An honest to goodness, non QQ question

[DCSRM]

An honest to goodness, non QQ question

So I am continually frustrated by getting temp banned on bnet. I wont go into a cry session because you have already heard this 10000 times.

My question is this:
How much stress does quickly switching between characters actually cause to the bnet servers? (with the assumption that I am getting banned due to stress to the server)
I see that they are hosted by att. If that means they are on att servers then we really shouldnt have to worry about anything, as I know first hand their servers are some top notch stuff.

any thoughts?

 

[Technomancer]

Re: An honest to goodness, non QQ question

It has nothing to do (at all) with bandwidth/server stress. It is solely a lame attempt to interfere with bots, which doesn't work at all. I dunno, it may slow them down a little bit, but they are gonna do everything they're gonna do anyway, legit players are the ones who suffer.

 

[tmorrow]

Re: An honest to goodness, non QQ question

It is not only a lame attempt at interfering with bots that use regular CD key and dynamic IP switching to easily bypass the ban. Instead it is the legitimate players who by and large don't use these techniques who suffer the most. The only cheaters impacted are wannabe hackers that don't yet know what they are doing and haven't got their configuration right.

With that being said, you can usually get away with entering 20 games per hour without any problems and that shouldn't be that imposing. I know sometimes battlenet just messes up and bans you anyway but that isn't the norm in my experience. I play on USWest so on other realms YMMV.

 

[krischan]

Re: An honest to goodness, non QQ question

They nerfed quick switching because it was a cheap way to get rid of bots. Obviously, that worked for only a few days, then bots made just one game every 3 minutes and pauses of 10 seconds between them or something like that.

Anyway, Blizzard won't listen to your complaints. Before entering a new game, count to 10 slowly (while entering name and password. Don't make more than one game per 3 minutes over a longer time, let's say no more then 20 per hours.

When doing the IP address switch trick, the temp ban for creating games too quickly will occur far earlier... at least it was like that for me when that technique still worked with my ISP.