So. I am here to adress the problem with Roger and Daisy (me).
First of: we mainly started here because friends of us complained about the botting situation, and we really enjoy brining down botters. This mean both killing and reporting.
Kinda fast we got to the conclusion that we needed to put down more hours on exping and so because of the severe problem that this server have. Botters standing in almost impossible places to reach, botters having way more resources then we could ever imagine. And even tho it’s this big with botting, still almost no one got banned.
So we made a knight & a paladin + 2 sorcs. Because lvl 8 chars with magic level 1 and firefields didn’t do enough attention. (This was in June when both me and Roger got summerbreak.
The things that we noticed was kinda scary, because this is how we understand the server: some people are allowed to bot and behave in some manors, and some people are not allowed to bot and behave in such manors.
I can only speak for myself, that I don’t use bots, mouserecorder or what ever people in game-chat accuse me of. 2 chars I played is banned because of “macro”. This is when these said chars have been involved in disputes with (what I guess is) GMs friends/family.
Some people we killed and reported got banned almost instantly. While some people was left standing full afk botting for a month + without even getting answers about the reports. And when these got killed/roughed with, we were instantly the bad guys.
During this month of playing (16th June -> today on Daisy) we looted enough runes to not even be able to try and hunt with them. Would be hard to even try and throw this much runes in a dustbin. We speaking multiple 100+ bps each day. Different runes. If we put in the amount of fish, it’s just embarrassing for the administration. We found 6 bps fish walking from Thais -> Venore, reported a lot of chars and none of these were banned. They all throwing their fish inside a guildhall, whom had bedmakers making runes on the clock (we speaking second-military-training accuracy), 24/7. Making runes safely for people that you see on the top board in high scores of this server. Just add a couple of the bed makers to VIP and laugh/cry for yourself. These chars: never been banned, tho countless of reports.
So Roger had an idea, let’s look how much you can cheat. He put 2 chars online, nothing.
He put 3 chars online, nothing. 4, 5, 6, nothing. Adding 1 char each day to max it out. (At this point online list high scores started to raise on the server, making the server look alive.) some of the chars did nothing, others fished, others made exevo pan, and some even made runes. Never got banned tho, no matter the amount of chars, hours, places to stand. We laughed and cried because this is embarrassing. At this point we didn’t use the runes, because we were still looting enough to both level, sell and administrate everything we did.
Then something happened, we tracked down one of the bot farms main char, and trapped him while he was buying blank runes, we don’t know how many bps he was going to buy, but when he had 4 almost 5 bps with bps 80-100 bps under himself we ran in and took the bag.
Roger pushed the bag to me, and trapped the main char, and I sent the bag with parcel to myself.
That same night (after 7-8 nights of botting) somehow all Rogers chars got deleted? At this time he was MCing 10 chars. None of the main chars went away tho. So the next day Roger made 2 new ones thinking this was an rare exception. And he was banned after 5 minutes(!) meaning no one could have reported, no one could have even noticed these chars. GM must have been “hunting” him.
So we said that “let’s just report people now” and we started a full day of work to report, writing to GMs, sending in proofs and got 3(!) out of like 20-30 reports banned. And at this point I found the most suspect cheaters, and contacted Amoaz himself and asked about this. This is a char standing in an impossible to access area, online a lot of hours, and I asked him about this char. Amoaz replied that “he is not botting and he is reachable” and at that same second Amoaz wrote this to me, that said character just changed spot. From inaccessible place south of Drefia, to outside blue djinn castle (like literally outside the castle doors). A lvl 15 sorc who had been online in the same spot for couple days (unreachable spot) just decided to move (got teleported) by GM to another place. Ofcourse I killed him and the incredible loot of the char beeing unreachable was leather helmet and bag with red apple in. So this is either: Spoof char, or a maker straight out of rook teleported to unreachable place by GM, and when found teleported out of there.
We just shaked our head and we didn’t know what to do. The problems is just to severe. So last night we leveled to lvl 60, to bring down 2 chars standing behind level 60 door, almost all day all the time. And when we killed this said chars, GM banned Roger for macro, this time using the rule 9d (first and only time I’ve seen this rule beeing used). And in this matter he also banned some of my chars, that never been botted/reported or whatever. This I guess because they were associated with Roger.
So what will happen now? Will GM ban everyone that cheats? And their main chars and their friends?
Looking at the online counter I guess not, because the people we killed and reported frequently is still online. And their main chars is still gaining levels with botted runes. Even tho we both reported main and bot chars.
Just head over to website and look at a character killed by us, or field item the last month, and it is to 95% a botter. Sometimes we do have wrong, and for that I am truly sorry, we were only meaning to take down the botter teams. And for the guys “looking for our mains” or associating us to the war teams, we are just 2 guys brining down botters. Nothing more, nothing less. (I’ve heard “friend of GMs” and a lot of BS about us haha)
And the last part: if you got a server with 100~ players, you could take care of the botting problems in around 30 minutes/day if you want to have “strict no bot policy”. If you don’t take any of my characters VIP list and just look up everyone at that VIP and you got a good start.