Q: [Retail US/EU] Potential Players Exploitative Activity Info

[Dirtyangel]

Is there a limit for nodes/day and travel distance? Let's say you gather around 2000 nodes within 24 hours time period, will that automatically flag your account even though Warden comes back with nothing?

I'm using WHack in combination with SGather, whenever I go beyond 2000 nodes a day my account gets banned, I suspect it's done manually. My accounts with ~1000 nodes/day have never been banned.

Do they only check max/min gather ratio, or do they simply flag your account putting it in suspects queue and let admins make a decision based on your client activity, packets send, nodes collected, from place A to place B in X time etc?

[ZvastiK]

Or maybe you are harassing the whole realm with the I IS SUPERMAN MINER MUST HAEV ALL MINE NODES KEKEKEKEKKEEK^^^^^^

[Dirtyangel]

Here I go thinking: "oh nice, somebody replied with useful content".

[benevan]

odds are you ****ed up the economy by flooding the ah, that always flags a person lol

[Castseven]

To be honest, no one outside of Blizzard (and even then, I imagine not most people *within* Blizzard) can answer that question. There may be some who have "theories" but what you're asking for is pretty detailed information about how they detect exploitive activity. I'm sure that's a pretty closely guarded secret, even within the company -- so don't believe someone just because they say "MY FRIEND IS GMZ". (I really believe that we know WAY less about Warden and whatever else Blizzard does than most people think)

If I had to guess, I'd imagine that there probably isn't a hard number, like "oh, this guy only mined 1,999 nodes, he's safe, one more and we've got him". I don't know what they *do* use to catch people but I imagine that like with anything, you *could* get caught for doing it even once, and the more you do it the higher your chances of getting caught are.