Botting issue in Dawn of the Crater event.

Truedom

Hello Everyone

I want pick GM's attention to this bot issue as I have played the new Crater infamously long time since few days ago and I and many other players I know have encountered a lot of afk bot players who are on 24 hours a day and enter rooms with their scripted program to just stay at base all 16 rounds taking a credit for something that others have put their time and effort in.

I dont see how you can possibly track all of them down and prove the fact that they've botted, because there may be players who also played close to 24 hours and put real effort into this so I can only make a fair suggestion.

Top 10 Players keep 100k zp as is, because it would be close to impossible to distinguish the ones who stay afk and could hurt real players unless you can find some kind of evidence to them cheating their way out.

Top 11-20 Players get 50k zp.
Top 21-30 Players get 20k zp.
Top 31-50 Players get 10k zp.
Top 51-100 Players get 5k zp.

The top rewards for the rest tops after top 10 can of course be slightly different as it is only my example of more balanced rewarding system.
This is bacisally the only way you can justify this event unless you got a way to deal with bot players and even that aside if you look at all of the channels and rooms without exxageration 95% of rooms are Crater Dawn and you can really see people investing their time into this event and only 10 players out of thousands receiving reward would leave a bad taste for a lot of players who sacrificed nearly a week to have a small chance. And of course you can say that we are also getting lot's of crates because of this event and should be happy but there are many people who just do it for zp reward and dont want all of their spent time to be in vain when only afk players will be getting credit at the end.
Also increasing event period because of server issues (yes I also got disconnected from final rounds many times too) wouldnt really be a solution as it would only bring more suffering for the players who have spent all this time on the new map.

Thanks for Attention, I hope I made all of my points clear and wish GM's good luck to deal with this situation.

daskww

I came here just to say THIS. Its an issue thats tainting the spirit of ZM and ruins it for everyone else. ZP event aside, it isn't fun having a freeloader overlooking you as you play, I tend to just leave the room once I realize its another one of those bots.

I suggest they limit the number of lives rather than giving unlimited lives based on a timer, the average competent player should be able to handle that. I can't play ZM with this BS tbh.

InstaGC

its dumb how the lives system works in crater 2

should be limited in zm, not unlimited like in zm3

Cryptophile

daskww wrote: »

I came here just to say THIS. Its an issue thats tainting the spirit of ZM and ruins it for everyone else. ZP event aside, it isn't fun having a freeloader overlooking you as you play, I tend to just leave the room once I realize its another one of those bots.

I suggest they limit the number of lives rather than giving unlimited lives based on a timer, the average competent player should be able to handle that. I can't play ZM with this BS tbh.

I left once due to somebody uses bot in my game.

What Z8games could have done about this is limit number of lives each player has, so after 2 deaths the players would need to use rivival coins to revive or be kicked out after 30 secs just like some other zm maps.

Same should be implemented in ZM3.

Utmost

The zombies already attack players that are standing still/do low damage. The boss however, rarely does. I think this should be changed, so the boss kills the players using a AFK bot more quickly. I however don't think just implementing this would solve the issue.

AlwaysCryin

Maybe we should only get extra lives given based on the amount of kills we get. That might help to sort out the bots. Also have a system where if someone has no kills after a certain amount of time then they can be kicked.

RAWBLUNT

G4L clan and turks are the main culprits.

xVerm

They constantly have event's that encourage AFK botting and are basically uninteresting for everyone else. In my eyes that's just their way of artificially increasing the player count.