What do you do once the Anti-Farm script kicks in?
I just keep farming because there is no anti-farm script from what I’ve been able to tell.
I switch zones for a bit and farm there. Then I return. I farmed events all the way to 80 – chained the same events most of the time. It is easy to stay in a loop before 80. IMO…Once you get to 80, it is best to expand to loop to other zones or mine.
I switch zones for a bit and farm there. Then I return. I farmed events all the way to 80 – chained the same events most of the time. It is easy to stay in a loop before 80. IMO…Once you get to 80, it is best to expand to loop to other zones or mine.
Wow, that doesn’t sound very fun.
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I just keep farming because there is no anti-farm script from what I’ve been able to tell.
There is a script that reduces XP and Karma gained from events if you keep doing the same one over and over in a short time frame.
Yeah, anti-farm script really pisses me off.
I switch zones for a bit and farm there. Then I return. I farmed events all the way to 80 – chained the same events most of the time. It is easy to stay in a loop before 80. IMO…Once you get to 80, it is best to expand to loop to other zones or mine.
Wow, that doesn’t sound very fun.
Only took 57 hours played to hit 80 with event loops
I just keep farming because there is no anti-farm script from what I’ve been able to tell.
There is a script that reduces XP and Karma gained from events if you keep doing the same one over and over in a short time frame.
The original poster is talking about loot drops drying up, not XP and Karma.
I just keep farming because there is no anti-farm script from what I’ve been able to tell.
There is a script that reduces XP and Karma gained from events if you keep doing the same one over and over in a short time frame.
Dont know if you have noticed it or not but it also gets activated if you kill the same mob type repeatedly (sigh why is there only one mob type in Orr….)
ITT: how to ruin my gameplay experience for the sake of “efficiency”.
I just keep farming because there is no anti-farm script from what I’ve been able to tell.
There is a script that reduces XP and Karma gained from events if you keep doing the same one over and over in a short time frame.
The original poster is talking about loot drops drying up, not XP and Karma.
Khaldar is correct in his statement, and I did mention only being able to participate in 2-3 DEs (different or same) before getting slapped in face by Anet script for legitimately playing their game.
I just keep farming because there is no anti-farm script from what I’ve been able to tell.
There is a script that reduces XP and Karma gained from events if you keep doing the same one over and over in a short time frame.
Dont know if you have noticed it or not but it also gets activated if you kill the same mob type repeatedly (sigh why is there only one mob type in Orr….)
I’ll use the same example I mentioned elsewhere in a similar topic.
I can (example) farm bats at a location and initially get no drops for several minutes straight. Following that period I begin getting blood drops every few kills. Following that I’m getting blood drops every kill. In such an example you can see that my drop rate is improving over time, not becoming worse. I’ve also seen behavior that appears to be the opposite, or even fairly average across my entire farming session. Random is random, nothing more.
If anyone actually has a comment from an official source (dev post, interview, etc) discussing anti-farm code in GW2 (not GW1), by all means feel free to share it. Until then we’re just jumping at shadows. Personally, I have done a ridiculous amount of farming for crafting material drops (trying to maintain 8 different crafting disciplines) and have never, ever seen any kind of drop behavior that would indicate that it boils down to anything more than the odds and dumb luck (assuming, of course, you’re farming the correct mob for the drops).
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Edge your experiences seem to be vastly different from mine and the 200+ folks posting here ( http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zjxcn/is_the_anti_bot_protection_in_gw2_going_too_far/ )
Are you playing on a lvl 80 toon? Not to give up your farm spots, but what maps are you playing in? How often are you in a given area killing the same mobs? Are you killing said mobs with any kind of speed?
Today was the first time i noticed something of like anti-farming code. I was farming Cursed Shore(Penitent Tunnel). Got fairly alot loot before i started wondering why the hell im not getting ANY drops at all for the whole 6min duration of the event, except xp,karma & gold from completing the Dynamic Events.
Normally i’d be moving all around the map doing different events but as you might have noticed certain Dynamic Events are currently broken. So just try to move around as much as possible when things get fixed.
So i do think there is some sort of anti-farming code ruining the point of Dynamic Events, so what if we farm the same thing over and over, theres not that much to do when all the temples are completed.
