Decrease the amount of gold. and items a player can collect each day. this way botting is completely pointless cause after 30 mins of killing same group of mobs. they stop droping items and gold this wont unlock until 24 hours.
this also stops people from continueless farming in one spot. for 15-30mins or more they become item and gold locked for 3 days and cant pvp at all.
this makes it so places known for being gold farms. aren’t gonna be cluster of botting
So you got half hour per day for farming and against every 1 else whos doin more then you ?
everyone has 15-30min farming limitation. if farm at same spot more then 15-30mins. lose the right to pvp. gain gold also farming in aparty for more then 5-10 same way botting works is that stand in one place. at one time. this how you get them. if take that away from them. they cant bot anymore
Two things immediatley comes to mind:
Dumest idea ever, i got time/motivation 2 farm gold so iam doin so, if someone doesnt, thats his trouble. Same with pvp if u got no time to practice with ur 2v2-3v3 team and improve u wont get results, maybe allow only 15-30 min arena per day ?
Wtf u talking about. For a player with 1hour play time yes its more than ok. But for some one like me that play 18 hour per day thats mean we stop playing the wow. Dont talk from yourself or think about what u talking about 
Simple really, have some kind of catchpa system to catch the bots out, a real catchpa won’t work due to the way it was designed.
Also anyone playing more than a certain amount of hours a day gets automatically flagged and looked at, hang on, that would require staff to do it and we know Blizzard don’t have enough people to do it.
I think the staff who look at botting would be overworked and he wouldn’t like that.
Well, what’s to stop the bot-farms from running enough bots to cycle through locations on a one hour schedule? You’re basically encouraging farmers to run more bots by doing this Automation, scales well.
Not to mention that they can just switch it up and flood the AH with robo-crafted gear, or farm honor and turning that into gold, or any other of the thousand ways they have to automate gold-making.
Blizzard’s doing quite well, last I checked, with detecting the simple farmbots and banning them in waves. The fact that a bunch is running at any given moment doesn’t mean they’re doing that a month from now, or were doing it a month ago. If someone is farming your stuff, just train some mobs into them and watch them ghostrun into a tree or something while you take over the spot.
If Blizzard would actively try to do anything against botting and other things that may ruin people’s experience, they would put time and effort into anything and especially people reporting bots and not just automating that prozess.
Also being in vanish in major cities like SW/Org would help to ban people that advertise websites that sell gold which was farmed BY BOTS.
But hey Blizzard is now owned by Microsoft isn’t even considering fixing the 2 guards in Karazhan on the way to maiden, they teleport because they cant find a path LOL.
It’s basically impossible for a human, or an army of humans, to go through every single report of suspected botting in a game with millions of players. Not to mention trying to decide if the reported character was a bot or not.
They do have warden though, which is pretty effective on scale. The client-side checks catch a lot of stuff, and the server-side heuristics and data-mining catches a lot of other stuff.
Bots cant jump for dear life and move like bots. Ain’t difficult to spot one if you would at least try, also most names are just weird junk names that bots just use + they are mostly unguilded.
Not to mention that bots should get more attention in the reports due to their weird pathing/ability usage. Honestly do not understand how you could just check which “players”/bots get reported often on a daily basis. Or just break it down to botting.
Also having anything like warden won’t help much, you can the the result in the game when bots go back in the same instance over and over again (one of the many things bots do, especially rogue bots, which is honestly a diaster.
Like on the server I play on there are at least 2-5 bots running in SW advertising a website which sells gold, and naught is done.
Currently there are always 3-5 Paladin bots in SM literally walking through the doors without keys into Arms and Cath, like wtf?
Sure, to you it’s probably quite obvious, but do you expect GMs to watch some kind of video-capture from before the report to after, for every single case, in order to determine if it’s a bot or not? Can you imagine the office space required for all those GMs watching videos 24/7? Cavernous, wouldn’t be adequate to describe it.
The expectation here is to react to the reports when the copypasta behavior are being done at any time given in the day, which isn’t the case so far.
Automating that prozess basically made them lazy af and almost not bother with things that could ruin the economy.
Imagine just 100.000 simultaneous players. 1% of them reporting someone for botting once a day. That’s 42 reports every hour, that someone should manually review somehow. Because you’re not honestly suggesting that Blizzard should just take everyone’s word when someone says “That guy, he’s a bot! Ban him” right?
Now scale those 42 reports per hour, that a human has to watch video of somehow and make a decision, up by the number of actual simultaneous players which I think is significantly higher than 100.000. And consider how many people would be working with that, and that alone. They would need some kind of huge cavern to work in, with storage media taking up a skyscraper for all the video. And they would all need to be paid too.
I think you’ll realize that it’s not really feasible, right?
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