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[Mephisto]

Believe it or not, I just read up on that very issue recently. It's been a while since I signed up for my GMail account, but Google supposedly has that sort of security. It was cracked, but the bot can only get one in a few hundred right or something like that.

The correct term is "captcha."

[Mover#005]

my rate is about 1 in 5.

scary.

[Zironic]

Its funny, they run around and farm - running from GMs like crazy as not to get caught. And during breaks they take off their shirts and smoke outside. Man, I would buy an end-game DF fortress though...

[Mechanoid]

quote:Originally posted by jetchung:

Wat?

[Khosan]

quote:Originally posted by Wolfius:
<STRONG>

What? He - probably a spam bot - is posting ads for a World of Warcraft power-leveling service(which iirc is also against WoW's terms of service, or something like that - dunno, I don't play).</STRONG>

I do believe this needs a big whoppin'

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

[gimli]

I remember back in the days when I used to play WoW....on my server these gold farmers were getting caught and banned quite a lot, yet they always returned with a new account...incredible.
Also as a funny note, their english was HORRIBLE, I was barely able to understand them when they were talking or advertising in the trade channel.
 

[ March 23, 2008: Message edited by: gimli ]

[Tuv]

WoW gold-farming isnt done by human-beings anymore, they have all graduated to the much cheaper Bots. And all the people that lost their jobs to bots, were re-hired to spam all areas of teh interwebz.

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by Tuv:
<STRONG>WoW gold-farming isnt done by human-beings anymore, they have all graduated to the much cheaper Bots.</STRONG>

Reminds me of one of the guys in this book, "Play Money: Or how I quit my day job and made millions trading virtual loot."  This guy bought 50 computers and a large room to keep them in.  Wrote a bot, booted up Ultima Online, and set them going.

To keep from being banned by the GMs he knew what kinds of questions the GMs would ask to determine if an account was a bot or not.  The bots could detect the GMs entering the area, could talk, and could listen.  His bots got more and more advanced--GM entered the area, bot log off: "BBL, gotta pee"--and the GMs got smarter and smarter.

Now his bots see the GM enter the area and they text message the guy.  He comes running and takes control as the GM asks, "What color is this wand?"

[Wolfius]

quote:Originally posted by Khosan:
<STRONG>

I do believe this needs a big whoppin'

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH</STRONG>

Yeah, facepalm - but it was really late and I was dead tired, so   :p

[Othob Rithol]

quote:Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>

Reminds me of one of the guys in this book, "Play Money: Or how I quit my day job and made millions trading virtual loot."  This guy bought 50 computers and a large room to keep them in.  Wrote a bot, booted up Ultima Online, and set them going.

To keep from being banned by the GMs he knew what kinds of questions the GMs would ask to determine if an account was a bot or not.  The bots could detect the GMs entering the area, could talk, and could listen.  His bots got more and more advanced--GM entered the area, bot log off: "BBL, gotta pee"--and the GMs got smarter and smarter.

Now his bots see the GM enter the area and they text message the guy.  He comes running and takes control as the GM asks, "What color is this wand?"</STRONG>

I used to have a funny video of two of my bots working healing together, having a scripted conversation. There is a GM that shows up "Hail GM" "How ya doing Hood-boy?", talks about 10-12 exchanges with the bots, leaves, comes back and asks "Didn't I see you guys here yesterday having the same conversation?" "How ya doin hood-boy" "Hail GM" "How ya doin hood-boy" BAN. BAN. Forgot to add the don't repeat code to the random greeting.

[numerobis]

@othob: awesome.

I was a prolific botter on Travian (partly because the game was only slightly amusing in its own right, so I took to programming and learning html).  Our little group -- one player per person -- had automated trade and precise timing for moving armies around; we could fight off someone 10x stronger.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for people to get 20x bigger than us, at which point we needed to join mega-alliances, and it got much less fun.

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by Othob Rithol:
<STRONG>I used to have a funny video of two of my bots working healing together, having a scripted conversation. There is a GM that shows up "Hail GM" "How ya doing Hood-boy?", talks about 10-12 exchanges with the bots, leaves, comes back and asks "Didn't I see you guys here yesterday having the same conversation?" "How ya doin hood-boy" "Hail GM" "How ya doin hood-boy" BAN. BAN. Forgot to add the don't repeat code to the random greeting.</STRONG>

Nice.  Reminds me of the Mexican (or insert other ethnicity of choice) who riding a bicycle over the boarder with a big bag of sand on his back.  Border patrol stops him, searches the sand, and lets him go.  He does this every day for 20 years.  Finally the guard says, "It's my last day today, and I've been watching you carry bags of sand across the boarder for 20 years now, must be a lot of sand."

"Sand?  Ha, you have no idea how many bikes I've smuggled across the boarder!"

Well, then there's the one of the woman caught speeding and tells the cop her husband just had a heart attack and she's on the way to see him, so he lets her go.  Catches her the next day, same story.  Whoops.  Caught smuggling coke!

Gotta love people who catch (and esspecially the ones that don't catch) the obvious!

In my "botting" experience I never did anything fancy.  I only botted SL and there I didn't have to do anything fancy, only got banned from one place once because the owner saw that I was active (I had to have the account stand and then sit again every 20 minutes or so) but didn't reply to chat.  Oh well.  I should liquidate those L$, I'd get about two grand out of it.  I'm not doing the camping anymore (having my desktop's video card overheat and not get a replacement for 3 weeks kinda made me realize how pointless the opperation was, or at least how time consuming it was and that, sure, I'd been doing it for two and a half years, but...do I really need to keep going?)

Hard part now is going to be getting that money out of the bank it's in.  And it's true value (a number of things went down one after the other making my investings hard to withdraw, as well as not worth as much--I think by now things have steadied out, I'm not sure, I haven't really logged in since September when my vid card died).