Method and system for detecting bot scum in massive multiplayer online role playing game

摘要: BACKGROUNDRecently, bots or bot Scum are becoming an increasingly important issue in a field of online game. Bots are software applications that run automated tasks instead of a user in an online game. The bots give unfair advantages to users using them, and are considered as cheating. Accordingly, from the perspective of a game server, bots are not desired. Use of bot results in huge game imbalances and is very bothersome for honest gameplayers who want to play the game fairly. Players are thus discouraged from keeping paying subscription fees for online game, which naturally threatens game providers profits.To fight this scourge, game providers must react quickly to bots' evolution so as to limit their spread while avoiding wrongly accusing human players of cheating of bots. Many strategies have been Suggested for anti-bot defense. Game providers often use repeated Turing tests including …