Icecrown botting

I don't know if I'm hitting the right section here.
Botting on icecrown, mainly for farming herbs and ores is a problem, but reporting bots individually doesn't do much good since they are replaced in a day or two, and it takes days for them to get banned. Can anyone think of a way farming bots could be prevented?
They're pretty easy to spot, but still I got no soul for forcing them on ground, making them bug and filming each and every bot doing bot stuff.
Would be nice if titanium and lichbloom had something that required 7 days to complete so they can be harvested, alltho it would also mess with new players, everyone would ask why this why that.
So yeah... what's your opinion on the matter?

you cant implement a "7 days or more" stuff to allow something to get farmed, as far as i know, its just not in the game.

on regards to bots, i sugested increasing the rate at which nodes spawn during population peak hours (12k + queue on the server) and then lowered again on non peak hours on another thread, but got no answer and cant demand one.

and i believe the problem is actually catching a bot, because fishing bots can be spotted with ease, but bots that farm nodes (and therefore have to move and interact) are not so easy to see, you can take a player as a bot by mistake.

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Originally Posted by bakkhos16

you cant implement a "7 days or more" stuff to allow something to get farmed, as far as i know, its just not in the game.

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It can be implemented as a custom quest or something similar but it's most likely not going to happen since it would be custom content.

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Originally Posted by bakkhos16

on regards to bots, i sugested increasing the rate at which nodes spawn during population peak hours (12k + queue on the server) and then lowered again on non peak hours on another thread, but got no answer and cant demand one.

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Spawn time was supposed to change depending on the amount of people in the zone but I don't know if that system is still active and how much it actually changes.


If you can spot a bot from the way it moves then it should be possible to make a server side script that does the same. That way bots could be detected automatically and it would be the best solution. But I don't know how complicated that is to make and it could result in improvements in botting software so it could not be detected that simply anymore.

I just spotted 3 of them in storm peaks, killed them in air, then started melee-ing them after they ressurected so they can't mount, they kept running in same direction, at same angle, and stopping every few seconds to try to mount, most of them are pretty easy to spot.

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Originally Posted by anyone0

It can be implemented as a custom quest or something similar but it's most likely not going to happen since it would be custom content.

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Some kind of requirement would do a great deal in preventing bots, the way it is now, they can get to 80 in a day and farm for few days before getting banned.