Cherek asked for opinions about what botting is, or isn't. Here's my take. This, and $10, will buy you lunch.
Here's what botting is:
1. Being 'afk'...whether to piss, smoke, work, or go to the store, etc. This is idle botting.
2. Automating anything while you are doing #1 above. This is full-blown -hope you lose your equipment and imbues- botting.
I'd consider it 'reasonable' for a bot check to give you three opportunities to pass over a three minute period. Make it easy to see, perhaps several blank -or very easily recognizable- leading and following rows, to segregate it from combat spam.
I consider this 'unreasonable':
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What is the number displayed? Syntax: <answer number>
Here's what botting isn't:
1. Running trigger sequences or scripts while you are sitting there paying attention.
2. Combat and hunt triggers or scripts while you are sitting there paying attention.
With that said:
If you have to urinate, disconnect.
If you have to take a phone call, disconnect.
If your kid spills milk on the couch and you have to step away, disconnect.
Stop making excuses, disconnect. It's not hard, I promise.
If you're feeling lucky, bend the rules...I'm all for it. If you don't disconnect and you get busted, tough, you're wrong...suck it up.
Additionally I also feel:
If you're being dragged around by a bot, you're wrong.
If you're a bot being dragged around, you're wrong.
If you're a bot dragging other people around, you're wrong.
EDIT: If you get busted because you're sitting at your computer, watching Youtube (or whatever), NOT paying attention...tough.
Hence, I replied to the first part only as I felt the rest required an answer worthy of more time than a few minutes. Check again later!
