User talk:Gaile Gray/Botwatch/Temp

Please use this page to report areas in which you're seeing a large number of bots. Identify as follows:
 * Date
 * Time and timezone
 * Map Name, such as Marhan's Grotto
 * District, such as Europe - Italy - District #1; International District #1
 * Observation: Botting; gold sellers; etc.
 * Please note: While we don't want you to list individual player character names (use /report to let us know about those), you are free to list the names of gold-selling companies that you see advertising in the game.

Thanks so much for your help!

2008

 * Date: 24 Aug 2009
 * Time/TZ: 3:50am GMT (-5:00)
 * Map Name: Temple of Balthazaar
 * District: America, District 1
 * Observation: "WWW.0KAYG00DS.COM" is being advertised alot in the past month or so, in the temple of Balthazaar at late hours. They advertise selling gold, ectos, birthday presents, and zaishen keys at fast delivery. I can send you screenshots if you need them.

Well, might as well be the first....


 * Date: 3 Feb 2008
 * Time/TZ: 8:14pm AEDT (+1100)
 * Map Name: Eye of the North
 * District: America, dist 1
 * Observation: Goldselling spam whisper for www.ugamegold.com; I've seen spam for this site in other places as well including Kamadan and LA (both in American districts)
 * -- Hong 09:19, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Edit: After they exit from Linnok Courtyard they will always be Elementalist/Warrior. --MageMontu 09:48, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Date: 3 Feb 2008
 * Time/TZ: 8:14pm AEDT (+1100)
 * Map Name: Shing Jea Monastery
 * District: International, dist 1
 * District: America, dist 1
 * Observation: Elementalist Bots doing the same route. Running to Sunqua Vale. After a while they run to Linnok Courtyard. Personally I think they r some kind of Monastery Credit Bots. --MageMontu 09:44, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Edit: Seen and Spotted at Shing Jea, AED1 today. -- S ilverleaf    09:18, 12 September 2008 (UTC) --Valshia 18:33, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Date 3 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 10:20am PST (-800)
 * Map Name, Tsumei Village
 * District, American 1
 * Observation: A hefty stream of characters, mostly level 4 elementalists headed out to Panjiang Penninsula. A lot run to the sign first or run toward it and turn near the portal.  Probably related to the Shing Jea Monastery report above.


 * Date 4 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 5:20pm EST
 * Map Name, Lions Arch
 * District, American District 2
 * Observation: Continuous pm's from a bot until I reported him to support -he was gone within 5 minutes... good job! He was advertising www.ugamegold.com.

Ashes Of Doom 22:50, 4 February 2008 (UTC) 24.141.45.72 03:11, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Date: 4 Feb 2008
 * Time/TZ: Roughly 4-5 EST
 * Map Name: Great Temple of balth
 * District: America, dist 1, ID dist 1 etc.
 * Observation: Goldselling spam whisper

Ninja Dragon • Talk     23:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Date: 5 Feb 2008
 * Time/TZ: 5:26 Central
 * Map Name: Shing Jea Monastery
 * District: America, dist 1 seem's to change district's after like 20 sec
 * Observation: Selling gold on trade chat, advertising go to www.gamemotive.com to get the gold


 * Date: 6 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone: 12:00 GMT+1
 * Map Name: Kamadan
 * District: EU English 1
 * Observation: Adbots. It's the same site that's been spamming goldselling in all the major towns lately, but they seem to be smarter. Last night, in Shing Jea EU1, the pm bot was in the same district, so I could select and /report. This morning, the bot was in a different place, so even though I was in Kamadan EU1 getting spammed, the bot couldn't be targeted in that same district, and I was incapable of submitting a /report. -- [[Image:User_Elveh_sig.png|15px]] Elv 11:07, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Bot name: Cvbh Nbj, from the same ugamegold site as several others reported here. -- [[Image:User_Elveh_sig.png|15px]] Elv 11:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

The past couple of days I have come across 3 gold sellers, two of which I have reported, the third accuring shortly before I wrote this email. I noticed one thing, all 3 accounts have been opperating for the same site, www.ugamegold.com. A friend of mine also says all 6 of the gold sellers he has run into have been opperating for this site. I don't know if there is anything you can do about the site, but if it were shut down, it's a sure bet the number of gold sellers present in Guild Wars would drasticaly drecrease. Thank you greatly for you time, below will be a picture of all 3 ocurrances I have witnessed. Once again thank you. ~ Wolf ~




 * Date: 9 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone: 5:48 EST
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District: American 1
 * Observation: Adbot. For some reason, it kept saying he wasn't in the same district, so I took a screenie.

Thanx-Warior kronos 22:54, 9 February 2008 (UTC) (sorry if I did something wrong with the image...my first attempt at this haha)



Sigh - Noggieca 14:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Date: 13 Feb 2008
 * Time/TZ: 9:36 Central
 * Map Name: Shing Jea Monastery
 * District: American, dist 1 and 2
 * Observation: Many low level random named eles running around in the same pattern near the Linnok Courtyard exit

Sigh2 - Noggieca 16:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Date: 14 Feb 2008
 * Time/TZ: 10:02 Central
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District: American, dist 1
 * Observation: Adbot spammer.
 * I'm on a lot and this list could get lengthy.




