Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How about instead of a CAPTCHA, we instead find a different way of targetting asteroids.

As it sits right now asteroids can be targetted on the overview.
This makes bots very easy to establish because everything they need is positioned in easily located spots.


So, I think a quick and easy way to fix this is to not allow asteroids to be locked from the overview.

Instead, you either perform a scan and click to highlight the roid you want, or you click the roid in the overview to highlight it.
Both of these methods put a box around the asteroid in space.

Now, in order to lock the roid you're then required to click your mining laser/s and then click the roid.
This will make you target the roid and begin mining.

This is actually rather simple to establish, but complicated for a bot to accomplish because the roid is never in the same spot in open space.
It may even be behind the camera.

Like I said, it's simple yet effective, and doesn't slow a live player down by much at all. Even when they're drunk...

are there missioning bots? I don't know that I've ever seen one...


That said, in order for it to work out well against npc targets then CCP would have to revamp how the group popups work in space.

Cause when you look at a group of npcs and it expands, it normally doesn't work out that well....

while still making it more difficult for real players. DON"T punish real players. I have a hard enough time clicking stuff in space, don't force me to do it more often.

The answer isn't making the process more difficult. That's like the music industry pushing DRM. There will always be a way around it. Computers are pretty powerful and programmers are pretty clever. They'll find a way around anything you come up with.


It's just a resources issue. CCP need to continue using personel and other resources to find and ban botters.

Why not just ban the botters?

If your suggestion is to not ban people who act like bots but aren't, then you're punishing people for a playstyle the 'appears' to be from a bot.

So instead of just banning them you want to draw out the process so that players can shoot the bots? I assume you'd also freeze assets so no trades can be made (otherwise the bots would have time to shed the soon-to-be-banned accounts of assets).

So now you have bots flying ships in space, still harvesting our finite resources, using up server time, just so we can shoot them?

Why not just ask CCP to put ships in space they label as bots to represent the banned botters? There isn't really a reason for what you want to do besides getting free kills. If you want free kills, just put "free loot" containers in noob systems.

I don't even mine. It just doesn't make sense to hinder real players. You DONT make the game more difficult for REAL PLAYERS.

If you're implementing something solely to hinder bots, but it also hinders real players, it's a BAD idea.

Trial account cant train mining barge. So you fail...