Dealing with Aion’s Bots and Gold Spammers
Today a new patch was deployed to the Aion servers and I cannot say I really agree with the major change in it:
1.5.0.11 Client Update
* All chat channels now have a level 10 restriction, both to join and participate
* Whispering now has a level 10 restriction,
* Players can receive whispers but cannot respond below level 10
* Players cannot send in game mail until level 10
* Players under 10 can still receive in game mail
* Players cannot search for ’who’ in game until level 10
* Players are now limited at the amount of in game mail you can send per hour
* If players exceed this limit, they will not be able to send mail. There is currently no message saying players have exceeded your limit
There was already a level five restriction set in place on channels and whispers, but now it was extended to level ten. I do not quite see how this is going to do anything to curb the gold spam. Now instead of waiting one hour to gold spam, they will have to wait three hours.
Currently, I do not think the gold spam is actually that terrible. It is not nonexistent, but it is nowhere near the "scrolling chat log" we had last week. The real problem currently is the botting situation. I am only level 31 and I have seen numerous bots all over the place. And with talking to some guildies, apparently there are sections in high level zones where you cannot get a single kill on a mob in because the place is so over-farmed by bots.
It makes me wonder: is it really that hard to deal with botters and spammers?
There are only about 12 US servers for the game. If you hired even just six people to monitor these servers every day, you could eliminate all these problems. Just have a GM sitting in chats and as soon as someone gold spams, immediately IP ban them. Have a GM teleport to any reported botters and observe them and immediately IP ban them. If I was a GM, I could easily get rid of 100+ bots an hour.
Instead, we see the same bots there day after day. If there was one person hired to monitor each server or even one person for every two servers, you could destroy the botting population in no time. Why has this not been done? Is it really that hard to deal with botters?