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[Xiphias]

What if it is the second coming of nubnub?!

[Dee Eight]

You mean you fellas haven't figured it out ? Geez....

[Magnus Santini]

Based on his stats, we can eliminate that guy in Echo 5 all by himself.

[Appogee]

Bombast, on 13 October 2017 - 07:02 AM, said:

Yes it has. Really good too - Average 405 MSR. I doubt a bot is pulling that.

No games last season, though.

So it's either a very good player who is also running a webscraping bot, or a PGI staffmember (who is potentially artificially inflating their alt account's stats.

[Bombast]

Appogee, on 13 October 2017 - 07:49 AM, said:

No games last season, though.

So it's either a very good player who is also running a webscraping bot, or a PGI staffmember (who is potentially artificially inflating their alt account's stats.

Well... whats the phrase? Exactly what it says on the tin.

[Thorn Hallis]

Maybe it's a testrun for the MW5 KI AI?

Edited by Thorn Hallis, 13 October 2017 - 08:13 AM.

[Rick T Dangerous]

I guess we could figure it out by watching the original Ghostbusters...

[SilentScreamer]

Rick T Dangerous, on 13 October 2017 - 08:53 AM, said:

I guess we could figure it out by watching the original Ghostbusters...

What about the Twinkie?

Appogee, on 13 October 2017 - 03:52 AM, said:

Someone is collecting data.

The questions are: what data? And for what purpose?

Our profiles contain:

• personal information such as birthday, location, gender
  
• when we signed up
  
• who are our forum friends
  
• our topics, posts, numbers of posts, and average frequency of posting

Who would want such data? How could they use it?



Hypotheses:

• PGI is trying to build a profile of their customer base pre-MW5.
  
• Harmony Gold's lawyers are gathering input for their court case.
  
• Hackers are gathering personal information for use in payment system fraud.
  
• Someone from Reddit is going to analyse and post data on The Brown Sea.
  
• Paul is running Sentiment Analysis on posts so he can set the MatchMaker to Punish.
  
• Tina suddenly realised there's a community and maybe it has something to do with her job.

Very good possibilities. I would add:
- a race of space aliens is fighting a loosing war against an evil empire. They have too many elite battle machines and not enough pilots so they are mining the MWO database in search of pilot candiates to aid their cause and defeat the evil invaders!

Edited by SilentScreamer, 13 October 2017 - 09:36 AM.

[Tordin]

Bombast, on 12 October 2017 - 03:29 PM, said:

He's a sock puppet. Who cares?

I had a similar suspicion....
Stalked me at 08: 59 PM.


Fitting though, its spookycreepy halloween soon...

The haunting of the forumites!

[Mole]

Visited me 10/12/17 @ 2:40PM EST.

[orcrist86]

new theory. Its checking the accounts of everyone its killed or played with.

[Bombast]

orcrist86, on 13 October 2017 - 10:48 AM, said:

new theory. Its checking the accounts of everyone its killed or played with.

Hasn't killed or played with me, so it ain't that.

[Brain Cancer]

10/12, 11:30 AM visit to my account. Wasn't there some account like this in beta?

[Wiley Coyote]

Rovertoo, on 13 October 2017 - 07:28 AM, said:

Its Googles DeepMind AI!!! Its escaped and is learning how to play not just Dota 2, but now MWO! And when its done here, it will design and build its own 100 ton death machine and no military in the world will be able to stop its dual guass PPC poptarting harbinger of the Apocalypse.

[Grus]

Probably a bot.

[Mole]

Grus, on 13 October 2017 - 11:38 AM, said:

Probably a bot.

Bots generally tend to serve some kind of purpose though. What purpose does this one serve?

[Xorkrath]

Haven't played or posted in...a long while. Was visited by Super Alt 10/12/17 at 4:19pm.

This is actually kind of fun, to be honest.

[Krow-Magnon]

10/12/17 @ 1:29pm

[Eirik Eriksson]

Visited me too. Checked back and guess what! She was genderless. Typical!

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Bombast, on 13 October 2017 - 07:02 AM, said:

Yes it has. Really good too - Average 405 MSR. I doubt a bot is pulling that.

Well technically people are the ones who write bots and unleash them onto the wild internet, so the workings of any bot can be attributed to a human being. And it's likely you might need regular profile to snoop up other peoples profiles so for that reason the person would have played some games.

Any profile can be opened by the ID alone, you do not need to know the name of the account. For example:
https://mwomercs.com...08-waaaaaaaah!/

And with that, one can see the bot has been running through the IDs incrementally. (If you check profile IDs in incremental order, you will see the bot visited them in the same order from the time stamp.)