So is Karka farming not safe anymore?
I say this first wrong section.
I apologize for not correctly indenting and separating my sentences correctly. It’s quite late, and I have been trying to resolve this issue for my friends who don’t have a say in anything right now and so have my guild. Everyone, including myself, will be losing a little bit of sleep tonight knowing that Tyria is unsafe. I also know that some of you may question the validity of my friends’ accountability of being a non-botter. I understand this, but try and relate this to anyone that you may know and think as a legit player. Admins, if you need the ticket claim numbers, I have all three waiting to be opened and reviewed. I appreciate it to whoever reads this.
It could go either way since this both pertains to an area of Tyria and also “Account Issues.” So please, try thinking of the situation first before blurting.
Ah no it doesn’t. If you go to the game discussion there are already several threads about this. There is nothing I can say to you other than appeal and hope Anet fixes the bug sometime soon.
Firstly. Wrong section of the forums.
This is the Lore section and as such your post, which clearly relates to account/gameplay related issues belongs in the general discussion subsection of the forums.
Secondly. Arenanet have already posted multiple comments saying that yes, there are some issues with their bot detection systems and that there are a few too many false positives being generated. However there are also a fair few circumstances of players having been hacked and used for botting without their knowledge I would imagine.
Since this is an issue with your friends accounts I would suggest that THEY lodge a ticket with support in order to get their accounts restored as soon as possible. (They won’t be “compensated”, there aren’t systems in place that can achieve that and they aren’t entitled to Laurels).
As for what you can do to keep yourself safe? Exercise reasonable judgement, if you are walking around continually doing the same thing take a break and do something else. Keep in mind that there are diminishing returns in place so you can’t even farm Karka for that long before you stop getting vials and shells. IF and I truly mean IF, your account is banned on suspicion of botting then you have nothing to worry about, simply lodge a ticket with support and they will be able to reinstate your account because on human inspection it will show as a false positive. Something that their automated systems don’t seem to be able to deal with as their parameters are too broad.
Rule #1 of gaming. It’s just a game, no need to panic.
I can’t look at a Karka without hearing this in my head!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV5wmDhzgY8