Annoying Questions (But relevant, and unexpected)

[Tywind]

Welll'p.

I don't know if they did a wave the other day or what. BUT I GOT LINKED BANNED. All six accounts, BANNED.
I accidenty slipped and left my bots running while I was at my friends house for 3 days straight (WOOPS)
Luckily I got my main-legit-only-funded-account unbanned with some compromising.

Obviously, I want to start botting again.

So I'm thinking I only got linked banned due to character contact (some bots under same warp portal account, some bots trading items to others, some bots mailing items to others. I know trading to others is a redflag in investigation, I only did that a few times before I knew about this.)

But in case it WAS IP related, can somone review the process of changing IP adress with me? I havent done that since I was packet hacking private servers (due to bans) I was very young and only remember something to do with proxys / internet explorer? (or so I think)

And I also wanted confirm: - by dropping items, letting a monster eat it - only to kill it and picking up the item by receiving character: DOES THIS ERASE ITEM ID? (Thus being un traceable.)

any feed back would be highly appreciated. As I'm sure you can tell.. this has been one hell of a week (my poor botties D:)

[anonbotter]

"some bots under same warp portal account, some bots trading items to others, some bots mailing items to others. I know trading to others is a redflag in investigation, I only did that a few times before I knew about this.)"


exactly that.

if you want to avoid getting linked ban, avoid TRADING and create seperate warp portal accounts.

I learned that the first time they banned my first account. I was able to tell they were monitoring my characters but I didn't think they were looking at my accounts for prolong periods of time to look for proof that some of my characters had relation to the bot account. I was dumb and fell for their trick.

[Dubaimeister]

All of my accounts are wiped. Hahaha. Guess i have to be careful next time. Anyway, does dropping the item helps when transferring the item to another char? So it wont be traced.

[gelo2012]

Welll'p.

I don't know if they did a wave the other day or what. BUT I GOT LINKED BANNED. All six accounts, BANNED.
I accidenty slipped and left my bots running while I was at my friends house for 3 days straight (WOOPS)
Luckily I got my main-legit-only-funded-account unbanned with some compromising.

Obviously, I want to start botting again.

So I'm thinking I only got linked banned due to character contact (some bots under same warp portal account, some bots trading items to others, some bots mailing items to others. I know trading to others is a redflag in investigation, I only did that a few times before I knew about this.)

But in case it WAS IP related, can somone review the process of changing IP adress with me? I havent done that since I was packet hacking private servers (due to bans) I was very young and only remember something to do with proxys / internet explorer? (or so I think)

And I also wanted confirm: - by dropping items, letting a monster eat it - only to kill it and picking up the item by receiving character: DOES THIS ERASE ITEM ID? (Thus being un traceable.)

any feed back would be highly appreciated. As I'm sure you can tell.. this has been one hell of a week (my poor botties D:)

I suddenly got scared of this. I thought it was at Philippines' official RO server. But does this kind of thing also happen to pRO?

[twist3d]

From my experience (both back in the closed beta and now in the current days) any time they ban a character, they send a command to the server that bans every account connected on that IP address. I have run bots on a friends computer and in the same party, same guild, same map even. They ban every connected from that IP at that time. I have a main that has all my valuables that I never bot anymore unless I'm sitting at the PC. It has never been banned (about 4x total now) even though every other character connected has. I have had the same IP and had them banned again, after a thorough investigation (They brought 2 of my characters into the ban map at once). The simple fact is they randomly investigate high level characters when they feel like it, and ban everything connected. This last time I had a character under the same email address/warp portal account, but not connected at the time. All 4 of my bots where banned, but this 1 account that was not connected is still active. Just don't bot from the same IP, or don't bot unattended.