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The spotter bot question

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Aug 26, 2018 i82blikeu link
Of course you will shoot them... no one is going to report you for doing that.
Aug 26, 2018 Wind Employment link
Advanced rails take a bit to work right, and can be obtained by anyone without any kills.

Ec-107 is a poor mans RevC or IBG, both of which can be gotten for no player kills and very little effort.

Look, your bots are going to get shot until they get removed. I would think it is obvious that the devs do not want them either at this point, and the only reason they are still possible is because they have not found a way to remove them that does not punish regular players.

Lie to yourself all you want i82blikeu, but you are only making yourself sound bitter.
Aug 26, 2018 i82blikeu link
>Advanced rails take a bit to work right, and can be obtained by anyone.

you must grind for ADV like for everything else in this game

>Ec-107 is a poor mans RevC or IBG, both of which can be gotten for no player kills and very little effort.

both needs standing and can't be buyed at any station of the verse

>Look, your bots are going to get shot until they get removed.

I don't run any bot, do you?

>I would think it is obvious that the devs do not want them either at this point

Lat updates fixed the spotter bot issue

>and the only reason they are still possible is because they have not found a way to remove them that does not punish regular players.

i'm pretty sure they are good enough at coding to do as they please with the game.

>Lie to yourself all you want i82blikeu, but you are only making yourself sound bitter.

sounds to me you guys are just asking Devs to state you can inflate your pk stats shooting clients running plugins. People in the past got sanctioned for this kind of things.
Aug 26, 2018 Prince of Persia link
Well tbh i havent farmed pks on spotter bots yet , i'll wait until inc does something to remove those spotter bots :P
Aug 26, 2018 i82blikeu link
https://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/35092#407094

"There have been some new mitigation features added into tonight's release that may help with this. But it'll be a bit of a process.. the best way to handle this is a big combination of different systems addressing different mixtures of cases."

"it's not very complicated for us to make heuristics that get pretty damned hard to automatically work around. We just had other development that's been a bigger priority."
Aug 26, 2018 Wind Employment link
I have not killed any spotter bots, knowingly. Turns out 6 of my pks are in fact a spotter bot. If I see an Ec89 at a gray space station and it isn't admired? I am going to shoot it. This entire thread started due to someones rant on 100 how someone was killing his bot and would get into trouble with the devs.

This is not the case, and yes, you sound like exactly the type of person who runs bots. Or at least benefits for the intel they provide, which cannot be got by any faction standing grind nor can it be bought from ANY station or got by players without the (out of game) resources to do it.

Which sounds more fair to you?
Aug 26, 2018 i82blikeu link
>This entire thread started due to someones rant on 100 how someone was killing his bot and would get into trouble with the devs.

i have no idea of what you are writing about, feel free to have a second read of the first post.

>you sound like exactly the type of person who runs bots.

maybe cause English is no my first language.

>without the (out of game) resources to do it.

you mean some kind of conspiracy (like Illuminati, New World Order and so on)?
no, i'm not a part of that crap... sorry.

plugins are a part of the game, latest updates have got some plugins features natively added to the game client too...

Devs can nerf plugins use as they please. There's a suggestion section of this forum where you can post your ideas about.

"Look, your bots are going to get shot until they get removed"

''Nerf bots or we are going to exploit them" is not very nice way to let Devs ear your voice.
Aug 26, 2018 incarnate link
- Spotter bots are undesirable and are being eliminated from the game. But, as I mentioned before, we're doing it carefully, to avoid impacting "store" bots and the like.

- Killing a spotter bot is not something that I care about, BUT..

- Killing a spotter bot over and over again (or any auto-respawning player bot), for the purpose of farming PKs, may result in administrative action. Like having your PKs zeroed. Or worse.

This isn't that hard to comprehend. People are trying to "invent" elaborate justifications here to allow farming PKs, because of spotter bots existing. These are two unrelated issues. The existence of spotter bots does not make it okay to farm PKs (duh). Use common sense.

I'm locking this thread now. It has mostly been an unhelpful waste of time, which could have been answered by simply using your brain..