Anti-Farm Code: Fact or Fiction?

Been farming lately and I have noticed that after a while, monsters don't drop anything, but sometimes they do...it seems to be very random. I keep hearing all this "run or do a mission or something, it will get rid of the 'anti-farm code'." Now when I heard this I figured it was just a rumour, and it seems to be the "rumour-type," but lately...I don't know. So, does anyone have any proof of this hidden code, or has had similar expierences to mine?

ANTI-FARM CODE: FACT OR FICTION?

Completely true. However, it will tell you when you trigger it. One of those silly blue messages will come up.

Quote: Originally Posted by Senrath

You have to have tips enabled for the window to pop up. When it does, it simply informs you that repeatedly killing the first few enemies of a zone decreases your drops. by the time you see the blue window, though, your drops have usually ALREADY gone through the floor.

best bet is to farm an area a few times, then move on to another. My warrior will do Ettins for a hour, then Maguuma centaurs, then hydras, then trolls, then back to ettins. Running missions is supposed to also help reset the anti-farm code, but it's not all that difficult to avoid triggering it to begin with.

blue code? how do you enable that?

Quote: Originally Posted by Senrath

Quote: Originally Posted by VitisVinifera

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Farming

This Wiki page has a screen shot of the warning message about 3/4s of the way down the page.

I triggered this myself on one occasion before I even knew what farming was..(I was killing monsters to gain the last few thousand XP to get to level 20) It scared the living daylights out of me!! LOL

Anti-fun code.

Please for the love of god, stop saying "anti farm code".

Its not a "code". That phrase makes my brain hurt.

How about...

Anti-bot mechanism

What about Anet Nerfed me

to get the 'little blue message' put hints on

I love how they explain it though, the monsters are running low on loot.

why is it not a code?????

I ran into this past weekend with the triple drop week when I farmed Ghial. I noticed that ghial have no loot dropped 2 times before I got that message.

Ironically another time when I farmed Milthuran, I got that message but it dropped the staff anyways.

Quote: Originally Posted by TheYellowKid

supposidly if you just complete a quest normally the code will drop; I'm not sure, but if you chest run in DoA, than go in to do some actual killing, the whole partys drops are nerfed. It actually makes me really sad, because it's sort of an over nerf. If you do the same area like two or three times (keep dying in the middle) only like 1/1000000 kills drop something (that's an over-exxaderation).

Question is, how do we get the droprate back up?

I heard playing missions will get it back up. However, I just did that and I still get all white items.
Also, when the decrease strikes in FoW or UW (core areas), which mission do you play to get the increase (since all missions are non-core) - or does this not apply?

Any thoughts?

Oh yea, ecto is at 11k now, gg. heh.

The code thing seems to trigger just if you engage monsters, though I'm not too sure how accurate this is. It was a while back when I was just learning to play vengeful rits farming the wardens. I rushed out, pulled the first 3 groups, then died... After doing this a few times, I got the blue tip note thing, after which I switched to another character. It actually surprised me cause I went out killing more monsters with my monk and didn't get the blue note thing till much later. So based on my experience, the anti-farm thing does exist, and also triggers even with no kills. Nothing is proven about how to get rid of it, or how much farming exactly triggers it, but its accepted that time will make it go away.

Yes the anti-farm code exists, however Anet calls it Anti-bot code. They are the one and same, even though they are supposed to be 2 completely different things and one isnt supposed to exist. As some of you have noticed that even if you clear the whole area over and over the drops go down.

Now some say that you can clear it by doing 1 easy then a medium then a hard mission in a row. Though i would suggest doing that and 1 other easy mission after the 3 in a row. That seems to work some for me. Maybe different for others.