 * Date 14 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 5:19pm, PST
 * Map Name Shing Jea Monastery
 * District American, District 2
 * Observation Gold Seller and Spammer - www.ugamegold.com

The specific character name has been reported using the report command.   Barinthus  02:48, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Date 15 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 12:19am, PST
 * Map Name Shing Jea Monastery
 * District American, District 1
 * Observation Gold Seller and Spammer - www.ugamegold.com

The offender has been reported using the report command.   Barinthus  08:24, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Date 15 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 16:05, GMT+1
 * Map Name Kamadan
 * District European District 1
 * Observation Gold Seller and Spammer - www.ugamegold.com :User wasn't in this district while whispering me so I couldn't report him =( --[[Image:User_Tribina_Mulogo.jpg]] (Tribina / talk) 15:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Date 15 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 15:32, CST
 * Map Name Shing Jea Monastery
 * District American District 2
 * Observation Gold Seller and Spammer - www.ugamegold.com :I was able to report it because the bot stayed in the town and this happens every time I enter Shing Jea now. -- Natalie Black [[Image:User_NatalieBlack_sig.jpg| ]] 21:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Date 17 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 14:00, GMT+1
 * Map Name Shing Jea Monastery
 * District English district 1
 * Observation Gold Seller and Spammer - www.ugamegold.com : Every time i enter the district i get a pm with the text:'welcome to www.ugamegold.com, cheap guildwars gold and powerleveling,instant delivery 24/7 live help.' Reported him (a lvl 2 warrior) for botting --[[Image: User Elemonk Nibo sig.png|18px|My contributions]] Elemonk  Nibo  13:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v358/robotnorris/gw061.jpg --Robot 18:22, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Date  17/02/08
 * 2) Time and timezone   18:21, GMT
 * 3) Map Name, Eye Of The North(town)
 * 4) District, such as Europe - English - District #1
 * 5) Observation: Botting  gold sellers
 * Date 18 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 16:02, GMT+1
 * Map Name Shing Jea Monastery
 * District English district 1
 * Observation Gold Seller and Spammer - www.ugamegold.com : Every time i enter the district i get a pm with the text:'welcome to www.ugamegold.com, cheap guildwars gold and powerleveling,instant delivery 24/7 live help.' Reported him (a lvl 2 warrior) for botting and spamming --[[Image: User Elemonk Nibo sig.png|18px|My contributions]] Elemonk  Nibo  15:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Date 18 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 16:45, GMT+1
 * Map Name Ascalon
 * District European English District 1
 * Observation Gold Seller and Spammer - www.ugamegold.com :User wasn't in this district while whispering me so I couldn't report him =( (again) --[[Image:User_Tribina_Mulogo.jpg]] (Tribina / talk) 15:50, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Date 18 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 18:45, GMT+1
 * Map Name Kaineng Center
 * District European English District 1
 * Observation Gold Seller and Spammer - www.ugamegold.com


 * Date 28 Feb 2008
 * Time and timezone 16:35, GMT+1
 * Map Name, Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District, Both American D1, and International D1
 * Observation: 3 Gold Sellers.... fighting over each other to spam the other one out! www.ugamebiz.com

Sorry,this isnt a bot thing,its something that might help against the bots, ive noticed a huge amount of bots everywhere,and i got some evidence here that they are scammers, read this what i found on the website of ugamegold:
 * Date: 6 March 2008
 * Time/TZ: 11:22PM, GMT +1
 * Map Name: Great Temple Of Balthazar
 * District: America, dist 1
 * Observation: Goldselling spam www.gamebank.biz [also for ectos and support O.o] 68.151.27.108 06:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Date: 16 April 2008
 * Time/TZ: 7:42 Moutain
 * Map Name: Shing Jea Monastery
 * District: International District 1
 * Observation: Bots...just running around...for low level farming? Dominator Matrix  01:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Guild Wars Gold is the in-game currency in Guild Wars. Guild Wars Gold can be obtained in a variety of ways and can be used for a variety of purposes such as buying the prestigious weapons, armors and collectable items. Killing foes produces drops of loot which can be sold to merchants or traders, given to a collector in exchange for items, or traded to fellow players if it is a high demand or valuable item. Players can do runs to find high-end chest and collect gold. Other means of collecting gold are crafting rare material, trading and merchanting with other players. Trading can occur between players to players and players to NPC vendors. Usually, players will off better deal when buying or selling goods but sometimes this can create inflation of high demand items. ArenaNet constantly monitor the economy of the game in order to balance it. If a method of income is being overused by players and deemed too "powerful" by ANet, they will eventually take counter-measures to weaken it.

The Guild Wars Gold delivery location would be PVP (Great Temple of Balthazar, International District 1). we will contact you inside the game, please do not talk with delivery guy regarding anything related to buy gold. Thank You and Enjoy the game

ATTENTION:For your account safty, please prepare some cheap items in exchange with the Guild Wars Gold while trading with delivery guy.

That bottom bit clearly says a lot........i guess thats why it says attention,i thought id post what it said on the homepage to help u guys on Anet solve this bot thing.


 * Date: 20 May 2008
 * Time/TZ: 2:00pm Mountain
 * Map Name: Shing Jea Monastery,Lions arch,Kamadan,Droks...goes on
 * District: International District(s),American District(s)
 * Observation: Massive amounts of registered players asking to buy GW accounts for 100-300k per campaign. I hint a hi-jack? Dominator Matrix  04:02, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Date: 02 August 2008
 * Time/TZ: 7:00 - 9:00 PM GMT+4
 * Map Name: Lutgardis Conservatory
 * District: International District 1
 * Observation: Looks like lotsa bots, there's 4 or 5 lookalikes, all from same guild but can't remember tag, they stand in formation like bots, either in usual entry locations into the conservatory or at the marker post for melandru's hope. Also noticed yesterday & day before at this location, one or two loners run into the marker post, just standing there like bots. Please get rid of them, I'm working hard on getting the kurzick faction the hard way i.e. legal way.


