Stop the bots? Why would Anet do that? The T5/T6 mat drop rate is so low you risk brain death if you deliberately attempt to get them, and Anet takes a nice chunk of change as “tax” when you give up and purchase the items on the trading post which are sold by the botters. Sales tax is a huge gold sink for Anet. Lack of loot tempts people to pay real cash for gems so the can get the gold to buy the mats they need.
Anet has no incentive to remove bots.
Where are my gem sales? I want gem sales! Nerf EVERYTHING!
One of my Guildies is a home-all-day housewife. She plays a lot, and is into crafting in a big way, so she harvests a lot.
She is also colorblind, and generally plays with the sound off or low.
A player observed her running around doing very little except harvesting. He tried to whisper her, but naturally got no response because she didn’t hear the ping and she can’t see the purple-on-dark text. The player made the assumption she was a bot, and reported her. It resulted in her being banned for two days before her daughter could get her reinstated.
ANet should never have taken the player’s word. I don’t know why they would ban a real, harmless player without gathering some more evidence first. Summoning an in-game official might have been able to prevent it, if they had some good attention-getting ability. Like maybe teleporting the player along with the Official’s toon to a private instance where they could have an uninterrupted chat.
It would probably mean new employees for ANet. Around-the-clock policemen for each server. And warnings / penalties for abusers of the summons.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm all day.
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
– Unknown Fire Elementalist
^ How do you know it was only one person? How do you know she really wasn’t botting? How do you know so much about the story?
If she truly was colorblind and played with sound low/off and was just farming herbs. She would have had to have gotten multiple reports to have been banned. One report will not ban anyone.
You talk about not taking a player’s word, yet you’re taking this seemingly unknown person’s word for it. Heck, it could be a made-up player for all we know.
She is a real-life friend and wife of another Guildie. She is not a seemingly unknown person. Her daughter that got her reinstated is another friend and Guildie. I have known them all for over 30 years. If you choose to think I’m lying, that’s your (wrong) decision.
I do not know for sure what made ANet come to their conclusion. But I do support the OP’s suggestion that a live in-game “Officer” may have been able to help avoid all the unpleasantness she experienced.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm all day.
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
– Unknown Fire Elementalist
I have observed and reported the same 6 bots in HOD Cursed Shore and after 24 hours, the bots are still running around. This does not sound to me like the reports are responded to in short order.
They used to ban bot in swipes, not on a per-report basis. I don’t know if they changed their modus operandi recently, as I haven’t seen a bot in ages, but yeah, expect them to take a few days to a week to ban them.
“We have no first-person view because stupid people would lock into it”
“You can’t have more than 10 HS decks because that would confuse people”
“30 fps is more cinematic”
Yes, because Guild Wars 2 is so ermergerd awesome that Arenanet must be perfect. Every word that flows from their mouths is truth and brings light to the world. :roll eyes:
LOL, that post is 7 months old….botting is totally useless in Orr right now…DR is so horrible, botting is simply not profitable there right now they way i see it…but yes…they do have a hard stance on mobs.
In fact…I was spending some time in Orr last night, its my favorite map, and pent/shelt popped(miracle) and I would get zero loot from some waves…its the same from fight single mobs…DR is just so horrible
DR is complex and ambiguous. In order to figure out how it works in order to make the most of your time in game would take weeks of farming. Players can’t gather enough data and details while playing to be able to determine how to properly work around DR. You’d need a program to run it constantly for several weeks to .. oh wait.
Where are my gem sales? I want gem sales! Nerf EVERYTHING!
spiders for 6 minutes at Verdance.