Guild Wars 2

I’m very glad that Mike has shown his cards on the fight against botting. I am sure the code to detect them will become more robust over time, eventually locking out most of the market. Currently there are a few types of bots I wanted to highlight as they might not have been detected in recent sweeps.

1. Teleporting bots: These are hard to report as they move so quickly, either killing mobs on a path or going for harvesting nodes.

2. Underwater bots: These hide from sight and are probably more difficult to detect. They are very often coded with the teleporting as swimming takes a lot of time.

3. Regular Pathing Bots: The same few bots are running paths in Southsun Cove hunting Skelk for Powerful Bloods. Just a very small loop.

Southsun seems to be a hotspot, the powerful bloods and armored scales are being heavily botted every time I go to check their locations. Can something be done to investigate these types of bots? I believe they are currently some of the most influential on the normal balance of the game’s economy.

Yes the right click on person, click on report code is indeed revolutionary. It’s amazing these bots have any chance at all. The GM sitting at his desk staring at one location from in game is also an amazing piece of code. If only every game used these sophisticated methods, there would be no bots.

You know what would actually work? A simple scanner that searches for hack .exe or bot .exes. That’s how the rest of the industry works….instead of sometimes banning the correct people, it would AWAYS ban the correct people.

I nearly spit my drink on my monitor when I read that fluff piece from them on the war on bots.

My friends and I have been reporting the SAME TWO BOTS in Frost Gorge sound DAILY for TWO WEEKS. They have been going in PLAIN view of people 24/7 farming the Arctodus right above the trolls. Perhaps they don’t actually read those bot reportings from Yak’s bend …

They look to be working together and running two separate way point systems like one is taking odds and the other evens. How they are setup pretty much keeps the entire upper deck clear of Arctodus with only two of them botting.

Yeah yeah the thread and this post will be deleted. Keep in mind everytime you do that on this topic when it is LOYAL customers trying to get your attention on this issue and spending THEIR time sending in the reports it makes you looks like you don’t care about the issue.