I hadn't had a bot steal any of my bems for a long time until today. I actually thought Supercell had solved the problem. So sad they have not fixed this yet. I love the game but every time this happens, I'm a little more likely to stop playing.
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I hadn't had a bot steal any of my bems for a long time until today. I actually thought Supercell had solved the problem. So sad they have not fixed this yet. I love the game but every time this happens, I'm a little more likely to stop playing.
Just lost a couple stacks of bems to bots. I agree with what you said, it’s definitely something I consider when thinking about what to spend my time with. Having bots prey on my stuff is not what I consider ”fun” ...
Yesterday the bot stole from a friend's shop while I trying to buy them. So she put 10 planks, I bought them. And then she put 5 tapes, the bot got them first, again she tried to put 5 bolts, got stolen again. I looks like the bot only takes 5 tools/bems, not 10. I'm just so glad bot never invade my shop.
Lots of "myths" about the bots. The bots will buy bems no matter how many you list at a time: 1, 2, 5, 10, whatever. The bots will buy no matter what price you put up: full price, price of 1, default, whatever. The bot doesn't care what level you are, what time of day it is, what country you are in. The bot is cycling through many farms at light speed. Sometimes they will instantly get your stuff, sometimes they won't get it for several seconds/minutes. Sometimes you can go weeks or months without being hit by bots. But sadly, they have been a threat for a long time and that doesn't seem to change!
Unfortunately, bots are part of gaming life. There will always be someone that wants to try to beat the system and spoil fun for people. SC does quite a bit to combat bots, but there are fresh ones on the horizon as soon as some have been eliminated.
The only thing a player can do to help is report when we feel a bot has visited our shop. Take a screenshot to attach to your report to support. I also try not to shop from a farm that I may suspect is a bot. And if I come across a farm in the DD that I suspect, I report that.
This argument just doesn't compute. If Supercell was a bank, does this mean the bots would just be able to steal money from accounts in their bank? I certainly hope not. Banks and other companies that handle business online are able to protect themselves. Supercell should be able to protect themselves too. Because in this case, we the customers are losing money while Supercell isn't losing anything (unless people stop playing because of it). And that stinks.
As Momscar stated, unfortunately, bots are part of gaming life. There will always be someone that wants to try to beat the system and spoil fun for people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greencheese
Nick, Camilla and Frisco talked about bots earlier this year. LynnK2015 kindly provided a transcription of the video, as well as a link to it. You can see that here: https://forum.supercell.com/showthre...1#post11646957
Supercell continues to make every effort to combat the bots.
This argument does not compute... people have been robbing banks for ages. The banks just continue to change the way they deal with thieves as does supercell.
i don’t lose any money to the bots, so not getting that point either :p
Edit: ninja’d by cowslips :smirk:
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Originally Posted by Greencheese
It's just a malicious piece of computer code, just like computer viruses. There are thousands of those out there. We fight them, we use anti-virus software, fight robots with other robots, but they are never gone for good. Same goes for the PML friendly family of doom, an ongoing struggle ☺
Nah the BEM stealing bots never left.
Amazing that multi million dollar company refuses to do anything about it.
Maintenance updates are supposed to remove them temporarily, but we had one yesterday and it didn't seem to do anything.
I've resorted to not buying anything from the paper, as well as, sadly, selling anything in the paper either.
Really kinda ruins the game.
But hey keep collecting your fat pay cheques Supercell.