Your website report tool is even more garbage and even more ignored than your in-game tool! And these 9000 bots you supposedly banned are just the assholes that spam chat for RMT sites! You never ban the scripted characters running nodes!!!
It’s time you start enforcing your TOS and removing accounts of players who purchase gold via external sites/companies! Your automated systems are junk and will always be defeated! This staff you use to "monitor and deal with bot reports and bots is grossly lethargic and ineffective! The only way to deal with the RMT problem is removal of accounts of people who step over that line! PERIOD!
They might be relying on the “Easy Anti Cheat” to detect bots. as that tool is third party to AGS, it might take longer to dial in the detection.
This^^^ its literally 8 weeks since I reported about 12 bots and they are still happily farming… running the same routes, 24/7… but the devs love finding them apparently… its like sand at there beach, there is sooooo much of it and the devs? Crickets
I just don’t waste my time filling reports anymore, it interferes with my playing for absolutely no reason
There never has been and never will be an automated system that can not and will not be defeated. They’re just blowing smoke up our asses when they talk about all this automated crap and claiming it’s working well. It in fact is not and will never work well as the scripters will always defeat it.
The only way to rid the game of bots is for them to enforce their TOS and remove accounts of gold buyers.
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Wanna see why bots dont get banned? I reported a botter this morning and this is the reply I got …
WRONG GAME YOU MORONS!!!
Its a simple solution really. Lets say 15 people report a player for being a bot they get banned. After that NW needs a review process in case this was done maliciously. In which case if players are abusing it ban them instead.
Litterally let us do the work for you.
Yeah on my server midgard was so many bots running around.
Might be a good idea to bots get pvp flagged after get reported.
Are we dead-set against nodes being instanced for people? Like OP and I can both mine the same node.
Crafting’s reqs could probably take a hit so the gathered amounts can take a hit too, but half the problem seems to be that bots can zero in on nodes.
AGS does not have the wherewithal to handle bots as they’re currently attempting to, at least.
When our server was locked, a wave of bots were removed, a small number were still about but not enough to cause an issue gathering materials and it was so nice not having them swarming the server. Now our server has been unlocked and not only are there new bots but higher level bots have been transferred in.
I always follow any character i suspect as a bot before reporting them, Some i have labeled “premium” bots because they have been programmed with slightly more advanced tactics such as being in a faction, being in a company, using titles, wearing skins (mostly the free winter hat etc), wearing refining outfits, looting boxes and climbing low level rocks.
They can be harder to spot but they also do things a player would NEVER do which ultimately gives them away.
I have never seen a GM on our server and would be very happy to help them locate these bots and help keep the server “clean”.
Having instanced nodes like the chests, would be an amazing addition and would mean that you have the choice to gather for yourself or still buy from the market if you dont want to grind.
I think knowing who you are buying from would also be helpful, i very rarely but materials from the TP because i dont want to give my hard earned gold to a bot seller.
I mean considering I have found 4 just on 1 route in 2 days should let you know how big the problem actually is… I literally started a separate YouTube channel just to post the video evidence when I report them through the online form. I got tired of the video being on my regular YouTube channel …
I’t seems that my server Midggard have had a cleaning session when it comes to bots. I’ve noticed that close to all the bots i knew about seem to be perma offline now, and i dont see or notice new bots when i’m out gathering… So something have finaly been done i feel /clap Now i just hope that they are able to hold it at a good low lvl going forward 
Bump!
Yes, this topic needs to stay open.
Yea I’ve seen a lot of Bots lately, albeit AGS doing a good job keeping them at bay, there now seems to be a surge.
@Shadow_Fox I’m just curious though, how does in-game Reporting get done exactly? I know it was talked about during the Dev videos but it wasn’t really delve into exactly (forgive me if I missed it). So for instance, yesterday there was a Bot cutting down trees, I reported it and stayed with them from a distance for an extra hour and saw nothing happen to them. I’m just wondering how the process works from when an in-game report is sent.
Also to note for those wondering, yes trees I know there’s plenty of them, though the bots usually hang out in WW. And for those wondering how I know it was a Bot, first off, their name is usually “xfgdfgh”, they don’t belong to a faction either. I was with him for 45mins prior to reporting, he had a predetermined route that he took all the time, stopped at every tree, even the stumps that were chopped and continued, then went back to settlement, puts up on TP/Stores it and repeats the exact route. Obviously it’s just “Tree’s” and other Nodes are more important but regardless it’s still a bot exploiting the game.
Thanks!
Classic bot behavior. During the Xmas holiday and until I quit in disgust, there were 3 company bot groups that literally took over 3 popular southern harvesting spots. Recorded oodles of video. Other players also reported. Eventually they disappeared, but it took MONTHS.
I keep saying this and will until I am blue in the face. AGS HIRE SERVER MODERATORS!!! Give these people one or two servers to moderate. When an in-game bot report is sent in the moderator can teleport directly to the suspected player. Verify the report and ban on the spot. If the suspected bot is not removed then message back to the player who did the report. Transparency is important and we as players need to see what is being done.
3 bots in one capture, reporting and seeing them “offline” takes ages.
Common already !
@Shadow_Fox @MinerTarv MinerTarv
Please do someting more about these bots (pattern behaviour anti-cheat/ honeypot nodes, real players don’t stop at an empty resources more then once in x time), or give us ‘the players’ something to disrupt these bot in-game.
Personally no able to see direct effect after a report (weeks/ months sometimes) and unable to do something is frustrating and therefore loses interested more and more… .
*What is your character name in New World: Helplessss
*What server/world did you experience your issue on: Abaton
All the farm bot users are spamming the forum saying that the bots have been reduced…
NO
And some people are actually quoting AGS’s claim that they banned 9000 bots so far.
NO
The 9000 bots were not permanently banned. AGS only gives short term bans for farm botting, 24 hours is the norm. Those 9000 bans only kept them off the servers for a day or so.
The blanket Russian I.P. ban eliminated more bots than the devs ever have. But that was only short term. Many of them are back using VPNs.
Yep back in full force on Yggdrasil.
False promises.