Edge your experiences seem to be vastly different from mine and the 200+ folks posting here ( http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zjxcn/is_the_anti_bot_protection_in_gw2_going_too_far/ )
That thread you link states this:
“If i farm more than 50 of one particular item i am prevented from receiving any form of loot for what seems about 30 minutes.”
In my experience that statement is just nonsense. Recently I need over 200 units each of several types of crafting drop (/sad sigh). We’re talking nearly a 1,000 units total. I tackled them one at a time (blood, then scales, then bones, etc), in each case farming the same tight location very quickly. In some cases the area would also host a particular event every 15 minutes or so (which I participated in as that would obviously boosts my drop rate).
At no point did I notice any deviation from what I considered the norm or the average.. certainly no case of all drops stopping for 30 minute periods.
Edge your experiences seem to be vastly different from mine and the 200+ folks posting here ( http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zjxcn/is_the_anti_bot_protection_in_gw2_going_too_far/ )
Are you playing on a lvl 80 toon? Not to give up your farm spots, but what maps are you playing in? How often are you in a given area killing the same mobs? Are you killing said mobs with any kind of speed?
Havent not seen myself nor heard about this issue from anyone in my guild.
I agree that the anti-farm code is really annoying. I’ve been doing events in Orr and i’m about it call it quits because I can only get loot from the first 1-2 waves in an event and then I spend the next 5-9 waves getting absolutely nothing. I’m just wasting my time at that point.
It’s really easy to check thsi for yourself…
1. Go to an event in Orr
2. Kill 10-15 enemies per wave
3. Loot 10-15 items in the first wave
4. Loot 5-6 items in the second wave
5. Loot 0 items in waves 3+
It happens in every event (i’ve done 30+ in the last 2 days) and the exact same pattern repeats every time. It isn’t random at all, the pattern doesn’t even vary.
It seems to work by mob type if your going for things like 400 trophies. So you can switch around. Do skale for 10-15 minutes and then move to another group of skale or bats they tend to be close to each other.
For risen humanoid and nonhuman are different. So you can go do risen drakes / fish / chickens, and switch with humanoids.
The best places for the trophies actually tend to be the 80 explorable’s though.
As for event farming there are loads of events you can do if your only after karma. I like to do a lot of the lower level zone events since I can run the expanse of a zone and often solo them in 2-3 minutes and still get 80 loot from the splendid chests are special areas / end event bosses.
The game does penalize you if you do the same event over and over, but it’s not like there’s only 1 event in the game.
You’ll notice it by doing event chains in Orr. The Defense events spawn a ton of undead in a short period of time, tag them all and your first 2 events you’ll see 1-2 rares per event. After looping through events and doing your third or so defense event you’ll start feeling like you’re somehow failing to tag monsters due to the lack of shiny corpses, but you get exp anyway. After killing large amounts of monsters in a short period of time a system kicks in that vastly reduces the rate that loot drops.
In regards to the event penalty, if you stick to event chaining in the cursed shore for about an hour, and you’re doing it right, you’ll notice ALL events start giving less. This penalty sticks between zones. Worst I saw it was 75 copper per event at 80. Once it kicked in at Cursed Shore I tried moving to the chains in Malchor’s Leap, but I was still getting 75 copper per event.
Not to be confused with the above, but there is also ANOTHER anti bot thing that makes it so that if you do the same event twice without any events in between it gives half rewards. This one isn’t bad as playing like this is terribly inefficient anyway.
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Yeah, anti-farm script really pisses me off.
Yeah, curse Arena Net for making players explore more than just a few events. Evil jerks.
Yeah, anti-farm script really pisses me off.
Yeah, curse Arena Net for making players explore more than just a few events. Evil jerks.
Lmao, this post made my afternoon at work. I have to experience all of the content in the game?! OH NO!
What to do? drink a beer…
Yeah, I’m drunk right now…
In all seriousness, taking a break, or going to another area sounds good. Since the game has no subscription fee, I really don’t feel the need to try to get as much done as I can, as fast as I can. And that is a good thing…
This frustrates me somewhat too, but what I usually do is go level a different character for a bit or browse the forums.
To the people saying go to another area or insinuate that people are rushing for being hit by this code- this is about limiting the efficiency of what somebody can do in an mmo and different people enjoy different play styles this is a bit silly in my opinion.