pimotimo wrote:Probably those are not very good ideas
I'm glad we agree.
pimotimo wrote:Probably those are not very good ideas
pimotimo wrote:Still better to not do anything to botters :D
loftar wrote:The main point being that all automatic methods of bot detection can be easily circumvented. Captchas don't help a bit -- just pop in from your web browser once an hour when they happen to solve them. If you aren't at home, just solve them from your smartphone or whatever. Or cache ten up. Or implement OCR. &c&c. On the other hand, they are certainly annoying for all people playing honestly.
The only way to try and detect botting somewhat reliably would be to monitor people manually, and, honestly, ain't nobody got time for that. I'd much rather spend that time trying to decrease the incentives to bot. As has been said from time to time, the fact that a mechanic is bottable or even something one wants to bot is at least an indication that said mechanic is perhaps less than optimal in and of itself.
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