My idea to detect aimbots (Page 2 of 3)

I really think we should just give up.
This seems like a never ending battle.
I think that the [BOT] clantag auto-ban function should be added to normal servers.
Not many people use bots anyway. Its just that lots and lots of people have botlike movement but don't have a bot.
They just practice a lot. (and yes there are plenty of funvoters around that kick skilled players)
Like my dad got mad at me because he thought that my actions were "unhuman" and botlike.
(but he never got to ban me because I was server admin )

Every person I met that used a bot wasn't very tough. They mostly walked off cliffs.

Are you sure? When i started playing teeworlds (version 0.5) even there were some bots, because there were many bot clients i think. A long time there weren't many bots in 0.6, but now, since the 13x37 client, is out, there seems to be more botters. And many player tries to use a bot in FNG, but may be you're right and it is better in vanilla servers, i suppose its because you can't play just with the laser . I don't play it so much and i don't have a vanilla server, where i have to ban the bots all the time... It would be nice anyway to have a vanilla implementation to stop it on all servers. The [BOT] Clantag was a good idea +1 from me too.

(BTW Why no one implements a like system for posts ?)

No 0.6 bot has the [BOT] clantag implemented. Useless idea.
There actually are vanilla bots but not public. So yes Bots are also on "normal" (vanilla) servers.
There is no such thing as a bot movement since there aren't any bots which are moving.
In Instagib and zCatch there are a lot of bots. The only way to stop this is to DDoS and hack the sites which are providing this software.
The community itself can take down these sites with DDoS attacks.
We are Teeworlds.
We do not forgive botting.
We do not forget bots.
Expect us.

I had to tell my dad that.

There aren't much bots on modded servers either. (exept hookbots)

Any detection is fallible. There are only two viable options:

1. Make Teeworlds proprietary, add cheat protection. Come on, proprietary software is cool, it powers the world! Soon there'll only be hardware with DRM support, so we could use DRM for cheat protection!

2. Make admin providers. An admin provider would be a server that provides an admin account system. Teeworlds servers would be able to allow admins from certain admin providers to ban players from their servers (we should provide means however for server owner to bypass bans if they themselves get banned from their own servers). There should be an official admin server, where admin are selected by the best Teeworlds pros that is enabled by default in the official Teeworlds server binary. People should be also able to create their own admin providers. Teeworlds server should support multiple admin providers to be added at the same time, so server owners can add all providers they trust to their servers.

Hahaha.... We all know that there are no cheats for proprietary software. You are being funny.

Ok, Well I play lots of Zcatch, but not much instagib. (Better start now)

@Twiss:   There are bots around, but my point is that we should just plain ignore the botters. They are just as tough as any human. (either that or ive never seen a bot) And go to a server that doesn't attract bots. (Evidently you think skilled players are bots? Maybe?)

If we had a global banserver then you would have lots of reports saying: *^&*^%&^ you global banserver.

Because... They weren't using a bot.
So thats just not fair Twiss.
A superadmin can't prove someone's botting.
Its just plain (*&(((&^%^ to ban someone who's not botting from all servers.
SIMPLE: If someone uses a bot, then global banserver is still bad. (what if they stopped botting?)
If they weren't botting and they get banned, then its still bad. (they aren't botting duh.)
Lots of people look like bots but aren't.
Nobody can tell the diffrence between human and bot.

Oh he's right. Especially on noobservers you can easily detect them cause they don't even try to hide it.^^
You can even detect them if they aren't that nooby but you can't be 100% sure in that cases.
Recently when I played insta with a rl friend I was about 90% sure that he was using bot after 1 or 2 minutes of playing(and no he isn't bad^^). Later when I asked him he said that he really had been using one.^^

Actually it's not so hard to prove it,record a demo,slow it down and watch botter's aim following perfectly your tee's body. That's the best way to prove it.

Also ingame,you should recognize aimbots by watching their aim accurately they'll always do something that a human wouldnt do.

That shows how genius you are,just read the "Ingame" sentence that I wrote.
I used that method (demo recording) to spot some guys that were hiding well their bots and it was pretty useful.

Since zCatch has implemented banmaster I tried to ban botters on zCatch server. My experience is that it's much work to do that, if you dont want to ban somebody just because anybody says he's botting. So you have to search each player which you think he's botting and watch him till you are sure and ban his IP. But a single IP-ban is very useless since many players know how to bypass it.
Don't understand me wrong, i also would be happy if all these botters will be banned and many times it also worked, but it's exhausting to do that all time and it becomes very difficult to find suspect players.

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