Trading Bots are destroying the game

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Cult_of_Resine#3258 wrote:

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TrueAussie#1752 wrote:

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yosheee89#3525 wrote:

can some please explain to me how they know there are trading bots? How do you actually know a player is a bot?
Saying someone bought an item quickly is not proof of anything...

Welp! Plenty of videos on it now showing it in action. Its killing the fair trade

showing what?

The botting in action. Explains everything this thread has been discussing.

And with the amount of sniping bots happening now while the game is actually a PAID early access... needs to definitly be fixed before 1.0 otherwise it will be pointless trying to attempt any trades when it becomes free to play and a million bot accounts can be made.

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Darksiders25#5704 wrote:

Hi,

With the new offline trade feature the trading bots issue has gotten way worse.
I've been monitoring the trade website and items appear on the trade site and in less than 1 second they are already gone. Idk how its even possible to teleport in-game so fast because for me it normally takes 5 seconds (loading teleporting screen).

Is it possible that people scan the trade website and they see what was listed for sale before players can see the item by using the "live search" feature?

There must be some sort of a delay. GGG I hope you'll do something about this.
it's plain cheating!


#GGG

GGG should implement random delay for each player that try to access newly listed item, so human have a chance against bots.

Yeah... maybe adding a time limit to prevent Hideout hopping would help a bit, Would add a bit of fairness that if you are getting one item, it gives a chance for someone else to get another listed. But again, when its free to play, wouldnt be much stopping them from creating 50 bots to oppose that

Only people who "made up price" by using in person trade, then buying the same item cheap from offline trade would complaint about this

if there were no bots this game would be more dead than 0.2

weird take tbh

Lol too many people in this thread think bots dont exist when you can literally watch them live stream their botting and development proccess. Yes its a huge problem thats why your seeing so many banned accounts in the market right now.

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scriptmonkey#2846 wrote:

Lol too many people in this thread think bots dont exist when you can literally watch them live stream their botting and development proccess. Yes its a huge problem thats why your seeing so many banned accounts in the market right now.

Yeah, my take is the ones saying that or defending against the bots are the ones themselves using bots ;) why else would you not oppose it right haha

CAN WE PLZ BAN PLAYERS THAT EXPLOIT THIS GAME?!

Srsly.....
I just read about ppl explaining how it's done...

Why the fear to ban who really destroy game experience of other players by flipping and inflating the game economy?

Just start doing it and expose it and ppl will stop exploiting out of fear.

If none is done, ppl will always will try to find new ways to exploit even worst.

Educate them, simple as that.

It is impossible to get anything even at a slightly lower price. Bots take everything. Imagine wanting to get a map with a few exalts less and the bots take it to put 1 exalt less than the last one. It doesn't matter if you are above the item on the trade site and spam to go to the hideout, the bots will have taken the map and 2 more from 2 others. Now we don't have to wonder if it is really like that as a video came out on YouTube how they do this. They don't load graphics and click on the items in 0.1 sec in 1 second they have already gone there and taken it and then to the next hideout. Of course a few seconds later you see this item at the price that the others have. This of course results in the prices always being very high. I went to buy a headhunter from someone and it was at least 40 for sale. Of course you don't even wonder if this is a bot or not. It certainly won't be easy to ban all these bots that may be under a vpn but you can take measures if you want to fix some things. Put a random delay time on the purchases as the guys above said. Ban vpns see who buys things in 0.1 seconds, put restrictions on someone buying something after a few minutes after their last purchase, put bids (this way you will also protect new players from losing their money) in any case I'm sure you can see who is ruining the game. On the other hand if the bots go away it may seem like half of the people are playing this game and that will be bad for ggg. When I think about how I farm all day for a few divines and some people get thousands of divines in a short time it's just unfair. And Logically, they convert the items they buy into currency and then sell them on sites that sell currency and make real money. It's such a nice game, it's a shame we only play SSF because of this situation.

Just add 5-10 min CD after buy item.