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Q . Why are you not catching and blocking hundreds and hundreds of bots?

A. The process involved in the investigation and confirmation of the bots has required time and other constraints which have limited the number of bots caught. However, the process is being refined rapidly and we will be able to catch more at a quicker pace.

Those who are botting who believe that they will not get caught will regret that belief. It does not matter if you are high level or low level, in a guild or not, famous or not, what time you are on, what nationality you are, what server you are on, where in the map you are, and whether you have bought silk or not. If you bot, we will block.

Tsume wrote:You're from New Zealand
Me too!

Tsume wrote:Henderson, Auckland.
You?

Kieran wrote:This has been posted countless times and it's quite an old interview. If you buy a lot of silk, you won't get banned. It's as simple as that (and trust me, I have A LOT of evidence behind that).

xxbrentonxx wrote:

Kieran wrote:This has been posted countless times and it's quite an old interview. If you buy a lot of silk, you won't get banned. It's as simple as that (and trust me, I have A LOT of evidence behind that).

Lol provide evidence thats not based on someone doing it. But yeah this is from early 2006 and if you look back they actually seemed to have been doing a good job.

Kieran wrote:

xxbrentonxx wrote:

Kieran wrote:This has been posted countless times and it's quite an old interview. If you buy a lot of silk, you won't get banned. It's as simple as that (and trust me, I have A LOT of evidence behind that).

Lol provide evidence thats not based on someone doing it. But yeah this is from early 2006 and if you look back they actually seemed to have been doing a good job.

LOL, what other evidence can I get? I know loads of people who buy silk and bot, not one of them have been banned. However, at the same time - I know loads of people who have used a bot/modified client and bought no silk and about 9/10 of them have been banned.

All you have to do is look at the ban list to see that 99% of those being banned all have goldbot names. Thus - playerbots usually buy silk and are not as likely to get banned.

That's my evidence and I'm sticking by it, I don't think I need to provide any more.

xxbrentonxx wrote:

Kieran wrote:

xxbrentonxx wrote:
LOL, what other evidence can I get? I know loads of people who buy silk and bot, not one of them have been banned. However, at the same time - I know loads of people who have used a bot/modified client and bought no silk and about 9/10 of them have been banned.

All you have to do is look at the ban list to see that 99% of those being banned all have goldbot names. Thus - playerbots usually buy silk and are not as likely to get banned.

That's my evidence and I'm sticking by it, I don't think I need to provide any more.

But you said you have A LOT of evidence. Im thinking its more likely that the people who buy silk also buy bot cards but the people who dont buy silk use free bots, and paid bots would probably be better than free bots (or else why would anyone pay for them?)

JKMB wrote:It shouldnt matter if there is silk on the account, a bot works by intercepting information packets from the server to the client and sending them back in a loop, on certain bots, like clientless goldbots, this process is easy to detect because they send back the wrong packets so JM knows there is something intercepting them (the bot) and bans them, as most player bots dont use clientless bots the packets looped back to the server are correct most of the time, and thus it is harder to detect that they are botting, iv known silk buying botters to get banned, it depends more on what bot they use then rather if they have bought silk

JKMB wrote:Which is why I said its harder to detect, not impossible, and iv known silkbuyers using rev6's bot to be banned before and silkbuyers using a clientless to be banned aswell.

Kieran wrote:

JKMB wrote:It shouldnt matter if there is silk on the account, a bot works by intercepting information packets from the server to the client and sending them back in a loop, on certain bots, like clientless goldbots, this process is easy to detect because they send back the wrong packets so JM knows there is something intercepting them (the bot) and bans them, as most player bots dont use clientless bots the packets looped back to the server are correct most of the time, and thus it is harder to detect that they are botting, iv known silk buying botters to get banned, it depends more on what bot they use then rather if they have bought silk

Bots that use clients can still send incorrect packets.

Douken wrote:Omg... I quited SRO 2 years ago, before the taklanmakan update. Why, caused everyone around me was a bot, and that was boring. I said, when these guys get better I play again, I guess I'll never play SRO again by the looks of it.

Pan_Raider(`_´) wrote:

Douken wrote:Omg... I quited SRO 2 years ago, before the taklanmakan update. Why, caused everyone around me was a bot, and that was boring. I said, when these guys get better I play again, I guess I'll never play SRO again by the looks of it.

you are missing some stuff you'd regret...

BalkanFanaticS wrote:it doesnt even matter if u bot or not , no silk = bann

but the clever ppl already have that figured out , and the noobies wont accept that till their last breath lol

PR0METHEUS wrote:

BalkanFanaticS wrote:it doesnt even matter if u bot or not , no silk = bann

but the clever ppl already have that figured out , and the noobies wont accept that till their last breath lol

I guess I'm a noobie then because I don't accept that. I've been playing SRO since sometime in 2006 (maybe summer?). I have 3 or 4 characters on Venice, 3 on Venus, and a few lvl 1's on at least 7 of the other servers. I have never purchased a single piece of silk on any account or character and none of them have been banned.

I haven't even logged into some of the characters on other servers in well over a year, and they are on the same account as my main characters.

BalkanFanaticS wrote:maybe u dont really log on them ?