They must be banning thousands of bots a second to not have the time to tackle these. I wonder where the hundreds of reports on this guy go that we need a community manager to personally report them.
This guy has been reported so much he is on a first name basis in general chat all day every day on this server. Literally hundreds of reports. Nothing. Happens.
We can’t even avoid buying from him because you can’t see any player data on auctions.
Thanks for the bump!
duck kk11 still botting for over 11 days 24/7 on Orofena. My man is doing it, made it to 37 today on just nodes only! Woo!
That is kind of a Catch-22 going on. Because the game is new it will take time but because the game is new time isn’t really a commodity they have right now. Every hour just does more damage to the economy. An economy that is struggling in part because the game is new. Time is not on their side as it would be with a more established game.
So what can be done to save the economy while the investigation is ongoing? I can claim complete ignorance in game design but I’m going to kick this out anyway. I’ve never let complee ignorance on a subject keep me from popping of an opinion or point of view.
They could freeze the sales of the suspected bots and request some response before enabling the account to sell again. That tells the bots that AGS is on to them but they kinda got to know that already. It does allow legitimate accounts that get caught in the net a way out. Other idea might be AGS buys the goods in the market to remove them from the game taking a chance that they get the selling accounts before the gold is sold. If they could somehow track the path of that gold even better. Maybe they could get buyers and sellers.
The fact that they designed the entire economy of the game by clicking ‘E’ on everything, and having absolutely zero anti-botting measures in place is a huge slap in the face to their community.
There was absolutely no doubt that this game would become full of bots from launch day on.
I understand automation takes time, since it is obvious they had nothing produced ahead of time. It is their responsibility to then bite the bullet and hire actual people for as long as needed to cover their greed of releasing the game unfinished.
We are gathering info about this bots, so if you guys will, DM me or answer the character name of this bots.
Also make sure to report them via the game tool.
We are sorry this has become this big of an issue, and we assure you we are working to take appropiate actions to make a better game.
We appreciate all of you and your patience while we figure this out.
Both duck kk11 and goodlms are both running fully automated bots on Orofena. Both have been reported once again, at least a dozen times today.
duck kk11 is still botting over 2 weeks in now on Orofena nonstop with zero action and hundreds upon hundreds of in game reports.
On a side note if you frequent these forums or reddit today, and entire new breed of pvp mission bots are running wild on all servers to help factions hold territories.
We need bans and answers yesterday.
This is ridiculous.
BUMP to be escalated to someone who actually has the power to log into the game, review, and ban people. Clearly ingame reporting is 100% worthless. Why is player behavior reports actioned in such a small time frame but nothing happens here?
I reported one guy botting on Yulbrada. Name: Are You Mr Lee
Caught him playing outpost rush a day later and questioned him about his using a macro. No answer.
It was so obvious he was a bot. He was in FL area at an Ori spawn, 2 nodes. His character would move between the two nodes even if they weren’t there. I aggro’d a wolf on him and he continued to do his movements, even though he got pushed 2 miles down the road after some time of this wolf attacking him. He’d continue just gathering a tree, or a boulder, whatever was closest, but only ran back and forth the same distance, as if he were near those nodes.
I came back an hour later and he was still being attacked by the wolf. It despawned, and I aggro’d two more wolves on him. They were level 9 wolves, he was level 60. Took a while but they eventually killed him Felt so good doing that as I hate exploits/cheaters.
But, He’s still able to play which to me is unacceptable!
What is your character name in New World: theunholywar
What server/world did you experience your issue on: Takshasila
Describe the issue you are experiencing: There is 2 bots named Applekid and mmmorp running pvp quests in Windsward 24/7
Is this a bug or an exploit: Exploit? It’s a bot.
(if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay: Game breaking It’s impossible to have someone 24/7 killing this bot to prevent the zone from being pushed.
Felt so good doing that as I hate exploits/cheaters.