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GreenSeed
#21 - 2013-06-20 19:12:02 UTC
i sorta expected you were going to give the bots sentience, or something like it...

now we know that the whole Sabbath thing was a lie... And on the seventh day, god kept playing, because he was already hooked. and reported all the nonbelievers as bots and ISK spammers..."
Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#22 - 2013-06-20 19:42:20 UTC
Marlona Sky wrote:
Another interesting thing. The pos is a large with a ton of assembly arrays, corp hanger and ship maintenance bay... and zero hardeners and defenses.

So do I destroy the pos and see what candy falls out or just perma afk cloak in there and deny the bot income/RMT until they move. I'm just worried that if I kill the pos and peace out, they will just slap up a new operation elsewhere.


Pop it. If it is truly a bot he won't realize the danger he is in, he will sit there while the POS dies, then take his ratting ship.

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#23 - 2013-06-20 19:46:28 UTC
Back in the day I wouldn't kill a botter, I'd just come in every hour, search the belts and many time collect the faction loot they'd leave behind. I'm guessing bots are smarter now and don't leave good loot lying around maybe, i don't know, but in a week of doing that in 2009 or '10 I got a Domination Tower BPC and a Mach BPC lol.

later we used to kill bots by bubbling every sngle belt and leaving, coming back a few minutes later.. it was too much fun lol/
SpoonRECKLESS
Beach Boys
The Minions.
#24 - 2013-06-20 19:52:38 UTC
HUZZAH HUZZAH! Did I spell that right I should google it but I'm a risk taker. Good work bro and great stuff on that nyx thing you did earlier this year I missed it.Cry

Blue
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#25 - 2013-06-20 19:55:51 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
Back in the day I wouldn't kill a botter, I'd just come in every hour, search the belts and many time collect the faction loot they'd leave behind. I'm guessing bots are smarter now and don't leave good loot lying around maybe, i don't know, but in a week of doing that in 2009 or '10 I got a Domination Tower BPC and a Mach BPC lol.

later we used to kill bots by bubbling every sngle belt and leaving, coming back a few minutes later.. it was too much fun lol/

Sadly bots are far more intelligent than they were years ago. If they land I. A belt with a bubble they immediately align out and kill it. Tengus align incredibly fast and the time it takes you to jump in system, load grid, get insanely luck with a directional scan, warp to the belt, they are looooooong gone.

Still. I take solace in knowing that while I'm at work, the bit just sits in his tower, doing nothing due to my cloaked up afk alt.
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#26 - 2013-06-20 19:56:59 UTC
SpoonRECKLESS wrote:
HUZZAH HUZZAH! Did I spell that right I should google it but I'm a risk taker. Good work bro and great stuff on that nyx thing you did earlier this year I missed it.Cry

Thanks. Maybe there will another one some day.
Paul Leonard Kersey
Doomheim
#27 - 2013-06-20 21:39:40 UTC
keep your god out of my internet spaceships
S Byerley
The Manhattan Engineer District
#28 - 2013-06-20 22:06:30 UTC
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#29 - 2013-06-20 22:32:28 UTC
Marlona Sky wrote:
Another interesting thing. The pos is a large with a ton of assembly arrays, corp hanger and ship maintenance bay... and zero hardeners and defenses.

So do I destroy the pos and see what candy falls out or just perma afk cloak in there and deny the bot income/RMT until they move. I'm just worried that if I kill the pos and peace out, they will just slap up a new operation elsewhere.



Sounds like a loot pinata to me, full of ill-gotten gains. Go nuclear. Blink

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#30 - 2013-06-20 23:05:16 UTC
Felicity Love wrote:
Marlona Sky wrote:
Another interesting thing. The pos is a large with a ton of assembly arrays, corp hanger and ship maintenance bay... and zero hardeners and defenses.

So do I destroy the pos and see what candy falls out or just perma afk cloak in there and deny the bot income/RMT until they move. I'm just worried that if I kill the pos and peace out, they will just slap up a new operation elsewhere.



Sounds like a loot pinata to me, full of ill-gotten gains. Go nuclear. Blink


Agreed. Whack the pinata!

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#31 - 2013-06-21 06:00:47 UTC
Come home eager to see if the bot is still hugging the tower.
See 'the socket was closed' message waiting for me on the client screen.
Log back in.
See bot insta-warp to his tower before I even come out of log in warp.

