Bot banning question ..

soulcollector · Post by **soulcollector** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:21 pm

Ok i have a question about the bot banns that have been taking place recently .. so .. if someone .. ( lets say me ) has botted in the past whit some acc and he starts a new acc .. and the bann the old acc for botting .. and the new started acc is clean will there be any concequences ( lol i dont know if that word spells like that ) for the new acc?

Zypher · Post by **Zypher** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:30 pm

well i know some people who that have been banned before and the GMs know their new accounts and have called them out but they havnt been banned.

Krysis · Post by **Krysis** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:51 pm

tbh i think instead of banning the char, or the whole account..
dont you think they shud ban the i.p?

ResTnPieces · Post by **ResTnPieces** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:51 pm

Some get banned, i know a level 80 made it to the ban list lately in greece, but after two days she was seen stalling in town and up until now, i still can read her shouts in the town, buying STr tabs. I dunno if JM really bans the account or just the IGN.
I came to think about the botters in taklamakan where all packed up in crowded hours, if JM really ban these people, 70-80% of the population in greece will be lost and most of these are silk costumers. JM will probably lost some more profit from these so-called costumers by banning.

ResTnPieces · Post by **ResTnPieces** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:52 pm

Krysis wrote:tbh i think instead of banning the char, or the whole account..
dont you think they shud ban the i.p?

yes i second that.

StealMySoda · Post by **StealMySoda** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:09 am

ResTnPieces wrote:
Krysis wrote:tbh i think instead of banning the char, or the whole account..
dont you think they shud ban the i.p?

yes i second that.

At first glance it seems like a great idea. But just imagine the uproar if a whole college campus of 100,000 students (maybe 10+ of them playing SRO), and only one of them botting, everyone would get perma-banned.

PLUS its very easy to change your IP, many cable companies provide dynamic IP addresses meaning your IP changes every time your router reboots, so would make the ban useless.

xMoDx · Post by **xMoDx** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:15 am

ResTnPieces wrote:
Krysis wrote:tbh i think instead of banning the char, or the whole account..
dont you think they shud ban the i.p?

yes i second that.

it takes 10 seconds or less to change IP and IP banning will result to banning an innocent gamer....