[Idea] A solution for bots.

[AzGarot]

After reading the CoralCutter's post in the Experience Discussion I've decided to post an idea I've been thinking about in the past couple of days.
Now, it is not an original idea, but it was an efficient way to get rid of bots and spammers in the Tales of Pirates.
The Police system.
The idea was to make an isle (Prison) and give some players (Police) items they could use to teleport bots/spammers to the Prison. You were unable to tele out of the Prison and you couldn't die and spawn somewhere else. Every "Policeman" had his own thread on the forum, posting pictures of bots and spammers he banned, it was really efficient and a fun thing to do.
It's an easy system that could really benefit the game, considering the fact that people are boting literally on the same spots they used back on the original and this is supposed to be a better, more worthy server.
When I started here, I couldn't get Cashmer for the first promotion, some SS was there. Later on I couldn't grind exp on smugglers because there were like 3-4 bots.
I've seen them on many good NSS farming spots as well..

The problem is finding players who wouldn't abuse the system and their "imprisoning" power. However, the server is young, wouldn't be hard to punish them for such an action.
Adding some extra rewards for the "police" would be even better, it would motivate the players to work harder

 

[Gr33d]

extra rewards for police is bad idea, you would really then see abuse of power lol.

 

[Ardamoz]

Not necessarily, the reward doesn't need to be of monetary value, it can be something as harmless as a forum title and there you have it. There are many way to reward the contributing players besides giving them freebies.

 

[Leba]

Not necessarily, the reward doesn't need to be of monetary value, it can be something as harmless as a forum title and there you have it. There are many way to reward the contributing players besides giving them freebies.

I fully agree with this, rewarding some sort of achievement (like a title, medal, etc.) for reaching a certain milestone is awesome. Sadly though, I'm pretty sure most people don't care about those kinds of things if they don't get any reward which is of, as you called it, "monetary value".

 

[axl amy masta]

good idea! now i can put who ever killing me in ca or dw to prison even they just stand still out of nowhere~~

 

[AzGarot]

good idea! now i can put who ever killing me in ca or dw to prison even they just stand still out of nowhere~~

That is exactly why I said that only a chosen few should get the privilege of being "cops" and if anyone of them abuses their power, it won't really be that hard to ban his ass and save the day

 

[Ardamoz]

That will lead to Power abuse
Or at least, some players will think like that.

I think it better to have a Prison Warrant
That invokes Captcha to Botter that made some action in last 15-20 sec
IF Botter does not answer within some time, it get's to Prison
IF Botter is not a Botter, then Cop will get to Prison
Simple and Effective

That is actually a very good idea. Give the accused a chance to prove their innocence, I like it.

It will backfire sometimes due to the botter being present at the time but that will be a small number of cases. Also, it would still need to be a selection of players who can be given the "Cop" rights. If not, then people will use alts to send competition to prison. Also, the feature should be forbidden altogether in the cities or else grievers would mess with the stalls/people afk pet leveling.