Guild Wars 2

Using F2P accounts, gold-farming workshops can blatantly set up multiple private overflows to exploit dynamic event scaling, or to gather nodes using overflow hopping, benefiting their stolen core accounts.

My concern in this post is not about the overly farmed materials, but about the server resources. I don’t want to suffer from lag when I play WvW or other parts of the game, due to server resources being wasted by those overflows.

With the likelihood of so many deliberately created private overflows wasting server resources, I’m worried that I will suffer from the kind of server lag like I did back in 2012 and 2013, the period of time when bots went rampant.

Keep in mind that free accounts cannot mail items or coin to any other account, so using a free account to benefit their core stolen accounts is pretty much impossible to do. However, free accounts have some access to the Trading Post, so they could run it through there if they are desperate.

I doubt we will be seeing private overflow farm servers, and if they do become common, Anet can get polish the Legendary ban-hammer.

overflows close after a certain amount of time and move you to another copy of the map.

plus read https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

I’m pretty sure Anet got the bot situation under control with F2P accounts

Thanks for the replies, and I did read the F2P info before I started the thread.

The F2P accounts I described are not used to obtain loot. The F2P characters are used as taxi drivers and/or used to scale up events, dead or alive, such that the characters in the stolen core accounts get more loot from the upscaled events.

And yes I know the overflows with less population get closed in 1 hour, determined by the algorithm. The kind of private overflows I described are always full or nearly full, filled up by F2P accounts from those workshops to stay as the most populated instances. These F2P characters can park anywhere in a map, pretending as AFKs.

Well giving how close Anet keeps an eye on all the meta data they collect I’m sure they have plans for this just incase plus with help of players reporting bots.