It’s really sad that the company won’t enforce its own terms of service and let this continue to happen!

Been an issue for years. Literally years now. If they were ever going to address it, they already would have. Best advise is to ignore them or use skills to bug out their pathing by speeding them up.

I agree with p00tx. When i left in 2019, there were chinese bot trains going across the maps and mats were cheap. Now we got alchemy reagents being 600+ ea, fortified nirn like 75k. Forget it. Let the cheap labor do its thing.

Jarl_Ironheart wrote: »

p00tx wrote: »

As a PC player, I would highly advise not pressing the issue. PC overland players raised such a fuss over here the bots are gone, but the costs of materials for gold have skyrocketed and it's impossible for anyone who isn't a dedicated round the clock player or endgamer selling title/skin/gear runs to afford these prices. I know the bots are irritating and they likely mess with your immersion and whatnot, but I can promise you, your game's economy will suffer HARD if you push to get rid of them. At the end of the day, you do what you want, obviously, but you should know how it will play out from a voice of experience.

That's just greed, for a digital worthless fictional currency of all things. And if it ever came to that point then just harvest your own stuff. Its not hard to get to 50 in everything so you can refine with the best chance. I have harvested all my own mats and upgrade mats and crafted all my own gear. I have like 3 or 4 full gold sets and I don't even farm anymore

Its how you end up with out of control inflation....

Jarl_Ironheart wrote: »

p00tx wrote: »

As a PC player, I would highly advise not pressing the issue. PC overland players raised such a fuss over here the bots are gone, but the costs of materials for gold have skyrocketed and it's impossible for anyone who isn't a dedicated round the clock player or endgamer selling title/skin/gear runs to afford these prices. I know the bots are irritating and they likely mess with your immersion and whatnot, but I can promise you, your game's economy will suffer HARD if you push to get rid of them. At the end of the day, you do what you want, obviously, but you should know how it will play out from a voice of experience.

That's just greed, for a digital worthless fictional currency of all things. And if it ever came to that point then just harvest your own stuff. Its not hard to get to 50 in everything so you can refine with the best chance. I have harvested all my own mats and upgrade mats and crafted all my own gear. I have like 3 or 4 full gold sets and I don't even farm anymore

this, i personally never buy mats, i farm everything i need myself, or let it accumulate over time

i also sell mats because i dont feel like i need 20k of any rubedite mat, i also sell all my alchemy ingredients because i never use them

Jarl_Ironheart wrote: »

p00tx wrote: »

As a PC player, I would highly advise not pressing the issue. PC overland players raised such a fuss over here the bots are gone, but the costs of materials for gold have skyrocketed and it's impossible for anyone who isn't a dedicated round the clock player or endgamer selling title/skin/gear runs to afford these prices. I know the bots are irritating and they likely mess with your immersion and whatnot, but I can promise you, your game's economy will suffer HARD if you push to get rid of them. At the end of the day, you do what you want, obviously, but you should know how it will play out from a voice of experience.

That's just greed, for a digital worthless fictional currency of all things. And if it ever came to that point then just harvest your own stuff. Its not hard to get to 50 in everything so you can refine with the best chance. I have harvested all my own mats and upgrade mats and crafted all my own gear. I have like 3 or 4 full gold sets and I don't even farm anymore

While you're absolutely not wrong, you have to remember how this game functions and how many differnt ways players engage with this game. 3 or 4 full gold sets is definitely impressive for a player who isn't engaged in endgame PvE or PvP, but in my neck of the game, we have to deal with the wild see-saw of Zos updates that cause wild meta swings, and the individual player has to either keep up, or be kicked from a team for not showing up prepared with the team's requirements. I know you're probably going to say "that's stupid", and you'd be right, but it's the reality of this game for many of us. My 215 slot inventory on my endgame Warden healer sits at about 171/215 with all trash cleaned out. Those are just the sets required for me to play on one team...all gold. That's not counting the chests full of golded out PvP gear, golded out dps gear, and additional golded out healing gear that I don't use for this particular team.

I know that you guys have no reason to care about what happens to us in this game, but just remember how hard we fought for you guys when changes were made that negatively impacted the lower tier players. We knew we'd adjust just fine and be back to doing what we were doing in no time, but we fought to get you guys what you needed, even when we had no stake in the situation. That's how a community should function. You think about everyone in the game and how your actions could potentially impact all groups, not just your own.

Everest_Lionheart wrote: »

Leave the bots to their beginner zones. There are late game routes that work well enough without the bots getting in the way. The only annoyance I’ve had is quests where you need to kill mud crabs and waiting around to camp the spawns because 3 bots are in the area.

The flooded delves in Blackwood have gobs of mudcrabs. When I need chitin, that's where I go. There might be other players in there, but they don't seem to mess with the crabs.

I'm PC NA and EU though - things might be different on console, I have no way of knowing.

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

p00tx wrote: »

As a PC player, I would highly advise not pressing the issue. PC overland players raised such a fuss over here the bots are gone, but the costs of materials for gold have skyrocketed and it's impossible for anyone who isn't a dedicated round the clock player or endgamer selling title/skin/gear runs to afford these prices. I know the bots are irritating and they likely mess with your immersion and whatnot, but I can promise you, your game's economy will suffer HARD if you push to get rid of them. At the end of the day, you do what you want, obviously, but you should know how it will play out from a voice of experience.

These bots are stealing materials from the players like me who farm all their own materials. I'm not ok with that. And on the PS the things they farm the most are those materials that are the most expensive and they remain the most expensive despite the bots.

If there are no bots, you will start selling your materials at inflated prices, I will have to buy them more expensive, and I buy materials for furniture production in large volumes. Furniture buyers will face a shortage of funds. Then I will stop producing furniture and taking your materials. The whole economy will die