2023 年 7 月 31 日

我們想解決我們社區(qū)中日益普遍的一個問題：你們中的一些人在戰(zhàn)斗中遇到的機器人問題，主要是由于它們的不自然行為。還有一些玩家?guī)舻慕y(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)很奇怪，令人大吃一驚。我們認為有必要讓我們的社區(qū)了解這些機器人的性質以及我們打擊它們的計劃。

首先，我們要向所有報告并繼續(xù)報告此問題的人表示誠摯的謝意。您的積極參與使我們的社區(qū)變得強大且富有彈性。最近我們游戲中運行的機器人數(shù)量激增一直是我們所有人都關心的問題，我們正在努力解決這個問題。

在過去的幾個月里，我們一直在進行一項全面的研究，以了解這些機器人的運作方式、它們的創(chuàng)建者的動機是什么，以及最重要的是，我們如何才能最有效地對抗它們。這不是一件容易的任務，因為在很多情況下，真實玩家在戰(zhàn)斗中的移動和戰(zhàn)斗與這些機器人的行為類似，當然并不完全相同 - 但我們需要小心并消除任何誤差幅度，并確保我們可以避免檢測時出現(xiàn)任何誤報。

機器人主要用于人為地增加賬戶數(shù)量，然后將其出售以獲取利潤——這種做法有時還涉及非法使用被盜的信用卡信息。在某些情況下，機器人軟件會被出售給那些希望自己增加玩家賬戶的人。所有這些做法都違反了我們的游戲規(guī)則，損害了我們的玩家和整個游戲。

目前，我們的立即反應顯然是檢測并禁止我們遇到的任何機器人。例如，上周末我們研究了數(shù)百份玩家報告，并禁止了 215 個肯定使用機器人或其他被禁止的第三方軟件的帳戶。因此，我們要強調的是，購買機器人或增強帳戶遲早會導致帳戶被禁止，這意味著金錢和游戲進度的損失。我們還懇請您通過游戲內報告系統(tǒng)報告所有機器人。您的支持將使我們能夠更快地擺脫這些機器人。

我們承認過去的一些報告沒有按預期導致用戶被禁止，對此我們深表遺憾。您的聲音對我們很重要，每一份報告對于維護游戲的公平性和完整性都至關重要。為了解決這個問題，我們目前正在徹底改革我們的報告處理系統(tǒng)，以確保更快、更有效的響應時間。此外，為了簡化我們對機器人問題的理解和處理，我們將在幾天內專門針對機器人報告引入單獨的類別。

然而，我們完全理解，禁止每個與機器人相關的帳戶只是一個臨時解決方案，因此，我們致力于尋找長期解決方案，以確保維持 War Thunder 中適當?shù)挠螒蝮w驗。我們正在探索各種選擇，甚至準備在必要時對我們確定為可疑的帳戶實施驗證碼（戰(zhàn)斗前或戰(zhàn)斗中）等嚴厲措施，以遏制機器人的使用。

一旦我們發(fā)布了目前需要我們大部分時間的下一個重大更新和經(jīng)濟路線圖更新，我們將對時間表有更清晰的了解。請放心，我們對解決這一問題的承諾是堅定不移的，我們的努力是為了盡快實施這些反制措施。

感謝您的耐心、理解和持續(xù)支持。我們期待盡快與您分享更多更新。

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.