One of the most annoying things and something that will inevitably come up as an issue in this game as well are bots. Pretty much EVERYONE hates them with a passion. I would suggest approaching it from a new direction and adding some fun for players as well. Once a bot is reported and its confirmed by the ZBI (Zenimax Bot Investigation) then instead of the normal boring wiping them and then banning the IP address..........how about placing bounties on these bots so that the players can get rewarded for hunting them down. For me at least it would be far more satisfying than just simply reporting them. I think many others would find it cathartic as well as it one of the more annoying aspects of MMOs.

I should state that once the bot is killed then of course that persons account is wiped and they are no longer able to purchase anything again and their IP is permabanned.

Players INFACT can kill bots. 2 ways in fact!!!

1. Report said bots as you find them. (12+ reports usual does the trick *not 12 from you but overall submited reports*, everyone has to do their part). Just think of it as a special event, Bot Stomping Day.

2. Fight the creation of bots by attacking their masters/desingers. >>> Don't by Gold with Real Money <<<. Ooo, that was a Crit!!!

Try doing both in a combo form!!! Keeping (2) as a consent Dot. Then (1) any Bot actively you see. Congrats you and your community won againist the G.A.A (Gold Ad Army).

No I want to actually maim them and slice of their appendages a piece at a time. Reporting is boring and frankly not satisfying after you have done it a zillion times like I had to in GW2. The thing is I don't even go out of my way normally but it was so bad in GW2 that if I wanted to kill or get anything you had to report them because you would constantly see teams of three or four archers just zipping around the map all the time stealing everything in site.

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Meh did that in Tera Online. Not as much fun as it sounds to gank a bot over and over honestly. Its like chewing the same piece of gum for a long time... bland.

Now what is fun tho..... Killing the player that runs up and snatches your Gather Node or Chest while your fighting off the hostile Mob that was guarding it. ^_-

You mean they didn't ban the IP addresses of bots on Tera. That sounds odd. Or did you just kill them without reported them?

if there was a gold bounty on the bots

they would likely report themselves and farm the bounty....

*Made sure they were a bot first. (Try talking, looked at their actively, and watched for patterns).

*Reported said Bots

*Flagged myself as an Outlaw

*Earned Infamy while cleaning up the server XD (all those lvl 12-14 bots in Popo Land)

Ok......I never played Tera so I wasn't sure if it was PVP everywhere.

I can remember quite a few times back in vanilla WoW that I managed to trick farming bots into attacking me by flagging and attacking their pet as a mob it was fighting died (bots were usually hunters, a pet class).

Unless you just HAVE to have that 17kg mount at level 3, I think that gold comes pretty quickly in this game and gold farmers won't be an issue, especially without an auction house. Not to say they won't try.

There WILL be bots and gold farmers. Hell, I even saw gold sellers spamming zone chat trying to sell gold for the beta, lol.

Blame the tards that keep buying from them. If there was no profit, they wouldnt keep doing it.

For the Gold Spammers there was a great solution in Starwars Galaxies.....The Warden Program. I was one of the wardens. Players could report (in chat) a goldspammer. The Warden could shut them up so they could not spam in chat anymore. When doing, a ticket was send immediatly to the GM's which would investigate the issue. Misuse on other players was of course panelized hard.

I was a good warden (i was a spy). The spammers never saw me coming as i just stood next to them cloacked.

I have bloodlust for dem bots, If I could kill them, I would do it with pleasure. I hate the Gold spammers and farmers. Not only for how crappy is to deal with a chat overflowing by goldspam that no matter if u ignore them they make a new character, and continue spamming, and end spaming some cryptic code after their messages get blocked. But also because the tards that buy from them get their accounts stolen and used by the gold spammers, and they also get their bank accounts and card stolen. Gold sellers are just poisonous for mmos.

I sat Permaban the Gold bots. Then Send The human maker to Sithis.

LOL. And that would be even more funny if it wasn't so true.

But will this actually stop the bots or is it more of a fun thing for us?

Heh, definitely the latter. To stop the bots, you would need to permaban IP address, etc.

Yeah, I could see getting into that.

I did like in the early days of WoW that when you found a bot, before they got removed by the CS agents upon being reported, you could flag yourself and the bot would attack you. Being that they used a standard shot rotation (they were invariably hunters), you could then take them apart and force them to respawn. Rinse and repeating that was very satisfying. I spent countless hours griefing the same bots until their accounts got banned.

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having random dudes whispering me to see if I'm a bot

not only an annoyance but an insult

Edit: and I suspiciously suspect the angle here is to implement PvP outside of Cyrodill

Well, question is how efficient will bots be in farming gold when every mob gives you only about 1 or 2?

Killing bots will work in PVP, if they are not your faction...

Every MMO since EQ I've managed to find creative ways to kill BoTs. Just wait and lets see how we can kill those dirty bastards off!

just reporting them is better, than making war with them... Many reasons..

1) they make u a target

2) what about making a bot, that reports all players! lol that would be funny awful.

I had the same passion in world of warcraft and some times I even speak to them and warn them... thats why I got hacked twice.