Gathering is gone, now what? Your Thoughts 4 a (golden) penny...

My signature says it best, lol.

 

Private profiles are good. May I also recommend bounce mode?

 

What does bounce mode do?

 

Bounces.........

 

Right it reverses the path seems okay i guess but not exactly sure what it has to do with a lower banrate.

 

It makes your toon go different paths and not following the same one 24/7, possibly resulting in lesser reports&bans?

 

Right that's pretty usefull but I don't know if that's how blizzard detects bots but i'll use bounce I guess can't hurt.

 

No one knows exactly. Just a suggestion.

 

blizzard cant detect the bot they detect the profiles that people are using the bot can never be detected if it was tripwire would turn of the bot even that he makes profiles for people stil get banned by his profile some on the forum i would never touch a profile from some one els work only my own.

 

With ''bots'' I obviously ment people who are botting.

 

I had 3 gather bots that ran for no more than 10-11 hours a day on private self made gathering profiles. I have 1 non-gather bot that also runs 10-12 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Of these 4, all are on the same battle.net and made on the same date, and have within +/- 2% of the overall time played. All of the gather bots were closed, the non-gather bot is still running without warning.

I remember when I was new enough to botting that I would read all these things people said and let myself believe that they mattered.

They don't. If you bot you're going to get caught, no matter how many precautions you take. I don't mean to discourage you from taking precautions, because lowering your exposure will always increase your longevity. I'm just trying to say that if you think you're sly because you didn't get banned this time, or you're beating yourself up because you feel like you botted just one hour too many - you're naive and know very little about botting. It's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN and no set of controls will keep you from it. I've moved my efforts from prevention to recovery and it's helped a great deal. I always have 2 maximum level botting accounts waiting in the wings for when the previous ones get closed. Just look at it as overhead and prepare for it instead of being upset and ruined over it.