Possibility of a ban?

[thatdood12]

How "safe" would you assume this is, I know BSG hates people doing stuff that they don't enjoy. Would it be considered moderately safe if you're of course so spamming the buy and sell on ragfair?

[dank]

I can't answer this question with certainty, best way to find out is to test the limits until you get banned. Frankly, I haven't done that for the same reason you probably don't want to.

I will say that I have used my library extensively for the past week testing and developing it without worrying about a potential ban.

[dank]

I'll reopen this issue for further discussions, maybe other people can answer this question better.

[thatdood12]

Hm okay, I really only want to use this for checking prices via ragfair, I have no plans on buying / selling so maybe this is less "risky"

[ahmetabdi]

high chance of ban they monitor the requests that are being sent, you will be banned.

https://github.com/Kurt212/TarkovTradeBot/blob/master/README.md

[dank]

@ahmetabdi that repo is missing a lot of headers, doesn't surprise me they got banned. I've been doing the same thing described in the README and I haven't been banned so far.

[Crossy101]

As long as you keep the requests at a suitable rate/humanlike then you should be okay. I believe 5-6 requests per second should be okay/max. As that's what most people do.

They do track how many requests you do and if it exceeds a certain amount or your account gains a huge amount of trading points or money in a short amount of time you will be banned.

[garrettjoecox]

5 requests per second would not look human IMO...

I've got a random sleep anywhere from 3 to 15 seconds between each of my requests. Takes longer to do things but less risk...

[dank]

@garrettjoecox it doesn’t matter, it takes a random time to get past their load balancer, network, etc (rtt is almost never the same). Your request will never be exactly n seconds apart especially if you’re using thread::sleep.

[garrettjoecox]

Earned myself an account, HWID, and IP ban. Beware, I was hitting it once every 3-5 seconds :)

Gonna open source my lib as well in case anyone wants to give it a go.

[Crossy101]

@garrettjoecox This was using this Rust library right? How do you know your HWID banned? Did you confirm this?

[garrettjoecox]

@garrettjoecox same here. They must have done a sweep. Not sure about HWID and IP ban but my account is banned. I don't plan on buying a new copy to see if everything is banned. I imagine if you really want to find a way around these you can (change mac address, hard reset of cable modem, etc.) I was doing 3-5 seconds as well with no concurrent requests. I was buying stuff from the flea market at prices lower than what the vendor would pay, then turning around and selling to the computer vendors (Therapist, Skier, Jaeger).

Oh well, this was a fun learning experience. My trader program was my first Rust program ever. Very interesting language. Also, I made like 16 million rubles in a few days so I ran wild with equipment :)

Nice, yep was literally doing the same exact thing, worked alright :)

https://github.com/garrettjoecox/tarkov-scripts

[Crossy101]

Well I haven't been banned for over 3 months and have over 100m+ and I do 2-3 requests a second. So I have no clue why or how you got banned. I don't think it was your bot tbh.

ps. I earn over 30mil+ in 12 hours.

Although I do not run the bot 24/7 I turn my Web Service off in the day.