If your talking about creating a progrma to monitor what is said in chat channels and to detect bot controlled charecters, I can tell you as an amature programmer that it is difficult mostly because of the randomness of the messsages being generated. It is difficult to take into account all aspects of a message to determine if its gold spam or not. For example they cant just ban www.website.com links because what happens if someone that isnt gold spaming posts a link? They would get banned as well. Creating a smart bit of code to check if a message is spam or not is tedious work. And just when the developers think they get it right the damn gold botters take advantage of the website ban by doing something like this www(dot)website(dot)com. Or maybe leaving off www is enough to confuse the code. This is just one of the examples that must be taken in to account and I hope you can understand why it can be difficult. Determining every case of whats spam and whats not is a tough issue to resolve with creating a monitoring program. In terms of stopping botters from leveling charecters that is a different story. Most bots exploit the game using the same or near the same game vulnerabilities. It can be done though and many games have successful anti-cheat/bot systems. Most of the simple bots that are easy to spot are ones that emmulate the use of a keyboard virtually. In other words you have to put your skills in certain slots and the program knows which skill is which and monitors certain data in the game like your health mana and the mobs mana and presses the corresponding key virtually in game. Often times these are easy to spot. More advanced bots constantly re-evaluate situations, scan for enemies to fight, etc. In my opinion a solid GM crew to handle responses, ban spammers, etc is a great way to clear up the servers but remember the big thing is NCSoft would likely have to pay these people wages.
A single guy in his spare time can create a spam filter that filters 99 out of 100 messages.
RMT means money for companies, they won't stop it.
And if they are lazy to create a spam filter imagine with bots.
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A single guy in his spare time can create a spam filter that filters 99 out of 100 messages.
RMT means money for companies, they won't stop it.
And if they are lazy to create a spam filter imagine with bots.
Go go money.