We all know that New World has an issue with the constant farming bots, new accounts selling gold, etc. , I have read a lot of previous posts talking about how to deal with them, and they made very good points.
I will give my personal opinion taking into consideration all the others threads.
At this point we know that Amazon-New World staff, has little to no control over reports, its sure to say that 80~% of all the reports made in-game by players are handled by a third company, (this is my speculation but its probably some company from India), in previous dev-blogs they talk about giving more information about reports to the staff that handles them, to perform a better job(this wont be necessary if they have an Amazon staff dedicated to reports, since they wont need to “hide” all other information about a client, or in this case, a player).
So reporting and wait to see if the bot gets banned could take weeks or worst, be noneffective since we rely on another person that has 0 real information about the report and can’t and won’t enter to the game to see it for itself, and by that point the bot already made a lot of money, gave the money to another account and “destroy” the economy. (Bots run the market since they are the ones that have most of the materials to sell and the resources are not infinite in terms of quantity).
With this is mind, my solution will be (and A LOT of people already said it MANY times) “GAME MASTERS”
To be honest there’s a lot of players that are willing to be game masters FOR FREE.
Now, how could you control “players” with game master status… pretty simple.
Lets take for example Camomo_10 a Rust game master that does exactly what we need and how we needed to be done since the beginning.
Hi bans players on multiple servers, based on in-game reports, he then goes personally and RECORD the player that gets reported, and verify if indeed that player is hacking and/or botting.
So the easy, fast, and most importantly, reliable solution to bots, is to put down a form on the forums, recruit ACTIVE players and make them Game masters.
They don’t even have to have “extra” abilities in-game (no teleportation, fast movement, etc.) they just need to fast-travel (using regular methods) and walk there. Since a bot will not change the rout he is using, there is no rush to get there. Start recording, give a warning in Area chat, and if the player is not responding, ban him.
Then make a internal report, I banned “this player” for reason “X” and attach the video proof. Now if that player fills the unban form, you can just said, you were indeed hacking/botting and here’s the proof, goodbye.
Problem Solved.
I honestly don’t know why Amazon haven’t implemented such an easy practice that every other major MMO has. Its a good thing that they are trying to do it with the anti-cheat,etc, but in the mean time they leave all this to happened.
And now its even easier since now there’s not a lot of server, and they are continuing merging more.
- US-West has 8 servers, US-East has 20. 10~ people can handle 28 servers.
- SA East only 3, 1 person is enough.
- EU Central has 32 servers. 15~ people can handle that.
- AP SouthEast only 4. Again, just 1 person.
Just having 27~ people could save the game from bots/hackers, and at the long run, even less since they will know they cant do illegal stuff that easily.
I really like the game and I hope this could get dealt with. Since this problem is not a software related problem is a logistic one.