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Stopping the Player Level Bots

Nolàn··1 votes·686 views

I've started to play Twisted Treeline a lot more now, and in my first 5 games, I have realized that there are a LOT of IP farming/level farming bots. Botted accounts. Stuff like that. My friend and I will be playing duo on treeline, and our teammate (more times than not) will be a bot who feeds by going 0-13 in 2 minutes, diving towers at level 2 with no minions nearby, and doing other really dumb things.

So, how do we fix this? Easy. Have a captcha system, or something related. Before you can queue up (ANY TIME), you will need to complete a captcha. It should be one of the ones that has a white box with a bunch of lines, and something behind it (such as 2 + 2), and the player will need to fill in "4" before they can queue up. Now, I guess people can just fill that out and leave an auto play script on, but this will cut down on autoqueue scripts and things like that.

Oh, also a new reporting option to report someone for scripting as a level bot/ip farming bot. Easy to get evidence for a ban on this one :)

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The Lost Marbles2 votes

Just make account leveling not a complete pain in the ass and people wouldn't have much incentive to go for botted accounts.

You just don't earn enough IP on the grind to 30 anymore ever since they halved the XP requirements, so it's still an annoyance for a relatively low payout.

Nolàn1 votes

Still saves time, plus xp farming is an issue. It's just annoying having to play every game with a feeding bot on my team...

Minarde1 votes

Riot explained the issue with the captcha idea about a year ago. Circumstances might be different enough now to warrant it, but this was Riot's reasoning at the time.

On the captcha idea, this is something that's commonly brought up, but is not an idea we're entertaining at the moment. For one, we have a captcha on account creation and we still see botting on new accounts (i.e. we know there are ways around captcha). Secondly, as a human it's really annoying to have to put in captcha codes. Bots make up a very small percentage of all players, so by implementing a captcha in order to queue up for a match (which we know bots can circumvent), we're likely just causing annoyance for human players. That's not to say we couldn't put in some logic to only present a different challenge to suspected bots using certain criteria, which is why we haven't dismissed that idea completely.

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