Please find a way to stop the bot farms. Require a farm to have a name that can't be changed, a report bot button.
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Please find a way to stop the bot farms. Require a farm to have a name that can't be changed, a report bot button.
Did you see this thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by Abitofstyle
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-New-bot-farms
This is a thread where people discuss about what they are, what they do, and how they can possibly be found. In my experience, they are those with no farm name and/or those selling 10 wheat for 3 coins (not always, though).
"Require a farm to have a name that can't be changed." If a farm can't change its name, how is the person who has the farm be able to communicate? For example, when a person wants followers, he/she changes his/her farm name to reflect that. After that, the person may want to change it back again because it's enough followers for him/her.
You can report the bot farms by going to "Help and Support" on the settings cog on the upper-left corner and contact support that way.
A farm changing the name isn't the sign of the new bots, a farm with no name at all is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abitofstyle
It's too much of a hassle to go through all that when you are playing. NOBODY hardly reports bot farms because of it. The OP is right on one count--they need a report Bot button or something similar or they will not get anywhere with getting rid of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by ProAlvi15n
I belong to a Hay Day group of about 2500 people at another forum. We did a "poll" not too long ago on who reported bot farms and who didn't.
NO reporting--96% !! (approx. 2150 voted in the poll)
It's too time consuming and takes too much effort.
I just ran into a bot farm this week. No name, etc. It was a "member" of a nh that appeared to be oriental in nature, based on the nh info. I took pix and reported it, but seriously, what are we reporting? The last time i did this support asked ME to provide the English name! Seriously? It certainly seems like there is no useful info that can be sent. I sent a pic of the nh info and the farm with no name. Is that enough? I've asked repeatedly for a procedure that includes what info they want, but that request is pointedly ignored. I get the rah-rah speech about how much they care. A solid procedure or report button is really needed.
I asked for a report button here: http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-farms-in-game back in March 2015. Nick said they'd work on it. Yet almost a year later, nothing. Kinda sad really :(Quote:
Originally Posted by pilothaggard
Yes. Lots of us have asked for a report button. It would make it so much easier to report &Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerhunter44
thus more likely people would. Riding us of BOTS and eliminating the need for another mass Bot Ban Decacle. No idea why they're dragging their heals on this one?!
*Maybe SC has to figure out how to wash the reports through a process to weed out the real player farms that are maliciously reported? How many threads have started in the NH subforum about players who get reports for no reason just because someone in the NH thought it would be funny?Quote:
Originally Posted by SmallChange
*Maybe SC has to figure out how to deal with multiple kinds of bots: (1) pure crop bots (2) bots that tap into the information stream back to SC and buy all EMs instantly (3) player-operated farms that are assisted in some routine tasks by some automation (4) other bots that we have not seen yet, that perhaps are not so obvious or prevalent
*Maybe SC has to figure out how to deal with an avalanche of incoming bot farm reports from millions of HD players? Can the SC servers handle this influx?
*How much coding will have to be done to make this report-a-bot button a reality? Can this be outsourced, or will this be done by SC gaming staff, who are now responsible for a 4th global game?
*Would those bot-button reports go to SC Support, to another branch of SC, or to a different outsourced support firm?
*In which SC mobile game are bots having the most negative impact? It may not be Hay Day, but I don't know this because HD is the only SC game I play.
There's A TON of information-gathering, planning, modeling, detail-work, thought, review, re-review, debugging, and etc. that goes into these "simple" additions to the game -- all done behind-the-scenes and invisible to us.
*What change to the game will create the most value for the players we have, and the players we hope to attract? How do we spend our limited time and resources in making this game better for our players: creating a report-a-bot button, coding new animations, making new tweaks, devising new additions to the game, conceiving of new decors, or delivering new products?
I would not hold my breath for a report button. If it comes, I will be surprised. Would I ever use it? Probably not. I don't want to be a bot-hunter. I want to be a farmer. And I would not want to report an innocent player, who looked like a bot to me, but in reality was a real farmer. It's easy to be mistaken about identifying bots -- as we learned with the banning and quick ban-reversal of the folks on the leaderboard in the last truck event (before this current Valentine's truck event).
With that -- back to the farm!
Excellent explanation of the perils inherent in a bot report button. My first thought was, "That would undoubtedly lead to malicious reporting of innocent farms." Unfortunately, there are some players who think it's hilarious to torment others by reporting them "for fun", and this would take that to a whole new level of childishness.