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what if u do a invisible gate at the exit of all towns

to exit u need to succesfully enter a image code like the one to log in right now

it would stop bots from grinding

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That'll be annoying when job warring...

if the door worked both ways it would make job waring mor fun since u wouldnt be able to run to safe zone so fast

yeah it would work unless the bots had reverse return scrolls. also i agree tht it would be very annoying.

it is a gate before the safe zone is, there is space in between safe zone and gate

and the gate is one way, just to exit

doing just about anything wont stop bots, maybe for a few hours until its been programmed around. Even banning them, they will be back with a new char soon enough.

i havnt played runescape in ages but they used to have hundreds of random events that happened to stop bots, after a while bots will be able to get around it, so they just add another random event, after a while you got so many its not even funny... i saw more random events that bots in that game...

Not all bots are clientless. even though someone is botting, that does not mean they are incapable of typing letters and numbers like normal people.

Innovacious wrote:doing just about anything wont stop bots, maybe for a few hours until its been programmed around. Evenign banning them, they will be back with a new char soon enough.

+1.

FireJammerXR wrote:Not all bots are clientless. even though someone is botting, that does not mean they are incapable of typing letters and numbers like normal people.

can they type random letters and numbers?

ma_de wrote:what if u do a invisible gate at the exit of all towns

to exit u need to succesfully enter a image code like the one to log in right now

it would stop bots from grinding

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it would annoy the heck out of pvpers and just have botters never bank again

ma_de wrote:

FireJammerXR wrote:Not all bots are clientless. even though someone is botting, that does not mean they are incapable of typing letters and numbers like normal people.

can they type random letters and numbers?

ok. since you dont understand let me give you a hypothetical situation.

botter A is leaving town. image verification pops up so he types it in. the bot leaves town and perhaps the person behind the computer goes AFK for a while.
Botter B is clientless so he doesn't leave town. he eventually gets banned because he's using a clientless bot.

Easiest way to solve the pvp problem, If you are wearing a job suit or cape
then you don't have to enter the code. I'm sure if gold bots were going out of town with capes or job suits on people would kill them.

Well, adding such patches and silly things wont work here.

The bot problem got way out of hand. I used to bot for more than a half year, i know what im talking about. They'll get around everything even tho the ideas are nice. But now i just got annoyed of bots i quit it myself it does start to become risky. I dont wanna have to put my stuff on a newb char just so its not gone when im banned. its annoying. So my resultion was: stop botting, itll do well to you. Along with that youll have less Karma coming round ya xD

The only serious way that would help is if:
Joymax bought iSRO from korea to get full access and wont have to ask to ban people.
After that hire people from all kind of time zones so they can provide a 24/7 service.
Now they just need to start checking regularly, like every hour.
Instead of the bug report make a special thingie where u enter simple informations. this document should be specialized for bots. so people can enter infos on it like:

IGName
Server
Lv range
Small description of what happened or how you figured


that way they wouldnt have to go through millions of bug reports, now after that is done either the gms go check the player out by themselves or they make a special GM robot into that u programm things like:

the way bots pick up their money,
the way they grind (u might not notice but it does look different than a legit player at times)
the run-stop-run-stop thingy.

Now if thats not a nice idea xD i believe this would help alot. Maybe they should put something into the .exe file of sro thats like a record log.
its a log document that records all ur actions including whether u log on with GG or not.. and such things. But they need to study the bot before to know what to programm into this log data.

ma_de wrote:what if u do a invisible gate at the exit of all towns

to exit u need to succesfully enter a image code like the one to log in right now

it would stop bots from grinding

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oh god that would be annoying

lol this will be simply annoying when u pk some1 n run inside

its a great idea!
trapping the bots inside the town. haha
those with capes dont need to type image ver code.

ma_de wrote:can they type random letters and numbers?

ya, look at their names...

ATM all cities are farkin crowded ... more bots in quick which means the city will still b more crowded
finally ending up
CANNOT CONNECT DUE TO BOTS QUEUED UP IN CITY

anyone ever noticed how this forum has image verification when you register yet we still get forum bots? image verification dont do jack... programs can be made to work out what letters are there, even in really complicated image verifications... and the one in silkroad is nowhere near complicated....