Travian News: Bot Detection

The detection if fully automated, so no human errors. Activity (24/7) is no sign for the detection. There are no longer any “i think that player might use a bot” bans, only if the detection system identifies a bot is it triggered.
For the start bot users will have fun solving CAPTCHAs. It is possible that after the starting phase we will add an automatic punishment (delete troops, empty storage, delete villages….). The CAPTCHAs will do the trick for now and stop bots from working.

Travian Hint got earlier to tell the world about the new mechanism against Bot and Scripts. Proved.
Look at my earlier post : Travian Fair Play, it’s posted on March 21st. And take a look for the official announcement @Travian.com : Fair Play – Bot Detection, it’s posted on March 26th. So, it’s proven that Travian Hint is an accurate website (and sometimes earlier) to tell you about anything happened (or will happen) in Travian World.

Now, read the announcement that published on Travian International Forum : http://forum.travian.com/showthread.php?p=1583443#post1583443

I give note for this quote :

The detection if fully automated, so no human errors. Activity (24/7) is no sign for the detection. There are no longer any “i think that player might use a bot” bans, only if the detection system identifies a bot is it triggered.
For the start bot users will have fun solving CAPTCHAs. It is possible that after the starting phase we will add an automatic punishment (delete troops, empty storage, delete villages….). The CAPTCHAs will do the trick for now and stop bots from working.

So, looks like the Travian Team have already success to solve about the “bot” things. And this for sure, makes the job of all the Multihunters (MH) got easier than before in order to catch the “bot” players. Great job from the Travian Team.

But in my local server (Indonesian), there is still some bugs about this “Bot detection” using CAPTCHAs. The most case is happen in sending multiple wave of attacks in same second or short delay of seconds. For the 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th etc, can trigger the CAPTCHAs, although it’s sent not using any scripts / Bot. Just use some “tabbing” tricks of the browser. I don’t know with the .com server, is there any situation/cases like I mention above ? Feel free to share with us here.

Now the next note for the 2nd quote :

The frequency and duration of CAPTCHA pop ups get higher and longer if the Bot is not deactivated after a CAPTCHA. If the bot users do not learn, we will activate phase 2 and additionally to the CAPTCHAs there will be an automatic punishment.

BEWARE !!

Is that what Travian Team wanna say to us ?

I think yes, I think some of us still “naughty” and “dare” to keep using those scripts like Grease Monkey, although sometimes “it” triggers the CAPTCHAs. Read the last quote above, the more CAPTCHAs raised, we can get some trouble then, like an automatic punishments. This is only a matter of time until the auto punishment is executed.

Possibly Related Posts:

• Travian Hint: Change Travian Forum Theme
• Travian News : Travian Tournament
• Travian News: Travian 10x Speed Server
• Travian News: Fair Play
• Travian News: Travian 3.6