longwalks67
Member
I tried Stealthy's bot out and although it looks impressive, it is broken in so many ways. The following are the major points:
1) Although this last update (Inferno) has created issues for many of the bot developers out there, I have personally watched the support chat window and watched the conversations. Stealthy is too dependenat on others (Amedaus and Cyber) to make his bot work. He is constantly blaming them for SB not working. He needs to realize that if he is going to charge for a bot - then it shouldn't be up to others to make it work. He needs to get his head in the game and stop blaming others. If his bot is broken and he is charging for it - then make it work independently of others or do their work for them!
2) Evebot is great, although a bit low on functionality, but it is far more dependable than Stealthy's response time for his bot and can with a bit of personal work do all that Stealthy's bot does - and it is free! (after you do innerspace and isxeve).
3) Sthealthbot has not changed in capability or functionality for more than a year. When it does work - between the eventual crashes - it does everthing it did a year (or longer!) ago! Afthough relatively new to SB, I have had several discussions with many of the SB users and they have informed me that SB is really no different from what it was a year ago or more. This is a huge problem since SB users (from what I am told) are getting banned because CCP is looking over how SB does things and since Stealthy isn't going to enhance (past track record) to ensure his customers safety - why pay for it! Oh yea.. There are no plans for enhancements posted anywhere - ever!
4) Documenation is non-existant and what there is is outdated and vague. I suppose the idea is that all of Stealthy's users are mind readers?!? In order to find out anything specific you MUST go to the chat support and if your lucky Stealthy will be on and he MIGHT answer your question. The best support for the bot is with the users who have been feeling around in the dark to get it to work. Typically you wil hear - working on it or silence.
5) Persistance of problems and infrequent fixes. After speaking with several long-time users, I was informed that SB has had major problems in the bot which have gone on for more than a year without being fixed. From what I am told the worst is a client crash that is frequent and could alert CCP to the customer botting. This, to me, is the worst thing about SB. I only started using it a few weeks before the Inferno patch and SB will crash between immediate to 2 hours - guearanteed!! I say the worst because I was monitoring the chat support window and Stealthy himself admitted to someone that he has knowledge about this problem and then asked someone else to find out what was causing it. Does this sound bad to you, but because it did to me.
6) Stealthbot forums can't be posted to or posts never get an answer. Speaks for itself!
7) Stealthbot - not a job, but a hobby - I read in the forums (trying figure things out and finding a way to make it work) and saw a post where Stealthy said outright - "This is a hobbie for me" If its a hobbie - have some self respect and don't charge people or make it work!
Conclusion: Look around the isxeve forums and you will find plenty of scripts and specific function (mission, mining, salvage, whatever) bots that will do the job better and more reliably than Stealthbot and they were made by the isxeve community because SB doesn't work reliably. Now you will not find that all bots work all the time, but SB is the only one that when it is said it is fixed - its really still broken and will probably get you banned because of it.
1) Although this last update (Inferno) has created issues for many of the bot developers out there, I have personally watched the support chat window and watched the conversations. Stealthy is too dependenat on others (Amedaus and Cyber) to make his bot work. He is constantly blaming them for SB not working. He needs to realize that if he is going to charge for a bot - then it shouldn't be up to others to make it work. He needs to get his head in the game and stop blaming others. If his bot is broken and he is charging for it - then make it work independently of others or do their work for them!
2) Evebot is great, although a bit low on functionality, but it is far more dependable than Stealthy's response time for his bot and can with a bit of personal work do all that Stealthy's bot does - and it is free! (after you do innerspace and isxeve).
3) Sthealthbot has not changed in capability or functionality for more than a year. When it does work - between the eventual crashes - it does everthing it did a year (or longer!) ago! Afthough relatively new to SB, I have had several discussions with many of the SB users and they have informed me that SB is really no different from what it was a year ago or more. This is a huge problem since SB users (from what I am told) are getting banned because CCP is looking over how SB does things and since Stealthy isn't going to enhance (past track record) to ensure his customers safety - why pay for it! Oh yea.. There are no plans for enhancements posted anywhere - ever!
4) Documenation is non-existant and what there is is outdated and vague. I suppose the idea is that all of Stealthy's users are mind readers?!? In order to find out anything specific you MUST go to the chat support and if your lucky Stealthy will be on and he MIGHT answer your question. The best support for the bot is with the users who have been feeling around in the dark to get it to work. Typically you wil hear - working on it or silence.
5) Persistance of problems and infrequent fixes. After speaking with several long-time users, I was informed that SB has had major problems in the bot which have gone on for more than a year without being fixed. From what I am told the worst is a client crash that is frequent and could alert CCP to the customer botting. This, to me, is the worst thing about SB. I only started using it a few weeks before the Inferno patch and SB will crash between immediate to 2 hours - guearanteed!! I say the worst because I was monitoring the chat support window and Stealthy himself admitted to someone that he has knowledge about this problem and then asked someone else to find out what was causing it. Does this sound bad to you, but because it did to me.
6) Stealthbot forums can't be posted to or posts never get an answer. Speaks for itself!
7) Stealthbot - not a job, but a hobby - I read in the forums (trying figure things out and finding a way to make it work) and saw a post where Stealthy said outright - "This is a hobbie for me" If its a hobbie - have some self respect and don't charge people or make it work!
Conclusion: Look around the isxeve forums and you will find plenty of scripts and specific function (mission, mining, salvage, whatever) bots that will do the job better and more reliably than Stealthbot and they were made by the isxeve community because SB doesn't work reliably. Now you will not find that all bots work all the time, but SB is the only one that when it is said it is fixed - its really still broken and will probably get you banned because of it.
