There's more data to identify you than just the ip. Even with virtualmachines and fake MAC adresses they will still see your router's mac address. They might be reading your processor id too. You don't have a chance hiding your identity from blizz without using different pc's/different router's. But do they care? No! You can safely play 5 toons from the same box, bot, sell gold, buy penile enlargement pills and watch furry pr0n and noone will ever care.
So let's say, for arguments sake, that you connect through a university. This would be fairly common, which means that possibly thousands of people will be sharing the same WWW IP address. I honestly don't think this has anything to do with bans, but this is only my opinion, based on the above sentance.
you're safer(not safe,just safer) as a gold seller using a U.S. IP than if you were using a foreign IP if you're playing US WOW. Blizz's gold seller detector script seems to discriminate. that's from my own personal experience.
Multiboxing no because none of them get reported for botting. IP's Well like I said in the topic we can only make an educated guess but if your not going to change your mac and other info for each sessions then there is no point. No they can't. Mac information isn't sent trough the connection to blizzard and they can't get it from the client. (well they technically could but I dare to say they don't)
he thanks for that guide eddie! isnt the mac adress specific for the networks router though? i could fake several different macs through use of virtual machines easily, combines with a proxy thatll be half way secure i thought. but then theres all this other information, for example folder structure within the wow folder. who knows... to be perfectly safe i could really only use different pc's and different routers. so in the end i said fuck it all and ill jsut have disposable accounts. plus, they arent even allowed to ban me like that without proof. even with proof the banning is highly questionable and hardly in harmony with german law. the otehr day i traded 400k between accounts and in the end the only one that got banned was the trading account, all others were left untouched. if not, blizz would get threatened with the unholy wrath of german consumer protection laws or whatever, you get the idea. blizz is quick to reverse even the most justified bans if you know what to tell them. in the end, i dont really think the company itself is interested in chain bans at all. they live off the gold trading. how in the hell could they not ban me before the "deal goes down" when all my behaviour is so damn obvious?! botting on 5 accoutns simultaneously for 20h/d for example. creating vanilla accounts and trading 100.000s in gold to them. all that would be soooo easy to ban with smart use of a few filters. yet, the ban never comes in time. always right after all trades are completed which can occasionally take hours. see, they want to motivate me to rinse/repeat. they get a new customer, i get my coins and all's well. no need to be paranoid when it comes to illicit activity. people are using speedhacks for hours and dont get banned. this is all soooo easily filtered out server side. give me privileges and i can spot 100 gold sellers in a day. i can only assume the gm's dont have the necessary tools. blizz keeps em on a short leash, makes sure it always seems as if they were hunting the bad guys, but never hands them the necessary tools to be really sucessful with it. /me highfives blizzard!
Yes I agree but if you piss of a uper lvl GM enough which is mostly the case when you see that more then one bot gets banned then they will have access to that information. But in the end it all comes down to risk/cost you can minimize the risk but at higher costs sometimes it cheaper to just let a few get banned. As for the MAC on your router spoofing this is so your provider can identify you. Only direct connected routers can see each other mac addresses. your ISP will use this to grant you an IP or to make sure your one of there paying clients. (Filtering clients on mac is fun because it means you can get free internet. But that's another story for another forum.
I wouldn't recommend botting on multiple accounts associated with the same battle.net account. Use different email addresses, use aliases, don't use real personal information (have it written down somewhere though in case you need it when you call blizz to get your accounts unbanned.) So even if you have different battle.net accounts they can still see that the same person owns all of them. Because it is ultimately up to the GM involved in your case. If they want to get harsh they can and will. It doesn't take too much digging to find which accounts are owned by you. Don't give any credit card information or buy digital copies. Use time cards and hard copies of cdkeys. EG: I am a botter, I have had my account banned, my wife has never botted, I havn't given her large amounts of gold, her account was also banned because they shared the same payment information. Another: I purchased runewords and used tele hacks on Diablo 2. My WoW account was banned, my Starcraft and WC3 cdkeys were also banned because they were all on the same IP on my battle.net account (just assuming.) I hadn't played on SC or WC3 in months; I didnt ***** at all on either of those games. So I'm guessing they do use IP's to identify players. Be safe, be sneaky, don't get banned.
