How to rid SRO of bots. A possible solution.

FluxFire · Post by **FluxFire** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:22 pm

Don't post comments, the thread will die on its own. I made things clear in PM's with the mod that locked it. Just don't post, read if you want and skip to other threads and that's it.

Heres an idea, two actually but I think the first one will work better with everyone.

Bots are created so players gain levels while not at the computer, they state that it is boring to grind so might as well let the computer grind for them.

The problem with that, it is that it gives a huge unfair advantage to cheaters, there is no fatigue factor, there is no time limitation factors like having to go to work, school, etc.

Heres an idea I think could please all players and also JoyMax.

Create dummy monsters, in a certain zone, have a ratio of dummy monters per zone. These monsters have a HUGE reheal, like 100x reheal making them pretty much impossible to kill. If one is killed, it gives ZERO exp. It also has ZERO attack skills, meaning that it will hit ones on you. This important because, if you hit it by mistake you will not suffer any hits by them.

The idea is that, the dummy monster becomes a bot check monster. After 1 minute of fighting the CLEARLY indicated dummy monster, a red flag is put on your account, after 3min... 5... a clear flag is put on your account as you just confirmed you are a bot.

Another possible consequence, after a certain amount of minutes, you are put into a bot status, meaning you cannot hit anything else for 30 minutes, you wont make any damage at all.

So you fight the dummy monster for 1 minute, this triggers a 30 minute penalty. You keep playing with this penalty, it tells the program you are away from your computer and using a software to bot thus making it VERY easy to identify your account and ban it.

Again, these dummy monsters have a huge reheal so that even if 10 bots gather on them, they wont be able to kill it. Instead, they will lose valuable time fighting this useless monster thus players, real players will be able to grind with less stress.

Also, the dummy monster must be DIRECTLY attacked, it wont be triggered by AOEs, area of effect spells or transfer attack spells. This means there is no possible errors here.

Say you grind at white spiders, well, this white spider dummy will look exactly like a normal monster but will be named like BotCheck or White Spider BotCheck.

The other idea is to hit bots where it hurts the most, murder status. A lost of more exp per day than a gain.

It would be possible to create a MUCH smaller monster which would look the same as other area monsters but if you kill this monster which would have the same HP as a PT monster and would reheal 100 the moment someone stops hitting it lessening possible errors, it would give 2x murder status.

This one is much more tricky than the other one, it would to be directly hit, not hit by AOE, and also many other complex problems would be related to that.

Anyway give me feedbacks, I will probably post the first solution in the official forum.

P.s. This will stop ONLY if you stop fcking locking the thread. I won't reply to anyone posting and won't repost the thread if you don't fcking lock it. I don't give a fck about being banned, that is most assuringly the last thing I care about in this world.

Anbu · Post by **Anbu** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:25 pm

this is useless, what if for example in grinding and an emergency happens and I have to suddenly leave the comp with the char attacking the mob, then im like wut a botter?

Also doing this will just make bot programmers program them into not attacking these types of mobs as well, I think this is an useless idea sorry

_Shinigami_ · Post by **_Shinigami_** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:26 pm

sounds like a good idea but i see some flaws

FluxFire · Post by **FluxFire** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:26 pm

Don't post in the thread, just let it die naturally. I'll banned, I don't care. I only cared about one thing and I made that clear.

Anbu · Post by **Anbu** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:28 pm

omg, I dont need to listen to you, go hug a tree, I respectfully answered and you come with this shit, I answer as I see fit so STFU

FluxFire · Post by **FluxFire** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:31 pm

Anbu wrote:omg, I dont need to listen to you, go hug a tree, I respectfully answered and you come with this shit, I answer as I see fit so STFU

Sigh, Anbu, the thread had an history, my reply wasn't meant to you personally it was meant to everyone. I'll get banned, I decided that something was wrong and would not accept it. Don't mad, this isn't about you. Now just let the thread die naturally.

BlackFox · Post by **BlackFox** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:32 pm

Is it true

Don't post comments, the thread will die on its own. I made things clear in PM's with the mod that locked it. Just don't post, read if you want and skip to other threads and that's it.

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Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:33 pm

since you want it to die naturally, and only want it here, Im locking it - then it will die naturally, I will leave it in here to prevent you from spamming the forum further until an admin gets here. Sorry you had to take this route.