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@jairone said in Preventing Bots in Arboreus:

@whisper The debuff being one player based and toggled by that player means it will be abused. Not a good idea.

Now, allowing the player involved click through to remove it... might seem acceptable, however that just means that some people will essentially spam abuse them to annoy (grief) others.

Sadly, there isn't a really good shortcut option (that I have seen work) that doesn't involve misery for legitimate players.

Yeah. If there was an easy answer, it would be widely known. I just saw MapleStory 2 being engulfed by bots and them recently making drastic steps to stop it that has ended up hurting their player base in a pretty uneven trade off.

Well they don't have to make it a pop up capcha that griefs people like a lot of games like to make it. If it places a debuff on the player that could be the signal they have it and there could be a "Not a bot" button somewhere on the UI that allows them to take the debuff off.

This would make spamming it pointless, and they could offer like a 5-10 minute immunity from it after someone does the capcha successfully. And if people still use it to just randomly grief people they could increase the cost of the item to deter that kind of behavior.

Obviously there should be a report button we can use, but in an area where they are relatively safe bots will thrive like they do.

Luckily we have a way to take care of them in the form of our demon friends. What I propose is a double, maybe triple, whammy of goodness.

Have a debuff that people can buy/exchange that they can use on bots (or people that they think are bots) and allow them to toggle it off if that person replies to them and ends up being a person.

And allow the debuff to act as a beacon to demon players. Maybe as a dot or arrow on their maps in their direction.

This acts as a gold/resource sink, another way to encourage people to travel to Arboreus, and is a fun way to deal with bots. Maybe allow the person/bot the option to solve a few capcha's or whatever to remove it in case people try to use it to grief people.

Thoughts?

I posted that on my Tumblr. I only have a couple thousand followers but I had 500 new followers this week alone (Ramping up on new followers/interactions. For example I had 14k reuploads this week).

Good luck everyone!

@target Coool. Thanks!

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Just curious if we are going into the Alpha most MMO's currently call "alpha" but it's really the finished game with some features missing, or locked content to test server issues and what not.

Or if this is going to be an actual Alpha. For example in Camelot Unchained (Fairly certain it was Camelot Unchained anyways) I was part of the alpha and when they let us play we were placed in a empty world, where most of our skills didn't work and we just got to hang out with each other and test specific features of the game during set times.

Just curious if we know which state the game is on.

Thanks for the welcome!

I applied.

Surprised I have not heard of it before!