EVE General Discussion

If a police force (in this case CCP) has only limited resources to prevent crime (botting), it polices where those resources can be best utilised for maximum results, usually in the areas where most of the crime is commited (in this case highsec). Low crime areas get only a token policing effort, as opposed to high crime areas which get a major policing effort.

If botters move to lowsec, nullsec and wormholes, because CCP have driven them out of highsec, then CCP will follow them to those areas.

Although as Mr Epeen rightfully points out, CCPs bot detection routines don't, or shouldn't, discriminate based on location, all bots must die.

Hahahahahah the irony meter is going off again, you're calling me slow when you can't pick out that being as efficient as possible against bots =! ignoring nullsec bots.

No, merely that shitposting on such a level is what I have come to expect from Scope NPC alts.

Looking at some of your past post I can say with great certainty you and your fellow forum troll buddies are expert in the subject matter of shitposting.

Hint: I answered your question.

Hint2: It was answered in with a yes or no.

Hint3: Do I have to start double spacing everything for you again?

Yes and No.

There are a few bots which are designed for the sole purpose for mining and mission running. They are not your all in one bot.

I would wager that most of these bots which are designed specifically for mining and mission running are for the most part being used in HS.

Not all titans are in null sec.

I know of a few low sec groups that have them and there are many many privately owned titans.

And as Mr Epeen rightfully points out, forcing that detection routine to focus its processing power on high sec to the exclusion of other areas of New Eden is not an efficient or intelligent means of combating bots. He's the only other person in this thread that has argued botting should be fought everywhere, not mostly in high sec and a little in null sec, not mostly in null sec and little in low sec, not only in high sec or only in null sec or only in wormholes or any other combination of enforcement policies that would lead to more bots being missed, but simply that botting should be combated all across EvE.

As for your police force analogy, it's the same thing as what La Nariz is saying: "It's worse in high sec so get rid of the bots there first!" By ensuring that one part of space is being "policed" more heavily, you would ensure that botting never dies, since the botters would just move. If CCP fights bots everywhere in an equal manner(which I'm sure they do, though La Nariz would like them to stop doing that and to switch to a cat and mouse game where the cat is caged in high sec and the mouse can run free and eat all the cheese it wants in null sec) then there is no place for them to run to. You're arguing that, since we're comparing this to police action, we should watch the front door of a criminal's house because that's the door he uses most often, and the back door can be watched once we're sure he's not coming out the front. I'm more a fan of watching both doors at the same time, all the time.

And the best way to minimize the number of bots is to target all bots, not to spend most of your time looking at Spot A in the hopes that a bot will walk past, right?

I'm not qualified to answer that. I'm not an IT expert and have absolutely no idea at all what's involved in detecting bots. If there's a difference in how the bot software operates in different areas of space to the point where detection methods also differ, and if the amount of resources CCP can throw at the problem necessitate priotising, then it does indeed make sense to focus on the huge blob of bots in highsec first.