Re: Important information about botting.
Posted: 21 Oct 2008, 18:31
Bjørn wrote:My problem with the ban of IceRegen was that IceRegan was never properly informed about it. She did not know how long the ban would take (while it fact it was permanent), and she apologized for "botting" (even though she was merely doing was she saw most people do). Platyna did not feel any action was necessary from her side, so I decided to unban IceRegen.
In my opinion we can't keep up the current way of just banning people when they are observed to be botting, for a few simple reasons:
* The game currently does not communicate any useful information about a ban to the player (either no length, or in older versions, an incorrect indication of a 5 minute ban).
* It doesn't say anywhere what the punishment for botting is. I wasn't aware of people being banned indefinitely for botting, was I the only one?
* "Botting" is defined as holding Ctrl +A. This is simply ridiculous. As long as TMW is a game in which botting is so easy, it is plain silly to fight "botters".
I'm going to throw in my two cents here.
First: IceRegan WAS informed that botting was against the rules. I specifically told her on several occasions, and her response was always "I no bot, I talking" or something to that effect. I directed her to the wiki AND the forums which she is clearly capable of translating.
Second: who cares if the client lets her know why she's banned, or how long? She found her way to the forums, she can ask.
Third: apologize or not, she broke the rules(knowingly imo) and breaking rules have consequences. If indeed the moderator believes she genuinely didn't know botting was against the rules fine, she still shouldn't get to keep the spoils of her botting. Reset her character and let her know she's getting a second chance.
Finally: In my opinion you CAN keep up the current way of just banning people when they are observed to be botting, for a few simple reasons:
*There are several good honest players who play this game several hours a day and are constantly warning these people that they are breaking the rules. You have good moderators who seem to be doing there jobs. There is a wiki with the rules listed and forums with the rules listed. So until you can implement a way to add the ban information to the game, trust your moderators and maybe even some of your good honest players.
*Again, I(and others) remind players that botting=BANNED. If you didn't know then YES, you were the only one.
In the past few weeks there were several times when there were 5 or 6 bots in the mines at one time. Putting aside the fact that it makes it difficult to train in the mines with a bunch of bots stealing all the kills. It's disheartening to know I've spent a lot of hard hours training to get to my level, and a bunch of cheaters are able to do it so easily and NOW get away with it.
IMO, this is a slap in the face to all of us honest players and your moderators!
I may be done playing this game.........I don't know?
Sorry for the long post, thanks for reading.
MK
EDIT: Yesterday was the first day in the last few weeks I could train in the mines without the annoyance of bots. I forgot how fun the game could be.....THANKYOU Platyna!!!
