Someone using 4 accounts?

[Fever]

I found 4 sorceress's that looked exactly the same that all had very similar names (Andrewda, Andrewio, Andrewwa, Andrewha) that walked at the same exact time to the same places and used the same spells at the exact same time
I followed them for a few minutes and they didn't do a single thing one one character without all 4 doing it
Either this is 4 people with inhuman coordination or 1 person playing 4 accounts at once, thoughts?

[Naamtar]

They're bots.

People run scripts on multiple iterations of the game being open, windowed, on the same computer.

The scripts run through the leveling process then offload all of the gold it gives you to sell for real money.

There are probably tens of thousands of them in the game across NA/EU.

[ミートボール]

Bots for that ole gold selling crap.

[amathy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-boxing

[Nowayman]

They run it through virtual machines.

[SomewhatSolo]

Originally posted by TowarzyszBroni:

They run it through virtual machines.

Same thing with New World.

EasyAntiCheat is pretty effective against stopping more than one instance of the game. Virtual Machines make it easy though.

[bunnygum]

There's also a chance it's a multiboxer but from 1 google search i found out that the limit is 1 account per person so if you see it just report them.

[YMD]

in WoW they call it MultiBoxxing

[Ficelle]

They are bots, there are common in most MMOs
They will probably end up banned after a while
More will pop up anyway

Still it can be a good thing to let them in game for a while to track and flag any account interacting / exchanging anything with them...then ban the whole lotl
Wont hurt the bots too much, more will be made...but the buyers will be really annoyed

[amathy]

Originally posted by bunnygum:

There's also a chance it's a multiboxer but from 1 google search i found out that the limit is 1 account per person so if you see it just report them.

It's definitely multiboxing as I saw some too
https://i.imgur.com/fm4hw5I.jpg
Bots aren't going to go through the effort of making matching names and a guild

[Naamtar]

Originally posted by amathy oniichan uwu:

Originally posted by bunnygum:

There's also a chance it's a multiboxer but from 1 google search i found out that the limit is 1 account per person so if you see it just report them.

It's definitely multiboxing as I saw some too
https://i.imgur.com/fm4hw5I.jpg
Bots aren't going to go through the effort of making matching names and a guild

https://youtu.be/ok5kANWVqxY

Gold sellers make guilds all the time, by the way. I have no idea what kind of scripts they run and how the naming procedures are done in them.

[°Dofus]

That's normal in free to pay games.

[xanaki]

Oh noes. Asmongold Reacts to Asmongold Reacting to Asmongold finds BOTs.

[Naamtar]

Originally posted by xanaki:

Oh noes. Asmongold Reacts to Asmongold Reacting to Asmongold finds BOTs.

He's going to drop this game for Elden Ring and stop streaming when he's done with Elden Ring again, he's already said so, Lost Ark will be safe soon.

[tankanidis]

you see like 20 low level beserkers at the mailbox in luterra shuffling around

a manual sweep of the servers each day would knock down so many bots

[Fever]

Originally posted by Naamtar:

They're bots.

People run scripts on multiple iterations of the game being open, windowed, on the same computer.

The scripts run through the leveling process then offload all of the gold it gives you to sell for real money.

There are probably tens of thousands of them in the game across NA/EU.

I can see that but these bots were on Sunflower Island, which I wouldn't think is part of the leveling process