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Old 09-02-2002, 09:46 AM  
XXXManager
So Fucking Banned
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
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These are two totally different things:
1. Hitbotting a counter (SexTracker etc..)
2. and using Hitbot to cheat your traders

the first - is detectable on the counter side. Seeing too many repetitions from the same IP or too many IP-spoofed requests. If an obvious 10-20% (even more) of traffic is spoofed the countee is a cheater. If more than 25% of the traffic is from proxies - the countee is a cheater. So think about it - if the counter does care about that and take measures agains... even if someone from thr top-10 spoofs 9% of his traffic and use proxies on additional 19% (and even then there are ways to detect cheats), its still 72% legitimate traffic. For the top 10 - its alot of traffic - so regardless of that - they are still huge. Also - being in the top-10, maybe you wont risk cheating (cause you may loose your place in the counter if they find you - and all of the sudden you are #12312313 instead of #1-10 )

the second - hitbotting a trader should be detected by the trading script. There are many ways to try to detect ceats, and new ways are developed as new ways to cheat are. Even the most sophisticated bot has limitations. Solving all hitbot limitation will render bots traffic a good traffic - because it will also mean that bots have credit-cards and they sometimes buy stuff
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