I have a feeling that this has been happening more often, and maybe the bots are reporting back. Just a thought. Remember that…
But seriously, what if they report back when they find another player on their route? How do we fight that, when there are lvl 60 factionless bots that have been running the same cycle, reported thousands of times, and… they are still running around.
Wait. Are y’all complaining that AGS is banning bots/people who look like bots, or not banning them? 
Act like a bot, get banned like a bot.
You mentioned macros in your post which tells us that you know there is a difference between the two (bot and macro) Could you have been running a macro spamming E so you got wirefiber as soon as it spawned and didn’t miss it when the movie got to a really interesting point? Not saying you did but im still a firm believer that ags wouldnt ban without actually doing their own derective work. And i belive they can detect you spamming E even if no action was made.
Maybe im reading too much into your post but i think you know what happened.
Oh really? Soon we will have people who camp orichalcum spawns being reported as bots by their competitors. Sounds like a good use of AGS’s time sorting that all out.
Its not like this hasnt been abused before in the past to kick people out of wars. But hey, who cares right?
Really.
This topic isnt about wars.
I didn’t use the e macro, I collected it myself. I know what macros and bots are.Its not allowed i i know… That’s why I made my farm by hand. but it didn’t change, I got banned. The simple movements I do while watching a movie are enough for me to be considered a bot.
Not sure if this is how AGS monitors it, but there should be data on a player including when the button presses are executed. If it’s manual, there should be no discernable pattern.
If it was through macro/scripts, there will almost always be a pattern at some point in the cycle. It could be after 50 inputs, could be after 100, regardless there is a “restart” point or at the very least a quantifiable period of time between each input that would be very easy to identify. Of course, this may be moot if the program is literally randomizing it but I don’t know how many botters actually utilize that.
In any case, if I’m understanding correctly this guy was watching a movie on the side while MANUALLY pressing ‘E’ to collect herbs on the other screen (with occasional WASD inputs to get closer to some spawns as needed). 100% not a bannable offense in my opinion.
I hope they do something about that. Like they can only farm the same tier 5 material once a day or something.
you should be able to ACT like a bot and not get banned. punishment should be handed out based on confirming that the individual is cheating, not just looking at a guy and saying its a bot. There is a reason why people dont get instabanned because you think he is a bot. Anti cheats usually involve you allowing them to check your pc, the minimum should be proper investigations if we allow them access to it.
Kinda like a reverse turing test
Im not the person to tell you if this is ok or not. but if this is the 2. time you got banned and next ban is perma. I would advice you to adept if you want to continue playing.
This is bad place to get answer for your question. Nobody can help you ob forum why you even written about that here? You have support.
No, you should be banned. Bots are bad therefore bot like behavior is bad also.
That doesn’t make any sense though. If someone wants to make coin off of gathering/mining/logging, and they choose to manually put their own time in doing so for a large portion of time, why should they be punished for it?
Personally, as long as there is a human effort going into the process then it’s fine by me. I only take exception when the only interaction is to click a button (ie. start a macro) and then leave your computer or play another game entirely. Or in more drastic forms, some janky configuration at home that does the button presses for you. If there is any level of focus still on the game, it is infinitely better than botting.
Thank god you’re not in charge
Quoting because I love this, it’s a fantastic way to look at it!
The OP was not doing that.
You not get banned for playing botlike, only for a banned program that was detected…
evidence counts and they seem to have it