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Been shopping a lot today, and I have noticed some striking similarities in the paper today.
I've seen lots of farms today named (GIRL'S NAME) Farm with exactly the same layouts, all selling wheat for 10/3 or 5 coins, all with hungry animals, all of whose fields are arranged in the same long pattern, and all between lev 27 and 29.
Hmmmmmmm
http://i.imgur.com/trTMAjC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vgLgJzu.jpg
Very supicious. But what have they got to gain from making bots?
Average of 4 per refreshed paper... ughh
Wheat bots generate expansion items -- lots of expansion items.Quote:
Originally Posted by BL4CKN1GHT
That does look like possible robots, would it be best to report that in game via support?
They gain tools by planting wheat and sell it over and over .
http://i65.tinypic.com/1zojlog.png
bottom right corner...
I get them too
Nick? Can you look into this?
Indeed, problem is those that create many farms like this hoard all the items up and try to sell them black market style.Quote:
Originally Posted by MF2MS
Another bot trademark is them been homeless (hoodless).
I already reported them to in-game support.
layouts are a tad different but not much...
Just checked my latest DD out of curiosity and yep, there were 4 of them. All very similar. Another thing they all have in common is that they're not in any neighbourhoods.
Tedious little shytes.
Posting in Bugs & Problems might help.
And just when it seemed that SC was getting them under control! Thanks for the heads up Perky.
My answer from support:
http://i.imgur.com/fFbRUtK.jpg
and in the latest newspaper: http://i.imgur.com/TOLrJsd.jpg
I reported a very obvious bot farm some weeks ago, and received a similar reply from Support. Great!
Since then I have separately reported two more. Unfortunately I have not heard anything back from Support. That won't put me off reporting them, though.
I for one have started wheating more and selling at 10. Trying to get land expansion stuff for the new upgrade. So excited about more land. Thanks Hay Day team!!!!
Yes I see them now that I know what to look for in the DD.
The wheat fields also have that same classic patterns as the first ones did. Seem to be always in different stages of readiness.
The only time I ever buy wheat in the paper is if it is 10 for 1 coin. So I don't have to be concerned about buying from these.
I do enough wheating of my own. And the visitors buy what I don't use myself.
Hiope SC can shut these down soon. Will be better for everyone.
The first image is definitely a bot- over 19million coins at level 29 - I don't think so!
The 19 million coins is the property of the person who took the screen shot. In this case PerkyCox.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sooty123
Guess I've got to take a bit more care in looking - thank you - senior moment
Holy cow -- these are a bigger problem than I realized! I just reported: GEORGETTE, VIOLET, JACLYN and LATISHA all in a twenty minute time span....
I just reported 4 farms also! Maybe if we report them as we see them, SC can get them under control soon. Thanks Perky for the heads up.
I just found 7 of them in 10 minutes once I started looking, it's crazy!! I can't remember ever seeing anything this obvious before.
A question HOW many can they be ? I to have 4 off them ! Very irrtateing for us that play an most be very costly for HD !
It's almost like they were made with the same cookie cutter.
Long row of fields running parallel with the driveway, even the first cow pen and chicken pen in the exact same spot. First feed mill and bakery always in the exact same spot.
I did happen to spot 2 other bot farms yesterday that did not have girl's names but were named with a series of letters and numbers. On these the fields were not laid out in the same configuration as on the girls name farms.
I would've never noticed were it not for this thread. Now I'm finding at least one or two in every DD! Unbelievable!
Bot farms are still there advertising wheat. Hay day is sending out messages about it but can't fully see it.
Seems to me, about the time an update is ready to arrive we start seeing more of this kind of activity. I wonder if it's because the SC team is busy with that, and not actively looking for the bots.
I've reported two others that have the appearance of being bots, but are different to the ones with girls' names. On one, the town showed a derelict town hall, but there was no station building or handcart - just an empty space.
The second had items missing from the fishing area - there was no shack, lure maker, lobster pool or net maker. There was just empty space where they should be.
It seems that bots are becoming common again, unfortunately.
Wow, once I started looking I found lots of them, this must be a huge problem! :mad:
Looks like the bots have made a return to the DD. Nice having one day without them.
I'm seeing lots of 7 & 8 levels for bots right now....
As soon as the last bots were shut down those same people are going to try to find a workaround.
