aishsharma wrote: but knowing exactly what the program is doing and how it is doing it should help to create countermeasures shouldn't it?
... its doing exactly the same thing you or i do when we play the game. if you push the number you have assigned to a skill, it sends the info to cast said skill, as does the bot. if you click the resurrect in town button, it send the info to cause you to res in town, as does the bot. having that bot, is just like pushing the buttons yourself. the only time it becomes obvious to JM that someone is using a bot is when wrongful codes are sent.
bot prevention is about having a program like x trap or game guard operating on the client side to prevent 3rd party program usage, and active gm's and game dev team working against obvious signs of botting.
Lol yes... i play with my two bros but at least gold bot companies would have to use proxies to connect to the server and that will end in gold bots with lag. ^^
they already use proxies, how do you think they have like 50 GB / server? there is no lag, nor would there ever be, because there is no client, only small amounts of info being sent back and forth. a decent cable connection would easily suffice.