Your connection has been temporarily restricted from this realm....:S?

"Your connection has been temporarily restricted from this realm. Please try to log in at another time".... What is this about? Really :S I would like to have a fast answere and I wanna know now.... have waited for 2 hours now and I�m getting pretty mad about this.|||Quote:








"Your connection has been temporarily restricted from this realm. Please try to log in at another time".... What is this about? Really :S I would like to have a fast answere and I wanna know now.... have waited for 2 hours now and I�m getting pretty mad about this.




Since it said "temporary" you don't have a whole lot to worry about. You were probably muling too fast or entering/exiting games really quickly, like during very fast baal runs or mf runs over an extended period of time. The more you try to access your account during the temporary restriction the longer it will last. The best thing you can do at this point is take a break and come back in a few hours. If you hadn't tried to access it a lot directly afterwards, it would probably have only lasted 5-15 minutes tops.

This is an anti-botting method implemented by blizzard. If you were muling get someone to help you and take your time a bit more; try not to join and then immediately exit within a matter of seconds, especially if you need to come and go several times. If you were magic finding, add something else to your list of things to run. For example, if you were running only Pindle, add Meph, or andy, or mephy and andy, etc.|||Quote:








This is an anti-botting method implemented by blizzard. If you were muling get someone to help you and take your time a bit more; try not to join and then immediately exit within a matter of seconds, especially if you need to come and go several times. If you were magic finding, add something else to your list of things to run. For example, if you were running only Pindle, add Meph, or andy, or mephy and andy, etc.




How can it be anti-bot when bots are the only ones *never* caught by this, except for the first logon after the "feature" was released?

Bots can be programmed to perfectly avoid the restrictions by adding one tenth of a second delays rigged after the specific time needed to wait betwee games.

Besides -- Bots will stil collect more items and faster than humans, seeing that bots never need any rest and can work with no water and no food. [/Terminator theme]|||this is plain bull**** i just wanted to play , so i logged in a few more times... i got all ****ing night to play and no chars to do it on sigh /hate blizzard for this ...|||Quote:








How can it be anti-bot when bots are the only ones *never* caught by this, except for the first logon after the "feature" was released?




Actually, when it was first released, it eliminated a good partion of them botted hammerdins.

The whole anti-bot things means it prevents making games rapidly, meaning that for example baalbotting is impossible without tweaking it.


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Bots can be programmed to perfectly avoid the restrictions by adding one tenth of a second delays rigged after the specific time needed to wait betwee games.




This is true, but at least they tried to do something. In the end, the people designing the bots are not exactly rookieprogrammers themselves. I would actually bet that most of them are pretty experienced in computer science and programming. So in the end it comes down to the single truth in reality: No one is perfect, ever. With that, you cannot expect them to ever be capable of completedly cutting away bots, there will always be a loophole somewhere. If the original programmer cannot find it, someone else will. And in the worst case, this someone is one of them botprogrammers, ready to exploit the loophole.

It's really funny how people either underestimate the programmers of the bots or overestimate the programmers at Blizzard. It could very well be that they are all equal or that the botprogrammers are even superior. Just because you work for a company like Blizzard does not mean you are the best in the world.|||Quote:








It's really funny how people either underestimate the programmers of the bots or overestimate the programmers at Blizzard. It could very well be that they are all equal or that the botprogrammers are even superior. Just because you work for a company like Blizzard does not mean you are the best in the world.




I'd say motivation is a key factor. Hackers have lots of motivation to hack, however, blizzard trying to patch up every hole every time a botter finds a new method to bot....well, that's sort of like a kid mashing ants in the driveway. That don't exactly stop coming and you start to ask, what's the point?|||Quote:








How can it be anti-bot when bots are the only ones *never* caught by this, except for the first logon after the "feature" was released?




It's not anti-botting. It's anti-server strain (which was mainly caused by the botting). If you were around for the 30 minute waits to create a single game, you'd understand.|||Quote:








It's not anti-botting. It's anti-server strain (which was mainly caused by the botting). If you were around for the 30 minute waits to create a single game, you'd understand.




I was around and I understand..

I was playing the game with my girlfriend and now I can't get on (I just tried after waiting about an hour, and I am still receiving the message). I read the official message posted here at Blizzard.com and none of those reasons apply to me. This is rather annoying because I only have a few hours a week to play D2 with my girlfriend each week.

Had to vent, sorry.|||This function is arch-annoying, I've gotten this message lots of times the last month and I've never had a bot on my hard drive/ used one on any account I've ever had. My friend and I were tristrunning when this bullsh*t struck us and now we have to wait an unknown period of time before continuing.

What the hell blizzard, why me?|||I just got this message for the crime of

trying to finish act 2. I had just run andy and the countess and decided to do arcane too for some exp. I hit level 50 and decided to go ahead and try duiel. about half way through the tomb and i get a really bad case of lag.

screen eventually goes black and when it finally comes back I'm getting this stupid message.

I guess some bots will enter a game, kill the countess and Andariel then mess around in the arcane sanc for a while and fianlly head for duriel.

That must be it otherwise why would I get this message lol?