Bots and Cheats ...

Bots and Cheats -

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This thread is periodically archived, you can find older posts pre-2024 >here<

 

This is getting out of hand with bots. From my understanding, you can now "buy rank" of etertnal blacklight rank event, you can buy 1st, 2nd or 3rd position. The sellers promise they can make it wave 400+ with special bot. So fair players don't even have chance to make it in the ranking anymore, others will just "buy" the spot.

 

rank does not mean anything and hasn't for many years do to the bot issue that DO doesn't see as an issue or it would be gone. I look at as a very low self esteem, that you would cheat yourself in a game that your pretty much playing yourself. That said no one has cared about rank for many years only the new players for a short time.

 

Just got hit by a cbs while using prismatic shield ability and was still hit for over 200k damage, the bug abuse in this game is ridiculous.
Soon it will only be worth playing if you use a bot and all the bugs, make multiple accounts and play the ones when the others are ban and if you loose all accounts well just make more. The hundreds of liberators in 3-2 map in GA2 are proof BP only wants more accounts not necessarily more players.

 

Sure is a lot of bots still. Took a small break and skipped season 4 then came back to season 5 and there is just as may bot users now than there was before. Bigpoint clearly not even trying anymore to stop bots. Oh well easy 100 kills towards kill mission in 20 minutes a day I suppose!

 

"yup" the last ban was lifted and they are all back in full force. this is now a common occurrence, they ban them for a little bit, then let them back on and they start up again till the next ban. It seems to be a big part of the game now for cheaters.

 

They need to bring back drone damage.

 

100% agreed. By taking away this in the first place they gave way to the bots making it the broken mess it is now.

 

Strange how this thread was only created in 2022 and all earlier threads [2015 - 2020] were archived! Bots have been here since 2011 maybe a bit earlier, what happened to that thread

All i can say 100% is Bots are here to stay! AI is being pushed by all major Corporations', there is nothing we can do! I DON'T CONSENT TO BOTS!

 

Back when the new client came it was due to many players wanting "extras" that could not be implemented with old client. The more you have the more eyes you need or the more you ignore for the good of. Good of who? The players or the owners for the sake of money?

 

Are you referring to client version? I was not aware of actual changes per these "extras" you speak of.

The idea of giving us a place to talk about it did not come until 2015. Before that, the discussions were just shot down like those now outside this or the archived thread.

 

Before Skylab. boosters, unlimited ammo, unlimited ore as ships had a limit to what they could carry and many more "extras that could not be implemented on old client

 

lol I remember them saying "Its not possible in a browser based game"
Proof was given, people in TS would all get murdered by the 'one config skillz' and we would note not being able to lock or damage the guy.

They said it was impossible-- well where did jackpot battle go?

 

There were never any true hacks. People did however use exploits. Bigpoint likes to say that JPA was removed because of cheaters and the same people winning but the real reason is that they couldn't fund it anymore.

In the past people abused bugs where you could have low cooldowns on instashields or use a tech item with no cooldown. Some people even had equipment bugs on their accounts such that they could carry more lasers or guns than permitted. No one was ever able to claim a jackpot prize using a bug though because support would actually investigate your account before paying. They didn't really want to pay so they'd make sure you weren't using bugs or glitches. Towards the end of JPA, a group of players just stopped caring and knew DO wasnt going to pay them, so they just exploited nonstop causing DO to have to reschedule JPA so often that they just decided to shut it down. That plus their servers being unable to handle it.

 

What old client are you talking about?

 

Before Skylab. If you go to youtube you can see what old client looked like "that's when men were men and women were glad of it" Quote from the Three Stooges lol

 

So the old gaming interface. OK

 

There was a bit more to what was used in the JPB. Some of us were there for that. And of course the other TOS violations.

 

the ban waves state as a warning ,it last for 3 days i think . If this game lasts to 2025 it will be a miracle with the current Bigpoint policy .Now it is all about bot and sell account and us real players just stop playing sadly .

 

Hello Space Pilots,

Today we are executing another ban wave against players that are acting against our T&C. We’re banning players that could be detected for the first time for 3 days, removed their Honor Points and they will be removed from the rankings as well. We want to emphasize that such a temporary ban is a serious warning for those players who act against our T&C. If you continue to break the rules, you risk to lose your account!

Players that could be detected again after being warned during one of the last ban waves get their account permanently closed. But this warning is not necessarily done when we detect players breaking the T&C several times during the detection period. In this case, the account will be closed without any warning.

In case of any questions, please use our support form.

Your DarkOrbit Team

I say that's a total lie from the ones doing the banning, not once have i ever ever ever seen my rank going up with all these so called ban waves!