Tell your "I've been called a bot" stories!

[clesven]

Well I was running through Stormwind with my two Warlocks and about to go to Redridge when a 37 Mage calls me a bot and starts following me and then a 34 Priest decides to tag along later saying the same thing. I just let them think it spamming Demon Armor in sync all the way to Redridge .

[Xzin]

On Mag, people know the Zins.... so it is not as big of a deal. Now the issue is people accuse the non Zins of being imposter's, lol.

[Wally]

hahah .. the problem is that you are to well known!

I was wandering around with the shammies and some started talking to me ..

"are you zin?"
"you must be him, thats his guild"

lol

[Runiat]

Well, so far only 1 person has been serious about it (my friends keep making chars and shouting "you're a bot!" at me for laughs), a low-lvl hordie who kept going like..

"you're botting, right?"
"no, I'm dualboxing, 2 computers and 2 accounts controlling 2 chars"
"yes but u can't do that, so really you're botting aren't you?"
"no, I got 2 arms so I can in fact have 1 hand on each of 2 keyboards"
"yes, but you're botting"
"whatever"

Then I told one of my very alt-and-accuse-addicted friends about it, and he started on something I must admit I would've never thought of:

"The capital of Denmark is Copenhagen"
"huh?"
"The capital of England is London"
"what?!"
"The main export of Iraq is Oil"
"ffs noob! You're reported!"
"For what?"
"shithead" /ignore

Really I'd suggest using that on anyone who claims to know wether or not you're botting better than you do. With some luck, a GM will look at the chatlog and say "yeah you're absolutely right, you were waay out of line with the insults so I'm giving you a 1-week ban. Thanks for reporting yourself, it's rare that happens".

Haven't happened yet, but there's always hope.

[Boss]

well I hear WTF all day long on my lock/priest server some of the best have been

"WTF 4 mages all the same..."

4 mages where I tought I was the only 5 boxer here.

or in Barrens chat

"hey anyone see the all lock group of botters?"
"yeah there over here XXXXX"
me "hey im over there all I see is a pt of one PRIEST and 4 locks multi boxing"
"yeah what ever your botting"

I did how ever run in to a BE priest that had been on Mag and new of the "great Zin army" was asked if I was him. Said no but I know him and do play on that server as well. told him to come here and check out your progress lol. Those are some of my /w cant wait to leave barrens though.

[zanthor]

Botting accusations...

First time ever... I woke up at like 3am with insomnia, so I figured i'd go code... busted out my trusty fishing AUTOIT Script and started my priest fishing (legitimate bot)... I started up wow on my main machine and went to Felwood to farm Tubers. Since they respawn at exactly 25 minutes I have my watch set for 25 minutes, start the timer when I pick, and when it goes off I pick again.

I hadn't payed attention but over the next 6 hours i picked the tuber every 25 minutes... some alliance guy came by every now and then and must have petitioned me... a GM moved my character right at the 24:30 mark and since I run dual head on that system I saw it... I ripped the GM a new one for assuming that just because I was in the same place for so long picking the same tuber every 25 minutes that I was botting. The code included frequent /console reloadui's and I was never AFK for the duration... of course I WAS botting on my priest...

The next time I got accused of botting I was working on UI mods again and needed a raid - the GM told me that it was "frowned upon" to use Alterac Valley as a place to work on UI mods... when I asked if it was against the rules he repeated it was frowned upon, I asked if I was in trouble, he reminded me it was frowned upon... Ultimately I told him to stop bothering me and just frown silently, I'm not AFK, I'm not botting, and I'm not breaking any rules so thank you kindly but let me pay you $15 a month and play the game how I feel within the set rules.

....

The most recent was a classic argument of what can and can't be done...

I was AE grinding near sludge fen... and a player watched me gather 8 goblins, ice nova them, ae them down while healing both mages with the paladin...

He accused me of botting, I responded I was boxing not botting, big difference...

He replied "You can't box three characters, I could barely box two!!"

I replied "I'm sorry that you feel your limited skill and ability reflects on the rest of the world, fortunately for the world, we aren't nearly as limited as you."

....

An amusing story of botting and NOT being spotted... I had written a tag-along bot for my priest... I didn't enjoy leveling her at all, and I developed a mod that took a single keystroke and translated it into whatever needed done most... healing, buffing, dispelling, drinking, etc... Ends up that it worked quite well in Alterac valley... and I botted her to Exhalted there letting her follow other players around healing and dispelling...

One particularly good game she had decided this mage was the guy to follow (I had some pretty decent logic for how to pick your master out of who was nearby) and had stuck with him most of the match... about the time we took SPGY the mage turned to my priest and said "I have to go to work, make sure they push the aide station after we cap the SPGY, don't let them get distracted! Once they cap the aide station kill the .... " and traded me a bunch of water... I said "Sure" took the water and repeated what he said to raid chat and let her continue on her botting way....

We won 10 minutes later... under the leadership of a bot!

(note: I do NOT suggest botting in any form any more, and I've never suggested botting is a good idea especially using off the shelf tools... I never got busted because I never used someone elses mod. Additionally I haven't botted since 2.0 hit since they took all the tools I used out of the UI or locked them down as they should have)

[deadarcher]

Well, on my server that I'm currently leveling two rogues, I can usually play both at the same time during a quest and even doing instances.

Most people are cool with it, and I tell them about it and explain it to them and let them know what I'm doing. I also tell them that if they're bothered by it I'm more than happy to leave.

I've only seen one person who was like 'omg dude, don't go out telling people you do that so many people think its botting blah blah' but he was a retard. Most people are pretty cool about it.

[Shogun]

Botting accusations...

He replied "You can't box three characters, I could barely box two!!"

I replied "I'm sorry that you feel your limited skill and ability reflects on the rest of the world, fortunately for the world, we aren't nearly as limited as you."

I might make a macro out of your last reply, sums up the whole attitude perfectly

[Bradster]

Your all a bunch of cheaters!!!! :lol:

[Xzin]

Those 10 boxers cheat the most. Honestly - nobody should be able to 10 box. You only have 2 arms. I can't possibly comprehend how this is possible so clearly it is cheating. Blizzard, please ban them thanks.