Re:Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in S...
by Natsu on Saturday April 10, 2021 @06:56PM
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I've seen people try that, but the admins just sit there quietly watching them loop for an hour or something, then note how long it takes them to respond to a simple hello.
Or in some games, they can send messages in a way that a human would see, but not a bot who expects the messages to come over chat. For example, waving a sign in front of the character's face with a message or whatever. It helps that the admins can also hide from normal presence detection, even though they're visible on the bot's screen, visually.
I've literally watched admins ban a bot using these precise countermeasures. The trick is to always keep giving them new things they haven't thought of to adapt to.
As for not talking to anyone, a surprising amount of people play MMOs just like that, so it's not really atypical for a player to never communicate. Runescape even has an account choice, "Ironman Mode", where you have to play the game self-sufficiently, and can't trade with or rely on any other players. You can still chat with other players if you want, but you don't have to.