Some of the advanced bots are actually clientless meaning these people can run hundreds of accounts at a time on one machine without using any PC resources whatsoever. These botted accounts are also disposable and have an active ingame life of less than 24 hours, they actually bot quests to a certain point, transfer the gold via ingame mail, then are disposed of and a new batch of auto generated accounts are created for the process to rinse and repeat lol. The only real solution is to detect and block the software the bots are using or a server sided pattern recognition for the bots script/features. Manual banning them is a wasted effort for the team unfortunately considering most of these bots will not even be active in the game by the time the report/review/ban process is over.
I just hope this get sorted out and taken care of quickly … should be Prio 1.
The economy is damaged already … and i will kill the game when its damaged even more.
Aditionally … if i was a new Player and saw that there are much more Bots then players in the low level areas … it would not make a good impression of the game
Probably safe to assume at least 20% of the current ingame player population are bots
When I played this morning it was probably 80% in the starting areas 
This was only one channel, there could be thousands of bots running around
Yes it’s been known already, they are low level berserkers and sorcerers (almost every bot is) with very low roster level aswell, so people saying they are alts are blatantly wrong and defending them for weird reasons, maybe botters aswell, report them, EAC is bad.
Exactly, and they are low lvl roster aswell so no boosted stats on alts as excuse like some people are saying here
Imagine that instead FIXing firstly the bot problem (high queue, gold problems ) and the possibility of transfert server, you are nerfing content. Yes my English is bad but you are not doing a great job at all. It feels so sad, yesterday I was levelling one alts and was full of this bot: FULL. Thats a shame. Should we stop playing and start botting as well? Im really disappointed now. 2022 and still not able to stop this trash. Please try to improve the important things and after do others. Please.
Thanks for finally acting on it AGS, just saw messages about the most used bot tool for lost ark. Where they stated that it is now detected right now and that the bots & most of the gold stashes have been banned. So keep up the good work and let’s hope u guys can keep it up now and have everything sorted out.
(picture not taken by me it’s from somewhere else)
wtf from what universe are you?
EAC is crap shit³
why would we not get a right anticheat? AGS would not pay for…thats why we have the worst anticheat ever.
tell that all those hwid banned kids in apex.
the classic eac is trash but if its a modified version like for apex it could actually be good.
im noticing this too… its definantly not normal…
do me a favour go to a starting area and watch how many speed hack, and collision hack bots there are running around its actually insane if you stand in a area they have to pass through to move to the next area you will encounter almost 100 per hour at minimum… they are botted accounts using speed hacks and collision hacks made to farm gold for gold sellers…
Im fairly sure Lost Ark was going to start banning accounts receiving mails or items from any account flagged as bots, or sellers ect, so best to just report anyone you see running around then more get flagged it also means the buyers keeping the gold sellers on the servers get banned when theres no buyers the sellers disappear,
It’s 3am, and there’s 61 channels on Calvanus in Lakebar… absolute LOL.
If nothing’s being done about this grotesque botting situation I am out.
Is there not a way to trace these fake bots to their creator?
Surely they can do this.
I think that it’s more likely that it is 80% of characters are bots…
There are just so many of them.
I played one of my low-level toons last night and did not see 1 other player. But I saw many many bots.
Its simple really… With all the speed hacking and teleporting the bots do… Ban any account that gets to X level within X amount of time thats abnormal from even the best players.
IE: Fastest player gets to lv 30 in 4 hours
Bots do it in 1 hour.
EASY
One of my alts is just a little farmer back in Lakebar.
I’ve seen some seriously sketchy shit with players zipping around at crazy fast speeds, cutting through terrain, appearing to blink between nodes.
Whatever Easy Anti Cheat is suppose to do (for both LA and NW) it doesn’t do it.
Sure, you can make bots harder to detect, but they don’t even try to hide the fact that they are botting. They are obviously speed hacking