Guild Wars 2

Couple of ideas to improve the system and get the community more involved with a more crowd-sourcing reward and report systems.

Rewarding system
- Players can earn special tokens if the bot is banned successfully and get a progressive achievement in the hero as contribution, with different tier and possible badges or symbols like Commander, create some sort of in-game police ranking and organize a side guild to be part of, managed by Anet where the best players in term of reporting can join. I’m sure horde of players could love to partecipate and would add an additional layer to the game. Obviously it would need some protection to avoid exploting, so most likely a price to pay of some sort if the report is negative.

Report System
Report system start with a combination of keys that record instant screenshot and log of 3d movements for players close to you within a range of seconds with the ID of the requested report, that could be analysed with a 3d tools by Anet mods and see clearly the path of bots involved in a simulated 3d space in a separate version of the game, quite clear once you see how they are moving and dealing with mobs. In the report UI it could be included a list of names of players around you when you pop up the report window, show you the screenshot (with zoom/arrows to move around) and let you select only the names the player thinks are bots, and other additional information key to help you Anet.

The power of crowdsourcing to me is a very good way to minimise resources from your side, get a lot of data to improve the botting situation, and the rewarding system with protection could bring a lot of good info, as the players are interested in both good rewards for the time spent, not only because they hate bots.

Win-Win to me if you can execute well.

man i just want them to get rid of the bots. I’ve never seen a game with so many of them.

vespers.1759:

man i just want them to get rid of the bots. I’ve never seen a game with so many of them.

Anet alone will never be able to tackle all the botting unless they hire countless mods and security experts and devs, there is too much of it and they always improve the system just like virus/antivirus battle.

Crowd sourcing systems have done a lot, nowadays there is very little a private developed encyclopedia can do more than wikipedia, and there are various projects to create enormous crowd sourced database for family search or solve computer problems through organised information submitted by the crowd. A lot can be done, and with a rewarding system could even be fun for everyone.

We could see a new in-game job patrolling and getting tokens for that, and exchange token for items or gems for example, sky is the limit.

Bots are not supposed to be a part of the game. Don’t make them a part of the game by creating mechanics around them, that’s just silly. Its pretty say we have to deal with these annoying goldsellers and level-grinders as it is.

I wish i could pk bots and others pve hero, but who cares now i gift my account to my liitle brother. i dislike these game , going back to ultima online and wait for a pvp game like uo.

Good thinking but this is pretty much validating the existence of bots within gw2. I’d rather they just figure out a system to keep the botting to a minimum (there’s no such thing as bot-free).

BabelFish.7234:

Good thinking but this is pretty much validating the existence of bots within gw2. I’d rather they just figure out a system to keep the botting to a minimum (there’s no such thing as bot-free).

If they make it more automated and yet still effective, less resources would go to fight bots, and more towards actual content development.

At the end of the day, each part of a game have a budget, take money from something, give up something else to balance.

So for when they run out of bots and you have not hit your achievement you just start reporting players you see? A nice thought but not something that will help progress the game at all.

Problem with this idea people will abuse on regular players

Hi,

As already explained by Mike, we are very commited to fighting botters. However, we are not going keep you updated about this situation every hour, or answer personally to each questions you are asking.

As soon as we will have more information to provide, we will keep you updated here. Thanks