So tired of gold farmers

LadyDestiny

They are out in full force with summerset. Stealing all the nodes, running trains in every area and text chat is nothing but zone chat spamming endlessly by these people. I sat in craglorn and there was nothing but endless spam of the same item over and over. Then they get angry with you when you tell them to stop spamming. Constant requests to trade by level 3's. They follow around and keep doing it even when you decline.New characters all over summerset and artaeum. I think it was a bad idea opening all zones to any level. Zos made gold farmers worse because of this.

The_Red_Viper

This forum is just people telling other people how to play.

Don't use "Set X".
Don't use "Ability Y".
Don't play PVP.
Don't be an elitist.
Don't gold farm.

None of these are breaking the rules of the game, so your post, and any other post like this one, simply have no point other than to get a few virtual, pointless points from people who agree with you.

Ragebull

I haven't experienced any of those issues

VaranisArano

Players can farm all the nodes they want...as long as they aren't botting.

Players can spam zone chat until they hit ZOS' limit for spam...as long as they aren't trying to sell gold for real money. For everything else in zone chat, you know there's an Ignore button, right?

I don't know if this is a platform/server difference, but I've managed to level a new character, play Summerset, and farm lots of mats without any issues on PC/NA.

Lazarus_Rising

There is an ignore button

Elsonso

There is also a studio that could go in and at least deal with the bots that farm.

Arunei

I've never had people attempting to trade with me repeatedly out of nowhere, though I have had the occasional person try to trade unsolicited with me, and it's always sort of confused me. In terms of zone spam, I'm an RPer, and I usually have my tab set to an RP tab that has zone turned off so I don't get the spam.

As far as farming goes, I personally do a LOT of farming. I'm going to assume you mean bot trains farming though, and not individual people running a circuit to stockpile mats (I do this with an area in Craglorn that has a really good farming spot). If you mean the latter then yes, ZOS needs to crack down on these things and deal with them. If you mean the former, then eh, hate to say it but us people farming mats are usually crafters and we have just as much right to nodes around the maps as anyone else does.

TheCyberDruid

LadyDestiny wrote: »

Stealing all the nodes

I always 'love' to read that people are 'stealing' nodes Yeah, it sucks if you can't find nodes in a zone or if somebody beats you by a second to harvest it, but all the bots I've seen just kill creatures that give leather scraps. So they are just other players that do the same thing you do. If they 'steal' the nodes from you then outsmart/outrun them or just go somewhere else. Except for some motifs there's hardly any resource that you can harvest which is exclusive to a zone.

Btw, you aren't by any chance the person that always complains that 'sorcerers steal all my nodes' in Craglorn zone chat on PC EU?

LadyDestiny

TheCyberDruid wrote: »

LadyDestiny wrote: »

Stealing all the nodes

I always 'love' to read that people are 'stealing' nodes Yeah, it sucks if you can't find nodes in a zone or if somebody beats you by a second to harvest it, but all the bots I've seen just kill creatures that give leather scraps. So they are just other players that do the same thing you do. If they 'steal' the nodes from you then outsmart/outrun them or just go somewhere else. Except for some motifs there's hardly any resource that you can harvest which is exclusive to a zone.

Btw, you aren't by any chance the person that always complains that 'sorcerers steal all my nodes' in Craglorn zone chat on PC EU?

No that was not me and never complain about other players that beat me to a node. The issue is the stupid bots that transport around underground and take nodes right when you try to collect them. Been playimg this game since beta on pc. I know how to farm and have dealt with this bot farming crap since day one. It's getting old.

Scorpiodisc

LadyDestiny wrote: »

They are out in full force with summerset. Stealing all the nodes, running trains in every area and text chat is nothing but zone chat spamming endlessly by these people. I sat in craglorn and there was nothing but endless spam of the same item over and over. Then they get angry with you when you tell them to stop spamming. Constant requests to trade by level 3's. They follow around and keep doing it even when you decline.New characters all over summerset and artaeum. I think it was a bad idea opening all zones to any level. Zos made gold farmers worse because of this.

What region and platform do you play on?

I am on PS4 NA I have not run into anything like that...except the chat spam, but that is just how chat is...

Edit to fix phone formatting stupness

LadyDestiny

Arunei wrote: »

I've never had people attempting to trade with me repeatedly out of nowhere, though I have had the occasional person try to trade unsolicited with me, and it's always sort of confused me. In terms of zone spam, I'm an RPer, and I usually have my tab set to an RP tab that has zone turned off so I don't get the spam.