This is a reality of gaming, so all we can do is depend on the game devs to stay one step ahead.
These bots are so easy to spot. I wish there was a bounty on them. For every 25 confirmed bots you report you get a diamond lol. I wonder if reporting even helps that much?
I just found a level 49 bot with the suspicious fishing area, farm name is a number.
I remember the farms that sold 10 LEMs for 1 coin (haven't seen that in a while!) - they all had a suspicious fishing area and some people reckoned they were actually run by SC to inject more LEMs into the game. From memory they didn't sell wheat, at least not at the same time as the LEMs, and the farm names were always a jumble of numbers and letters. Makes you wonder what this is all about and how they even manage to alter the fishing area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wussypuss
The bots were never going to stay away for long, the boost to the paper is only ever very temporary post updates, only some hours, never days or weeks.
I've seen two bot farms selling 10 mallets for 1 along with the wheat. The weird fishing area ones are all number farms. The others are all CAP farm names. I reported six of them so far with pictures. Hope it helps.
Wont.make.a.dent.Quote:
Originally Posted by prcjd
I would say report them via in game. Don't assume by posting farm names and levels with pics showing a farm name. It brings about a lynch mob mentality and can falsely accuse someone of botting when they are not, it was also advised in the past to not do so publicly on forums but contact staff with evidence or report via in game support.. Supercell has a psychic octopus that will hunt down these bot farm and take necessary appropriate actions. There is only 2 ways to know for sure if a suspect farm is a bot, 1) Supercell checks game logs to see identifiable patterns, 2) The suspect farm player knows whether they are botting or not. Everything else is mere speculation, assumptions as one can not tell anything definitively without all the hard concrete facts.
I've come across several "baby" versions of these today - same pattern with female names in all caps and similar layouts, but the farms were all around level 15 only, and they all had a caterpillar decoration near the mailbox.
Check out hood # 99P0LCJJ (unsure if it's a zero or a one) full of farms, all numbers, most in derby with no trophies
Curiously, I haven't seen a bot farm since this morning's maintenance. I wonder if they get booted whenever SC shuts us down for a short bit?? I would very much like to think so! :D
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Originally Posted by Raelet
Sadly No I have just reported two :mad:
Ah man. Bummer!
Seems they're back stronger than ever.
You don't really notice them until you start looking then woosh, they're everywhere.
Tell me, how do you report a farm in game?
Take a screenshot of the suspicious farm, go to in game settings, contact us and simply say "reporting suspicious farm" and attach the screen shotQuote:
Originally Posted by sj1719
i just found 5 of these in 3 papers, so about 6 minutes... same as you describe - CLARE, GABRIELLA, DAWN, ALTHEA, ELBA - all same layout, with the catepillar decoration near the mailbox, all level 15-16.Quote:
Originally Posted by CottonTail
They're obviously trying to look normal with their strategic placement of one decoration at the front of the farm... previous bot farms didn't seem to bother. :D But they'll have to try harder.Quote:
Originally Posted by shadyacre
(Actually no, bot farmers, please don't try harder! :p)
The bot farms are out of control. I haven't seen this many bots since before the big commitment to fair play. The paper is full of them...and they are so obvious. I really like the update but the return of the bots is spoiling things.
I have to say I didn't notice any obvious bots at all when I played for a while last night. They seem to come and go in waves - it's either heaps of them all active at the same time, or none at all.
I spot an average of 2 each newspaper. I noticed that they also have more or less the same amount of coins and diamonds. I reported them as suspicious farm, i attached screenshots. I am not sure if i can attach multiple screenshots in 1 report?
you can't see their coins and diamonds - those would be yours that you're seeing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pris77
i also reported them, and received a response from support yesterday. you can only attach one screen shot per message. i didn't want to spam them with a bunch of messages...
but, in their response, they asked me to forward any other screen shots i had, so i did with 1 per subsequent message (just the image). i sent them 27 that i had seen in the last day ;)
Ok, my mission for the evening will be reporting them 1 by 1.😅Quote:
Originally Posted by shadyacre
I'm getting these bot farms, too. They're all named "NAME's Farm", level ~18-22, and have their fields on the right side of the road. I just got 4 of them in one DD edition!
I reported those 4, but if I report every bot farm I see, I wouldn't have enough time left to play. I'm sure SC will take care of us though. :)