They could trivially detect it but they don't seem to have made any effort. The confusing thing is that their EULA is worded in such a way that this kind of software is not actually in violation, so it's unclear whether they even intend to find people using these scripts. They tend to go after people who are visibly breaking the economy or cheating (and they do tend to use these techniques to do that). You can definitely play cat and mouse with a game developer when building this kind of software, but I consider it a waste of energy.
In our case the alliance ended up using it mostly for data mining and not for anything malicious or directly in violation of the EULA, since we had thousands of players to keep track of and doing stuff by hand was tedious.
At one point I was going to try and turn the HTML5 play-from-browser feature into a product and sell it for a buck, but CCP's community team (that supposedly approves for-sale addons/tools) doesn't respond to emails and WebKit has had an unfixed bug for years that causes it to crash your browser, so I shelved it.
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They could trivially detect it but they don't seem to have made any effort. The confusing thing is that their EULA is worded in such a way that this kind of software is not actually in violation, so it's unclear whether they even intend to find people using these scripts. They tend to go after people who are visibly breaking the economy or cheating (and they do tend to use these techniques to do that). You can definitely play cat and mouse with a game developer when building this kind of software, but I consider it a waste of energy.
In our case the alliance ended up using it mostly for data mining and not for anything malicious or directly in violation of the EULA, since we had thousands of players to keep track of and doing stuff by hand was tedious.
At one point I was going to try and turn the HTML5 play-from-browser feature into a product and sell it for a buck, but CCP's community team (that supposedly approves for-sale addons/tools) doesn't respond to emails and WebKit has had an unfixed bug for years that causes it to crash your browser, so I shelved it.