Last monday,massive bot bans have been executed,over 1600 accounts got banned on Xian and Aege servers,the population of those 2 servers dropped from Crowded to Populated.
Who did got banned?
Mainly softmod users,softmod is an illegal 3rd party application to permit you to use Isrobot(paid bot) for free,which is mainly illegal.
Why???
Lots of people has been asking "Why are we getting banned?" or "Why last month i could illegally bot without getting banned?",most of hypotheses has been thinked off,the most true would be this one:Joymax changed Silkroad Online pack coding,so since softmod users are using a version of silkroad that send different packets now they can be detected,the rumor say that this new pack coding was done 1 month ago since some botters haven't used their account for more than 1 month and still got banned.
Who are next?
Some people tends to believe that the next server to get a huge ban list would be troy server,so if you have a high level character there and used Softmod,you should maybe swap your items to a noob account so you don't lose them.