Are Bots Really Becoming a Problem?

[Solarverse]

43 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

There are keyboard and mouse splitters, allowing you to pass the same keyboard and mouse functions to several computers at once. I would think that it wouldn't work well for interior missions because of movement slop, but for street-sweeping and instanced outdoor missions, it would probably work okay. Why someone would put that kind of investment into farming CoH, however, is beyond me.

 

Even that I would think be painfully obvious. Two characters, doing the exact same thing at the exact same time. It might even be more obvious than somebody having an alt account follow them using the same power over and over. The person who accused me did nothing more than look at our builds, discover they were the same, seen that our characters matched outfits and looks, and then of course, we know what transpired from there...nothing good.

However, like Ghost said, chances are they simply had a bad day. At least I hope that is all it was.

 

 

Edited August 27, 2023 by Solarverse

[Ironblade]

On 8/25/2023 at 4:32 PM, Solarverse said:

So now, I just have to ask, is botting a problem in this game or was this person just being paranoid over nothing?

Not only paranoid, but delusional and stupid.

Bots haven't been a problem except for a relatively brief time back on live.

[Gentoo]

The only issue I'd ever have with bots in this game would be if they were spamming the broadcast, lft, help, etc channels with adds or something.

 

Why should I or anyone care if people "bot" to play the game? Just don't team with them if you don't like it *shrug*

 

This game doesn't force you to team with anybody.

[Captain Fabulous]

On 8/25/2023 at 6:01 PM, Snarky said:

Is this text wall generated by one of those new chat bots?

I think the most unbelievable part of it is that Solarverse has a live-in girlfriend.

[ninja surprise]

On 8/26/2023 at 7:55 PM, Solarverse said:

The person who accused me did nothing more than look at our builds, discover they were the same, seen that our characters matched outfits and looks, and then of course

 

The few times I've seen this I thought, "Oh cool, a couple" or good friends or something, and assume they're good players because they put effort into it.

The Player Info window shows their backstory, if any, powers, badges, and set bonuses.  If they have those then they're active players and I'm happy to have 'em along.

I'll most likely add a 5-star note on them during the missions so I can recognize them later.

[Clave Dark 5]

2 hours ago, Gentoo said:

The only issue I'd ever have with bots in this game would be if they were spamming the broadcast, lft, help, etc channels with adds or something.

 

Why should I or anyone care if people "bot" to play the game? Just don't team with them if you don't like it *shrug*

 

This game doesn't force you to team with anybody.

Allow me to show you my pet peeve ha ha: Halloween hotel leeching.  They can walk away from the keyboard while I click the doors to get things going, then get a chance at the pie when something drops. 

 

This is like inviting yourself to someone else's farm, and then they can't make you leave.  Imagine if you could do that in AE, people would screeeeam.

[UltraAlt]

On 8/25/2023 at 5:46 PM, Bionic_Flea said:

What's wrong with WifeBots?