Your opinion on host bots like Ghost springing up in all servers?

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Vicboy

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My opinion...

It started out as a host bot which hosted Empires. Empires was a really fun game and full house was a necessity.

It reached 3000 (Sadly, I missed the 3000 train)

a month later... It disappeared...

Then I started to see different kinds of host bots.

3... A month ago

6 three weeks ago

and now... 20 host bots, including multiples with the same map and people selling servers for hosting, now flood the list of Battle.Net

Is that a good thing?

For me, no. It's harder to find games that has a living human that can start the game anytime he feels like it than a game that will go in fullhouse which almost never does.

I've seen multiple host bots on their numbers of 10 after a whole week.

HELL no, I hate host bots, especially when they kick people just because the ping wasn't good enough. The ping doesn't explain much crap anyway.

You?
 
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H34DhUnT3r

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Vicboy said:
My opinion...

It started out as a host bot which hosted Empires. Empires was a really fun game and full house was a necessity.

It reached 3000 (Sadly, I missed the 3000 train)

a month later... It disappeared...

Then I started to see different kinds of host bots.

3... A month ago

6 three weeks ago

and now... 20 host bots, including multiples with the same map and people selling servers for hosting, now flood the list of Battle.Net

Is that a good thing?

For me, no. It's harder to find games that has a living human that can start the game anytime he feels like it than a game that will go in fullhouse which almost never does.

I've seen multiple host bots on their numbers of 10 after a whole week.

HELL no, I hate host bots, especially when they kick people just because the ping wasn't good enough. The ping doesn't explain much crap anyway.

You?
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Can't be bothered by it, but that's mainly because I host all games I play myself. Besides the gamename pretty much shows that it's hosted by a bot, they all have the same name etc.

But like I said: can't be bothered by it no matter if I host or join..
 
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Jackal

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If the map is half-way decent, then I'm fine with it. If it is not (for example like that World War 3 map), it is irritating.
 
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Jackal said:
If the map is half-way decent, then I'm fine with it. If it is not (for example like that World War 3 map), it is irritating.
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It's not bad. But there are new ones emerging that are really bad.
 
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Host bots are desirable for a lot of reasons.
- A player host has an unfair advantage from reduced lag. An autohosted game will be much fairer in that way.
- Bots can host more games while your game is running. That could have consequences like fewer dota games in the list, because a bot can accept 30 players joining the same game and divide them into three instances.
- Bots can host the same game on multiple servers. Hard-to-fill games suddenly fill up easily.
- Capabilities like changing the game speed, changing the sync rate, shuffling and swaping players, tracking stats, and so forth.

I pretty much disagree with your assertion that more hard-to-find games in the list is bad. It's better than a list full of DOTA games.

That being said, bots aren't inherently good. You can program them to do some pretty ass-holish things. Right now someone has a bot (not a hosting bot, though) joining games and spamming "join X clan!" messages.
 
Rapmaster

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I think they will start banning people who run these. There were some veiled warnings in the greeting message last time I logged on to battle.net
 
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nomadian

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a little bit concerning because surely it hacks into WC3 no? Otherwise it's good since it hosts maps that other people cba to wait to fill up type maps.
 
Lobster

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I prefer them over the new spambots coming up lately. Anyone notice them?
 
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