a week ago a friend of mine wanted to quit wow for ever and never come back so we figured a way to ban his account making something productive out of it he started to bot with gatherbuddy 24/7 with a rather small profile in uldum and with "ninja nodes on" and i just kept reporting him ticket after ticket after a week i was in awe when he told me that he had already 3 players whisping him ever day with report threats and so on like and 5-6 messages/day raging against him from random players plus me keeping a ticket up all the time what's wrong with it? GMs don't ban anymore? he has a 99% uptime (almost never DCs and such)
oh i forgot to add: he posts most of the farmed mats on the AH from another (classic only) account to keep the uptime at max so far the only problem that we met is the prices going down by 40% <.<
I keep gettting amazed at the waste that is getting an account banned on purpose... Couldnt you donate to someone here to be a testing account? ...
I honestly think this experiment is better for the community. Maybe we can learn something about the banning process, and how long it actually takes from the time someone is reported to the time they are suspended/banned.
Good point. Anyone here can test this by using HB to grind to 60, and then run a profile nonstop on GB, all the while reporting the bot. I just don't see why you'd do that with an account that's been upgraded past Cata. Tell your friend you'll pay his sub, and have it run 24/7 farming mats for you, fill your gb, craft some of that into stuff to sell, and make shit tons of money. That way, you don't really care if it gets banned, and you don't crash the economy on your server like assholes. THAT is what is going to get you banned, IMHO. Not the botting.
update: banned! it took more or less two weeks on a low pop server he got banned 24 hours after my last ticket were answered and 24 hours before the next one would be.. making it 48 HOURS to answer a fucking ticket i'll hear from him tomorrow so i'll tell you more @peteyboy23 he didn't want anyone to use his account not me nor a complete stranger getting the account banned is what he wanted since you can't really delete it and he doesn't want to come back again about the economic crash.. well we didn't really think about that xD
You're amazed that your friend was able to far 24/7 and receive numerous player reports and last two days without being banned? No new information here. What a waste of an account,
last 2 days? read again also.. posting just to flame is a waste of time as you said "no new information here. what a waste"
