



And many bots can be regarded as harmless, such as a trade or follow bot. I do not know the stance of Sandbox Interactive on botting, but in theory a game which involves a huge grind, some players will eventually buy bot software or programm their own. Ofc, this is only lucrative with successful game titles. For professional gold or item sellers it is not a real issue to getting banned for botting, they simply would buy another game copy. In regards to botting for amounting gold, World of Warcraft later introduced their own gold selling solution, after years of fruitless attempts to prevent gold sellers and their bots. Or others were simply bored and liked the idea that they can script their own bots, and wake up to find a stash full of loot. Botting in Diablo 2 became popular, because of the huge grind involved to get that extra rare item, others involved the organized usage of many bots run by an individual - bot farm, in order to sell items on 3rd party sites. trade botting, or the usage of something very similar to a follow bot, called multiboxing.īotting and the usage of maphack became a mass phenomena in Diablo 2, for various reasons. What is probably the most infamous bot is however a bot designed to generate gold/silver. The PK bot, is a bot designed to battle other players. Other bot software even uses scriptable interfaces for users to script their own bot actions, tailored for special maps or boss runs. Another bot often used in multiplayer games with markets, is the auction bot. Other bots are more sophisticated, such as the classic leveling bot, often requires programming of pathing through procedural generated maps, or navigation through story lines.

There are various tasks for bots, simple follow function, a trade bot which announces offers and automatically trades items for set amount of money. Maphack has the potential to greatly affect other players gameplay in pvp or through gathering just the best resources in each zone. Maphack is probably the closest thing to a hack, where someone tempers with game data, eg to increase his move speed, or damage etc. Such a tool is interesting for several reasons, albion gatherers depend on resources running around searching them, often for hours, and in pvp a maphack would be the perfect synergy to seek opponents fast. A maphack is a tool which reads the loaded current map data from the game client related memory and visualizes it ingame.