 * Date aug 5th 2008
 * Time and timezone about 10:00am PST
 * Map Name Temple of Balthazar
 * District, America - English - District #1, #2, #3...
 * Observation: constant spam pms for www.ugamegold.com
 * Notes: It happens every day...sometimes in pm and sometimes in local chat. the time i mentioned was when 3 bots pmed me the same thing less than 1/2 sec after i had mapped in.

╙─ ╠Dogzrdogz ╣ talk


 * Date August 18 2008
 * Time and Timezone about 8:40 Central time
 * Map Name Kamadan, Jewel of Istan
 * District America- English- District 5
 * Observation ad posted for gamebank.biz selling 10 ecto for $6.99 in party search
 * Notes cant report bacause there's nothing about Bots/goldsellers in /report ]]



Valens
 * Date: September 3 2008
 * Time/TZ: all day/all night
 * Map Name: Melandur's Hope, Lutgardis Conservatory
 * District: All districts
 * Observation: This seems to be common knowledge, but Lutgardis Conservetory is full of members using bot programs to hero faction farm. There aren’t just a few, there many in every district, every minute of the day doing this day in and day out.  It is rather difficult to discern a hard-core grinder with a bot sometimes, and this has me reluctant to /report a bunch of people. I would like to suggest making the Melandru’s Hope sign not able to be targeted.  This would force a bot to target one of the henchmen (or the other sign), making them easier to report or ban since it would make no sense for a normal grinder to run that way to make it out the door to Melandru’s Hope.

–   Barinthus  02:24, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Date: October 1 2008
 * Time/TZ: 7:19pm, PST
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District: America, English, District 1
 * Observation: This person said and I quote "Sell 3000K Gold, alot ppl have bought,cheapest today,50K/8$,you can buy 50K-500K from the site: www.zizb.com" I tried to use the report feature but that person left the district before I could do.  He/she/it was spamming it few times before zoning out.

EDIT: Ah the bot came back and started to spam so I was able to report for spamming at 7:25pm PST –   Barinthus  02:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

((Image removed after re-reading the top)) - Tesla   04:57, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Date: October 12, 2008
 * Time/Time zone: 10:47 pm mst
 * Map Name: Kamadon
 * District: American English dis 2
 * Observation: Someone selling ectos for 0.59 cents each @gamebank.biz


 * Date: October 13, 2008
 * Time/Time zone: 6:48 am mst
 * Map Name: Great Temple Balthazar
 * District: American English dis 1
 * Observation: The person was saying in all chat "www.IGame Trade.com ---offer Gold ECTO and Zaishen Keys with fast delivery" - Tesla  [[Image:User_Tesla_Teslasmallsig1.gif]] 12:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Date: October 25, 2008
 * Time/Time zone: 11:10 PM PST
 * Map Name: Kamadan
 * District: American English dis 3
 * Observation: Ad for www.gmplateform.com for 100 ecto = $47.34. I reported for spamming. – [[Image:User Barinthus Magical Compass.png|19px]]  Barinthus  06:15, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

factions guilds botting

 * Date Every day
 * Time and timezoneMost times
 * Map Name, Lutgardis Conservatory
 * District, All
 * Observation: I know how a bot..don't ask me how. anyway they have to stick to the pole because they can't like walk so if u see someone sticking to the pole and turning round there most probably botting this really annoys me as it takes me and my fellow HFFF'ers a great deal of time and effort to accumulat the faction then they just come along and donate like 200k a day while the player is AFK so he gets R12 Kurz and makes a lot of money while we just have to slave our asses off. note: [TAS], [GdA], [War], [JD].. are the worst and most noticable.


 * Date 11-10-08
 * Time and timezone 4:27 pm Mst
 * Map Name, Kamadon
 * District, American Dis 3
 * Observation: "Hi there, do you want to buy in game currency with the lowest price?10 Ecto=6.2$ www.ogmer.com" being posted in all chat ever couple minutes. - Tesla  [[Image:User_Tesla_Teslasmallsig1.gif]] 23:31, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

--Fort Aspenwood Botting---


 * 1)  Date 26 Nov 2008
 * 2) Time and timezone 4:00 AM, EST
 * 3) Map Name Fort Aspenwood
 * 4) District American, District 1
 * 5) Observation there is a bot called "Evil Bruticus" who enters Kurzick side over and over to Leech Faction. This has been going on for a week also within [JD]

--Kamadan Items for Cash Spamming--
 * Date 12- 8- 08
 * Time and timezone 12:10pm eastern
 * Map Name, Kamadan d1,2,3 "worked his way down them
 * District, all american districts
 * Observation: selling ectos  for like $40 and  zkeys for $50 spamming about the site. if  i messed up  the  pic let me  know  user  Nomma on  wiki never posted in a thread before guys name was  dfr efe btw. [[Image:dfr scam.JPG|150px]]  [[Image:dfr scam2.JPG|150px]]

--Jade Quarry Faction Farming
 * 12 - 9 - 08
 * Time and timezone 12:24pm Gmt +2
 * Map Name, Jade Quarry (not the outpost)
 * District, In the Mission itself
 * Observation: Use Bots to leech and get faction points. PS:Victor isn't one of them.



