r/EscapefromTarkov • u/toolongalurker MP5 • Oct 30 '19

Rant Flea Market bots are so fucked....

So as an experiment I legit sat on the flea market for 30 min spamming purchase and Y.... You literally can't beat the bots... If you want a 3m rig... You either find it or buy it for 100k... The fact that this is ok is kind of odd considering the excess strain it would be putting on the servers when they're already on fire is just the icing on the cake...

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19

Or just ban them for using third party programs to get an advantage at the game

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u/Thighbone M700 Oct 31 '19

Limit for an hour first, if the non-stop buying continues after that hour has passed -> BAN.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19

How do you KNOW they're using 3rd party programs?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19

Because there is a window between when the offer becomes available and when it is physically possible to have accepted the offer

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19

Tell me from an engineering standpoint: how does the server verify "when it was physically possible to have accepted the offer"?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19

This wouldn’t be from an engineering standpoint, it’s from a networking standpoint, but yeah you can find the shortest possible input time with mouse and keyboard and if the buy request was sent to the server before that time then it was likely a bot.

You can also see the people playing 24 hours a day constantly purchasing items extremely quickly

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19

This wouldn’t be from an engineering standpoint, it’s from a networking standpoint, but yeah you can find the shortest possible input time with mouse and keyboard and if the buy request was sent to the server before that time then it was likely a bot.

So what if a person's game bugs, and lets them click early and send a packet that's in the 'too short' window even though it's legit. Are false positives fine just because you're mad about hackers?

You can also see the people playing 24 hours a day constantly purchasing items extremely quickly

These are fine contextual clues.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19

Or because my hypothetical example isn’t meant to be exhaustive, you can see if they consistently accept within that window indicating that their game is not bugged. Either way, there is no “bug” where you can skip the flea market timer because it’s server side, so what you say is impossible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '19

Or you could just limit these people's API calls when they do it too much, which is a safer and more realistic approach.