[Eredon Terrace] Botting in Gerradans Fields, Armarath Grotto
wow, that looks like swg pet levelling LOL. Great catch btw, even the names are dead giveaways.
Looks like a multiboxer from the picture. Doesn’t appear to be a bot at all.
As far as I know, multiboxing is allowed. I’ve not seen any ArenaNet staff state that multiboxing was not allowed.
I multibox and I got a lot of players telling me I was being reported. That completely contradicts the reporting feature of the game. If you tell the player there that you’re reporting them for botting, then you know there is a player there and you know he’s not breaking any rules. Especially if the player responds to you. When you submit a report, it clearly states there could be actions against you if you continue to falsely make reports. The only way you can really tell if there is a bot there is if the player continuously runs a pattern and doesn’t respond to verbal discussion. However, I’m tired of explaining to everyone in a zone that I’m multiboxing and I’m here. So usually what I do is if I see someone near me, I just say “Hi” at the start and carry on.
You can’t tell in 1 or 2 minutes if a bot is running a pattern. You’ve got to watch for at least 15 to 30 minutes and the bot must make the exact same moves over and over. That’s how you know it’s a bot. If it stays in one spot, you can’t really tell. It might be someone multiboxing, pressing keys and on the phone or eating. And if you see several characters all with similar names casting at the same time, it’s more likely a multiboxer than a bot.
Botting means there is no player at the keyboard, there is a program making decisions for the player. This means that the program has some sort of dialog that is preset that keeps going over and over. Without the bot moving, it’s hard to tell if there really is a program controlling it.
With multiboxing, there is a player at the keyboard pressing keys to control the actions of all of the characters. However, there is no follow system in Guild Wars 2 presently. So it’s hard to have all of the characters move in the same direction. It can be done but it’s much easier to stand in one spot and kill anything that comes your way. So the picture looks like a multiboxer to me.