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Kotetsu Rain · Jul 15, 2007, 10:18 PM // 22:18

I aplogise if this has been posted already but the search function is in decent need of a tune up.

I was hanging out in GToB until me and two other people noticed the Necro's with bot like names. behavior and all wearing Istani armor first running to the trophy honoring Everfrost and then to the storage. At first we we're taken aback by two points.

1) This is the freaking Battle Isles. What are the possibly doing farming faction?
2) They we're all level 3 which meant they had to be PvE characters.
3)WTH can you farm in NF at level 3?

So me being bored and having nothing to do I went to Noob Island and looked for them.

My search stopped at Chebek Village where I was immediatly hit with spam that's impossible to ignore. The 'gain level' message.

These we're about 90% bots. <.> (I had to edit out some real names.) So they then proceeded to run to the Sunspear Recruits to gain more exp before running back to First Spear and warping away.

My guess is this: They take the quest chain of Rally the Recruits (Tutorial) > Into Chahbek Village to get to Chahbek Village. Then the repeatidly go to the Training Area in Churrhir Fields and farm the Iboga Roots for their Sentient Roots.

Since Chebek Village has no Storage their programmer makes them warp to GToB to dump everything in the storage. I think... I have no idea how botting works but shouldn't it be like..something thats earns way more than 3g? Though with the amount of Bots that we saw..we thing the quanity makes up for the lack of price.

How do you think Anet's going to handle this one?

Edit: I can't get my pics uploaded on the site. Here's a link ---> Mod Edit: Bots are people too. Feel free to repost the screenshot without names

Metal Herc · Jul 15, 2007, 10:27 PM // 22:27

I really have no idea what Anet will do. But from the way I've been seeing it: Nothing.

And I am really not sure why they would be botting there

Across The Battle · Jul 15, 2007, 11:37 PM // 23:37

First, take out the names of the pics. Whos to say they are bots, you havent shown any bot behavior in the pics it seems to me

Vizzi · Jul 15, 2007, 11:42 PM // 23:42

Yes I went there myself last night to do the Challenge Mission,
to add to my list of finished Missions,. and I saw an endless army of necros.

I have no idea what the new craze is in money farming, but I am sure someone has found an exploit once again.

I was going to make a thread of this myself, but decided against it,. I felt If I just ignore it, it won't bother me,. but It is still bothering me.

Kotetsu Rain · Jul 16, 2007, 12:08 AM // 00:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Across The Battle

First, take out the names of the pics. Whos to say they are bots, you havent shown any bot behavior in the pics it seems to me

The rapid (insert bot name here) is now level 2 wasn't enough for you? Trust me I'm not hurting anyones feelings by leaving those names uneditied. Go check it out for yourself if my pics aren't enough.

Lord of the Yoshis · Jul 16, 2007, 12:13 AM // 00:13

They are taking the quest rewards for the starting quests. It nets them some amount of money, they go to GToB, dump it in storage, and delete the char, ready to start a whole new char to get the rewards and delete.

Shiney · Jul 16, 2007, 12:19 AM // 00:19

I just looked in GToB and Chabak Village and couldn't see any of these bots, what disterict are they in? I checked international and european distericts.

Kotetsu Rain · Jul 16, 2007, 12:24 AM // 00:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shiney

I just looked in GToB and Chabak Village and couldn't see any of these bots, what disterict are they in? I checked international and european distericts.

They're in American districts

Jaher Dal · Jul 16, 2007, 12:31 AM // 00:31

I noticed this last night as well, when I made a new character.
All you see is Necros, running in straight lines like crazy.
They are still all hanging out there if anyone wants to check em out.
lol.

Metal Herc · Jul 16, 2007, 12:33 AM // 00:33

Ya I just visted them. Deffinetly bots. Tu Adfd, Utf dfgd, Xu Trnh (all made up names by me) Names like those, and them all following 2 feet behind eachother, not to mention they don't answer to you.

At least it's a change from the Mo/W....

Shiney · Jul 16, 2007, 12:37 AM // 00:37

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Originally Posted by Kotetsu Rain

They're in American districts

Thanks, i thought they might be there, but i couldn't check to find out. Maybe if anet decided to make the quest reward -50g (so that instead of lodging money in GToB, they actually withdraw it to repay their "dept") we could bankrupt all the bots in a few hours

Zinger314 · Jul 16, 2007, 12:49 AM // 00:49

This trick was fixed in a patch last month...

Lucien Beaumont · Jul 16, 2007, 12:49 AM // 00:49

Why is there no in game moderation of this sort of thing? I really doubt there would be as much of a bot problem if an Anet employee would pop their head into some of the trouble zones every now and then and observe bot behavior first hand. They could then take 5 minutes or so to hand out a round of bans right then and there, and the rest of us could go on happy knowing that they are doing something about it. I guess they are taking the "hands off" approach to enforcing their game rules.

RhanoctJocosa · Jul 16, 2007, 12:52 AM // 00:52

They won't do anything.

But you've gotta admit, seeing necro bots is a nice change to the norm ;D

Vizzi · Jul 16, 2007, 12:59 AM // 00:59

Pull your head out Zinger and go take a look for yourself,.
Fixed last month?
There is a steady stream of Necros running amuck in Chahbek Village at this very moment.
I guess these necros can't read patch notes.

Zinger314 · Jul 16, 2007, 01:02 AM // 01:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vizzi

I guess these necros can't read patch notes.

Duh. It used to be 250g, which was about 5x as it is now.

50g per minute for some Chinese farmers won't destablize the economy [further]...

darkknightkain · Jul 16, 2007, 01:04 AM // 01:04

Don't you need to "unlock" Kamadan in order to travel to Battle Isles?

sindex · Jul 16, 2007, 01:10 AM // 01:10

Here is the thing A-net has thrown everything they can at these “bots;” looting scale, anti farming code (supposedly deceased) and then some. They can even throw the kitchen sink at them, and they will still exist. No matter the actions of A-net or that of any other MMO you can never really get rid of these bots. The only thing you can really do is:

1. Make them angry.
2. Make them more desperate.
3. Make them find an alternate route around the obstacle that A-net has set for them.

Of course I think the more A-net sets up obstacles, the more is it going to tick off the player base instead.

I hate them as much the next person but it’s simply inevitable.

Vizzi · Jul 16, 2007, 01:48 AM // 01:48

Someone should atleast go there and make a video and set it to the music from the Benny Hill Show just for gits and shiggles.

"I would, but I don't have the ability to make videos."

Seef II · Jul 16, 2007, 01:56 AM // 01:56

My question: why necromancers?
I'd have thought that the Shing Jea noob quests that can be redeemed for skill points and monastery credits would be abused as well, at this point.