What was the reason for your ban? It will say, “you are temporarily suspended for x” where X is cheating, abusive langue, etc.
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There was most likely no response so far because there are hundreds of posts on this forum every hour… Your best bet is to get in touch with the actual support team instead of just tossing a sticky note into a tornado and hoping they can see it.
but yeah, as Kippp said, You should have a reason posted on your actual Ban message that will tell you the specific reason.
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It says cheating in the description. that means they thought I was either a macro or a bot. While collecting, I was taking 5-10 steps at most, in most of them I didn’t even need to take a step, it was enough to press e.
I reached the support team 2 times, at least I asked why, but they didn’t say anything.
Farming without moving much, apparently allows you to be banned from a few reports.
if this isn’t bullshit what is
There is nothing in the ToS nor is it cheating to watch something on a second monitor while you play on the other. I do it all the time.
That would appear to look a lot like a bot to me.
Glad to see that AGS is trying to take action on bots.
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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.
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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
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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.