Guild Wars 2

I’m just trying to get this clarified. I dont want to be reporting folks for botting if that isn’t Anets official policy. Can anyone quote an official definition of what they consider botting? The ToS is very vaque to be honest.

I ask this because I got into an argument with a fellow that going AFK with the “1” button held down at a dynamic event location was botting. They of course disagreed and said they were just doing what the game mechanics allowed them to do.

So we have all seen them. They sit at events like bridges where there is a choke point, have an ability on autoattack, go AFK and just spam away while the event restarts, over and over. And I mean some of these folks are AFK for literally the whole day.

Is this botting or not? It would be nice to get an official response on this.

Appreciate it.

That’s clearly not botting — they give us autofire. You don’t even have to tape down a key on your standard keyboard, let alone do anything with macros or bots to stand afk where an event spawns.

There’s nothing in the TOS to say you can’t use the built-in ctrl-right click in the interface, there’s nothing in the TOS that says you can’t farm the same event all day at work.

However, it seems to reallykitten off other players. So you’ll get a lot of report on yourself if you do it, make a bad name for you/your guild.

Why’s it make people so angry?

mulch.2586:

That’s clearly not botting — they give us autofire. You don’t even have to tape down a key on your standard keyboard, let alone do anything with macros or bots to stand afk where an event spawns.

There’s nothing in the TOS to say you can’t use the built-in ctrl-right click in the interface, there’s nothing in the TOS that says you can’t farm the same event all day at work.

However, it seems to reallykitten off other players. So you’ll get a lot of report on yourself if you do it, make a bad name for you/your guild.

Why’s it make people so angry?

Becasue the event gets thougher the more people are in the event. One toon spamming autoattack does not contribute enough to make up for extra mobs. In large zergs this isn’t an issue but when an event has 5 people and 3 are AFK then the event is impossible.

I do agree that isn’t botting though, botting is using scripts to make the toon do stuff atumatically like moving around, get loot, etc. being AFK does not acomplish this.

That being said Anet doesn’t not look kindly to AFK’ers in events either so report away.

You can’t just hold the button down, that’s not how the combat works, you have to re-press it.

He was lieing.

I don’t think it is “Botting” so much as just immoral.

Just get a Mesmer to teleport them away :P watch them get really mad when then come back from AFK throwing a fireball constantly in the middle of nowhere. lol