[SC] Bots and Cheats ... archive

You know it's kinda funny, We all know who the Botters and Cheaters are on our Servers. But when we say to them that they will get caught eventually, They Blantently answer back " Well, we will get 100% EP and Honor when we get back!"
So what is the deal, Dark Orbit? You gonna continue to Reward and Compensate the Cheaters? Or you going to do something for the Fair and Honest Players of this Game.
Kinda Annoying as hell to be heckled by the 270 Players who I should say were Rightfully Banned During Fair Play Initiative to see them reinstated by DO and given a Boost and have them rise in Rank when they Botted all their Uridium and Credits and Never spent a Dime on the game except for Level Up Boosters, Rebate, and Premium!

 

I been on this game so long I have seen many people die on this game, since 2008 so I have got use to the cheater don't bother me any more. I have learn to over look them no big deal Get use to it, because if the game is still here in another 10 years then bots will be there too, there is nothing they can do to get rid of them lol. No sense crying over it they been here since why back when.

 

You've been proven right. X-2, X-3 and X-8 maps are botter havens and you have to constantly dodge the MCCs. Woe unto you if you are in a clan, getting zeroed by these clowns (100 day wars... license to bully and push). I find the lack of understanding cause and effect by the brains behind this game rather sad. If you pile all the refuse of the game into one server, you end up with a garbage pit not a viable game. Try and do the 50 streuner quest in x-2 .. simple right? Not with 20 blatant botters hitting them before you can. Go to x-4. uppers and you are dodging the MCCs. A new player would be insanely stupid to stick around in this environment let alone spend money. Been cutting my playing time down even more than before. No fun to be found in this. I deeply regret renewing my premium (facepalm).

When businesses like store chains are failing they close locations and consolidate stores. We are living in the days of Dark Orbit being the Sears of online gaming.... lacking any hope of rekindling its glory days and desperately clinging to the dwindling client base, many of which are the causation of its ills. So they collapse servers, ignore the rot and keep downsizing until there is no point in continuing. Pity.

 

Do is fun now, a lot of people on the maps, big fights happening a lot of times.

I dont see that many more botters compared to before the merge(And i am playing on the Ga1+Ga5 merged server).

 

Glad you are having fun. I've never been a pvper nor a rank chaser so this game leaves me cold at present. I'm in the crockpot of US servers right now. The same US1 goofs botting before have more company now. Counted 12 or so likely bots in 2-2 last evening in just five minutes passing through it - half of whom are merged in. Hope your servers stay good. Good luck and fly safe.

 

You will always see botters everywhere, just try to have fun yourself and ignore them.

 

Its nice to have the botters. FREE kills go get them.

 

this guys right they need to do somethink no more to say

 

" the Sears of online gaming"......that is the best summary I have seen to date buddy...............
..........Sears in Canada are GONE.....................after heavy "MERGING".

Only stands to common sense that if you add the Bots from 2 servers together you get MORE BOTS.
You can really tell who spends for $kill and chase$ rank in this post.
...ENJOY what you can in this ONCE great game.........
...IN MY HUMBLE OPINION...............

 

Ok - So this thread has not been updated for 2 months!

The reason for this is quite simply that most people have accepted the fact that bots are now part and parcel of this game and will always be with us, and they have either quit or play in the knowledge bots are not just an element of the game now.

Going by physical observations of the maps i suspect around 70% of the playing population now bot in one way or another. The point of this post is to ask if someone could provide bot information in this thread such as , what they do, where you can get them and what to avoid etc. The reason for this is that 30% of the playing population is currently at a significant disadvantage and in order to make it a fairer playing field could bot information be provided here so that players can then make an informed playing choice.

Now yes now i know a CM is going to respond and say botting is against the t&c's blah blah blah, but come on get real, no one has been banned for 4 years now! No one even bothers to complain about it any longer. It is now just a part of the game that we all need to live for both the developers and the players.

The purpose of these posts would not be promote botting (the game does that by itself) but more about allowing all players the same information to make an informed choice and also to help keep the playing community safer by steering them away from more potentially dangerous sites as players currently risk doing.

I think its now time to take out heads of the sand and be able to speak freely about bots and what they do for this game and then allow players to make safer decisions for themselves.

Thanks,

Dark

 

Na, I don't think we need to be posting bot information here in the forum. If players want this information they can search it them selves.

I am a firm believer that dark orbit actually is involved in selling subscriptions for bots but pretends it's against them.

