I am sure when I say this I speak for a large part of this community, when I say "I only use this on my main account". I do not deny it is dangerous to do that but I do not make gold from it, or endlessly farm the arse off something to make gold from it, I just use it as a rotation aide and also to do all that mundane shit blizzard makes us do. I would like to ask really, the minute I open up HB currently, I am detected, is that the top and bottom of it all. I don't want to debate ethics, get flamed or wail on Bossland I just want to know after I buy wow again will I face this again in a few months time. Is there a way we can just use the bot as a rotational aide or is it more the fact you have bot = you get banned, not so much what you use it for. Thanks. PS My biggest problem is I so want HB to work so I keep trusting it.
the problem is honorbuddy is the big target, the buddy developers should consider splitting it into a rotation bot for general users and keep regular HB for farming and power users
I think as of yet no-one knows (and will ever know, what that part) how Blizzard detects the bots. I assume they have some sort of way to detect '3rd party programs' accessing WoW. If you are using honorbuddy, you are doing exactly that. And it doesn't matter for Blizzard if you use it to grind 24/7 or only to fish in your garrison; a 3rd-party app interfering with WoW, is a 3rd-party app interfering with WoW. Period. A friend of mine used to bot BG's, at some points his girlfriend forgot to log off B.net so he started wow with HB attached, after like 20 secs he found out it was the wrong account so he closed HB. Mind you, he did not even touch the 'start' button of HB. And yet her account got banned as well. So, to your point, Blizzard makes no difference between die-hard botters and people who only use combat routines, as they are both using 3rd-party apps that affect WoW and that is against their rules so if you get detected for it you get a ban.
This does not make sense at all. If it was possible to make a bot that was never detected, they would do it. Problem is that blizz has a way of registereing the process, and thus able to ban thousands in waves like this. In a ban wave, it does not matter what you do or how you bot - the bot process is started, and detected.
trust me it makes sense, it's called diversification, you don't want one major target that if it gets detected every user gets wiped out
It makes no sense since you are implying that it is possible to make a bot that is not detectable, and we all know that`s not the case. A rotation bot is just as detectable as a farming bot - as long as detection is the issue. If you have the knowhow to create a bot that is undetectable - I suggest you make one, people will buy it.
That's not the problem. Blizzard is likely using a lot of resources to find out how to detect HB. It's worth it because HB makes up a huge amount of all the bots. A small bot with lets say a hundred users simply wouldn't be worth spending resources on for Blizz.
After a year of big wave ban, now we come to the conclusion that Blizzard has a method to find out whether or not we are using Bots. Just look at the daily BAN report. I'm not here to blame the developers, without them my life and maybe your would not be easy in the game and each runs the risk you want. Now it is to stay in expectation of an upgrade in software.