--Fort Aspenwood Botting--- --208.104.132.121 08:40, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1)  Friday, December 26 2008
 * 2) Time and timezone 3:20 AM, EST
 * 3) Map Name Fort Aspenwood (no outspot, the competitive mission)
 * 4) District American, District 1
 * 5) Observation : there are a popular bot called Remember Lots Wife, a Me/rit who is costantly healing to Gunther, for gatekeeepers go out of green gate, when there is danger close to the green gate. Several times, players has report him for botting and leecheng and nothing happend.

Spotted in FA in the competitive mission double faction event starting on 27 march. Was there the whole weekend. | Cyan Light  Live! | 19:01, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

2009
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Jan

 * Date: Jan 3, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: Sometime yesterday
 * Map Name: Great Temple Balthazar
 * District: American English dis 1
 * Observation: The person was saying in all chat "www.IGame Trade.com ---offering Gold" < -- or something like that - Tesla  [[Image:User_Tesla_Teslasmallsig1.gif]] 05:32, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Mar

 * Date March 10, 2009
 * Time/Time Zone 7:00PM, EST
 * Map Name Shing Jea Monestary
 * District American English district 1
 * Observation: The person was saying in all chat "buying Guild Wars accounts" for 100-300k most likely a hi-jacking scam or something.--Kage No Shi Follow the rabbit if you dare... [[Image:User KageNoYugata sig.png|19px]] 23:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

--Craz1 01:53, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Date March 26, 2009
 * Time/Time Zone 11:20PM, NDT
 * Player/BOT: Pvp Blacks [AB]
 * Map Name Jade Quarry (luxon)
 * District American English district 1
 * Observation: Myself & others have been reporting this leechbot for weeks, and yet it remains...

Apr

 * Date: April 2, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 10:24 am mst
 * Map Name: Kamadan
 * District: American English dis 2
 * Observation: "Selling 100k+5ecto=$7.00 (Paypal or Moneybookers) www.itemgolds.com" -  Tesla  16:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: April 28, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 11:38 utc
 * Map Name: Bergen Hot Springs
 * District: International dis 1
 * Observation: Constant Stream of Monks going out the gate and the same ones going back out minutes later without rest for hours on end.


 * Date: April 24, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 6:58pm PST
 * Map Name: Shing Jea Monastery
 * District: International District 3
 * Observation: "Good price for Guild Wars gold in www.game4power.com.$41=500K, $80=1000K. within the fast delivery!"  Couldn't report due to not being in the district  – [[Image:User Barinthus Magical Compass.png|19px]] <font face="Papyrus"> Barinthus  00:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: April 29, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 6:32pm PST
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Batlzahar
 * District: America English District 2
 * Observation: "Buying <GuildWars> Accounts.Prophecies=700K,10 hours for nightfall key<Buddy Key>=300K,Trial Key=300K,Buddy Key + Trial=700k"   Reported in-game  – [[Image:User Barinthus Magical Compass.png|19px]] <font face="Papyrus"> Barinthus  00:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

May

 * Date: May 3, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 1:58 am PST
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Batlzahar
 * District: America English District 3
 * Observation: "Buying Accounts Prophecies=900K factions=900k Nightfall=900K.10hours key. Trial key or Buddy key=350k each" Tried to report but he changed district.  – [[Image:User Barinthus Magical Compass.png|19px]] <font face="Papyrus"> Barinthus  09:01, 3 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: May 4, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 4:50 pm US Mountain time (3:50 pm Pacific)
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Batlzahar
 * District: America English District 4
 * Observation: "Buying <Account>.Prophecies=900K,factions=900k,Nightfall=900K. 14 days 10hour Trial or Buddy key 350k each" Tried to report but he changed district.  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  22:56, 4 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: May 8, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 8:45pm pasific
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District: America English District 1,2
 * Observation: [[File:User DominatorMatrix Bot.jpg]] Managed to report for botting, though this helps to. <font color="limegreen" size="2px">Dominator <font color="mediumblue" size="1px">Matrix  05:03, 9 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: May 14, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 12:25am Mountain (may 13 11:25pm Pacific)
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District: America English District 1
 * Observation: Numerous ads to buy 10hour/14day trial codes from different character names over the course of the preceding hour, could report only one due to district switching. Appeared like the same person, since the text was very similar each time.  These ads pop up in GtoB all the time, by the way (I know, stating the hopefully obvious).  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  06:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * 26th May, 2009
 * Sometime on the 26th, GMT
 * SJM
 * AE1
 * A load of level two elementalists, with the exact same henchmen --Yuun, Lukas and Kisai. They also have bizzare and non-sensical names like Bbrn Nbob They run straight to the post into Sunqua, sidestep to Ludo, I would imagine they accept the quest, sidestep halfway to the post, then zone. I agree with whoever it was that these are most likely farming Credits. After a while, They come back, same name, same level, same henchmen, and the process begins again. I personally reported a load of them on the 26th, and got some guildies to come and help report them. <font color="black" face="calibri"> --Saberhagen [[Image:User Saberhagen Wiki Sig5.png|19 px]] (My Talk) 10:45, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

