Guild Wars 2

Yay, everyone’s favorite topic!

My problem is that I play for 1-2 hours at a time. I’m also interested in increasing my karma and gold. Since Cursed Shore is BY FAR the best place to farm karma and gold that’s where I play. I assume most people do the same.

With loot, after about 20 minutes, the drop is dramatic. A much smaller percent of corpses are lootable after the 20-30 minutes when DR kicks in. With karma, it’s about the same. After 12-15 dynamic events in about 30 minutes I hit DR. At first it’s alright, karma from events drops about 15% per extra event completed.

What really bothers me though is the bots. These “anti-botting” diminishing returns don’t in the least discourage the bots. They’re on, and they farm 24/7. So what if for 30 minutes out of every hour they get less loot? It’s a bot. It’s may even be a stolen account. The botters doesn’t care about DR. It’s just free loot. It still destroys the economy. Sure botters get less loot, but so does everyone else.

ArenaNet seems to be very vocal about the importance of the economy. It doesn’t seem like they’re doing enough to curb the bots. Sure, they’ll always be bots. But when the same group of 12 rangers run around for 2 weeks now on Fort Aspenwood, it’s just disheartening. Everyone’s reporting them, everyone’s vocal about it. They’re still there.

Nope they removed the anti loot code, you will only hit it if an event bugs out.
The bots were never effected anyway, they don’t kill fast like actual players, that is why they removed the anti bot code as it only effected players.

Oh yeh the bots that get reported and don’t get removed, half the players you see in this game are bots, This game needs community gm’s as they don’t seem to be able to handle all the bot reports.

raxx.8914:

Nope they removed the anti loot code, you will only hit it if an event bugs out.
The bots were never effected anyway, they don’t kill fast like actual players, that is why they removed the anti bot code as it only effected players.

Oh yeh the bots that get reported and don’t get removed, half the players you see in this game are bots, This game needs community gm’s as they don’t seem to be able to handle all the bot reports.

They didn’t remove it. They did supposedly lower it though…I don’t know if it actually made a difference, since I don’t really pay attention to how much stuff I am or am not getting.