Currently my main has an auth attached to it. Also my other accounts that I was using for sark also had auths and they were banned.
Here we go:
Server: The America
11/13 Bot & 2 Main accounts got ban
24/7 botting
Immortal Bot - no other addons or script
I stop the bot manually every 6 hrs to repair and to do something out of the pattern a little. Collect gold every 12 hrs
Some bot use the gold AH some don't.
All 13 bots were running on the same pc, no vpn no vm
2 Main accounts are on a 2nd pc, bot free, script free, cheat free.
Main accounts don't even use RMAH, gold AH only. But I do use gearswap on the main account.
All D3 accounts are on the same network.
Lost 300m gold when they banned me and about $500 worth of RMAH stuff that I was going to sell.
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Last edited by Oxis; 07-12-2012 at 09:52 PM.
Huuuuge banwave!! Was using IB for 5 of my accounts, all 5 got banned.
One account has never been botted, was active for almost 2 months and just started botting 2 days ago,
this also got banned.
Main acc bought in may, botted for 2 months, 250m collected, banned.
3 other accounts of various types and lengths, banned.
All through the same IP, like many users.
Very sad day, but i kinda saw it coming after reading up on the bans in the past 24 hours.
Even still, i had hope that i was one of the lucky ones.
I seriously think this is the biggest ban since the HB wave.
If you've been botting, you may have already been flagged, just bot until the account runs dry. (=
I used the TNT bot only on the main account over a month ago. Also played with HB on 2 accounts.
But for them all to be banned at the same minute, this depicts that it doesnt matter what the hell you're
running, unless if you've created a bot that has random % variables on every aspect from logging in,
to creating an instance, to leaving, looping, detecting mobs and attacking them, all on random % values.
GL brethren, think im done in the botting game for D3.
(Posted this on another ban thread, but seeing as this was the main, wanted a copy here too!)
gotta go get another 14 accounts and level those up legitimately and wait till gold price soaring then start botting again!!!
You definitely made profit then, starting up again wouldn't hurt. Also, go for another run and get ready for expansion pack =P
All my DB accounts were banned yesterday, wonder if it was easier for them to track cause it was all under the same ip. Been reading on hidemyass.com, one of their features "New IP every time you connect". Sounds tempting O.o
Yea, I am waiting until the banning simmers down a bit before I start again. Right now buying a new account and jumping in would be suicide.
hidemyass sounds very tempting. Wonder if continuously changing my IPs will help.
BOT: D3 Mimic
TIME 1: 8 hours a day (not straight through, either)
REGION: US
TIME 2: Monday-Friday; personal time on weekends
HACKS if you used any: None
GOLD selling or buying: Sold: Made about 20 mil
Looks like almost all of the users who this bot were hit also. Some didn't bot for the last few days and were still given a ban. Maybe they were just waiting for the right moment to drop the hammer.
*Le sigh*, I think eventually those who bot are already flagged and are just waiting for the next ban wave. Seems like anyone botting from using Sarkoth scripts to AH Scripts eventually get the ban hammer. Reading through most of the posts in this thread, I don't think so it involves specifically RMAH transactions, it also includes obvious botting patterns and huge sums of gold, pretty much anything to do with botting basically.
I'm guilty of botting just for simple farming, not surprised if I get banned. Blizzard is going all out for their sacred RMAH profit. Pay to win boys or grind your life away. :P