This can’t be answered cause the mechanics behind the anti-farming code are a secret. The bots can also read this forum. The basic rule is that if you act as a real player, you will never see this.
What I am saying is that if you see your drops decreasing in value and quality, it is time to move to doing a different activity untill you see the drops going up again.
afaik logging out or changing zone doesn’t reset the zone (for a bot-programmer it would be too easy) so you really need to have done something else (instead opf repeating the same DE, go farm a few dozen gathering nodes for example).
To be honest I know the anti farming code exist, but I have never had the privalege to encounter it. That is the main reason for not going deeper into this matter.
I’m not accusing you of anything, but botters can read this as well, and I just don’t see that players have the need of changing what they are doing, afaik, the code is working for the right things (besides dungeons) for 99% of the time. If you are a real heavy grinder (not my cup of tea, but there is nothing wrong with it either), make sure that in every area you have 2-3 different kind of grinds, so you can always switch if you see the code gets active. Openly discussing it here means we are also making the bots wiser. And when the bots can counteract the code, the code prolly will get more strict, meaning more regular players will have problems with it.
As for the last three lines:
Does the anti-bot code affect the quality/quantity of items in chests? -Yes, but not acitvly, chests have a low respawn rate meaning it is prolly impossible to get hit by the code.
Are WvW maps affected by the anti-bot code? – the PvE-aspects of it are (so killing the same npc mob over and over could trigger the code), but not when it comes to killing human foes
Would Badges of Honor drops be less frequent if I played WvW too long? Nope, see the asnwers to the above two answers. They drop from players and from chests.-
