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Are player scripts a Riot feature?

Starchman·7/5/2017, 3:49:52 PM·1 votes·435 views

I like to play a bot game or two after work to unwind, but lately PVE has been enjoyable due to feeding scripts playing on my team: I've seen up to three at a time (60% of players). I understand gold farmers in MMORPs, as gold can be traded for real money, but farming in MOBAs make no sense to me, as no one would buy what's essentially free: another account with a horrid reputation. The only thing that makes sense is that they're coded by Riot to hide declining player base.

For clarity these badly written scripts simply run strait up a lane and feed over and over, as if a 4th graded coded them. It's not just that that feeding scripts make the game more difficult (I'm OK with that), but there's no variety, no side discussion, nor anything to learn by watching a script die over and over.

In the beginning I thought reporting would thin the heard, but clearly it's getting worse. Then I began to think how easy it would be for Riot to do an AI check every game, like any $2 web page login, but Riot hasn't. Riot should do something or it may loose the casual players it has left. God bless the pro's, and pro wannabes. Sorry if I'm neither, but regardless will speak my mind.

5 Comments

Kei1437/5/2017, 3:57:24 PM2 votes

they ban bots in waves so it makes it harder for them to know what got them detected.

reporting them does thin the crowd. just not immediately.

1374347/5/2017, 4:13:22 PM2 votes

The bots are not farming "gold" or IP or anything. They are farming experience to get to level 30 . People who buy them want a new account that is already level 30 so they don't have to go through that grind again. They don't care about the accounts reputation they just want to go back to rank or whatnot (either to legitimately play or to troll)

Warning Shot7/5/2017, 5:51:49 PM1 votes

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I understand gold farmers in MMORPs, as gold can be traded for real money, but farming in MOBAs make no sense to me, as no one would buy what's essentially free: another account with a horrid reputation. The only thing that makes sense is that they're coded by Riot to hide declining player base.

People buy smurf accounts rather than leveling them. Without boosts it can take 200~ games to level a new account to 30.

i prolly play 3 games a day 5-6 days a week. thats 15 ~ games a week so it would take me 8 ~ weeks of ONLY playing a low level account to hit 30, not playing my main at all. Of course give or take first win of the day bonuses could be a little shorter or a little longer.

(Disclaimer : I have 2 account si leveled myself and a 3rd that is level 17 now that im trying to level up, i dont buy accounts but i know people who have )

now both of my level 30 accounts placed into silver 3 after placements. and typically the people i know who make low level account or buy them are because they want to play in a lower elo. people dont make / buy accounts just to grind back up to where they are already, they do it to play in an elo other than their own. im making my 3rd account because whenever i get my current 2 accounts to gold again like last season then i can no longer play with bronze people. and frankly I have the most fun when im playing in bronze elo because in bronze i can solo carry. in silver i can do well up until s2 ish, and then its a team effort on whether not we win or lose because im not good enough to carry at that point.

Just a little insight into why it happens, and why accounts get botted. To think the game is dying is just lunacy, it globally has more players than ever before.