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[Jiaaki]

Agree!! Since that's an obvious case. But in many situation, it is not that obvious right? Especially leveling bot. They keep changing the map and they also use the real email. Let's suppose you are a player and I am a GM.

Oda: Wait why don't you just give me an in game visit and see if I am a bot.
Me: Oh that's be cause the third party program can alert the user when some one talk to a bot. So it's not necessary for me to give an in game visit. Accordong to server log you play like 20 hours per day and that exceed the human ability.

One week later Oda create new character and then get banned again after playing for a while.
Oda: Hey why do I get banned now? I play only 10 hours per day.
Me: Oh that's because the third party program can set up the starting time for botting and can also automatically close itself for a given period of time.
Oda: What the !??

See? In game visit is a must for most case otherwise everyone, even they never do botting, can get banned using two simple reasons as above.

WTF?!! Will GM ban me if I play 18 hrs a day? I sleep 5 hrs a day and spend most of the time on RO. I know I play hard like a bot but I'm definitely not a bot.

[Corvus]

WTF?!! Will GM ban me if I play 18 hrs a day? I sleep 5 hrs a day and spend most of the time on RO. I know I play hard like a bot but I'm definitely not a bot.

This is not the case. Oda was giving an example. We are able to tell from logs if someone is using a program, but we also do in-game tests to cover our bases. When testing for an automated program, we use all methods at our disposal in case one of the methods does not work. It creates a redundancy that ensures we only suspend accounts using such programs.

As the saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Of course, when I use that phrase, my cat usually ends up pooping in my shoes.

[Kimmy]

The GM Team works off of the tickets they receive as these allow them to quickly target troublesome characters. In many cases, the tickets they get work well to find and catch botters but a lot of times we aren't getting bot reports. The GM Team handles Value Added Services, Hack investigations, bugs, investigating RMT, tech support, account support, payment verification and much more so they aren't able to patrol on a constant basis. They aren't just banging rocks together on the GM Team.

Now as a community/in-game guy, I have a little more freedom to do patrols and remove botrings. As I post in any bot related thread:

-Send me a forum PM if you have a bot to report, I don't need screenshots a name and class will do
-Mass bots I can remove in large numbers, give me one name and a dozen can be banned at a time

Oh good. [: PMing you then.

[Ralis]

Of course, when I use that phrase, my cat usually ends up pooping in my shoes.

That's why I'm more of a dog person.

[Fibrizzo]

[Kimmy]

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