bots can strip a belt.
My Postman
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2012-03-20 11:16:32 UTC
I realized the same as OP, when i logged today belts were empty (!). Even scordite was mined out (lol).

2 weeks ago the population of my home suddenly dropped from 15-20 to 5 (!). Now they are back. And we are talking highsec, gents.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#14 - 2012-03-20 11:24:49 UTC
Ptraci wrote:
Verocity wrote:
Well it's been roughly 3 weeks but I'm seeing the same signature. Entire systems of belts stripped down to 3-9k of ore left in each roid. It's been 3 weeks of bliss where I could mine belt after belt but today it's back to how it was before Feb 28th. Please do another sweep and ban these fools who think Eve is a botting paradise.


Confirming that tritanium at 5 isk per unit has nothing to do with what you are seeing, only bots can strip a belt.


Too widespread to NOT be bots. Same patterns out here. It's REAL obvious...............

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Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#15 - 2012-03-20 11:27:13 UTC
Today I passed thru some systems I know for a long time and indeed the local count was 3 times as much as the day after the last ban and 70% of the "full bots" situation we have some past times.

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Zagdul
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2012-03-20 11:32:07 UTC
Tobiaz wrote:
Whenever Sreegs starts swinging the banhammer, all botters scurry away and hide in the crevices. Good chance that these specific miners weren't banned, but just were waiting to see on their little botting-forums what CCP's next step was. And now they think they are safe, they are back.


I've got people who read EVE News 24 and they tell me there hasn't been an 'all clear' post yet.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#17 - 2012-03-20 11:44:50 UTC
Zagdul wrote:
Tobiaz wrote:
Whenever Sreegs starts swinging the banhammer, all botters scurry away and hide in the crevices. Good chance that these specific miners weren't banned, but just were waiting to see on their little botting-forums what CCP's next step was. And now they think they are safe, they are back.


I've got people who read EVE News 24 and they tell me there hasn't been an 'all clear' post yet.



For realz. Bet Riverini wishes he never had a thing to do with that 'how-to'-guide posing as a 'what to look out for'-guide to botting.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Avila Cracko
#18 - 2012-03-20 12:02:38 UTC
Yea, they are back... Sad

That's just sad. Sad

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MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#19 - 2012-03-20 13:29:10 UTC
Well it will be an interesting test of response times. If CCP is slow enough in responding it will still be a potentially viable method of earning isk in the game. So long as the response times is greater than the training time plus operations cost recuperation time plus minimum desired profits earned time, it is going to keep going on.

Two months to train a Hulk, plus the ship. Just over 1.5 billion isk in hardware and PLEX. If the bot can make 100+ mil isk a day it would need about two weeks of 'getting away with it' to pay for itself before becoming profitable. That would be your 'minimum first response time'. A two week ban would add another 500mil loss for another PLEX, but that would only require 4-5 days to recoup, so there is your 'second response time'. Coming out of the second ban (another PLEX of 500mil) you again need to respond in 4-5 days or they make a profit again. The ban hammer then falls on the account.

So they need to keep it within a 22 days tracking window to burn them down to no profit, more or less.

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Nirnias Stirrum
UberWTFBBQ and Battle Technologies
#20 - 2012-03-20 13:58:23 UTC
Yup the day the bans stopped my local went from around 40 down to below 20.. I noticed last night local is back up to higher 30's!

Tis a sad sad day!
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