I originally did not know about bots in aram until another team mate complained and said oh well we have bots on our team. These bots are not really good because they not only feed but also do not help in team fights making games very miserable. I am very curious about whether those bots are actually from riot or from blue essence miners.
deathgod52 votesThey are not exactly blue essence miners, they are mostly account levelers, they sell level 30 accounts too the highest bidder.
They are not a new thing, but they keep coming back every few months when the botters think they found a way to remain undetected in one of the 2 lesser played maps(other one being twisted treeline)
A long time ago I even made a post about it: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/player-behavior-moderation/r7TYEftJ-i-wanted-to-find-out-the-amount-of-bots-in-aram-and-co-op-so-i-made-a-smurf
It will never be fully fixed as the bot makers just keep changing the bots so that they don't get caught, but I hope this recent wave of bots get's banned soon.
Kazymandias1 votesThey are not exactly blue essence miners, they are mostly account levelers, they sell level 30 accounts too the highest bidder.
I've been level 30 for five years, and I'm seeing bots. My last match was NINE bots, all easy to identify.
Perhaps this is because level 30 isn't max level any more?
They are not a new thing, but they keep coming back every few months when the botters think they found a way to remain undetected in one of the 2 lesser played maps(other one being twisted treeline) [...] It will never be fully fixed as the bot makers just keep changing the bots so that they don't get caught, but I hope this recent wave of bots get's banned soon.
There is no excuse for this lack of detection, in part because it'd be easy to set up human tests like every other online company in the world.
And in this match, there were easy ways to tell both teams were bots. All could work either for automated detection, or allowing players to report bots...something there's no excuse for not allowing.
• Randomly generated names. In numerous matches with a few actual humans, someone was able to perfectly announce who were bots, just by reading names, and sure enough those turned out to be players who gave all other bot symptoms • Never talking. Humans will usually respond AT LEAST when you start asking who are bots, saying you're going to report anyone who doesn't respond. • Let's do one that can be automatically detected: The bots lately have a tendency to get stuck in a loop, once or thrice per match. This last match, three of my team clumped together and circled around on a wall until eventually killed. • Human-detectable one: They don't team up, don't respond to pings. • Automatically detectable: At the moment, most of the bots will NEVER pick up a health boost from the map, not even when almost dead with no allies who could possibly use it. And the few bots that do will pick it up no matter what, even at full health with a wounded comrade nearby. They're just trying to escape detection. • Right now, 100% of the bots disconnect immediately after a match. Always.
Of course there are always a few douchebags or little children playing who commit some of the errors above, like ignoring everyone and making insane tactical mistakes. But, speaking as a programmer, it would be easy to write a detection system that tallied circumstantial evidence, and flagged high-scoring accounts, which could simply be given more difficult human-detection tests, or examined by investigators. This is one of the highest revenue online games in history, they could afford to do that.
The lack of allowing humans to REPORT bots makes me wonder if Riot actually, albeit secretly, supports and desires the bots, as they believe there's some benefit from autolevelled account sales and such. Perhaps bot makers spend a bit of cash on their accounts, making it a way for Riot to grub money. Certainly ruining ARAM doesn't hurt their rather shortsighted focus on e-sports.
Icy Hot Shoto1 votesYou can report bots, it's called 3rd party programs in the report box. Also calling someone out for being a bot wont always work, as sometimes they actually have someone at the computer watching, and they then speak up when you mention it so they "don't get caught." or they turn off the bot and actually play themself.
Someone actually went through an aram with everyone but him a bot. Any that was low stood on the health pack, because they were programmed to if they were low.
Also, Riot bans in waves to prevent botters from knowing what exactly gets them detected.
You will never be able to fully get rid of bots. If it was possible, pretty sure WoW and any other high-up their money-only mmo would be bottless by now.
