Free pass on Corruption

I'll give someone a pass if they tell me the name of the bot.

That's pretty simple to me.

"Who did you kill?" is going to be a common question in my node, I feel.

I'm not saying that I will 'try to kill them if I don't know that bot'. I'm not even going to fight them if I know that's NOT a bot and they did it anyway, I'll just tell them that it wasn't a bot.

So it's likely that at least from me, most Corrupted players around me, particularly my Node Citizens, will just get a free pass. I'm not likely to be engaging Corrupted players non-verbally based on the fact that they're red.
If they ignore and don't answer, depending on where they are, we might attack them.

After all, they might be a bot!

Yeah, I'd most likely give a pass if the PK tells me they killed a bot. I'd ask where and who, so that I can go check if the bot returns (cause I'd assume he has a script to farm the same place). I would also probably immediately PM the given name to doublecheck. If there's no response within a few minutes (the length would depend on the corruption balancing) - I'd probably let the PKer go and would then check the location of the supposed bot.

If it's not there - there's a somewhat high chance that it was just an afk player. At which point I'd note down the PKer's name and citizenship (dearly hope we can see which node someone belongs to) and if the PKer is not from my node - I'll be killing them immediately if they ever go red again. If they are from my node, I'll try PMing the victim later and asking them what their logs say, to try and figure out what happened.

In other words, I'd try to solve the social situation rather than just killing the red.

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Yes but it's like 2 lines of code...

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Why wouldn't bots run caravans though?

That's almost exactly the sort of thing one would want to bot.

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Hm... Not exactly.

A bot is more effective when it has specific goals, and is hard to detect.

Caravans are one of the easier targetable goals for a bot that uses the methods I know. Particularly if it's a tank, healer or support class. The bot wouldn't run the caravan by itself. It would be the backup, part of the defense line for the DPS which would PROBABLY be used by players.

But Ashes is at least partially a Tab Target game, meaning that it's easy to make HealBots, and PvP HealBots are technically easier than PvE HealBots for the purposes related to Caravan running.

Detectability is a weird question, but I wouldn't bet on them being easily detected either.