The Unofficial Bot-Alert Thread for ANet

With all the chat about bots and ANet's response (or apparent lack thereof, depending who you ask), I thought it would be a good idea to post (and maybe sticky?) a thread where the devs can go to see first hand reports from players as to where major bot problems exist.

And, since I started the thread, I'll go first.

Altrumm Ruins - Was there yesterday evening, there is a massive army of Mo/Me bots streaming out of the town. The lack of guilds and names like "-" kind of give them away.

Even the known obvious ones should go here, and let's keep it to one post per town (with updates on a given town being quite fine).

Thanks all, and good hunting.
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Pity things are derailing, but I'll still try and tally up areas when I can: If you can include the classes of characters that are primarily being used in the area that may help.

Altrumm Ruins - Primarily Mo/Me
Port Sledge
Granite Citadel
Rilohn Refuge - Primarily N/A

Pretty sure Anet know where the bots are...

And since we can't post IGNs on here its gonna be a short thread.

Actualy bots arent the problem, its the crooked players mind that buy gold on internet which form the problem. Bots, and their owners just meet the demand.

I just looked on ebay purely for any 2nd series skill pins, and all I find is people selling hack + bot guides. Maybe ANET asking EBAY to delete and even ban users selling these guides would be a nice thing to do?

Port Sledge eng 1, stacked full of them

bots can never be cleaned out from GW, just like the criminals in RL, however it can be reduced by anet to takin some serious action on em, which i havent seen yet.
bhavv's idea is good, but is the same situation the bots in GW, which requier Ebay to do the same to take serious action on those accounts, but u know the bussiness thing, it is hard to ban all of em and make sure they wont appear again

Well after gaile mentioned that reported bots would be banned i spent an hour or so writing down bot names but as usual they were completely ignored, all the same bots are running around still.

ADMIN EDIT: We do not allow the posting of IGN's

And what exactly is your method of verifying bots from real players who are farming? You're accusing people of botting on an open forum without facts...

JIC anet doesnt know where to find the bots I guess.

Funny as it is.

I was taking my newest monk thru Kryta and got to Bergen Hot Spring, the place was full!! And low and behold it was mostly monks...so I watched a while as they ran to the merchant.....then to the sign post and then slowly inched out the door-----in congaline fashion....It was a hoot to watch!! (I took some screenies, but you would need to watch them in a group to catch it.)

Not sure exactly why there since there isnt much outside, but nontheless they were there, bots!

JIC anet wants to check the area out

exactly lol....::whistles while he waits for mods to edit the iiot posting names

Thanks for putting my IGN in there noob.

This is a good point & has come up before many times.
There are players that play the "lather, rinse and repeat" method & have very methodical pathways and techniques that can easily be mistaken for Bot-tivity (like activity only with Bot).
Now mind you, this is a small, small percentage. AND chances are that you are right on the mark with the ones that you named, however, I am of the school that its better a thousand guilty men go free rather than one innocent man be punished.

The OP has a good idea, but maybe rather than posting the names, just post the time, location and district. That way ANet can send monitor to determine who is and who isn’t.

Gaile said in another thread that they banned about 5600 bot accounts last month. I just wish it was more noticeable

There is no reason Anet can't have a few GMs to clean up the obvious bots. Even 1 single employee would do the trick. It doesn't take much effort to go and sit in the "hot spots", and know which ones are the gold farmer bots.

It's an insult to everyone that plays the game in a legitimate fashion, that they do virtually nothing.

Its pretty obvious, all those were following the same path from spawn>signpost>merchant>signpost>out.

Its common sense really, i didnt just put all monks names on a list.

The most obvious ones are at rilohn refuge, watch the N/A there.

Not to be bitching but i often go " spawn>signpost>merchant>signpost>out " and im not botting ever! Its just easy when farming to use the spacebar to travel around instead of walking a non efficient path!

Better safe then sorry as they say! so take it slow when pointing out bots!

just my 2 cents

bots' features (in my memories )
randomly named characters (not all but mostly)
no guild mostly
being in the outpost for hours and days
the pattern they walk , they mostly go after the outpost sign and rush out a bit to middle , after some sec then go
or they crash into something , then walk straight out, often they go in same moving patterns

I was in Citadel yesterday, saw all of em running of course, and like always, curious about the names ..

What do I see as I hold CTRL?

2 names ... PART of the name had "Aa" and a few feet away another had "Ab"
Same beginning name as well.

I was like, well there's the same person running 2 accounts.

they wouldnt be needed if old farming areas that had been nerfed got un-nerfed and a-net undid the loot nerf. the harder it is for the casual player to get gold the more that person might consider buying gold.

well for a start anet could try whispering the characters. Bots won't reply real players will, esp if it's from a GM. If they're afk they won't be moving in the set pattern so will not appear as the conga line bots anyway. I was farming outside bergen yesterday and the place was overflowing with bots. I bet a good proportion of those wouldn't reply to a whisp o_O