*sigh*
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#32 - 2013-06-21 06:17:24 UTC
Came to thread expecting new minions trying to interpret my will...

left disappointed... Cry

Signatures should be used responsibly...
Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#33 - 2013-06-21 06:19:01 UTC
Marlona Sky wrote:
Come home eager to see if the bot is still hugging the tower.
See 'the socket was closed' message waiting for me on the client screen.
Log back in.
See bot insta-warp to his tower before I even come out of log in warp.

*sigh*


Don't you have a war to fight against the Evil Empire atm?
Shouldn't reducing the failed lawyer's income stream operations be a more pressing priority?
Herr Esiq
Viziam
#34 - 2013-06-21 06:51:44 UTC
+1 for doing the right thing..
KIller Wabbit
MEME Thoughts
#35 - 2013-06-21 11:16:12 UTC
Marlona Sky wrote:
Found what appears to be a bot farming 23/7 in dead end system.
Reported bot via in game drop down menu.


You thought this feature actually did something?

Kudos on the effort.
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#36 - 2013-06-22 14:56:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Il Feytid
Unfortunately I can no longer keep one of my alts in system to keep the bot from running. I was debating on actually trying to kill the tower, but they have added some guns to it now so that doesn't seem likely to happen and no one is actually eager to help due to the fact that even if we do kill the tower, they will just plop another one somewhere else in the system.

I am curious how long it does take CCP to investigate the bot, because I reported him days ago, yet he still is logged in constantly save for down time. The NPC kills in the system, when I do have an alt in there, have flat lined over the last couple of days to zero kills. Yet, the bot remains unmoved.

Every time I log in, I immediately do a 5 degree directional scan at the bots moon. For that first moment, he is not at the POS obviously. Before I even come out of warp from my log on and land at my safe spot, he pops up on 5 degree scan at the POS. Basically impossible to catch.

Even after zooming up on his Tengu and playing with the ship viewer to find exactly what sub systems they have fit, it appears to even be a nullified Tengu, so anchoring bubbles is not an option. And again, we are back to the only option a player has to combat these insta-warping bots is dedicate an alt in the system and keep them logged in 23/7.

SadlyI can no longer keep an alt there. I have the bot added to my watch list on all my accounts and hopefully, one day, I will see that little round green indicator that shows they are online, turn to red.
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
#37 - 2013-06-22 18:32:47 UTC
Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
Kijo Rikki wrote:
Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
I am shocked, just shocked.

Your story implies that this was a null sec operation.
As far as I know, based on what the null sec propagandists and CCP imply, is that botting is only done in high sec.

No one in null sec uses bots to run combat sites.
Null sec players never cheat.

Further, even if a null sec player would stoop as low to bot, and even with all the changes to "rebalance resources" it is still far to dangerous to consider using bots to run massive ore and ice mining fleets, since the risk / reward balance is STILL too far out of whack, and null sec income needs another 10 fold increase just to run a single mining boat, let alone a bot fleet.

It is pretty clear that the floor on null sec income must be 400-500 M / hour / account, to justify anyone doing any non- PvP activity in null sec.

CCP, you must nerf high sec from existence and increase the value of null sec rats and ore belts 10 fold immediately to save the game, as we all know that null sec player base is the only player base that keeps CCP surviving.


Wut?

I used to go on 40 jump roams where every system had a single carrier bot ratting that would insta-warp to a POS when we jumped in. Lol


No no, you must be mistaken.
From all that I have read on the forums, no one in null sec can bot because it is so dangerous in null, and the intel channels and cyno-jamming of systems just are not good enough to allow for botting to take place.
Further, as already stated, the reward is just not high enough in null sec to justify the tremendous risk involved to rat / mine in null sec while at the keyboard, let alone run bot programs, or heaven forbid, entire fleets of mining bots.

At least, that is what I infer from the statements by knowledgeable null sec players who post on the forums, and clearly, they must be correct. How else do you explain the fact that CCP has bent over backwards to accommodate their reasonable requests to increase null sec mining income an order of magnitude, and plan on increasing yet again?


I sense Malcanis being summoned ...

Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#38 - 2013-06-22 18:42:44 UTC
I thought posting threads about ingame moderation was not allowed?
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#39 - 2013-06-23 04:25:52 UTC
BEHOLD! BOT OWNER TEARS:

Bot Owner Mail wrote:
just to let you know harrassing a single player like you are doing is against the eula. you are not allowed to camp entire time server is up against single player. cease camp or face eula breach and ban.


Hi Five!
S Byerley
The Manhattan Engineer District
#40 - 2013-06-23 04:38:29 UTC
Are you sure you aren't just mad that his dscan awareness is better than your ninja-gank?
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