Why arent bots EVER banned?!?!

ForFoxSakes·Oct 28, 2017·7 votes·1,671 views

Did a couple bot games to get the deathsworn quests done from guaranteed dragons/baron/RH and there's a disgusting amount of bots. Theyre so damn easy to pick out even with the different botting programs that afk farm the jg with smite/exh, or run it down lanes just to auto etc

Looking at the match history of these bots its the same damn thing from level 1 to 30 which is a metric fuckton of games to be reported in and still running rampant. Hell I can even pick out bots reliably strictly from match histories. It's so bad that even some games are running straight 5 bots vs coop bots and lose when theyre all afk in the jungle and coop bots have perfect kda

What the fuck RIOT? Refusing to ever address it?

11 Comments

GigglingdeathOct 28, 20172 votes

Riot goes on a bot banning spree every so often. I don't think they can prove after every game, it's like scripting, so they go on banning waves. Any account that was botted to level 30 will be perma banned once the wave hits.

ForFoxSakesOct 28, 20172 votes

That's way too slow when it's so easy to see when an account goes from 1-30 playing 24/7 for a week with 0 champ damage every single game. Even if it took 50 games like that it's more than reliable enough to instantly ban

GigglingdeathOct 28, 20171 votes

I could be wrong on this, but if it's anything like scripts, riot tries to find the coding that lets the bots... well... bot, and they don't ban them until they can filter out that code so that it becomes useless and that's why it takes so long. :( I could be wrong for this tho. I know that's how they do scripting bans.

ForFoxSakesOct 28, 20171 votes

Scripts are a bit more complex than bots when there's human input added to coding.

Straight bot coding is extremely easy to pick out when there's explicitly definitive and repetitive patterns

ModPrandineOct 28, 20171 votes

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That's way too slow when it's so easy to see when an account goes from 1-30 playing 24/7 for a week with 0 champ damage every single game. Even if it took 50 games like that it's more than reliable enough to instantly ban

It may be slow but doing it this way makes it less likely that the bot programmers/scripters figure out how Riot is finding them out, or at the very least force them to take longer in trying to figure it out. I agree that bots are annoying to play with/against but it's a constant tug-of-war between Riot and the botters with each side trying to find an advantage over the other.

ForFoxSakesOct 28, 20171 votes

I mean it's pretty damn easy on how to detect a bot

ModPrandineOct 28, 20171 votes

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I mean it's pretty damn easy on how to detect a bot

Detecting is one thing, but tracking it down to its owner/creator is another thing entirely.

Arakk01Oct 28, 20171 votes

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Detecting is one thing, but tracking it down to its owner/creator is another thing entirely.

In other words, they don't ban them because they support intentional feeders. The chat bot is cheaper to maintain, and bots make people who play to win use harsh language. In turn, the bot bans more people who don't deserve it, keeping their discipline statistics up so they can pat themselves on the back. TLDR, bots aren't banned because Riot is as toxic as their community and doesn't care about those who try, only about the appearances of their game.

ModPrandineOct 28, 20171 votes

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In other words, they don't ban them because they support intentional feeders. The chat bot is cheaper to maintain, and bots make people who play to win use harsh language. In turn, the bot bans more people who don't deserve it, keeping their discipline statistics up so they can pat themselves on the back. TLDR, bots aren't banned because Riot is as toxic as their community and doesn't care about those who try, only about the appearances of their game.

That's not what I said and you know it. Bots have definitely been banned before and will continue to be banned in the future, but again like I said detecting is one thing, but tracking it down to its owner/creator is another thing entirely. Just because Riot prefers to ban bots in waves to make it more difficult for the programmers to detect how Riot catches them doesn't mean that Riot doesn't ban them or that they support int.feeders.

PrimaquariusOct 28, 20171 votes

They have to ban in wide-spaced intervals anyway, otherwise they could tip off the creators of autorunners how they do the banning and allow them to adapt

Telephone BoothOct 28, 20171 votes

Settle down man. They try to track the source of the bots. Instead of just banning an endless production of bot accounts one at a time, they try to find who is making them by using data from the accounts and such. That way they can shut down entire sites and pursue the creators legally.

Christ, you act like it's some kind of conspiracy or Riot just doesn't care that people are doing this. Stop jumping to conclusions about how easy this and that is, you don't really know and you're just acting like Riot refuses to address it like they're sweeping it under the rug or something.