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Originally Posted by [DDK]gm
Issue is here that butch3r muddies the water when it comes to cheating, he needs to define clearly what he means as he seems to start with what certain people do to get the win, ship/roid farming, when failing to prosecute them due to lack of evidence or mh he rightly targets scan bots but then seems to expand the scan bot to anyone using scripting to help in scanning.
my definition of scan bot is that which was run by a certain alliance some rounds ago where there was a command used by hc on the bot to log in the planet and start scanning, the bot would return the captia image to allow a responce to login. there was no action made by the owner of the planet, though the owner in this case may of been a multi anyway.
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This mIRC script is all it takes to meet the official definition of botting:
Code:
on *$:TEXT:/(https?.\/\/game\.planetarion\.com\/waves\.pl\?id=[1-8]&x=[0-9]+&y=[0-9]+&z=[0-9]+)/S:#scanchan:{
url $regml(1)
}
It looks for people pasting scan URLs and opens them automatically. This causes the scan to be added to the ally DB, where the person who pasted the scan can view it. More advanced features can be added, but this is already illegal.
All you can legally do is
display scan URLs. The only actions that may cause a scan to be done is a human opening a scan URL, a human entering coords, ticking checkboxes and pressing buttons in the browser that are all in the normal interface as served by the PA servers. In all scenarios, a human must click a button or open a link. A program, scripted IRC client, IRC bot, Greasemonkey script or robot may not.
I get it, everyone hates Butcher, and he's on a bit of a self-righteous crusade here. Again. But unfortunately he's not wrong.