A ponder on the bot solution - Page 2

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 10-06-2007, 02:56 AM

Censoring sounds like a good idea to me. Even though it seems obvious to not go to the site, I have had some new people who were playing asking me if it's real or not.

Kixira · 10-06-2007, 03:32 AM

This seems to be one of the better suggestions about stopping gold farming site spam from other games. The only problem that I can think of if this method is used with a censor thats overzealous and starts affecting normal chat. Fiesta censor seems to be one of the better ones I've liked, as it only blocks out the word and not the whole sentence or have a popup saying you've entered vulgar language (Maplestory anyone?)

One further method that I think Runescape has against gold sellers is the tracking and auto banning (perhaps not..) of people who are giving huge amounts of gold to people for nothing in exchange. No idea how this well this works, if at all, since I no longer follow the scene there.

**Yosei** · 10-06-2007, 03:54 AM

well its not like stuff like $ and www. and .com is used frequently in the game.

**Hyper** · 10-06-2007, 04:01 AM

I think its a great idea! They could (probably would) just put "thepowerlevelDOTcom" or "_com" or other variations. You have to remember that they will always try, as long as they can make a buck. It might work though.

Er, they use macros. There is kindof a difference. >_>

**Yosei** · 10-06-2007, 04:51 AM

They prolly would >_<I also got an idea from the server dying. DC them if they don't move. But then people wouldn't open over night vendors.. Or they could have preset times for the server to go down for a sec sparatically, so hey DC. If they're "bots" they might not have been set to auto log. I'm not 100% sure how those things work..

Dynamics · 10-06-2007, 05:12 AM

The problem with this suggestion is that the filter doesn't work like that. You'll notice how you can type let's say as a mild example, crapp, but not crap. You can also use any extension of the original word crap such as crappy, crappp, crapping, and so on and so forth. So if they game engine were to filter www. and .com, entering anything in between would allow it to pass through the filter. The filter in Fiesta only blocks specific words in a specific form, any deviation from the filtered form is allowed to pass through.

Your suggestion's great and all but Fiesta's filter just won't let it happen. Something needs to be done with the loose filter, which to me, is the heart of the advertising exploits.

**Yosei** · 10-06-2007, 08:39 AM

Well basically, with the whole filter idea, of course, beef up the filter system. It definitely needs some editing. I see nothing wrong with saying "punk" or "butt" lol.

**Patches** · 10-06-2007, 10:25 AM

I like the idea. Don't think it would be very hard for them to do either. Also, I am not an expert by any means, but can't the system tell when there is a macro in use, or are they easy to hide. If they can tell, then they could have the system automatically ban any account that used a macro.

KY_Jelly · 10-06-2007, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by Dynamics

The problem with this suggestion is that the filter doesn't work like that. You'll notice how you can type let's say as a mild example, crapp, but not crap. You can also use any extension of the original word crap such as crappy, crappp, crapping, and so on and so forth. So if they game engine were to filter www. and .com, entering anything in between would allow it to pass through the filter. The filter in Fiesta only blocks specific words in a specific form, any deviation from the filtered form is allowed to pass through.

Your suggestion's great and all but Fiesta's filter just won't let it happen. Something needs to be done with the loose filter, which to me, is the heart of the advertising exploits.

true story. i found out today that you cant say shit or fuck, but you can say shitfuck

**Yosei** · 10-06-2007, 05:18 PM

Then maybe they should re-do the filters.