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ctrlaltdel33t
10-18-2007, 06:51 PM
We all know there's way too many botting players out there so...

This idea is actually coming from a different game I used to play for like a week until I got bored with it.
Anyway, there is this npc "mob" (about 1 in every spawn of monsters) that if attacked for more than 10-20 seconds, the user will be disconnected from the server and a report will go out the GM's/Admins/whoever.
A player using a bot would attack this "fake monster" without knowing the difference.
A player attacking monsters the honest way would know not to attack this "fake monster."
If a new player starts to attack one without realizing they shouldn't, a message will come up to stop attacking the "fake monster".

Obviously the "fake monster" would be easily distinguishable from actual mobs.


Solution 2:
Get rid of the auto select tab key function.
I know tabbing is useful, but it's how bots work most of the time.



I hope these ideas/suggestions helped!
Botting really sucks for the honest players in the game.


To prevent other hacking methods, you could use gameguard or some other widely used hacking prevent engine ^^




P.S. Sorry if these have already been suggested before, I didn't see any posts related to botting on the first page.
And also sorry if this is in the wrong category forum @_@

Absolute_Defense
10-18-2007, 07:05 PM
Then they would edit the program to exclude and not attack the fake monsters if it was made that obvious, and I love my Tab+1 spamming :(

Why not just trace them and ban any accounts given money for nothing for them, and from those accounts to others. Then they would have no benefit and you could enforce rules to not real world item trade...if those exist yet.

ctrlaltdel33t
10-18-2007, 07:12 PM
I don't know very much about programming bots or whatnot, but in the game I got the idea from, about the "fake mob" that system seemed to be pretty tough to get around..
Depends how well it is coded for fiesta, I guess


But I don't know for sure.. ^^

DarkCrystal
10-18-2007, 07:12 PM
idea is good. i do know it will stop auto attack bot. as for spam bot. i really do hope for a good idea. i hope your idea work :D

Absolute_Defense
10-18-2007, 07:20 PM
I don't know very much about programming bots or whatnot, but in the game I got the idea from, about the "fake mob" that system seemed to be pretty tough to get around..
Depends how well it is coded for fiesta, I guess


But I don't know for sure.. ^^

If it's one program running all the bots it can easily be set to halt if one gets kicked because chances are one will get there before the others. There are well made ones that don't work on Tab+Attack spamming rather what's on the screen but to be honest at least in Fiesta I have not seen any that well made :) luckily.

I support any idea to stop them though because stealing the few spare kills there are for newbies is totally unfair. However the idea of a monster being there not to attack or anything would seem a little off putting, not to mention how would you program it to act? Surely it wouldn't be fair if it itself could attack and such.

I think it should automatically kick anyone who just spams and attacks constantly for long periods of time in one small area, innocent people can log right back in, those who do not can be looked at/banned if needed. No real person is going to grind for 5 hours without taking a breath to eat or rest and definitely not not talk to anyone when in a group like that.

1w1ngedangel
10-18-2007, 07:23 PM
Great idea for the fake mob. ^^

ctrlaltdel33t
10-18-2007, 07:27 PM
Well..^^
The fake monster would move randomly, as any normal mob would, but it would not be able to attack, and would have next to infinite HP or something like that..


No real person is going to grind for 5 hours without taking a breath to eat or rest and definitely not not talk to anyone when in a group like that.

*cough* :rolleyes:
Right...I should go take my first meal since about five hours ago :D

DarkCrystal
10-18-2007, 07:27 PM
in 1 game i play. if you attack the trap for 30sc. it will go off. bot player go to bot jail. lose all lv back to lv 1. cant lv up for 1month. i know how bot trap work. i help fix pc and i have read thread from other game to know it. if there bot trap out there. it will stop them. btw. i have seen bot user out there lving. there are bot out there:D

ctrlaltdel33t
10-18-2007, 07:28 PM
Great idea for the fake mob. ^^

Thank you ^^

Again, it wasn't really my idea, but I thought it would work well in Fiesta too ^^