Not for group games, it was recently readded.
Has anybody actually got hold of the bot program(s) and looked into how it works?
Could a ‘First Seen at’ piece of information be implemented into every user, to find out where they first see or meet a player(s) - then use this to track where the bots are finding players?
Could the bots just be running through the Search engine for players?
Can certain limitations be enforced on newly created accounts, such as;
Searching for players until (x) days are past
If the user doesn’t play a game in (x) amount of time, terminate the account?
Perhaps even limiting the amount of PMs a user can send per day, at least for new users?
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lol no
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I’m planning on contacting one of those groups and asking how they do it currently.
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That group will deny it for starters. My friends and I joined it and started messing with them. You’ll have to find another. But good luck.
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Damnit. That makes me sad.
Funny how they say ‘if you don’t like how we’re spamming you, don’t reply’
Almost as if they don’t realise it could get them banned.
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They’re the ones starting with sending it, us replying doesn’t stop/start the spam. If they’re stupid enough to say that, they might be unable to realize they’re doing something wrong. or at least the person you talked to. the one that actually made the bot has to be some level above stupid I’d say
Yeah - anyone who spams devforum members with obvious spam lacks intelligence
Someone literally ran this bot on the group members list on the RBXDev group to get people to download a fake extension.
…And it worked, that user is probably still on a devforum account
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I’m in the group and didn’t get a message. I’ve set it that everyone can message me, so that’s not it.
If it’s one of those extensions that uses Discord, you could (spam and) delete the webhook.
It was literally a ‘DevForum Group Notifier’ made by ‘EchoReaper’ so it was def. targeted at RBXDev
I’ve been in it since February (Jan 29 to be exact), so it must’ve been from before then, or it skipped some people.
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This doesn’t really help the botting situation.
They’ll just stop scraping server lists and start spamming by UserIDs.
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When can we expect a release date for something that will fix the server problem for community driven games?
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Hello, Colbert.
If you were developing for a group then wouldn’t you have the edit games permission? The edit games permission gives you permission to view the server lists. That’s from what I’ve heard. (Correct me if I’m wrong)
Although overall with this update, I do disagree, I try join Site 108 or something like that, I will end up joining a new server.
How is Sigma going to be able to raid CI?
More communication would be nice before making changes this large.
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I do have group game permissions and therefore I can see server lists, but the problem is that I require others to see it so they’re able to join servers properly and not create new ones. A bypass is to have someone currently in the server as a friend and join through them, but that’s not always effective.
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Can you please give us an update on this.
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You can re-implement a server list yourself for in-game. You do this by adding a lobby to your game where people can view all servers (which are all reserved servers that send an alive pinger every X time frame), and subsequently players can teleport to any of the servers that are in the list.
I was recently contracted to implement the back-end for a server browser for games like this one if you want to get an idea of what it would be like. This is a pretty full-blown solution, if you have a smaller game you probably don’t even need something as advanced.
I wouldn’t expect a solution from Roblox for your specific problem very soon, if you need a solution urgently then you will probably have to tackle this problem yourself (or hire someone to fix the problem for you)
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Im finding this update really annoying when i am gaming on roblox in general. When i want to join a different server with more people, ect i have to keep spamming the play button and hope i get a good server lol.
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What does this mean exactly? From the looks of it What I’m hoping is, it seems we will be able to upload some kind of lua script that allows for developers to manage this.
This would be actually pretty sweet, but we’d need a way for the server and this script to communicate with each other, as well as letting the script grab basic information from the server list (jobid, serverid, num of players, what players are playing, time server has been alive, server version, etc.)
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