To what extent can players help bot detection? Would in-game reward for fighting bots encourage players to do so?

[Salt_Foambreaker]

@QuakeGod

Ganking bots in low and null sec is much easier to do than high sec. For example, there’s an ice miner in my system that has an Orca, freighter, and 14 Skiffs mining every single day, 24/7, all of them very well tanked. It would take a fleet of 200 ships to take out his operation. Getting enough players together to do that is the problem.

Send a mail to CODE, they love killing defenseless hi-sec ■■■■

[QuakeGod]

You’ll note that I said very well tanked, as in 150k EHP Skiffs and a roughly 800k EHP Orca. Not exactly defenseless. This guy’s operation is more along the lines of needing to hire a Merc corp than CODE.

[Erethond]

Bump the Orca? Then the skiffs don’t get bursts and can’t easily dump their ore into it. Or if the skiffs are set to keep at a certain range, they’ll follow and move out of range of the asteroids.

It’s not quite as satisfying as blowing them up, but if destroying is not worth it (ie loot + bounties + benefit of not having the botter in system < cost of blowing them up), then bumping is an option.