June

 * Date: June 9, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 24/7 GMT
 * Map Name: JQ (Kurzick)
 * District: E.E.D1
 * Observation: 'P L O U K' (Mesmer) - Leeching bot. does nothing but walk around inside base. 'Repoli Byue' (Paragon) - has been in game in game with me more times then i can count. runs around, spams the same skills again n again for no reason & attacks nothing. 'Miatu Yter' (warrior/Monk) - Runs around spamming the same 3 skills, attacks nothing. 'Maxyt Syyre' (Ranger/Warrior) - Spams the same few skills through out the whole game for no apparent reason. runs around, attacks nothing. 'PvP Onkel' (Necromancer) Spams the same useless skills, runs around, attacks nothing. 'Tolem Verui' (Ritualist/Warrior) Spams the same few skills for no reason. casts Spirits either right at start of the game or Inside base where its totally pointless, runs around, attacks nothing. 'Kamirt Maslor[Oops]' does nothing but stand at spawn trapping, using skill such as Whirling Defence, Escape & Flame trap.'Maxyt Syyre' uses the exact same skills. 'Polis Retyw' (Necro/Monk??) spams the same skills as PvP Onkel, Infuse Condition, Remove Hex & Dark Aura on itself & other players - attacks nothing.89.242.97.136 18:55, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Bots from faction Guild [HORI]: 'i strong i' 'silent hill ilo' 'you make me crazy i' 'i marcia baila i' 'i pepito gele i' 'men elic' 'Xx Far Far Xx' Those are all bots with this same issue: They have some kind of 3rd party program simulating clicks every few seconds at specific positions on the screen thus making them moving around in small steps once in a while, entering battles (hit start button), closing the (you have dishonor, w8 for joining)-message. Thank god ppl started to report them for at least leeching so you can see them having dishonor title everytime they come back to the JQ outpost. Every name mentioned above is another account cause they can be seen at the same time in the Internatilonal District 1 JQ-outpost. Now let s go on to the 'new generation of JQ bots' how i like to call them: Those seem to have spread extremely fast cause u have at least 1 every game in your team and up to 5 (yes, FIVE was my 'personal best') Where do THOSE bots appear? Everywhere. I have played through several Districts (Chinees/AMerican/European) and u happen to have them everywhere. How do these bots work? How do i find those bots so i can report them? First we need to say they are almost everytime Mo/P or Mo/W professions. Why? Couse people want Monks at JQ (good at cap-> RoJ, good at carrier support -> PnH), thus if they where seen, everyone will be like "Oh gr8, we have a monk!" instead of.. hmm "what the ** is this guy doing here? i will certainly watch his actions" There is a part of the list of characters who all belong to users using this 'new generations' JQ bot which i have spotted in the last 2 days of Observation: 'Bi Bo Bibu', 'Ou U Ou', 'Gaanen Gaanen', 'Red Bull Adict', 'Horsefaced Kil', 'il x Cartman x il', 'Perfect Calculator', 'Ve Luvre Pasta', tbc.. Second Part: New Generation JQ Bot Functions: If the game starts (countdown at begin active), after a few seconds (depends on where the bot is atm in his loop) you'll see them starting to move from one teleporter to another one, casting either "Fall Back!" or "Sprint" once in a while. This is because of the loop of actions the bot does (see below) < the action-loop > once the game has started (countdown at begin ended, teleporters activated), the bot starts to walk directly to the next shrine (sometimes they walk back to the start teleporters), this is because the bot "selects the nearest item", i.e. shrine/teleporter, and hits the action key to follow it. after a few seconds the bot sends the "nearest enemy" key and starts his skill chain: Ray of Judgement, Smite, followed sometimes by a third smite skill which seems to vary cause i ve seen Castigation Signet and Banish. Once this is done the bot either selects the next shrine (nearest item) and walks towards it or nearest enemy and recasts his skill chain. If the enemy selected dies, e.g. while they cast RoJ, the bot will still send the other skills but the target is already dead, so it just will not move for a few seconds. i ve already sent an support ticket, but only got the usual dump auto generated answer: "blah blah, we will look at this and if an eula breach occurs, we may do something. YOU will not get any more information, everything will be done between the target and anet.. blah blah". I lost my trust in the support ticket, that s why i make this bots public have a nice day NewAtWiki 21:29, 10 June 2009 (UTC)newAtWiki
 * Date: June 8,9,10, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 24/7 (!!!)
 * Map Name: JQ (Luxon)
 * District: International District 1
 * Observation:


 * For having been in the 1st alliance, I can confirm that none of their guilds is botting, their have a 0-tolerance about botting and leeching, 0-tolerance for bad behaviour in alliance aswell. (that is far from being true for rival alliances!)
 * Nevertheless they are aware that some guilds have been created with same TAG and similar capes to try to discredit them. LMDS has this issue aswell.
 * ANet has always been quite slow at banning JQ botters (even with organized reports against some botters), this is a known fact. But reporting bots always gives them (Anet) some clues. Elephant 11:17, 11 June 2009 (UTC)


 * @Elephant: I would like to know how u can say that up to 1000 members (10 guilds/100 members ea) do not bot - with the only statement "i ve been in the 1st alliance". Please write your answer at my Userpage cause this thread here should neither be used to defend nor to support bots and certainly not to downplay them. As NewAtWiki wrote, he had observed the bots and it looks like he had enough reasons to put them to public. Thank You! As for now, i can confirm the listed bots with the [HORI] guild tag 'i strong i', 'silent hill ilo', 'i marcia baila i', 'i pepito gele i' and the bot 'il x Cartman x il' as these have been spotted at JQ by me too. Would be nice to know them removed from the game. TalkactiveBunny 12:30, 12 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: all the time
 * Time and timezone: all the time
 * Map Name:Bergen Hot Springs
 * District: Ive only been in american districts so far and seen this
 * Observation: Botting, usually Mo/Me. But that is also common build for a 55. They do short runs and run to signpost or wall while leaving, sometimes youll see them running in a line. It is insane how many seem to be doing it.


