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I highly doubt gold farms are fully human. Most likely they are human-proctored for things like solving bot-detection events, transferring gold, getting things

I highly doubt gold farms are fully human. Most likely they are human-proctored for things like solving bot-detection events, transferring gold, getting things unstuck. As you mention, bots exist, why the hell would they not use existing crude bots to make themselves more efficient? I assume one of the biggest challenges with scaling botting is that the traffic is really hard to conceal and sameish. You’d have a bunch of users either connecting from a fixed pool of IPs (and you can check where these are and if they belong to a cloud/datacenter pretty easily), sharing IPs, or swapping IPs much differently from how a human would. And even with noise injected, the high level behavior would be extremely similar across accounts. Plus with enough skills to work around all these things you are almost certainly better off doing better things to make money… Do you have a source as to gold farming being fully done by humans?

TheFreim 3y ago
> I highly doubt gold farms are fully human. You'd be correct. Bot farms often use human mules to pick up the gold, then they use human intermediaries to sold the gold to (who in turn operate gold selling operations, everything is pretty specialized). > Do you have a source as to gold farming being fully done by humans? From past experience, there are fully human gold farms since sometimes it has been cheaper for people to hire poor people from the third world for slave wages and it helps avoid bot detection. Most setups are hybrids, someone willing to run a gold farm is also likely running bots, humans, and hybrid as covered above.