The T&C clearly states this is not allowed. It would be nice to see a ban surge happen. I'd prefer a "DELETE" surge.

-FT

Sometimes we can't choose the music life gives us but we can definitely choose how we dance​

 

Unfortunately a delete surge would now end the game as to the sheer percentage of players who bot, so its very unlikely to happen, especially as the vast majority of players have stopped asking for it, hence the very quiet thread.

Surely it would be better for players to be advised and pointed towards the safer places to search instead of sites in which they could be hacked or get virus's etc. Part of having a players community is about helping keep that community safe and supported.

Cant disagree that the T&C's states its not allowed but then again those words dont have an awful lot of weight behind them when your actually in the game watching 70% of the playing community running around botting!

Dark

 

live in the real world guys, the bots will NEVER be removed they get too much income from them,
and if you look at the events quests, they are all biased towards the botrs, (cheats).
they promote this game as a pvp game (ha ha ha, a cheats game more like ).
so just expect to be killed off the events and don't expect any rewards, because the cheats get them, as usual.
one last word, don't bother with support, they just don't give a monkeys.

 

At the end of the day; the best way to stop cheats is to make what they do useless. Most of them do it to get a strong ship because Uridium is expensive so the most simple solution is to make Uridium cheaper, but there is a few other ways I could think of, like;

* Stop making missions repetitive in a map that is known to be used for botting.
* Force players to move map often.
* Make PvP better again so people actually want to do it.
* Make a downloadable client because that will stop cheats immediately.
* Get help from a third-party to remove them, from another big company like Valve who wiped all their cheats from games pretty much immediately.

I mean that's all I got so far I guess you could also just accept it like you have been lately. But honestly banning them is not worth it in my opinion, I think you should just make using the bot software impossible. Maybe get a game developer to download it to see whats causing the issue?

That's not why they wont be removed. It's more that a large amount of player base uses them.

 

It would be telling to see how many 'top 100' players have been running 20+ hours per day. Even more telling is how many top 200 accounts have changed email addresses multiple times and logged in from different countries.

But its cool my son got a noob account and went back to his steam account as just doing the starter missions in lowers had him irritated as ships were skimming aliens all around him before he could shoot them. Nothing like the gate running leos, venoms and spearheads when you enter a map. But the really funny thing was when he saw UFEs popping aliens while home from school. They just play all day.

Nothing is done. Nothing has been done and nothing will be done about cheaters. Been that way since the first autolock and group attack program came out.

 

I ask all the CM's if they play and the answer i get is YES from all of them.....and even though they are only CM's one would think that if they would report unusally activity to the MODS or DEV's then something would be done its almost like the CM's dont see anything wrong or they already know nothing will be done, Oh well this game is still cheaper than me going to the Bar so i am still here

 

Many mods play... Ask yourself why its so secret who they are online and why they do nothing about clans running tools/apps.

And when you shake your head as it comes to you, place your credit card/gift card back in your wallet. If these players get free uri and dont have to waste money on items we have to pay for? Why are we paying?

 

i understand why players bot uri game way to exspensive for a thing we called uri ,could be called cans,mud anything there is no real value in real terms of cash.as for cheats i look at these players as sad cowards who hand in large groups due to not understanding the game or having the brain to learn how to fight.what makes it worst they dont trust the cheat so have to get large groups which now mess up the game for others .i feel sory for them and think there clan names should be named cowards as all those who do this are )happy hunting to the honest like me x......

 

If a lot of people knew the actual 'player names' for the CM(s), just imagine the inundation of questions and comments they would get from non-cm types about everything under the sun. They deserve a chance enjoy the game the same as any other player.

 

I hate to see that my prediction has come true. 2-8 US East ... I log in daily just to do the daily mission and grind a bit and no matter what time of day I'm in there, I see the same miscreants..er players... in there being greedy noobs and looking rather automated in their habits. Either they have an addiction or the Borg assimilated them to collect URI for their domination plans.

I can understand that there might be legalities and tech debt involved with bot squashing by BigPoint but for those of us who play by the rules it is very very frustrating to play in this environment. I'm giving it a chance but I don't see playing long term if there is not an improvement in the playability of the game in terms of cheating.

Very sad for two reasons. One, this was a great game for a good bit of its existence but ruined by thieves. Second, playing legit is excruciatingly frustrating in terms of finding other legit players to partner with and getting things done in the toxicity that is the current state of the game.