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What triggered your sudden action on this when it's been a problem for a looooong time?
it was perhaps a spike in communication. this work is always ongoing.
u/ccp_peligro what happens to the character names used by those bots? since they are permaband will those names be released again?
Also after May 28th, will you feed the bots to the coming Triglavian Invasion force? :)
nothing happens to the names, they stay in-game, you can still look them up in-game etc. names are not released unless the character is deleted.
i have deleted some market bots in the past, because those are terrible...
i want to work for CCP security but I dont know shit about programming. Can I just send you killmails of bot VNIs and Gilas and you guys send me a paycheck each month?
emails to security at ccpgames.com are appreciated but may not be answered, large volume.
also don't send me malware pls :(
just a reminder that as cancerous as bots are, it is outrageous to hold paying players responsible for the cheating of other players (as was suggested at evesterdam). aggressive banning is fine, but expecting alliances to police botting for free on behalf of ccp is total bullshit, and if you guys take that approach i think people will be entitled to feel exploited.
ccp's approach to game design is what makes botting rampant. it's 100% on ccp to police botting on behalf of your paying customers in your game. expecting people paying ccp to play a video game to spend that time doing admin work for ccp is just unacceptable imo.
What's unacceptable is repeatedly harboring cheaters, profiting from it, announcing to your alliance that they shouldn't report bots because it's lucrative to tax them.
That's not game play, that's enabling a major issue in eve online which CCP intends to address.
Keep in mind there is complete traceability of all assets in EVE; so what comes from a bot is going to be chased all the way downstream.
We are going to be more thorough, we have a bigger team working on improved procedures and tools to do exactly this.
Team Security sends their regards.
Thanks, Peligro, but remove alpha accounts, or this will just keep happening.
working on improvements to make this less lucrative, and less easy... without impacting you lovely legitimate customers, which is a tricky proposition!
Legit question, are these done at downtime?
Assuming a fair number of bots are operating nearly 23x7 I would have expected to see a recognisable dip on eve-offline, but it all looks quite smooth.
they can be but usually they are not.
Do i smell a hammering on alliances that knowingly accept bots?
yes
it was a publicity stunt to make the public feel they care about botting, I wouldn't hold my breath on a repeat performance.
we're doing it again, not saying a date though... also this was just as much fun for CCP as it was for the players... i find it important to remember to have a little fun
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