DONT ALLOW PEOPLE TO GIVE FRIEND REQUESTS UNTIL THEY ARE LEVEL FIVE

All Day Tay Tay·Feb 20, 2015·14 votes·698 views

Simple fix for the 7 (yes, seven) people who added me this week with adds to elo boosting. Lots of games have similar things, WOW doesnt let free accounts to have friends for similar reasons. Of course i do think new players should be able to play with their real life friends, so make it so that anyone can friend new accounts, but new accounts cant add people. Level 5 is a good point where real players can get to it after a short while, but its enough of a hassle that it can deter some (not all, i cant make that promise) scammers

5 Comments

Onion the FriedFeb 20, 20154 votes

They'll just bot until level five. Not like that isn't already a problem.

Ice Weasel XFeb 20, 20153 votes

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They'll just bot until level five. Not like that isn't already a problem.

Unfortunately, this is true. There are already people running bots to level 30 for account sales. Botting to level 5 to advertise is nothing to them. It's not even an inconvenience, since they're not actively doing anything. Everything's automated, including the friend requests.

The sad reality is that a lot of approaches taken to remove bots and scripters in games typically worsen the experience for genuine players while not bothering the offenders themselves.

Spikeman71Feb 20, 20152 votes

How about lvl 2.

ChimeiTekinaNasuFeb 20, 20151 votes

This works. I second this. No more level 1 bot adds.

EleshakaiFeb 20, 20151 votes

All this'll do is ensure that new players have an even worse experience since they can't even make friends(or befriend those who might have actually inspired them to start playing)...

Wouldn't really change things for the bots themselves.