Right now at level 17 there have been bots in EVERY SINGLE ARAM game I play.. Sometimes my entire team is bots except for me, and I mean the kind that just walks forward and only basic attacks the first visible target..
Clearly this is working for the people who are slimy enough to do it, so should I even bother reporting them? Will anything come of it? Or am I just wasting my time?
Just keep reporting them.
Well, your one report isn't going to likely do anything. Either your report will be redundant to the automated bot detection systems, or your report will be fed into a pool that employees will look at trends from to improve the automated detection systems (and potentially issue retroactive bans after they find a new target computational flag).
But yes, you should report, because it takes all of a couple seconds and does help improve the detection system. Do just keep in mind that Riot doesn't ban bots instantly when they're detected, nor do they ban them some set time frame after. This is so the bot owners cannot discover "oh, hey, the bots are getting detected when they do X, let's make them not do X" anymore, if that makes sense. This is just the reason you may see bots at lower levels - if they're detected in their first game, they still aren't going to be instantly banned so as to prevent that from happening.
If bots were banned as soon as they were detected: A) Bot creators would make tons and tons more bots (see increased birthrate when infant mortality is high in humans and in animals) and B) accounts that were not banned immediately would be guaranteed to have not been detected, increasing demand for botted accounts.
Banning the accounts after they've been sold is the best for reducing the number of bots created (as the creators don't care if they're banned after selling) and reducing demand because it's a very risky purchase.
I think you should. It probably helps to keep bringing attention to it, that the playerbase finds it a problem. And when the ban wave comes, maybe it helps them. Maybe they keep a list, idk.
But what I've heard, is that they ban in waves to help prevent the bot creators from knowing how they got detected. Also, in the time between bans, Riot is tracking the creators. Theyre finding the chains that link them to their creators, and Riot pursues entire sites to shut down, instead of just individual accounts one at a time. They track them and seek legal action. Kinda like how the police will scope out a suspect and find who is supplying them with whatever illegal thing theyre getting, whether its guns or drugs or trafficking of humans. They want to shut down the entire operation, not just one individual.
Yes. Bots are an automatic report. It's a 3rd party program.
