Guild Wars 2

Well maybe if the content offered was rewarding for taking the time to do the entire thing they would not resort to trying anything we could to the thing over with and repeat.

I’m not really sure on this subject, in one hand we the crowd who things your fail if you don’t move around a lot to avoid it, in the other we have those with multiple views and ways to improve the system or remove the anti farming mechanic.

I am sort of stuck in the middle because I do move around a lot I just occasionally find a nice group of mobs along the way that are dropping what I want reasonably fast and they re spawn quite quickly I would like the option to stay there for 30 – 45mins and farm them while they are doping nicely with out completely destroying my drop chances in the overall zone.

Is that really that big of an issue? I see the system as it is as punishing players who are not bots and happen to want to farm for a little while before continuing on and doing random things.

I for one would be happy to compromise with Anet about this and keep the mechanic if it triggered for those who farm like this for more than an hour in the same spot but have a larger trigger time if you spread your farming out thought the zone with a time of 5 hours total.

Then another idea to compromise this is those who farm the same mob type for more than 45mins only that Mob Type would start to drop less items and not effect your adventures around the region your currently in.

I feel for Anet because anti botting measures like this puts them between a hard place and a rock and not everyone is going to agree with the systems they put in place though they must be open to suggestions from those players effected that could still keep the system effective against bots but not punish the players which is never an easy task.

As it stands now a lot of you are arguing to out right remove the system or are in favor of it while these are all well and good opinions if anything is to be done about it that would be a fair compromise for Anet.

I feel that is the direction the discussion here should start to take instead of endlessly repeating each others opinions.

teemoor.4397:

People here don’t know much about botting it seems. Nowadays bots not only will change locations and mobs, they will also sell loot, ressurect at WP and run back. I’ve seen bots answer PMs. I’ve seen gathering bots running routes, changing maps. They even made a flying bot for aether gathering in Aion!

This anti-farm code won’t stop them. But it sure as hell is gonnakitten off legit players.

This is about the only real realistic point of view I have read in this entire thread. There is a botting discussion thread around as well which I posted additional botting information in that thread.

It is 100% true that right now that Anet don’t have any serious bot detection the fact is bots are so smart now that we do not need to focus on these sorts of measures anymore and instead Anet should be focusing on detection of the processors and algorithms the commonly used bot programs use and detect them at login to prevent non legit players even starting the game or playing while the bot program is running.