As far as farming goes, I personally do a LOT of farming. I'm going to assume you mean bot trains farming though, and not individual people running a circuit to stockpile mats (I do this with an area in Craglorn that has a really good farming spot). If you mean the latter then yes, ZOS needs to crack down on these things and deal with them. If you mean the former, then eh, hate to say it but us people farming mats are usually crafters and we have just as much right to nodes around the maps as anyone else does.

I have no issue with crafters farming. Everyone needs to do it. If you have experienced the bot farmers since Eso was released you might understand what I mean. All the lvl 3's in their prison rags with jgxxkjbdx whatever as their name. Transporting underground was a thing so they couldn't get reported. It's happening again and again as with every new dlc release and new resources come out. As for the trading thing, it's the bots that run around craglorn attempting to trade with you while your at the bank, vender etc. Drives me nuts.

DirkRavenclaw

Im on PC/NA, i play around 10 hours daily and i dont notice anything like that

yiasemi

I see one bot train every fortnight or so on PC/EU. Assuming it's just a cheating player. Not the daily zerg that the game was at launch when getting a mat was an achievement. Mats disappearing when I try to farm has recently come back for the first time since the bad old days, but isolated to a few nodes every few days.

TequilaFire

As to the level 3 players, it is a starter zone after all.

Armatesz

Xbox NA they are around as well, seen them try to go for me but yeah I look at their accounts and level. Big red flag being a low gamerscore/level. Very rare have I found someone to be a real player that way, so saying 99% of them are bots is quite accurate.

Ragebull

Wait when you go up to a node to harvest it and it magically disappears, that's a bot botting underground? Didn't know that was a thing, always assumed that was an instance issue

Now I'm gonna be super annoyed next time that happens /:

pod88kk

People on Xbox EU are selling their crowns for in game cash which I think is dumb

lordspyder

Ragebull wrote: »

Wait when you go up to a node to harvest it and it magically disappears, that's a bot botting underground? Didn't know that was a thing, always assumed that was an instance issue

Now I'm gonna be super annoyed next time that happens /:

It is an instance/ phasing issue.

Savos_Saren

I have noticed more and more bot farmers and bot trains popping up. (PC/NA)

Go to any beginner zone (where Trainee drops) and you'll see bots farming the nodes. Especially in Bal Foyen. You can spot them easily because they run in very square patterns- pause where a resource would be- and continue. They'll normally be in the original gear you get when you first complete the intro quest. And they'll have stupid names that don't make sense. (IE: someone picked random letters for their name. "FNOEIN")

Bot Trains (a bunch of players grouped together and attacking NPC critters) can be found all over Reaper's March and other regions.

I've reported them- but I don't think ZOS cares as much. See- in order for them to bot farm resources- they usually have an ESO+ subscription (so that their inventories don't get full of mats). It's a win/win for ZOS. They have someone with a subscription AND they can claim that the bot is one of their MILLIONS of players...

Ohtimbar

Savos_Saren wrote: »

I have noticed more and more bot farmers and bot trains popping up. (PC/NA)

Go to any beginner zone (where Trainee drops) and you'll see bots farming the nodes. Especially in Bal Foyen. You can spot them easily because they run in very square patterns- pause where a resource would be- and continue. They'll normally be in the original gear you get when you first complete the intro quest. And they'll have stupid names that don't make sense. (IE: someone picked random letters for their name. "FNOEIN")

Bot Trains (a bunch of players grouped together and attacking NPC critters) can be found all over Reaper's March and other regions.

I've reported them- but I don't think ZOS cares as much. See- in order for them to bot farm resources- they usually have an ESO+ subscription (so that their inventories don't get full of mats). It's a win/win for ZOS. They have someone with a subscription AND they can claim that the bot is one of their MILLIONS of players...

#10MillionBotStories

Jaraal

DirkRavenclaw wrote: »

Im on PC/NA, i play around 10 hours daily and i dont notice anything like that

Didn't notice Eli's cat when you stepped on him, either, did you? /ponder

Elsonso

lordspyder wrote: »

Ragebull wrote: »

Wait when you go up to a node to harvest it and it magically disappears, that's a bot botting underground? Didn't know that was a thing, always assumed that was an instance issue

Now I'm gonna be super annoyed next time that happens /:

It is an instance/ phasing issue.

Actually, I think it is an LOD error in the game client. The game client thinks it is there, so it shows the node from a distance, but as approached, the node really isn't there, so it goes away. If you back up and it reappears, I view that as confirmation. I have this happen a lot with chests and rune nodes. Not so much with the others.

