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Re: If it smells like a bot... is it?

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From: SCWizard
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
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Well, even though he might not have been using the Ratbot, don't forget
that there are still other autoaim proxy bots out there for the
individuals to d/l.  Most common one being ZBot, but I'm assuming since
this server had runes, it was running Lithium, and therefore probably
has the ZBot kick on it.

I have heard of another bot that someone developed that is far superior
to both the ZBot and Ratbot, but as far as I know it hasn't been
distributed yet.  However, just like anything these days, people pirate
everything, so it's probably out there somewhere.  I just hope this
wasn't the case...

Did you get a demo of you chasing him?  Really that's about the only way
to tell if someone's using a bot or not.


Phil Benton wrote:
> 
> Here's a scenario that happened last night:
> 
> Me and one of my teammates [both on cable]  were slamming this guy [28.8] on
> our regular server. He got his head handed to him and left before fraglimit
> hit. This is a reguar occurance as this fella is rather annoying and when he
> pops on we beat him down. It' stradition.
> 
> Later in the evening, he pops back on, and persuant to tradition, we
> commence on assaulting him.
> End result of this later attack is *we* get whumped. furthermore, he's
> nearly untouchable and has unerring accuracy the remainder of the evening. I
> had noticed on occasion as he was being persued that he would spin around
> and fire w/o error, nailing us as though we were standing still.
> 
> Wanting to test the "ratbot" theory, I immedaitely typed ratbot at the
> console and got no response. [aside of the irritable reply of our opponent,
> who was rather PO'd that we'd accuse him of using a bot]
> 
> I'm still kind of suprised that he killed us as easily as he did. He
> refrained form using the railgun ans was more apt to use rockets or sshotgun
> w/ strength rune. furthermore, I have a *hard* time hitting him with the
> railgun, even though I have no problem slamming a slug home on some of the
> usually tougher opponents.
> 
> Something just don't add up. Any suggestions, recommendations, or theories
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil Benton
> aka Ed Hunter[SS]
> eddi...@home.com

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