How would anyone catch and report someone botting in solo?
Are players able to detect the activity by some kind of station report or what? How does anyone know this is even happening?
Quite frankly, the players
don't know, even if they may assume.
Frontier can however, investigate it using their own logs- especially in regard to recent systems and gameplay. If they notice particular account(s) that affect a system with an unusual pattern, within a short amount of time, it might warrant further investigation. If not, it could very well be random accounts at different times, so that wouldn't be justified as "botting" activity.
The lesson to be learned here, quite simply is
thoughts are
not facts. Just because someone
thinks something might be happening, doesn't preclude it to be truth.
IMO Frontier should also be taking accusations of botting, cheating, or any other form of circumventing the game as seriously as they would the offense itself. Too many times have I seen others propagandizing by using such charged terminology rather than actually investigating the issue before they make wanton accusations.
The
consequences for botting, cheating and the like could be account bans... which affect people IRL. That's not a "game". I'm sure if it was the same for those who accuse others without proof there'd be a lot less of it going on.
