Auto clicking does work people were getting outskinned, started using it and got skins vs the people that weree stealing from them
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Lol this couldn’t be further from the truth. I sadly have played games were auto-clicking is rampant in some parts of the games. No one would use them if they generated lag.
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Maybe get a pvp solution by making friends with some hordes on discord.
They were all using auto clickers but the rogue had better latency. That’s the most likely explanation.
You’re assuming auto clickers get detected immediately by the servers but they don’t. I used one for a couple weeks at launch to avoid AFK DC and nothing happened.
Before adding a grace period maybe those lazy devs at Blizzard could improve their bot detection. It’s crazy that you can use a program to spam the servers with millions of 1ms mouse clicks without triggering the anti cheat.
/facepalm
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The fact is they cant detect autoclicking
This is just not true. Cheat programs aren’t detected by how obvious they are in the game environment. They are detected by the warden program which feeds back hash values from programs running on your PC to blizzard’s servers. If it matches that of cheat program, it will register you as cheating. It most definitely can be detected. And people will be banned for it eventually if they are using it. I suppose there maybe user interface device exploits that can bypass this but they also have programs to track patterned inputs for stuff like that.
You don’t spam server with clicks. It’s client part. Your client ignore all clicks until server allows looting and then only a single action sent to server.
Though they have anticheat engine for client which is supposed to detect abnormal behaviour.
I think that they are acting as usual, banning people in waves. So most of those people will be banned in a few months. I would prefer faster reaction, but Blizzard works other way.
The problem is this doesn’t really solve anything. Banning in waves doesn’t change the damage these players have done, nor does it stop more coming in the future. Using only auto detection software is a never ending battle. Wave banning merely stops the problem from growing past a certain point.
As for auto clicking, they’re actually harder to detect than traditional bots. Likely because they’re much simpler pieces of software (all they do is click, not play a whole class) so they can appear more inconspicuous to software. And because they’re much more simple than bots, they’re also faster to develop. Which means wave banning would be even less effective.
It sucks that it has become so common for games to be tainted by these things. But that’s how it is, and devs should do what they can to prevent them if they do find a way to actually stop it. The best way to stop these things is usually to remove the incentive or the advantage granted. If a grace period is added for skinning, then the advantage of auto clicking to skin is greatly diminished. Which would mean people would be less likely to install them.
I know you don’t want changes but that’s the sad reality of gaming these days. Many people want something for nothing and will sometimes do whatever they can to get that.
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If they would act quickly, botting would stop. Players don’t want to risk their accounts. I know that in retail very few people dare to bot, because Blizzard banned a lot of them. Classic is a new game with many players from private servers who are new to official servers and they think they can continue to bot. They’ll learn their lessons with time. Meanwhile yes, it’s unfortunate that they are taking advantage of ordinary players and Blizzard really should be more pro-active with punishing for those kinds of things.
Utter rubbish. You had addons that could practically play the game for you, let alone full blown bots. Does not affect the game my a**e…
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You probably have no idea what you are talking about. You can’t write full blown bot with Lua in 1.12. You could automate your rotation, you could move frames under your cursor to automate your healing and decursing somewhat, but that’s about it. Addon can’t move your character for you. You can’t even write something as simple as fishing bot with addon in 1.12.
why should they take action? let community handle it you snowflake
You say that but after all this time botting is still around. Clearly some players feel the risk is worth the gain.
And then you have gold farming companies. The accounts lost due to banwaves are merely the cost of business for them. They’re still around and forever will be as long as there are players willing to purchase gold.
The thing is being more pro-active costs a great deal of money. I agree that Blizzard should be, but they’re a business so they’re usually going to take the most cost effective solution. It is faster and cheaper for them to tweak the game to prevent the actions of bots and auto clickers, than it is to be pro-active in ways that wouldn’t require changing the game in a way players would notice.
In the end, it does come down to money.
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I can’t believe there’s people still farming these when there’s plenty of people trying to steal their loot.
Dont you guys have better things to do in your spare time?
Looted beasts are free real estate.
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I know for a fact that OP is using an autoclicker, he linked me one a few years ago. Using a clicker software is not a risk to your account at all, thats why so many people abuse them. But his ping is bad cuz he plays from middle east
Using clicker software is definitely very strong violation.
U only get bannee if you get caught, and blizzard cant catch you so you dont get banned. Auto clickers dont inject into the game. It is litteraly undetectable by warden
They could be caught very easily. Most of them are just sending windows messages to the WoW process, emulating clicks. It’s possible to distinguish them from real events. You could circumvent this by writing mouse driver, but it’s another level of complexity and 99% of clickers won’t be able to do that.
The reason why they are not caught is that multiboxing software works the same way. I guess there are enough other non-harmful programs that I’m not aware of which interacts with WoW similarly.
While you have a point, you at least must see the difference between getting to an unused node first, and skinning a mob someone else worked to kill.
If there is 5 mobs standing on top of a mining node and someone takes the node while I’m engaged in combat, how is that different from someone taking the skin from a mob you killed? Its not.
You literally cannot steal someone else’s cloth
Nobody cares about tailoring, that’s why cloth sells by the hundreds for copper, because its the easiest mat to gather, including not even needing a profession to be gathered. It’s a shoddy false comparison.
Most gaming mouse drivers have built in autoclicking functionality