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Luciora · Jul 20, 2006, 11:19 AM // 11:19

Been lucky enough to only get the farming code once, was whle i was tuning my 55'ing skills to cope with interupts etc.

However it does kinda irk me a bit that you need to do some runs 60 odd times to get a good drop! What is even worse is the drop rate of ecto in UW! 1 ecto drop in 3 runs, and not just the usual places this was from doing the run as well as the back room and the village

Vahn Roi · Jul 20, 2006, 11:21 AM // 11:21

What I used to do (before I got totally sick of it) was do Fort Aspenwood once or twice and it fixed the anti-farm code for me just fine, I was back in Elona in about 30 minutes

Raiin Maker · Jul 20, 2006, 11:42 AM // 11:42

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Originally Posted by Funk ee Monk ee

This is simply a case of the few ruining everything for the many. This is in place because of bots that would kill a few monsters, port to town and sell drops, repeat until they have 100k.

My personal general rule of thumb is no more than 5 runs at point A, then go to point B for 5, point C for 5, then back to A. I have never seen the popup.

I farm in the same place whenever i play guild wars, the drops are really bad (no golds or purps) however i have never seen the popup either.

monolito · Jul 22, 2006, 12:08 AM // 00:08

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Originally Posted by Dr Strangelove

Just take the character you've been farming like a mofo with and do something else. Farm a different boss. Take a long walk on the beach. Do a mission, Kill some grawl. Just find something else to do ingame besides the same boring repetetive run over and over

I've never gotten this message, my attention span gives out long before antifarming code crops up.

The big question is-can i do those things with a different char than the farming char which got the measage to get the code off?

Opeth11 · Jul 22, 2006, 08:28 AM // 08:28

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Originally Posted by monolito

The big question is-can i do those things with a different char than the farming char which got the measage to get the code off?

Uh, what happens with me is:

Monk over-farms Elona. Hits the message. Very few drops everywhere, not just Elona. Monk is down for about two days.

Necromancer comes in, farms Elona, hits the jackpot. Eventually hits the message. He's down for approximately the same period of time.

Elementalist pops in, does the same thing. Exact same thing happens.

Now, I did that to actually test the blue message out. Even though I did other missions with the same character, the drop rate seemed to be dead for me for about two days. Switching characters didn't remove the "nerf" on the character that got hit with the hammer; however, the new character is perfectly fine.

At least, that's what happened to me.

JoDiamonds · Jul 26, 2006, 01:14 PM // 13:14

People can't properly answer these questions because people don't know the answers. Only some ArenaNet programmer knows for sure.

Also, my personal recollection is that ANet doesn't really want to support farmers all that much. Whether bot or human farmers, they'd prefer people not mess up the economy. And it's very hard to tell the difference between someone just trying to get a specific green item from a monster and someone who's farming (so they treat them the same way).

Ashleigh McMahon · Jul 26, 2006, 05:56 PM // 17:56

It's very rare non-bots get wrongly banned for been accused as a bot. Simple protection: don't make it look like your not controlling your character ie:don't take the same route to the merchant, don't follow walls ect(most bots follow the walls to the merchant, elonas mainly), always try get involved in chat

even if it's a quick hello to a guildy. I'd say theres not evena 1% chance Anet would ban you for being a bot, if your not a bot.

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Originally Posted by monolito

Its kinda unfair to ban a dude like me coz they think im a bot :/ Well,i dont farm all day long.I dont even play all day long so i guess they cant touch me.Ill try doing some missions and hope the code wears of :/

Jul 20, 2006, 11:19 AM // 11:19	#41
Luciora Krytan Explorer Join Date: May 2006 Guild: Prophecy Profession: E/Mo	Been lucky enough to only get the farming code once, was whle i was tuning my 55'ing skills to cope with interupts etc. However it does kinda irk me a bit that you need to do some runs 60 odd times to get a good drop! What is even worse is the drop rate of ecto in UW! 1 ecto drop in 3 runs, and not just the usual places this was from doing the run as well as the back room and the village

Jul 20, 2006, 11:21 AM // 11:21	#42
Vahn Roi Forge Runner Join Date: Apr 2006 Guild: [HiDE]	What I used to do (before I got totally sick of it) was do Fort Aspenwood once or twice and it fixed the anti-farm code for me just fine, I was back in Elona in about 30 minutes

Jul 26, 2006, 01:14 PM // 13:14	#46
JoDiamonds Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: New England	People can't properly answer these questions because people don't know the answers. Only some ArenaNet programmer knows for sure. Also, my personal recollection is that ANet doesn't really want to support farmers all that much. Whether bot or human farmers, they'd prefer people not mess up the economy. And it's very hard to tell the difference between someone just trying to get a specific green item from a monster and someone who's farming (so they treat them the same way).