 * Date: June 20, 2009
 * Time and timezone: 630pm PST
 * Map Name: great temple of balth
 * District: ID1
 * Observation: "Wet Drypants" player advertizing www.okaygoods.com gold buying site


 * Date: June 20, 2009
 * Time and timezone: 5:00pm PST
 * Map Name: Bergen Hot Springs
 * District: ID1
 * Observation: Conga line of bots

More conga line in bhs.

-- adrin  01:39, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: June 21, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: 24/7 GMT
 * Map Name: JQ (Kurzick)
 * District: E.E.D1
 * Observation: 'Kyhymy Lintu' (warrior) - I have not been in any games with this bot, but in the JQ lobby they will follow random people around then hug the edges of the map then follow someone else really really closely, I know this because I have encounterd a similar bot in the past & In my experience fits with 'bot' behaviour. the name alone triggers off alarm bells. 'wiwi wiwi' (Necro/Ranger) Does nothing but run around & cast/activate 'Melandru's Resilience' every so often status is set to offline everytime when encounterd.78.151.98.181 01:48, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: June 23, 2009
 * Time/Time zone: US Mountain time, 11:30pm
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District: Am.En.D1
 * Observation: Not really botting but I can't think of a better place to put this unless you tell me about it. The district was "hijacked" by a group of people spewing profanity left and right in local chat.  Asking them to stop, of course, made me the target of their pathetic jokes for a while.  This is often the case when entering one of the major cities, and it's hard to keep track of who said what, so I often only report one or two of the worst offenders before I leave, while there are often many more than that.  There should be a way to report district conversations as a whole for the team to review, as the only other alternative is to sit there, review the convo yourself, and report a bunch of people left and right about being involved in the same conversation using varying levels of profanity and other offensive language.  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  05:42, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

July

 * Date July 4, 2009
 * Time and timezone 10:26pm CST
 * Map Name Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District International d1
 * Observation: Gold seller (player name Gfdg Dgd)~ www.okaygoods.com - sell cheapest golds, Birthday Presents, Ectoplasm, Zaishen keys and fast delivery 24/7online

I tried to use the report feature, but it came back "Player not found" I have screenshots if you wish. -- Wyn  talk  03:29, 5 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date week of July 4, 2009
 * Time and timezone during the event
 * Map Name Shing Jea Monastery
 * District multiple
 * Observation: bots exploiting the Dragon Nest in downtime in empty districts to earn easy victory tokens. Very obvious, once the worms appear they tag everything indiscriminantly using +, same thing that makes them stick to the gate following the arena master before the worms appear in the nest and between the rounds.  Do not reply to chat, do not use sweets, level 1 characters usually.  I reported one of them via in-game feature.  Just thought you might want to know that people are botting your favorite mini-game.  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  19:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 6, 2009
 * Time and timezone 24/7 GMT
 * Map Name JQ
 * District Europe
 * Observation: 'Shieke Kakertje (Ritualist) at first I didnt think it was a bot as it had a R1 title of some sort. but after I observed it a few times hugging the portal in the JQ lobby as well as its status set as being offline even though it is onlines as well as its name starts ringing alarm bells. only bots continously hug the portal exit & the map walls. 84.13.172.35 12:15, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Were they maybe trying to map JQ for Cartographer? [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali 18:38, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I doubt it as they werent hugging every single part of the wall like you usally do when you 'map' areas & I highly doubt you will get the title just by hugging portals. I know bot behaviour when i see it 78.146.76.162 16:31, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm assuming you mean sticking to the sign-post? Most bots would be likely to stick to whatever comes up on ";", "v", or "c", seeing as these are the only methods for targeting beyond extremely exaggerated algorithms. If the person was simply walking along the wall, it'd be difficult to tell if the person was mapping or just a very poorly written bot. ···  Danny  Pew   Pew  18:55, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Exactly - but this one kept running back n forth 1 sec it would be hugging the wall. next second it would be hugging 1 or the other sign post. I hate the ones that follow you around in the lobby they creep me out.... 89.242.144.159 00:07, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh man, yeah, I had one follow me around a few times. >_< [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali 04:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 9, 2009
 * Time and timezone 1600, Australian EST
 * Map Name Ice Caves of Sorrow
 * District American D1
 * Observation: 6 or 8 Mo/Me's some with names which were just collections of letters stacked at the Xunlai Chest, then all ran to the Merchant following the exact same path, did not respond to PM's. They seem to have stopped conga lines, however, once one bot has been to the merchant and stayed for a period of time, the next will depart from the Xunlai chest, merch for a while and wait. The bots then all departed within 10s of each other. /reported 2 of the most obvious ones,"Asdd Jghfg" and "Rtrfttr Gff". Rolain1 06:07, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Whilst writing this, at least two more monk bots came through and displayed the exact same tendencies "Dfgshghy Sh" and "As Vs Cs" Rolain1 06:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * And then another stack of at least 4, they now have a run pattern to the Xchest, almost zoning to Talus Chute then running around a barricade.
 * a guild member of [TIE] "Kinda Like A Nurse" displayed the exact same characteristics Rolain1 06:28, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * "Sdghghg Mngg" also showed up and displayed the same characteristics.Rolain1 06:28, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * "Rtrfttr Gff" is now leaving from Bergen Hot Springs in a conga! line with many other bots.Rolain1 06:46, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 11, 2009
 * Time and timezone 1935, Australian GMT +10
 * Map Name Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District American D2
 * Observation: Goldsellers, the like (may or may not be bots, but they were selling gold and items): Sdd F Fv (buying accounts) and Jrt Dgh (advertising buying/selling gold, ectos, etc website [www.okaygoods.com]). Both working separately, for different things; it was certainly illegal. King Neoterikos 09:46, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I reported Jrt Dgh in-game in AD1 for spamming, botting, and scamming, as it was all those things. The website is certainly malicious (I only read customer reviews out of curiosity and they were awful, in addition to the whole thing being illegal and composed in Engrish), the bot was repeating a numbered loop on even numbers only (the odd ones were probably being blocked by the spam filter), and was obviously a bot using a new PvP character.  Didn't see the other one.  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  18:13, 11 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 11, 2009
 * Time and timezone 24/7 GMT
 * Map Name Jade Quarry (kurzick)
 * District Europe
 * Observation 'Tj On Nolla [IG]' the bot kept on following people around then continously ran/bounced back & forth between the closest person, the Jade Flats signpost & the Faction rewards NPC 78.149.254.221 23:04, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

