Rittings wrote: »

Thing is, when they DID eliminate them all, I noticed a marked increase in the performance of the game. Now as they come back thick and fast, it really makes me believe they are the stimulus to much of the lag in the game.

Not only that, but newer players simply cannot gain materials for crafting - and so we see lots of players not continuing to play, and those that do just immediately make a passive decision to not do any of their own crafting.

exactly, they are the main reason server lag is overwhelming, tons of bots per day and also that farmig problem, player vs player farming is fun, but when a bot get into middle of it is frustrating and betnik and other areas are full of em

ZOS_BillE wrote: »

@Tsukyme

Thank you for the post regarding these bots. This has been forwarded to our support team to look into further.

thanks for the response, they seems to be controlled bythe same IP as they were doing same action at same time

Follow the gold trail.... watch how these bots give to a single account, then sell the items to well known traders (some of whom I know, and they are/have been GMs of some of the bigger Trade Guilds too)... then that gold gets sold on websites to players (against TOS).

It all ends up hurting ZoS in the long run... because it effects performance, but it also means the crown sellers/gifters are doing far less business, and that hits Zenimax in THEIR economical pockets too.