Posts made by Logain

@spoletta said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)feel unnatural to a player(...)

I guess we simply have different standings when it comes to that, I never really liked 'feelings' to be involved when there are serious consequences to false positives.

@spoletta said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)it has multiple very easy ways (which I will not list for obvious reasons).

Yes, mysterious black magic, something else I don't really believe in

And at that point, I'm going to leave the discussion with a shrug.

@spoletta said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)Our experience tells us that It was always extremely obvious that they were botting(...)

Well, maybe we simply have different experience there.

@spoletta said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)It isn't hard at all to distinguish them(...)

So, please, go ahead and answer the question you dodged.
How do you tell a bot from a young, non native speaking, real player with the currently available tools?

@spoletta said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)no targeting and a few other issues(...)

I'm not sure how 'no targeting' is supposed to be an issue, or what these other 'few issues' should be.
The implementation details certainly vary depending on the route you're taking (ML/GOAP/BT/state machine) and if you're directly grabbing the datastream, or if you're working on the graphical interface, but so far I haven't stumbled across any potential issues.

@spoletta said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)This already means good chances of being PKed, but mostly means that it is very likely that one shoots a message in Discord and a GM intervenes

You can't have it both ways, you're going to have to settle for one.
If the amount of playerkilling is high enough to scare of a bot user, who can simply run their bot in the background 24/7 with no additional effort, then you're going to have scared of hundreds or even thousands of less enduring normal players who got killed over and over again.
And how would they know they are up to a bot? Just rotate though the 3-5 character slots randomly at random interval, assign them to random tasks. If anything Fractured is the perfect game to run a bot, because there's sooo much you can bot, it is so easy to get to a point where the bot can be self sustaining and there's no ways of direct communication.

@LordSkykal said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)The game offers hardly any lucrative incentives to bot(...)

There's several, from rabbit paws to ore, from mandrake to legendary summoning materials.

@LordSkykal said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)There are red players who will farm the bots(...)

As elaborated and explained several times before, this doesn't work well on Syndesia and not at all on Arboreus.

@LordSkykal said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

(...)There are game masters who will ban bots(...)

No offense to you, but I doubt in the ability to determine a well written bot.
A stupid simple macro, sure, no problem. A dedicated bot? How do you tell that from a young, non native speaking, real player with the currently available tools?

@spoletta said in Feature Spotlight - Seasons:

Bots will hardly be an issue on this game(...)

Because nobody's playing this game, or why would bots not be a problem?

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@Rife said in Legends need to change:

(...)You probably don't understand the competitive mindset(...)

It's amusing you say this, well, you haven't been here for long and probably didn't read my previous posts on related subjects.

@Rife said in Legends need to change:

(...)We'd always choose the most "optimal" route to get that (...) competitive PvP players would always choose optimal routes of doing things(...)

Most certainly.
Which validates my point, PvP for the sake of PvP is not the content.

@Rife said in Legends need to change:

(...)You mean the <10 PvE players that don't even do legends? Not sure why they would be scared off. Nobody is even doing legends right now(...)

I'd argue there's more than 10 PvE players and they do try hunting legendary creatures at times.
I'm not sure it is 'nothing to lose', if it's your company and career that's on the line.