a friend of mine has been booting for 1 week, how is it possible that there are no bans? you are going to let the game die in 2 days, it is a bot that makes pindeslin and ancians tunnels.
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They have to figure out how to detect the bot, then they have to figure out who is doing it and then they can ban. But don’t expect miracles, botters are always one step ahead and they are a problem in most online games, they plagued Diablo 2 in the past and they still plague Diablo 3.
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don’t believe in project diablo 2 they banned you on the same day and there were massive bans every 2 hours, if they can do it why not blizzar?
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bots became a lot more advanced, since even simple macro tools are capable of botting by now, by using pixel detection. Bots which are using the standard game interface and acting on visual input are a lot harder to detect.
If you are going to ask why they won’t ban macro tools its simple as well, they would not have a playerbase left. Basically every mouse/keyboard manufacturer by now uses his own driver software including macro functions.
You should report your friend 
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I read about bots that use to computers at the same time… so one sends commands to the other or something and thus it cannot be detected by warden.
In D2 it is also harder to detect patterns because most people run around like bots as well, as this game basically revolves around doing the same thing over and over again speedrunning and open/close games
Actually, virtual machine is enough for what you say. But I’d say even that is a huge overkill, since you can emulate low-lvl USB interface so warden could not distinguish bot moves from mouse moves. To avoid pattern detection add some random noise to timings.
And, actually, that’s why botting is inevitable. With so low coding skills one can implement own bot using goddamn python.
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17 days and my friend is still bot
Any good drop from bot?
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its a mod. and if they use statistical methods to detect the bot and they ban it directly, they can do it. blizzard sold the game to the ppl that is by far another case.
bots became a lot more advanced, since even simple macro tools are capable of botting by now, by using pixel detection. Bots which are using the standard game interface and acting on visual input are a lot harder to detect.
If you are going to ask why they won’t ban macro tools its simple as well, they would not have a playerbase left. Basically every mouse/keyboard manufacturer by now uses his own driver software including macro functions.
HID emulation + image detection = basically undetectable bots. And we now have the tools and tech to have something like that. Honestly, its a huuuuge pain in the ass for developers to fight this. Very difficult problem. Only clues may arbitrary, like gaming non-stop for hours wihout break or sleep, but even that can be emulated very easily with random delays, even game restarts 
You could even detect a bot which gets his image from a camera and uses mouse input via usb and mimicks human input behaviour - so in other terms is undetectable at OS level. You still could detect that, as was said, by statistical methods: If a user plays 24 hours non stop, no matter which route that is probably a bot. So statistics could generally detect very much.
But then still, if you wanted to become truely undetectable, you would want to invest in lets say 10 accounts, and bot switching between all of them over total random periods, also using each time totally different farm sequences, basically emulating a swarm of human players.
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If this really is happening and goes unchecked, i think a refund is the only answer. This, is game ruining.
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Well, it was like that from the start. It stems from the fact that you can freely trade items. The answer is personal loot as in WoW and D3, but this option is thankfully ruled out in D2. You only get the dynamics of D2 with the problems of D2.
Dann solltest du ihm sagen, dass er endlich mal auf die top lane gehen soll. 
Well, for blizzard bots are a win-win let me explain :
- Bots farm items most people will never loot // have the currency to trade
- Some will pay for those because any reason, making 'em stay on the game for some time, then leaving because their is nothing more to do => better server
- Some mystical banwave occure, comming from nowhere
- Botters buy new CD key => 40box for blizz
- rince and repeat
When you freaking sell a Ber rune for 40box, and you can bot farm for 2month now, well do maths but you’ll understand that bots will ALWAYS be there
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As long as people buy items we will have a market for bots. Just implement SSF or private Seasons for groups and we have less of a problem with that. So its not the botters that actually cause the problem it’s people buying that shit
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How does it affect other players? Besides the precious trading economy, how does it affect me as a player?
There could be millions of bots, as long as they don’t enter my servers and ruin them, why would the game die? I wouldn’t even know about it had it not been for this post.
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It doesn’t really affect anything unless you play public games where bots will join to spam their website stores or to farm monsters in your game. Otherwise it lowers online trade value of items. If you’re just playing the game normally and trading ingame normally then you will not be affected by it other than the disruption of public games (which is annoying enough).
It’s never going to kill the game though since D2 has had this botting problem since it released, WoW has a botting problem, Diablo 3 has a botting problem, any MMO game or ARPG with high value trading has a botting problem. The game isn’t going to die, it’s a gaming industry problem that has existed forever, not a D2R problem alone.