EVE General Discussion

This shows folks that the best solution to this issue on OUR end is hitting that report bot function. The more info CCP gets on these idiots. The better.

Looking forward to the dev blog. I personally think you should:
A: Remove all supercapitals, owned by players who have accounts caught in the net from the game world.
B: Confiscate without recompense and then recirculate PLEX that have been bought by players who have accounts caught in the net, back into the market at 75% of current market value.

Anyway keep up the good work.

Skeptical Muppet is skeptical. I seem to recall we were going to hear from CCP Sreegs a long time ago about security and botting and what little information came out was minimal and lacked content.

CCP: If you prove me wrong consider this an apology for doubting you, but understand my reluctance. I'm sure the finance department was holding a fairly large caliber gun to people's heads.

Thanks you Thanks you Thank you

Nice to see some action on the bot's and RMT'ers that are the cancer in Eve. Thanks for taking action, and if I have one thing to say, please make this a regular occurance.

We all know that once the two week bans are up they will be back in force. One idea I'd like to put forward is once an account is dinged for this, please ensure that the character can't be traded. It's been publicly stated on certain forums (not FHC the other one ) that once the ban is up they sell the char, open a new account and then buy a new one so the cycle starts again.

Remove the ISK and their ability to sell the char if you're not going to perma ban them, and hopefully we will see a large reduction in these cheating wankers.

How do you know if someone is a bot? Assuming he has a "regular" name and only mines for 2-3 hours a day, why would you think he is / he is not a bot?

It's a thought of mine, if people spam report bot, won't CCP get clogged in hundreds of time consuming investigations leading to nowhere?

I'm tired :(

what CCP should do is work on a long term plan where they come up with the absolute best botting software out there (they know their software, so they can get their botting software to work with it) and keep it running for a couple years. after it's been running for so long, it will have weeded out pretty much all the other botting teams out there. after this time, they've been tracking account usage and what links they have to other parts of the game. and once they have this comprehensive list of what is pretty much every bot out there they have the great purge where every account and all accounts linked to it are removed from the game. and depending on how thorough they want to be, block the IPs of the people that are botting (I know this can be avoided, but it would probably stop a lot of people.

I completely agree, too little and *very* much too late.

This game was OPENLY botted for far too long. Even though other MMO's are botted probably botted much more than in eve, the way the unique player driven economy works it has such a pronounced and game changing effect in the long term. This temp ban will just cause the usual price spikes for a month(s) until it normalizes and then the same cycle next year when CCP decides to show everyone 'they are doing something' again.

It is the primary reason I stopped recommending eve anymore to friends because botting had become so commonplace.

Abusing report bot = ban. And many that get reported are obvious bots. Other folks use their experience to locate the harder to find ones and report them.

Have to say the botter tears Aurora's been collecting made my day a bit brighter.

Hope you enjoyed Amsterdam Sreegs, looking forward to the dev blog.