12 replies to this topic

[Arni007]

That is easy. Server should make a gm, wich name should be known everyone.
If someone see bot he should pm that gm. She or he will cheack that rly this is bot. That is easy and fast idea

Thats is only idea. But i think this is good idea. Today i say 7 diffrends bots on one map. On clock toward they are everywhere. Most of them are Rogue


Sorry for my english

[Xellie]

It would be nice and I believe an ingame reporting feature is in the works, in the meantime you should take the bots name and send in a report using this link :
https://support.warp...in/Default.aspx

[Arni007]

But if you use links this take a much time. If you write it to gm who is acctualy in game this will be faster and more effectiveness

[Senkasa]

But if you use links this take a much time. If you write it to gm who is acctualy in game this will be faster and more effectiveness

GMs cant be online 24/7, and I believe this has already been suggested many times.

Think about it, people could also PM the GM spamming them for free items, trying to talk to them, etc. It would make the job EVEN HARDER and in the end more difficult to even catch a bot because all the newbies love to bother GMs for their time.

I know what you're suggesting but it isnt very well thought out, support tickets are the MOST RELIABLE method at the moment because they can sift between good/bad reports.

[Arni007]

So it is easy. They should make few new gms.
That gms shouldn have more power, but the should have new abbility of banning peopel. If someone will pm they with spam he or she should be banned too for 3 or 5 days this is easy

[Arni007]

That gms could be players who are much intersted this. Chosen by a voting after they send CV

[Senkasa]

So it is easy. They should make few new gms.
That gms shouldn have more power, but the should have new abbility of banning peopel. If someone will pm they with spam he or she should be banned too for 3 or 5 days this is easy

You can't ban innocents for doing nothing but being curious. Also if you give power to regular players there is a potential for it to be abused and cause more problems for the official staff as well.

I'm sorry but I still do not agree with this suggestion.

Just use the support ticket system until if/when we have an actual in-game reporting function that can't be abused.

Edited by Senkasa, 26 October 2012 - 10:43 PM.

[Arni007]

I said they should have only one power more. Power of banning peopel.
If you arent agree with this idea. Try help me with improve it. BUT:
Hot line is still GOOD and fast idea.
We must fight with bots or they will change everything

Edited by Arni007, 26 October 2012 - 10:45 PM.

[Inubashiri]

So it is easy.

Usually when someone plays this card they have no idea what is. Let me clear up the misconceptions, no player or 3rd party will EVER have account banning power. Why? Because it can ONLY be done from within the Gravity office, its a back end tool only. No player will EVER have GM powers its a recipe for abuse...you're better off hiring new GMs...to that point it takes time training them and giving them the knowledge to know how to investigate and when to ban and when not to. You MUST investigate every report, you don't just auto-ban on report it doesn't work that way. If there was a hotline directly to the GMs they would never get any work done. Being a GM is not just sit around and play the game all day.

[QtThePie]

I said they should have only one power more. Power of banning peopel.
If you arent agree with this idea. Try help me with improve it. BUT:
Hot line is still GOOD and fast idea.
We must fight with bots or they will change everything

because you are much smarter than anyone who works at gravity or anyone who has posted on the forums before right?

trust me, whatever "easy" way you can think of, has been though of, discussed, and if not implemented due to a reason you cannot possibly understand with your limited knowledge of either mechanics/company politics or how human beings even interact.

take your volunteer banning gms for example

if i were to get the power right now and accuse you of botting and just ban you because you are annoying me, what would happen?
how can you guarantee whomever you elect as volunteer gm wouldn't be as corrupt as me?

24/7 GM on the clock, how much would that cost? Are you going to pay for that?

Do you know how long it takes a GM to ban a single botter?

Without that kind of information, how do you assume anything is "easy" or "simple"?

The only easy thing about it is typing it up on the forums and telling other people to get it done.

[edit] i don't really have anything against you having a suggestion, after all this is the suggestions forums. But the way you say how simple it is is rather naive.

Maybe you think it was well thought out, but what your suggestion ultimately resembles is no different than a little kid thinking "wouldn't it be nice if i could have ice cream for dinner? it's so simple, all i have to do is buy icecream!" without thinking about why people eat proper meals to begin with.

Edited by QtThePie, 31 October 2012 - 07:39 AM.

[Inubashiri]

No person outside the gravity office has BAN power, it happens in the office and in the office only. This fantasy that you can give a player ban power needs to stop being stated as I'm getting tired of stating it over and over again.

[Brolleun]

Final Fantasy XI, Guild Wars 1 & 2, World of Warcraft, Star Wars the Old Republic, Champions Online, City of Heroes & Villains, Aion, and The Secret World all have in-game features that allow players to report suspected botting or remote money transactions; and some of these games all range in the age of 1 to 10 years of release time, so why can't iRO give the players a feature to report the sweeping amount of bots seen f-winging like bosses? Everything has their pros and cons, and people who abuse reporting features are generally punished or warned, but yeah dem game masters have it so riz-ough--being paid to type and stuff.

Edited by Brolleun, 11 November 2012 - 01:59 AM.

[Inubashiri]

Cause those companies bring in way more revenue?