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 * Date June 13, 2009
 * Time and Timezone (About) 3:32 GMT
 * Map name Great Temple of Balthazar
 * Disrict America 2
 * Observation He was trying to buy GuildWars accounts. I took a screenshot and tried to report him but he wasnt in the same district as me anymore.



Jade Quarry Faction Farming
 * Date July 12, 2009
 * Time and timezone 11:30pm PST
 * Map Name Jade Quarry (not the outpost)
 * District In the Mission itself
 * Observation Uses Bots to leech and get faction points. A lot of the botters were in [ct] guild. Gimpsrcool 06:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 17, 2009
 * Time and timezone 24/7 GMT
 * Map Name Jade Quarry (kurzick)
 * District Europe
 * Observation 'Strong Daddy Lusso[woOm]' One of them annoying old school bots that follow the #1 player at the top of the list all around the map - Doesnt activate any skills 92.29.120.244 01:44, 17 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 22, 2009
 * Time and Timezone (About) 12:30 still going on when i posted this GMT
 * Map name Ice Caves Of Sorrow
 * Disrict America 1
 * Observation bout 30 bots continously repeat the same thing report quite a few of them all mo/mes or mo/w all apart form a few were guildless

--Nick123 11:45, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 22, 2009
 * Time and Timezone 14:47 GMT
 * Map name Kamadan
 * Disrict America 3
 * Observation User buying accounts

-- miXer 12:59, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 25, 2009
 * Time and Timezone 11:30pm PST
 * Map name Jade Quarry (not the outpost)
 * Disrict In the Mission itself
 * Observation Uses Bots to leech and get faction points. Saw about 3 per round...follow the same pattern. Mostly monks. 72.197.179.198 06:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date 28/29 July, 2009 :(
 * Map Name, Bergen Hot Springs
 * District, American #1
 * Observation: Several same characters repeated zoning, some of which ive seen both the 28th and 29th, they will not respond to any whispers (if their status is online) and some of them have their status set to offline. There are some with a 'real' name, and then there are some with obscure names (Example: Gag Sgsr) It is quite easy to determine if they are bots, real players will run into the middle of the portal exiting, will the bots will run up to the edge and then turn running directly along it into the portal, some do stick to the signpost, although most dont and just stick along the wall -- they will always be coming from the xunlai chest, running past the little hill, close to Penelope Randell, they will run directly along the edge of the little hill infront of Penelope Randell, and then make a sudden turn once their past it, and then stick to the wall. I've reported those that dont respond, repeatably rezone, and follow those traits ive described, hope it helps :D C4K3 [[Image:User_C4K3_Signature.jpg]] Talk 22:00, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok using "being offline", and "don't respond (to all chat/PM's/etc.)" is a fallacy, and should never be used to support one's argument whether or not someone is a bot. -Drakora 19:33, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Right, but it can be used to strengthen a suspicion based on other behavior. [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  20:15, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think so, I go offline when I'm playing all time, and I choose whether or not to answer someone's chat. The repetitive behavior, sure.  The pole dancing before exiting a portal, OK. The schizophrenic yo-yoing between storage and some random NPC, ok, but the offline and didn't respond to chat, never.  It doesn't strengthen anything; it merely provides anecdotal circumstantial evidence.  If being offline or not responding to chat strengthens the bot argument, then everyone that has ever gone offline while actually playing or didn’t respond to a query is a bot. -Drakora 20:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Over-reacting much? All the other stuff he mentioned is enough to qualify them as a bot, that was just a side comment kind of like "oh by the way, he also fit the off-line bot stereotype."  When you go offline to be left alone, you don't hug walls, poledance, or play yo-yo with NPC's in the famous bot infested Bergen, do you?  Nobody thinks you're a bot just because you're offline...  Ice Cream is great, bacon is great, when the two are mixed with Ranch Dressing on top, you know something's off, and it's not just your cholesterol.  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  23:17, 30 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Date July 30, 2009
 * Time and timezone 24/7 GMT
 * Map Name JQ/JQ Outpost
 * District Europe English One
 * Observation: 'Bangue Bang[LMDS]' follows the closest player around in the lobby/Outpost often 'bouncing' back & forth if the player is stationary. Status is set offline too. a bit of a coincidence dont you think? 92.24.131.144 13:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

August

 * Date August 03, 2009
 * Time and timezone 24/7 GMT
 * Map Name JQ (In Mission)
 * District E.E.D1
 * Observation: 'Vain Der Bruch [FroG]' I have oberserved 3-4 different players from this guild & the all have the same thing in common - as soon as they load into the the mission they do 1 thing & 1 thing only....they hog Kommandant Durheim & dont move or activate skills for the rest of the round. another thing I have observed is all the players that Ive encounterd from the same guild have had their status as offline. & Im assuming from my observations that their guild is primarily made up of bots similar to that of [Ct], [TOYS], & similar others that seem to make up the general numbers in JQ. I am currently also aware of another guild that does the same thing as [FroG] (leechbot) but the name & guild tag have slipped my mind as ive only encounterd this guild once when i had the luck of joining a game with 2 [FroG] bots & 1 addition leechbot. 78.146.174.213 01:57, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

