【战争雷霆】中的机器人：它们是什么以及我们计划如何摆脱它们
2023 年 7 月 31 日
我们想解决我们社区中日益普遍的一个问题：你们中的一些人在战斗中遇到的机器人问题，主要是由于它们的不自然行为。还有一些玩家帐户的统计数据很奇怪，令人大吃一惊。我们认为有必要让我们的社区了解这些机器人的性质以及我们打击它们的计划。
首先，我们要向所有报告并继续报告此问题的人表示诚挚的谢意。您的积极参与使我们的社区变得强大且富有弹性。最近我们游戏中运行的机器人数量激增一直是我们所有人都关心的问题，我们正在努力解决这个问题。
在过去的几个月里，我们一直在进行一项全面的研究，以了解这些机器人的运作方式、它们的创建者的动机是什么，以及最重要的是，我们如何才能最有效地对抗它们。这不是一件容易的任务，因为在很多情况下，真实玩家在战斗中的移动和战斗与这些机器人的行为类似，当然并不完全相同 - 但我们需要小心并消除任何误差幅度，并确保我们可以避免检测时出现任何误报。
机器人主要用于人为地增加账户数量，然后将其出售以获取利润——这种做法有时还涉及非法使用被盗的信用卡信息。在某些情况下，机器人软件会被出售给那些希望自己增加玩家账户的人。所有这些做法都违反了我们的游戏规则，损害了我们的玩家和整个游戏。
目前，我们的立即反应显然是检测并禁止我们遇到的任何机器人。例如，上周末我们研究了数百份玩家报告，并禁止了 215 个肯定使用机器人或其他被禁止的第三方软件的帐户。因此，我们要强调的是，购买机器人或增强帐户迟早会导致帐户被禁止，这意味着金钱和游戏进度的损失。我们还恳请您通过游戏内报告系统报告所有机器人。您的支持将使我们能够更快地摆脱这些机器人。
我们承认过去的一些报告没有按预期导致用户被禁止，对此我们深表遗憾。您的声音对我们很重要，每一份报告对于维护游戏的公平性和完整性都至关重要。为了解决这个问题，我们目前正在彻底改革我们的报告处理系统，以确保更快、更有效的响应时间。此外，为了简化我们对机器人问题的理解和处理，我们将在几天内专门针对机器人报告引入单独的类别。
然而，我们完全理解，禁止每个与机器人相关的帐户只是一个临时解决方案，因此，我们致力于寻找长期解决方案，以确保维持 War Thunder 中适当的游戏体验。我们正在探索各种选择，甚至准备在必要时对我们确定为可疑的帐户实施验证码（战斗前或战斗中）等严厉措施，以遏制机器人的使用。
一旦我们发布了目前需要我们大部分时间的下一个重大更新和经济路线图更新，我们将对时间表有更清晰的了解。请放心，我们对解决这一问题的承诺是坚定不移的，我们的努力是为了尽快实施这些反制措施。
感谢您的耐心、理解和持续支持。我们期待尽快与您分享更多更新。
原文：
Bots in War Thunder: what they are and how we plan to get rid of them
31 July 2023
We’d like to address an issue that has become increasingly prevalent in our community: the issue of bots that some of you encounter during battles, primarily due to their unnatural behavior. There are also player accounts with strange stats that raise a few eyebrows. We feel it is essential to keep our community informed about the nature of these bots and our plans to combat them.
Firstly, we want to express our sincere gratitude to all of you who have reported this problem and continue to do so. Your proactive participation is what makes our community strong and resilient. The recent surge in the number of bots operating in our game has been a concern for all of us and we’re working hard to tackle the problem.
Over the past few months, we have been conducting a comprehensive study to understand how these bots operate, what motivates their creators, and, most importantly, how we can most effectively combat them. This is not an easy task, because in many cases, real players move and fight in battle similar to how these bots do, not identically of course - but we need to be careful and eliminate any margin of error, and make sure we can avoid any false positives when detecting them.
Bots are primarily used to artificially boost accounts, which are then sold for profit - a practice which sometimes also involves the illicit use of stolen credit card information. There are also cases where bot software is sold to those who wish to boost their player accounts themselves. All these practices breach our game rules, and hurt both our players and the game as a whole.
At present, our immediate response is obviously to detect and ban any bots we encounter. For example, last weekend we studied hundreds of player reports and banned 215 accounts that were definitely using bots or other forbidden 3rd party software. Hence, we’d like to emphasize that purchasing bots or boosted accounts will - sooner or later - lead to an account ban, meaning the loss of both money and in-game progress. We’re also kindly asking you to report all bots via the in-game reporting system. Your support will allow us to get rid of those bots even quicker.
We acknowledge and deeply regret instances where some past reports did not result in user bans as expected. Your voices do matter to us, and every report is critical for maintaining the game's fairness and integrity. To address this, we're currently in the process of overhauling our report processing system to ensure a quicker and more effective response time. Furthermore, to streamline our understanding and handling of the bot problem, we will be introducing separate categories specifically for bot reporting in a few days.
However, we fully understand that banning each individual bot-linked account is a temporary solution and are, therefore, dedicated to finding a long-term solution to ensure a proper gameplay experience in War Thunder is maintained. We are exploring various options and are even prepared to implement drastic measures such as CAPTCHA (before battle or in battle) for accounts that we identify as suspicious, if necessary, to curb bot usage.
We will have a clearer understanding of the timeline once we release our next major update and Economy Roadmap updates that currently require most of our time. Rest assured that our commitment to resolving this issue remains unwavering and our efforts are geared towards implementing these countermeasures as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience, understanding, and continued support. We look forward to sharing more updates with you soon.
