Tibia on steam may cause death to bots!

[nightspring]

Hey guys.

Tibia has been aplied to steam greenlight. This means a huge player impact on servers. So this means, Tibia wont be need our botter community.


So what will happen next according to me:

Will ban botter accounts.
Reset servers with all player items and shit.
Will give non-botter players new items according to their level and accounts' age.
Will play to regain all retired players since bots and shit pvp systems came up.
No botting, no afk trains, no unfair fights! This would be amazing. So exciting.

So my advice to you is:

Boost your characters with bots and shit non-stop. After stamina dies, go on to another character and boost like hell. Winter is coming for you guys.

[Mageq]

They will never get rid of bots, and looking at the steam page, only the Flash Client was shown, they are probably looking for more playing to start using the flash client to cover up how bad in the terms of performance it is, however I will like it if it goes on steam with the normal client, at least I'll be able to see my full playing time.

[Paskudek]

There are bots in steam games like in every other, nothing will change in that matter. Inflow of new players would be beneficial for both, normal players and botters. More players equals bigger market and more customers.

[J.Dre]

Ha, bots will not die because they move to Steam.

The only way I could see that happening is if Steam wanted CipSoft to eliminate the stand-alone client.

J.Dre

[ppgab]

Holy damn, those are the worst predictions i ever heard off

[szwedos]

Holy damn, those are the worst predictions i ever heard off

I agree they wouldn't be that crazy. (It's CIP were talking about here)

[nightspring]

As if i was a non-botter (but i surrendered many years ago to this community) i would say bot is cancer for tibia. Many players left tibia just because of bots. Its not fair fight.
As you can also see, steam has the old tibia community that tells "i would play if bot stop, cip listen to us" etc. So, if tibia wants steam, they have to nagotiate with steam management; and steam management going to demand to end bots.
So if newcome premium buying players would be much enaugh, tibia will consider that terminate bot dominance. Because they wont be needing us. Just saying.

Whatever, i want to say that if cipsoft wanted to eliminate all botters, it could be easily done. Those would be;

Checking visual images where bot elements stay.
A team checks suspecious players (who tell bot, xeno, script like words on chat; reports...)

Conclusion: hide yo' kids, hide yo' wives. because steam coming for you. cipsoft will show no mercy.

[Spectrus]

A common misconception in the world of online gaming is the idea that the only game you can play is the one in the title. Contrary to this, game hackers find enjoyment playing the game that hides behind the curtain: a cat-and-mouse game of wits between game hackers and game developers.

Currently Xenobot remains safe while injecting in to the client and using it's internal functions to do things like create the GUI, send custom messages, etc. This is because the internals of the client have been looked over meticulously and there is no indication that there is client-sided detection. As long as the client sends the proper data back to Tibia's server, they do not know you are using a bot. This may change in the future (with this Steam deal), but all that will mean is that bots (Xenobot included) will need to take a step back and address that problem.

Regarding a team checking reports? Possible as well, but it's not that big of an issue. You can already write scripts to alert you to tons of strange events that might happen while you are afk. You can write scripts to have your character interact with other players (talking, avoiding KSing, running from PKs, leaving spawn if exp is slow, etc.) It is possible to add more randomness to the pathing so that it seems more human-like. Things like this will make it difficult for even a human to detect if you are botting.

What else can be done to detect bots? Whatever it is, there will always be some innovative bot-maker out there who comes up with a workaround.

[Joey]

Vote here. (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=257622182)

[Game Time]

Check out the number of comments on the steam Tibia page vs. other games in the greenlight section. The activity level is not even close, Tibia will get the go ahead.

Will be very interesting to see the terms Steam puts forward to Cipsoft.

[Y2Quakepc2]

I thought the same in the beggining but in a different way.

If cip gets more custommers cip doesn't need their current ones.
They delete all the botted characters (im 100% sure they can do it)
They get new fair players

Cip wins

[Mentoll]

I thought the same in the beggining but in a different way.

If cip gets more custommers cip doesn't need their current ones.
They delete all the botted characters (im 100% sure they can do it)
They get new fair players

Cip wins


They wont do it, after deleting 50% of bots, they would recieve a lot of messeages with suicide photos :D

[Veela]

There is no way Cipsoft will remove or destroy botting. Business is business... Would you get rid of one section of income when the other, that complains DAILY about quitting if bots are not removed, is still paying for the game?

[kimpan1337]

I think they wont be on steam! and gl to the players from steam who starts to play tibia xD