Agenericname

Scorpiodisc wrote: »

LadyDestiny wrote: »

They are out in full force with summerset. Stealing all the nodes, running trains in every area and text chat is nothing but zone chat spamming endlessly by these people. I sat in craglorn and there was nothing but endless spam of the same item over and over. Then they get angry with you when you tell them to stop spamming. Constant requests to trade by level 3's. They follow around and keep doing it even when you decline.New characters all over summerset and artaeum. I think it was a bad idea opening all zones to any level. Zos made gold farmers worse because of this.

What region and platform do you play on?

I am on PS4 NA I have not run into anything like that...except the chat spam, but that is just how chat is...

Edit to fix phone formatting stupness

I'm on PC/NA. I've seen bot trains a few times. Yesterday was the latest occurrence. I wouldn't call it an epidemic, but they exist.

The rest of I really don't have an issue with.

LadyDestiny

I'm on xbox and they are pretty bad. Not like day one when thousands of lvl 3's were flying tbrough the air out of coldharbor wayshrine, but still bad. Way too much for Zos not to do anything about it. Sad thing is there is no way to report except through xbox. They won't do anything. No text chat report function that can go to Zos. No GM's in the game. And like Savos_Saren stated, bots just add to their player base. Miss the old days in games where GM's were around and actually did something to fix this nonsense. Zos won't spare the manpower. They can't fix the laggy servers so why would they waste resources to do this?

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO

lordspyder wrote: »

Ragebull wrote: »

Wait when you go up to a node to harvest it and it magically disappears, that's a bot botting underground? Didn't know that was a thing, always assumed that was an instance issue

Now I'm gonna be super annoyed next time that happens /:

It is an instance/ phasing issue.

I have seen nodes randomly disappear. A lot seems more then a phasing issue. While the number of bots I have seen is down I do see a lot a characters run to a spawn point and just stand there. I have harvest maps so I know it’s a node spawn but really not a reason to run to it clearly seeing it has not respawnes standing for a moment and repeat.

I stopped seeing the “oygoegvs” names, but the it’s clearly a bot account are still all over the place. Farming is one thing we all have our farm spots but it looks like they run to a node and hit E weather it’s there or not.

Elsonso

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO wrote: »

lordspyder wrote: »

Ragebull wrote: »

Wait when you go up to a node to harvest it and it magically disappears, that's a bot botting underground? Didn't know that was a thing, always assumed that was an instance issue

Now I'm gonna be super annoyed next time that happens /:

It is an instance/ phasing issue.

I stopped seeing the “oygoegvs” names, but the it’s clearly a bot account are still all over the place. Farming is one thing we all have our farm spots but it looks like they run to a node and hit E weather it’s there or not.

They are, and because ZOS runs a bot popularity contest, instead of banning them, it is pointless to report them. No enough people will report the bot to make it popular enough to take action against. Besides, I am still thinking that the 'action bar' is a link to a gold seller. If they can't establish this, then they don't take action. Since I can't tell whether they are a gold seller, and few people report them, and ZOS isn't going to care, I just play while looking for a game studio that makes games and cares about the game. I figure such a company will make a game that I like, eventually.

redshirt_49

You wanna farm nodes? Go to Rivenspire. If these plebs want to do it in Summerset, I say let them.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

lordrichter wrote: »

There is also a studio that could go in and at least deal with the bots that farm.

This very much.

Ananoriel

I never get trade requests from strangers (you can turn it off I remember), and never saw that many spam in the Summerset zone chat.
Did saw a lot of bot trains in Grahtwood a while ago while Skyshard hunting.

Violynne

Lazarus_Rising wrote: »

There is an ignore button

On console, we don't have an ignore button from zone chatting. We can just type in /i {name}, but here's the problem which I can relate with the OP.

These chat spammers are relentless. Constantly filling up the limited chat box with wares no one gives a rat's ankle about. Many times now, I have lost replies in conversations due to the spamming.

Ignore doesn't work because they're not just from one person (though the initial spam is).

Throw this in with guilds who constantly spam recruitment and it's just another reason I find to close the chat window permanently, making it harder to speak with anyone in the game.

jaschacasadiob16_ESO

Craglorn zone chat level is usually so low you can't really tell if it's 5yo kids trolling each other or some farmer. Mainly on the consoles, we should have a real ignore list implemented. Not that Wayrest's is any better.