A place has begun making programs to play champions automaticly. http://leaguebot.net/ It provides extremely unfair advantages to one team or the other (Poorly made, or greatly made). Is there a way to prevent Bot Programs from being played on both Ranked and Normals?
Drunk Old Man3 votesI've seen a lot about these bots lately. Unfortunately, they work like a macro for the most part. You script them to do something and (afaik) they control your keyboard and mouse.
The problem with that as opposed to a bot that actually connects to the server itself, is that it's much harder to detect. It's hard to take things like "click speed" into account, when simple lag could cause packets to get backed up and received close together, giving off the same effect as if certain buttons were clicked very fast and close together.
In any case, there are some measures that can be taken to deal with this. One of them I think would be helpful, personally, would be to have a category in the drop-down list of the report-player box for "Suspicious Player" or "Potential Botter" or something along those lines, which would allow games to be marked appropriately so they could be looked at by the tribunal or Riot staff. Hopefully Riot makes a decision regarding this in the near future, since the occurrence of these programs in normals has gotten more frequent, so they probably are running in ranked at some tiers.
Sir ArmaMalum1 votesThis is the first I've heard of this. I still find it a bit hard to believe that there are bots capable of winning PvP games with the amount of different inputs both teammates and enemies can create, and then the appropriate behavior to win. I could see an aimbot of sorts, or a timing bot for perfect spell rotation, but an entire gameplay bot?
All that being said, people always surprise....
Drunk Old Man1 votesWhen you think about the fact that the map is constant (so programming in locations and such is extremely easy) the win-rate of a bot like that hovers around 50% or so, which is the win-rate of most people in ranked. It wouldn't be hard to pull off, but I definitely don't see it working anywhere above Gold.
