Afk/Bots - MMO-Champion BlueTracker What i want to know is....Are we, The nation of HB/GB, At risk? Are there any plans to further complicate HB/GB defenses as to hide us from Blizztards? Should we lay low? if so, for how long?
Because A: I just woke up B: i rarely search the GB forums C: The search feature nearly never works... "Yup i see that now" <---Suggests that i was unaware of the thread at the time i made mine.
A: Not my problem, I was merely trying to point you in the right direction B: .... C: ", but" suggests you do not agree fully.
What do you expect them to say. "We are aware that certain members of our community have managed to circumvent our protection schemes in order to give themselves advantages over other players. However, we are pretty much powerless against these people as every time we attempt to put a stop to such an outrageous practice, we are again and again outsmarted by their new, innovative ideas on how to accomplish their villanous aims. So, we will continue doing what we are doing, which is to ban a few token members of the community as we (and by we, we actually mean "the players that spot botters and report them") catch them. However, botting is not going to go away, now-or at any time in the future." Some of us will be caught, some of us will be banned. Bot smarter and *minimize* the chances that it's you. But you will never be able to fully get rid of the risks involved in botting.
look basically they haven't done anything yet, the priox ban was just good old fashion, "lets find out how to detect this program and teach warden to ban people who are using it", and that's nothing we haven't seen before. the only new thing they started doing in the past year was server side statical monitoring looking for obvious "Bot Like" behavior. but as we have all seen a like a lot of things "Innocents" where getting caught up in the mix, so its not a perfect system. same thing when warden was introduced, there was one case where a bunch of linux users got banned because warden flipped out that it was being emulated in wine. that being said, the blue post im sure just means that they are adding battleground statistic monitoring to what data they are mining from users. i was watching this documentary called "Freakanomics" (its on netflix instant streaming) and in one of the segments they cover how statistics and in one particular case applying it to Win/Loss percentages during a bunch of matches and individual players where tracked and in sumo the hier rank you are the more you get paid, so what they where doing was lower ranked people would pay higher ranked people so if it came to it, the higher ranked person in the match would take the dive, so the lower ranked one wouldn't be demoted a rank, and it would be a win, win for both parties. (some of the matches where fixed) so when looking at the data people could see that happening. i wouldnt be supprised if blizzard is doing something similar. and if thats the case then time will tell just how good CC's are and the new BG bot really is.
I am sorry but what a load of tosh, afk being an offence cant see it. Next afk in dungeon, questing farming etc banning becuase maybe RL takes precedence over a game