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 * DATE August 5th 2009
 * Time and timezone all the time
 * Map Name/location Bergen Hot Springs
 * District American English D1
 * Observation Often times i have when to bergen hot springs to farm for mats or w/e, i have noticed hordes of monks running towards the gate to nebo, some have funny names that are just conjuction of random letters others have real names and guild tags. I noticed if i stand on hill where they run and dance they will come back to me and get stuck, althou this can be entertaining for few mintues, when i leave to go out to area i notice that drop rate has totally gone down. I been playing this game for 4 years now and i am starting to lose interest, if bots are allowed to run free , makes harder for me to farm right stuff to make cash so to buy anything i want in game. There is one guy who claims to have 12 computers that he uses to abuse guild wars i usually find him braging all over tyria most commonlly found in fort ranik, but have found him in bergen as well. I would like to enjoy the game again, so hopefully something can be done about these bot runners thank you for any support >>
 * Date August 6th 2009 (Daily however)
 * Time and Timezone 24/7
 * Map Name/Location Bergen Hot Springs
 * District American District 1
 * Observation I was just recently in Bergen Hot Springs, because I wanted to vanquish Nebo Terrace. I saw many monks, usually with mesmer or warrior secondary, (obviously 55-ing the undead outside in HM), who were named with random characters, running in the same path, and guildless. Power WM 01:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Date August 08, 2009
 * Time and timezone 24/7 GMT
 * Map Name JQ (In Mission)
 * District E.E.D1
 * Observation: Testing Girl [AA] one of the annoying JQ bots that follows the #1 on the player list around the map - doesnt activate any skills, this is not the first im i have encounterd this bot. Its been months since i last seen it. why hasnt it been banned yet? :S 78.146.252.24 04:57, 8 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Date Daily for at least a month now, maybe longer
 * Time and timezone 24/7
 * Map Name Great Temple of Balthazar
 * District AmEn1
 * Observation: various bots with names being some sort of keyboard smashing around the left-side home row, repeatedly advertising www.okaygoods.com using some leetspeak letters and numbers, like WVVW,0KAYG00DS,C0M (zeroes for o's). The message seems to have a counter in the end of it, but skips every other number (probably due to the frequent messaging prevention, so only every other post shows up).  I've been using the report command on them every time, but this is really really starting to get annoying, because now I can't remember a time in the last month or so when I enter GTOB AD1 without one of these bots spamming.  If there is anything you can do about it, please do it, and do it fast.  I know that the problem is that they use a different bot account every time, but there has to be something you can do about it, don't let it turn into the chat logs of Cabal or Rappelz.  Plus, this site is not just an RMT site (bad enough already), but after reading some user reviews it seems to be a serious scamming/account thieving site.  I haven't seen any kind of in-game advertising this bad for any other RMT site in the history of my 45 months playing GW.  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  04:50, 11 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Date: 11 Aug 2009
 * Time/TZ: 12:50am GMT (-5)
 * Map Name: Great Temple of Balthazaar
 * District: America, english, district 1
 * Observation: website named "WVVW.0KAYG00DS.COM" advertising cheap gold, birthday presents, and zaishen keys at fast delivery 24/7. This is the first time I've seen this website being advertised. They advertised many times within the past hour or so. I took a few screenshots, but I don't know how to upload them. :S If you want, I can send you the picture.
 * See my post just above. This has been happening for a long time now and is by far the worst RMT advertising campaign I've ever seen in GW.  [[Image:User Rose Of Kali SIG.jpg]]<font color="#000099">Rose Of Kali  13:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Date August 12, 2009.
 * Time and timezone All day, US CST.
 * Map Name Kamadan, Jewel of Istan
 * District District jumper, last seen as of 8:26PM US CST in American, District 1.
 * Observation: Player account buying. Name was Alta Schanbel Lvl and /report failed due to district jumping. Have a screenshot, don't know how to upload it. Skielsthear 01:35, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Date August 13, 2009.
 * Time and timezone 19:00 GMT, but i guess they are there all the time
 * Map Name Elona Reach (outpost)
 * District International District 1
 * Observation: A few monks: same armor, same dye and some of them with random names(like:Adgs Ggdfbsdfb). Sitting in outpost for 3 sec almost all the time, obviously 55-ing the minotaurs at the beggining of the mission. Tried to whisper some of them, they dont reply back. --Sparky Sharkinu 19:04, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Date August 19, 2009.
 * Time and timezone ~Midnight EST, but they're always there 24/7
 * Map Name Jade Quarry (In Mission)
 * District out of the mission they are usually in the least populated districts
 * Observation: Rampant botting. There's usually a bot or 2 on my team per game, but for this one game at 12am my team consisted of me, a ritualist, and no fewer than SIX (6) bots! All of whom were repeat offenders I was already well aquainted with from my time in JQ. They displayed the typical botting behaviors: stuttered running, unresponsiveness to all attempts at communication, following the exact same paths each game, making bizarre, illogical decisions, spamming "Fall Back!" (9 sec duration, 20 sec recharge) with 10 seconds left in the countdown, echoing RoJ and casting it on moving targets, etc.