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greenreaper3 · Apr 12, 2008, 09:52 AM // 09:52

hey sorry if this is in the wrong thread, but i want to know if i would get banned for this... or maybe even make it look like i could get baned for it...

im going for Legendary Defender of Ascalon, the hardest title to get besdies KoaBD titles, and im in the death leveling stage. except, one problem

anet made it so u get booted after 10 hours of no activity. im not gonna sit there and click or something for 10 hours. ive tryed weighing down a key so i move, but its just stops working after about 3 minutes, so time for the question

if i constructed some sort of device that kept hitting the mouse, or a key over and over, would i get banned or suspended from the game, or would it look like a macro program and get banned? i really want to know this b4 i try and get banned ><

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Seriana Of Ascalon

Kikuta · Apr 12, 2008, 10:08 AM // 10:08

If you display behavior in game that suggests you are using a bot, you will be flagged and banned.

Even if you aren't using a bot, just using physical object to repeatedly click the mouse, there is no distinction between the two. If you're found out, you'll be banned.

greenreaper3 · Apr 12, 2008, 10:09 AM // 10:09

oh ok thanks...

Courage! · Apr 12, 2008, 10:12 AM // 10:12

u would probly be flagged as a bot yes

Medic · Apr 12, 2008, 10:16 AM // 10:16

I am working on a LDoA mesmer, currently a few xp points shy of lvl 18. I have been able to go afk for 10-16 hours at a time while death lvling without a disconnect, and then sometimes I get booted off after 3 hours.

Its a crapshoot, just dont stress about it. Also you should check out some of the guides on death leveling at presearing.com

Limu Tolkki · Apr 12, 2008, 10:18 AM // 10:18

I have one "would i get banned question" too. If i had a friend who would be quitting guild wars. And he or she decided to give me hes or hers guild wars stuff, weapons, money, materials, everything. Would anet think i've bought gw money with real money if he or she gave stuff to me for free.

Mortis · Apr 12, 2008, 10:21 AM // 10:21

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Originally Posted by Limu Tolkki

I have one "would i get banned question" too. If i had a friend who would be quitting guild wars. And he or she decided to give me hes or hers guild wars stuff, weapons, money, materials, everything. Would anet think i've bought gw money with real money if he or she gave stuff to me for free.

No. (Not as long as you share some of it with me)

Solas · Apr 12, 2008, 10:26 AM // 10:26

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Originally Posted by Limu Tolkki

I have one "would i get banned question" too. If i had a friend who would be quitting guild wars. And he or she decided to give me hes or hers guild wars stuff, weapons, money, materials, everything. Would anet think i've bought gw money with real money if he or she gave stuff to me for free.

Doubt it, as i assume the items wouldn't all be mega rare,
I;'ve heard of stories of people getting tons of plat from friends leaving so i assume it's safe enough, just dont make any bot jokes in the process:P

OSUJay · Apr 12, 2008, 10:37 AM // 10:37

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Originally Posted by Limu Tolkki

I have one "would i get banned question" too. If i had a friend who would be quitting guild wars. And he or she decided to give me hes or hers guild wars stuff, weapons, money, materials, everything. Would anet think i've bought gw money with real money if he or she gave stuff to me for free.

From what I know, it's somewhat dangerous to receive a lot of free items/money without anything being traded on your part because it can get flagged with the thought that you bought the stuff with real money. What I would do to be perfectly safe would be to trade worthless items to your friend in exchange for the items he's giving you. For example give him some random white axe. I would think that it would make you less likely to be flagged. Just a thought if you want to be completely safe.

fenix · Apr 12, 2008, 11:39 AM // 11:39

FYI, Anet aren't ever going to ban you for selling a non max blue wand for 500k (unless you - by chance - sell that item to a WELL known ebayer, then a ban could happen). They do, on the other hand, ban for accepting free things. Hint hint

anshin · Apr 12, 2008, 11:44 AM // 11:44

In my alliance are more than a few people that give stuff for free, and more than occasionally. Do you mean that having this behaviour can get the receivers banned?

enter_the_zone · Apr 12, 2008, 11:44 AM // 11:44

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Originally Posted by Limu Tolkki

I have one "would i get banned question" too. If i had a friend who would be quitting guild wars. And he or she decided to give me hes or hers guild wars stuff, weapons, money, materials, everything. Would anet think i've bought gw money with real money if he or she gave stuff to me for free.

