No, these have been progressively banned over the last two months, they ban about 100 of the naval bots every 5 days or so and the people behind it just start another 100 accounts. If you look at the individual player pages you’ll see this isn’t a ban wave, it’s just continuous now.
NRB (especially if it’s only one server) is so small an audience you only need about 100 bots playing Leopards 24/7 to completely jam it up. And with aimbotting they probably only need about 5 days’ grace to get researched to rank IV and refer the 100 GE. What’s interesting about the naval bots these last few months is they never promote accounts to higher level ships, presumably because they don’t need to.
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Gaijin can most likely trace this reward and ban main account too. I mean, they can probably see who invited who to begin with…
That’s Necronomica’s point, that they could if they wanted just vector those 100 GE rewards at you or me or anyone else if that was Gaijin’s policy. All they’d have to do is put the target’s player ID as their referral link.
But yeah, odds are is it’s just one guy with access to a server cluster and a bot script who’s been making a nice little 10,000 GE/day income from it. Use that GE to buy ALL da GE premiumz then sell THAT account would seem the obvious monetization route here.
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Pretty sure Gaijin can easily trace this and ban the main account (who invited hundreds of “players”) too. Since creating multiple accounts is against the rules aswell. And there is obvious intent.
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So, 5,000 accounts this report, 2,500 more naval bot accounts in the Nov report, all using the same basic botscript and naming convention. So if referral IS the game… were any of the referral accounts banned as well? That’s why I’m saying Gaijin should say something a little more at this point, if that’s their theory of the crime.
If it’s not, if there’s no pattern in the referral accounts to action, then it’s basically just a quasi-DDOS/for-kicks thing on someone’s part, which is both better and worse in some ways.
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I hope they’re looking into accounts with a large number of referrals. Chances are it’s suspect.
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