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Larqh · Jul 25, 2007, 01:01 PM // 13:01

Am I the only one who's noticed a lot fewer bots since they posted that? I was in Bergen and the Citadel yesterday. Only saw about 4 or 5 bots, and there's usually 10-15 or more. These were American districts, so it may not mean anything.

Seissor · Jul 25, 2007, 01:08 PM // 13:08

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Originally Posted by arcanemacabre

Actually, that doesn't make much sense, unless you were just plain ban-happy. If you could identify gold seller accounts, why not just ban the gold-seller? That would be like watching a drug dealer over a period of time, and arresting all the people they sell drugs to, while leaving the drug dealer alone.

only to pounce on him after 12 months when he reveals his boss is Ernesto Escabado!

Gawa · Jul 25, 2007, 01:43 PM // 13:43

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Originally Posted by Larqh

Am I the only one who's noticed a lot fewer bots since they posted that? I was in Bergen and the Citadel yesterday. Only saw about 4 or 5 bots, and there's usually 10-15 or more. These were American districts, so it may not mean anything.

I was also pleasently surprised last night or the night before when i dropped by Granite Citadel for a moment.. there were actually no bots at all :O I had to check i had mapped to the right place... Yep, the place where i have reported several hundred bots from, with upwards to 30 bots at a time, and at least half a dozen or more every single time ive visited... had none at all. (European dist)
I didnt stay long, so not sure if it is lasting or not, but with your post.. maybe we are seeing a reduction now.

kalebmordannon · Jul 25, 2007, 01:47 PM // 13:47

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Originally Posted by Darksun

It's a JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS MAT! It's a mat with conclusions you can jump to!

lol! Office Space ftw!!

Razz Thom · Jul 25, 2007, 07:08 PM // 19:08

everyone is on here talking down about this but nobody has mentioned that just about a week before the update, there was a thread where everyone was saying how the chat channel anouncement worked so well. that Anet should do the same about buying gold. and then they do and you have something negative to say about it. how fickle can you get. at least it shows that they do pay some attention to the forums and hear(pronounced read) what you have to say.

P.S. about the decreased bot activity.........stop by Marketplace in Cantha. The botters have gotten thick there. they farm one area, map to another to sell their loot, then start over. half a million mostly naked/guildless/grey loincloth/Hkjh Ctrs mo/me's pop in run to merch pop out again.

pumpkin pie · Jul 26, 2007, 08:07 AM // 08:07

just this minute in kamadan i saw this being advertised

couple of days ago, in Chahbek Village (where all the lvl 2 arrived in Nightfall) there are many many level 2 necros bot spawning there. its rather irritating as I was trying to talk to the mission starter NPC, I cannot even see the NPC becaue all the bots are surrounding him. I think thats new place to farm gold, if not mistaken you do get somekind of gold reward upon entering Chabek Village.

NeHoMaR · Jul 26, 2007, 03:29 PM // 15:29

What about people doing that by hand? I mean, not using bots. How ArenaNet could be sure and don't ban him/her? I don't see anything in the rules preventing someone creating a necro and delete it, and create a new one and delete it????

I remember when I tested some farms in Elona Reach (Minotaurs) in the time when bots farmed there a lot. I remember the lot of bots running to merchant, blah, blah, and I was with my monk farming too and fearing for a ArenaNet mistake, I was with a different armor at least.

MrSlayer · Jul 26, 2007, 05:29 PM // 17:29

Does anyone else not think maybe this is something to do with a recent increase in gold buying?

The only guess as to why would be poor farmers getting all sad and mopey that drops are nerfed, so simply buying what they need instead.

Paloma Song · Jul 26, 2007, 07:48 PM // 19:48

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Originally Posted by assassin_of_ni

soooo if thats the case....
can we get rid of loot scaling yet?

/cheer

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