An easy way to make sure this doesn't happen is to discuss why he is doing it in whispers or team chat while doing the trades. When they check your chat logs at the time of the trade, they'll see the explanation. I do this all the time when trading stuff between my accounts which connect from different IP's. Yes, I am so sad I have 2 broadband connections.

Vix · Apr 12, 2008, 12:55 PM // 12:55

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Originally Posted by Kikuta

If you display behavior in game that suggests you are using a bot, you will be flagged and banned.

Even if you aren't using a bot, just using physical object to repeatedly click the mouse, there is no distinction between the two. If you're found out, you'll be banned.

ive been using a macro to click on an ale stack every minute for the drunkard title
done that for like 2 months now and no ban yet
imo its ridiculous enough to pay 1mil+ for the title, ill be damned if im gonna sit by the pc for a week clicking

DDL · Apr 12, 2008, 01:12 PM // 13:12

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Originally Posted by greenreaper3

anet made it so u get booted after 10 hours of no activity. im not gonna sit there and click or something for 10 hours.

Surely "10 hours of no activity" is just that: 10 whole hours where you don't do ANYTHING.

It doesn't mean you have to be doing something CONSTANTLY for 10 hours to avoid that, it simply means you have to do SOMETHING within a 10 hour window, right?

So just check in at the five hour mark (or something), activate one skill, then go afk again for another five hours.

Lykan · Apr 12, 2008, 01:14 PM // 13:14

Get one of these

Clarissa F · Apr 12, 2008, 01:15 PM // 13:15

I'm pretty sure the behavior they look for is a char farming the same area over and over, and then they would look at the area being farmed. If you are sitting in the same zone for hours on end, that isn't a bot. A bot zones in, farms, then zones out. I'm sure you wouldn't get the shaft for doing that in Pre. The only things worth anything are dye drops.

Bowstring Badass · Apr 12, 2008, 01:25 PM // 13:25

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Originally Posted by Lykan

Get one of these

HAHA.

But that could work.

Alex Dimitri · Apr 12, 2008, 02:10 PM // 14:10

I just kind of wonder why the titles like LDoA and few others (gold related) even exist if Anet preventing and banning people for just trying to reach them ???
Take this for example if u want to reach Sweet, Drunk, Party titles u only need gold, no skill at all ! So u need to get to pro level farmer to have enough gold for them or to wait for MERCY weekends, if u take gold from someone u risk being banned, so what`s the point ???
If Anet wants to prevent gold trading, they need to sell gold themselves !!!
Easy enough in GW store should be option buy xxxxx gold for xx $ that would erase any source of black market gold sellers and people getting banned for buying !!!
Plus that money could be used to finance more people for Anet team (expand game even more, they said that most of their programmers workin` on GW2) and to even more expand servers (make them less laggy) !!!

Nanood · Apr 12, 2008, 02:17 PM // 14:17

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Originally Posted by Alex Dimitri

I just kind of wonder why the titles like LDoA and few others (gold related) even exist if Anet preventing and banning people for just trying to reach them ???
Take this for example if u want to reach Sweet, Drunk, Party titles u only need gold, no skill at all ! So u need to get to pro level farmer to have enough gold for them or to wait for MERCY weekends, if u take gold from someone u risk being banned, so what`s the point ???
If Anet wants to prevent gold trading, they need to sell gold themselves !!!
Easy enough in GW store should be option buy xxxxx gold for xx $ that would erase any source of black market gold sellers and people getting banned for buying !!!
Plus that money could be used to finance more people for Anet team (expand game even more, they said that most of their programmers workin` on GW2) and to even more expand servers (make them less laggy) !!!

Dude.. That's the worst idea ever.

crazybanshee · Apr 12, 2008, 02:27 PM // 14:27

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Originally Posted by Vix

ive been using a macro to click on an ale stack every minute for the drunkard title
done that for like 2 months now and no ban yet
imo its ridiculous enough to pay 1mil+ for the title, ill be damned if im gonna sit by the pc for a week clicking

Uh, I believe that actually is a bannable offense...