@jairone said in Preventing Bots in Arboreus:
@whisper The debuff being one player based and toggled by that player means it will be abused. Not a good idea.
Now, allowing the player involved click through to remove it... might seem acceptable, however that just means that some people will essentially spam abuse them to annoy (grief) others.
Sadly, there isn't a really good shortcut option (that I have seen work) that doesn't involve misery for legitimate players.
Yeah. If there was an easy answer, it would be widely known. I just saw MapleStory 2 being engulfed by bots and them recently making drastic steps to stop it that has ended up hurting their player base in a pretty uneven trade off.
Well they don't have to make it a pop up capcha that griefs people like a lot of games like to make it. If it places a debuff on the player that could be the signal they have it and there could be a "Not a bot" button somewhere on the UI that allows them to take the debuff off.
This would make spamming it pointless, and they could offer like a 5-10 minute immunity from it after someone does the capcha successfully. And if people still use it to just randomly grief people they could increase the cost of the item to deter that kind of behavior.