One of Blizzards "PROOF"-Technique, identifying you are a BOT

[mckemo]

Hey guys - i watched my bots today -
got atm 12 running and 4 of them got suddenly a black screen - note that 2 of them were on an another pc BUT on same B.net account.

The screens went black, but Actionsbars, minimap etc where still visible and HB hasn´t stopped farming because it gets all information from RAM.
So you don´t see anything. If you can´t see anything, you can´t farm but Bot can. And if Bot can, you got caught.

Funny thing is: after 20 nodes later, all 4 black-screened bots got 72 Hrs. suspension and final warning!

Don´t let your Bots alone! maybe we need to make a plugin to check for visual.

[Svej]

Never knew of this! A plugin for visual is an amazing idea.

[gippy]

happened to me last week while leveling my mining in icecrown last week, got dced like 3 mins later

nothing happened to my account though.

[mrpauloismeo]

This isn't the case...it's a glitch within the wow interface. All you have to do is do a /reload and all is fine. This has happened to me as well and I haven't been banned and I have been able to reload the UI and everything is fine. But good looking out.

[nerfmeplease]

Common problem back in Cata when running paths in Vashj'ir, happens on occasion in Jade Forest and recently in VotFW, for me. You can go to buddy forums and search for something like "black screen" and see the threads about it. Please don't cry wolf without testing and proof, from the thread title I thought this was actually going to be good.

PS: How does blizzard know your screen is black...

[Anonie]

he means a gm or someone flagged his screen to turn all black. then watched what he would do, if he weren't a bot, he would stop flying around and possibly press esc a few times.

[mckemo]

i know the black screen from HB - there you don´t see anything and wow will crash witherror 132.
but this time it hasn´t crashed, and curios thing is that all accounts have been suspended

[nerfmeplease]

i know the black screen from HB - there you don´t see anything and wow will crash witherror 132.
but this time it hasn´t crashed, and curios thing is that all accounts have been suspended

My black screens never crashed, i had to manually exit and relaunch. Its just coincidental bad luck that it happened and you got 4 accounts locked.