Tired of bots running around. Ideas to overcome bots

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I think the concept of this game is very good compared to similar games I’ve ever played. Cutting trees, harvesting fruit, skinning animals, crushing rocks, all in one package in the New World game. The level of each skill is very complex. And many other excellent features.

Move freely from region to region, unfortunately there is no feature to summon mounts here, maybe my idea is that Dev should add a feature to summon corrupted mounts that have been tamed at Max Level Side Quest.

Maybe from some people traveling with azoth is very simple and easy, but it is very boring. Just waiting for “loading”, and boom “you here now”.

Talk about bots gathering freely without punishment, making everyone envious and wondering. Why do they keep going online and not being penalized? You can report bots and block them. And you can see them stay online on the Block List. This of course made some players jealous because they could sleep well without having to worry about AFK and punishment.

From here I kept thinking about ideas how to deal with these bots, one of which I built a camp fire in their path, this only hindered their progress. I think Dev should think for the best solution to overcome this bot.

I have a few ideas that might work:

1. Admin
In each World, Amazon requires one admin online 7/24 to monitor player complaints. But this effective but not efficient, certainly requires work shifts and more effort.

2. Captcha
Enforce Captcha for everyone who goes around the same path more than 5 times, or authorizes each player to test the bots. Captcha can be a short question like “Enter your nickname, Enter your level, Enter your current Inn location” or something like that. And the Captcha appears only once every 3 hours or every 6 hours so that it is not misused by players. But this will definitely be considered by bot creators to develop their programs to overcome Captcha.

3. True Damage
Give bots True Damage 99% of their HP whenever someone reports them with suspected Bot Behavior. Of course this has a cooldown and certain conditions so that it is not misused by other players. Conditions can be Direct Messages that are not replied to 10 times in a row, have reported the bot more than 5 times, followed the bots for more than 10 minutes, and so on.

4. Force Logout
The last way is to use witnesses. Players must gather at least 2 or more witnesses to report suspected bots at the venue. When the conditions are met and they report the bot with accusations of “Bot Behavior” then the bot is automatically logged out of the game, and will be penalized for 10 minutes or according to the conditions.

So that’s purely from my opinion, hoping that New World will be the most fun game to play, and the most anti-bot game. Maybe the comments below can give a better idea than mine.

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Get 4 people and build 4 tents around him. So you will block him inside and he is trying to walk out for hours :slight_smile:

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Let’s eradicate the bots by sending screenshot evidence here, don’t forget to include the nickname and server.

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Hear me out, if AGS can’t ban them quick enough why not try a different approach? Have suspected bots be autoed into a special PvP flag. A black diamond with a white flag in the middle. Killing the bot drops whatever they’ve been farming. To prove their not a bot they’d have to actually file a support ticket. It’ll become a sport.

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Yeah that is a good idea, instead of banning them better kill and take all their stuff, LOL :rofl:

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Just give me the ban button and player reports. There wouldn’t be bots left on my server that got past level 20.

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Great, you might get paid by Amazon for doing a great job. :sweat_smile:

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2.) Captcha
Oh, i player is on the way to my Ori Spot, so test him, so he is slowed and i will get the Ori… Would work really fine and the player base would not abuse it.

3. True Damage
Huh, there is someone on my route and he is fighting against a wolf. hey, report him so that he will get a damage input of 99% of his hp so he will die.
Would work really fine and the player base would not abuse it.

4. Force Logout
Huh, there is someone on my route, hey squad let us report him we are 4. so that we can farm the ori without annoying competition.
Would work really fine and the player base would not abuse it.

Only Point 1 is a good idea, but we should actually have GM on our server by now. This was announced in the Feb. update video.

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Yeah, Agree with that. That’s why I keep thinking about how to prevent players from using the features on their own.

Unfortunately until recently when I typed “Any GM online here? I got some problem with bot here.”

No one answer and no one reply my chat, we’ve been turning a blind eye to bots for too long.

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Yep, i also never saw a GM, i hope that a GM is looking on the bots because of my bot reports. i don’t think the react to chat, while when u would need 100’s of GM per Server. :slight_smile:

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Gonna fix the bot problem with one simple update.

Forced flagging for harvesting and mining :slight_smile:

Or just add an area that’s forced flag.

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PvP.

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Only true form to get rid of bots is getting rid of fixed nodes, not forcing others on pvp, you’re smarter than this. Aren’t you?

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I’ve reported these bots hundreds of time. AGS won’t even bother to ban them, why would you think that they would implement all these ideas??

AGS DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BOTS. Plain and simple

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Hi.
I have great and simply fix for it :slight_smile: just turn on pvp for everyone and delete pve mode from game :wink:

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My opinion here is that the players need some self moderation tools that are reasonable and have some fail safes, and checks and balances.

  • Introduce a hidden Karma system that only customer service and game moderation teams can contribute to. Rate up and down players based on their forum participation and contributions as well as their in game reports. When someone reports someone who gets shown to be doing something they shouldn’t be up rate those players. Someone participates in greiving via the report system, or gets reported and shown to have been breaking the tos rate them down.
  • Escalate issues reported by players with higher Karma ratings with the understanding those players are more likely to be reporting actionable issues. Don’t ignore any tickets just prioritize those from credible sources.
  • Introduce player triggered moderation events in game. Specifically when your accused of botting by a predetermined number of players then your sent to purgatory, if your accused of harrassment in chat you get silenced for fifteen minutes, etc etc.
  • Purgatory would be a place that bots go that you cant port out of. It’s a AI trap. Essentially its a maze/puzzle filled with randomized features that you can’t overcome via pre programmed scripts but that are blatantly obvious to a human with below average problem solving skills. Track successfuly course completions and use that as a metric for setting a timer. Failure to exit in that time is considered a failure. Failure results in a short term suspension. Get enough of these or get sent to purgatory enough times in a certain time frame and flag that account for immediate review by a human GM. Successfully navigating the course would result in ability to exit and immunity. Maybe even a status buff on them showing they have been to purgatory and survived for the duration of their immunity. So other players can see this and report situations where they are still observing bot behavior outside but that they seem to have cleared purgatory. Again flagging teh account.
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great idea. the half of our company would quit the game instantly, as many others from pvx or pve companies. but hey, low pop server are not interessting for bots, so they would also quit. so there are no bots anymore.

maybe the server would shut down because of an peak of 5K Player a day, but who cares.

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yeah too bad AGS would have this bug out and get random people killed and looted dry while not being a bot lmao…

Imagine, you’re in OPR, and you die… but somehow respawn with no gear… there is no way you’d be getting everything back 100%. otherwise yeah, good idea. I just doubt AGS could do this smoothly.

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Don’t even need to get paid lol. Just want them gone =)

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Easy. Pay me and I’ll decimate their ranks across all servers and regions. Many others would gladly jump at the opportunity. They care too little about the playerbase to even think that, though.