Anyone else thinking about putting their normal bot routine on cooldown? The recent tripwire floods by Blizzard smells of something out of the ordinary, clearly I'm away HB would be kept offline if it was something obvious that was going on. However, we can see its not a coincidence that it keeps going off. Is anyone else starting to get suspicious? Take note, I didn't say worried. Clearly wouldn't be botting if I didn't wanna lose the account. But, preservation clearly is the smarter idea than reckless abandon.
I've been going 24/7 for the past 3 weeks with my current accounts and haven't been touched so far, but I also only bot to sell gold and have long since quit actually playing. If you're playing an account you don't want to lose I'd definitely wait it out for a bit.
From the looks of it its really not our choice if we put it on hold or not seems HB has already answered that for us.
I'm not gonna stop any time soon but then thats just me I guess. Someone already mentioned in another thread (can't remember which right now) that there is supposedly a new guy running the warden/security side of things for blizz who seems to like digging out old code and playing around. If this is true then chances are this'll be the reason behind regular tripwire flags. That being said its all just speculation as I have zero to back that up just my opinion and thought process I guess
i decided i no longer enjoy wow without HB so the recent changes have had no impact on my botting patterns other than the several hours HB doesn't let me log on. if i get a perma-ban i would just quit just like i would quit if botting didn't exist. the only time i play without HB is when i'm trying to compare what an auto-fire spam using logitech setpoint to smash 5 buttons continuously for me and rank it with the current CR's just to see how close it is. You'd be shocked how good an unintelligent multi-button spamming ability programmed into your mouse software can do. Of course it will not beat a real CR, but on multiple different classes and specs it is within 5% and easily above the average manual wow player. if you guys are bored and have a logitech mouse test this out for fun - i can confirm ret pally, arms war, guardian druid, prot war, blood dk all perform well enough with an auto-fire button smashing mechanism that no one will call you out in a raid, dungeon, or bg. castsequence macros or macros in general will not do the trick since they force certain orders, a driver/program that continuously presses 5 buttons uses every available GCD and important ability as it comes off CD and allows the out-of-order sequence you need.
Its like lighting the fuse on a fire*****er. might be short, might be long, but you know the bang is coming.
I do feel that there's something going on at headquarters, Blizzard is not DUMB by no means, it's just the calm before the storm.
this, aslong as you're making a profit.. what's the problem? it might be smaller, yes.. but it's still free money.. got enough gold stacked up to make more than enough to buy a new pc + 20 new accounts when WoD hits
Just a hunch but like I said in another thread I think this is primarily related to BG botting. It's by far the most obvious of the bots and affects other players the most so they have an interest in reporting you if they think you're botting since it has a direct impact on their gameplay (if I farm an instance solo I'm not affecting anybody).
All those who are scared: Yes, now is the time to stop botting! Completely! Just ditch the bot accounts, ditch the HB software, forget about it altogether! (now we wait to see AH and gold prices skyrocket *evil laughter*)
