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Nexon, please address the botting situation.
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Most people who I've seen on those obscure channels here in Mari at least, are regular people with (lets assume) multiple computers as nexon allows up to 5 accounts per person last I heard.. as well as if it's not automated, it's not really botting considering doing this method (legitimately) is far from automatic. The rest of it I can agree with although nexon probably doesn't mind the infinite reforge bots since the NX comes from somebody's wallet.
On occasion the client will leave behind "artifacts" like that if you follow the pet with owner just out of your viewing field. It's kinda rare and typically not botting related.
Definitely part of the problem, but the major issue is that Nexon appears lax with punishing those who do it. I've reported bots before and sometimes they're gone within a day, and other times I see them a week later doing the same thing. If people think they can get away with it, they'll do it.
Umm what? Which event rewards are bad????? We lately got useful good event rewards like upgrade stones and enchant protection potions... I don't understand what you talking about. How your post is supposed to be included about botting though...
Botting on the forums is a valid complaint.
Didn't realize people were botting daily part time jobs, not sure what exactly you get out of it, and i haven't really seen an influx in oblivion ES, or anything else from the adv shop.
I don't see the "gold-farming" thing as a real issue, since (As far as I know) there's no way to obtain free sellable fine-reforging tools in mass amounts. So I am pretty sure the shops are legitimate (people are actually spending money to make gold)
Haven't seen a influx in Baltane Squire rewards either, but there are probably bots. Also, if people are actually botting Baltane maybe its a result of the bad design of the system. In my opinion there's two big issues with Baltane right now: It's easily botable, and its incredibly unfriendly to players. It takes a minute or two per session to do everything AND in addition you have to go back to Avalon gate way too frequently if you want to train/farm medals. AFK players won't do it because they AFK. And people who actively play the game don't want to do it either, because they often spam things, and stopping in the middle of spamming is not ideal.
And for the dungeon "bots". They aren't bot, unless they can actually manage to contribute/clear the dungeon without user input. It's filling a spot. It's not like having these "bots" makes clearing the dungeon faster. And this is a problem with the incentive structure of the game. There's two simple solutions to this. One soul bound the keys and any rare rewards (making it pointless to carry alts). Obviously no one would like this solution because now you can't sell the mats and making the weapon would become incredibly impractical. Two, make it so that soloing the dungeon grants you 3 additional chests (a total of 4), and duoing gives each player an additional chest. Now there's no reason to complain about "botting" because players don't have to "bot" anymore.
Back when it wasn't as common to dup mats or other stuff.
Bots basically spammed anything they could get gold from except for punching posts or following rich man of Emain. Anything that had mobs, foxes included were subject to bot massacres. Before they made Tailteann farming VIP, bots spammed the Tail farms. And commerce was the worst, and in a way has never really recovered.
Nowadays, they've improvised their methods to hide and smuggle quite easily and make a more easy profit to generate gold and then sell their ill gotten gains on the internet.
You didn't? There's always like 2 shops open full of Divine Magic Powders in Alexina's ch1 Belvast 24/7...
Well that explains... Also i kinda worried about THIS too:
Alts, alts, alts... Everyday afk at Belvast Bank... What are they even doing? Taking up spaces with their shops full of Cash shop items? Their reforges went up in price as well...
Amen brotha
Edit: I know this won't help with bots in game, but at least on the forums it might.
There are ways to get bots through captcha somewhat easily. Captcha would only be a temporary fix.