EVE General Discussion

...on the war against the non-humans?

I see more bots now than ever before and there is no sign of it slowing down. They destroy the mineral market, PLEX market due to using it to play for free, I see massive armies of Tengus farming high sec missions, they destroy the belt ratting out in null space, is there no place left that is not tainted by these things? When are the actual players who are at the keyboard going to see some real effort from CCP to be rid of these things?

A dev blog is great, but when it is not backed up with real action; what is the point?

they are on forums. All important EVE people dont play EVE, they pay subscription and write on forums.

Yep the only "content" which is not flooded by bots.. sounds reasonable.

I've been saying it for years.... remove concord and let come what may

I'd agree with the OP

I'm saddened every time I visit jita, that CCP won't get of there A**** and ban people using bots to spam local.

Not really bothered about the scamming but if CCP sent a GM there for 1 hour a day and banned anyone who spams the channel and is uncontactable by private convo, that would be a start, frankly they don't seem to give a toss.

Given that I'm pretty sure the rest of there 'policy against bots' is just PR Bull, if they can't even do the simplest thing to start to address the problem.

Why, and I know they fervently deny it but, $$$'s , why should they put time and effort into either coming up with better serverside checking or even actually get into the game and scout about, when at the end of the day there going to cost themselves $1000's a month.

Well that's a chance for me to once more push my desire to see the usual "point to point dialed in warp" such as what you see done in more famous sci-fi.

But honestly I know it's not going to happen. I simply make that proposal to shut up the cry-babies in null who want CCP to force more people out there through game changes. It exposes that fact that yes they want more people out there, but on THEIR terms. Being able to dial in a point to point warp is moving to 0.0 on your own terms, and they don't like that. They only want renters, targets, or cannon fodder - that's their terms. If you could dial in a warp to any point, that's going on your own terms, and would actually require the nulldwellers to use combat probes, form patrols, and make actual use of all those intel tools that they tell everybody else to use.

This, to a point, does expose the botters too. Botting can be done safely on the null side of the Great Wall of Carebear. That with the NAP fest makes 0.0 a bigger botters heaven than high sec.

The mechanic to get past The Wall already exists, in wormholes - and the Tier 3 battle cruiser would be quite capable of going through most if not all wormholes. So it's already possible to bypass The Wall.

It's local that bot scripts rely on to instantly dock up or warp to a SS and cloak the moment a non-blue appears in the system. I really wonder if the NAP-fest - something that we would not think could be possible in a "destroy everything sandbox game" - has financial motivation and that could well be the motivation of RMT, as if seedy mafioso types who could care less about the game saw money to be made and worked their way into major null alliances.

Also makes me wonder if removing or delaying local means a horses head will appear in Himar's bed.

Indeed the ONE THING that could put an end to 0.0 botting, the removal or delay of local, is not the one thing getting implemented. Make me go "hmmmm".

Sorry, but CCP security division has been fired in the 20%.

They have subsequently been replaced with bots.

Cheap bot scripts rely on local, good quality bot scripts do not.

same amount.

A couple points:

1) Not everything with a mining laser is a bot
2) Not everyone who doesn't feel like talking to you is a bot
3) Not everyone you report as a bot is a bot
4) You are free to load up a tier 3 BC, a tempest, a disco geddon or any other suitable ship and gank the crap out of them.