When I played UO we would agro a few mobs, drag them to the bot farmer, and then hide and watch as they killed the bot. when the monsters left we looted the farmer. I wish we could do that in this game.
When I played UO we would agro a few mobs, drag them to the bot farmer, and then hide and watch as they killed the bot. when the monsters left we looted the farmer. I wish we could do that in this game.
Most of the time i wait for the node to spawn and then beat the bot to the resource. Its fun for a while
markulrich1966 wrote: »I just increased the prices for furniture based on mundane rune.
It seems that people who reported bots had success on xbox EU. Mundane runes are almost sold out since days, prices up from 40k to 80k a stack. Can't keep the low prices for floors and stairways like this.
From earlier experience I know that this will reduce the sales, so I doubt that manual farmers will benefit. People do not have more money when bots disappear, so if prices increase, they buy less.
I know from talks that it gets even worse. Already the current low prices are still expensive for many who for example want to add furniture to large homes like the psijic villa or moonsugar meadow. The more expensive it gets, the more they hesitate to start decoration projects.
MLGProPlayer wrote: »
Complete nonsense. Real farmers absolutely benefit from a reduction in bottling. You used to easily be able to make 100k+ per hour farming materials 2 years ago. You're looking at 50k now. Sales weren't any slower or faster back then. If people need mats, they will buy them, regardless of the price. The only difference was that back then the market wasn't oversupplied to the extent it is now.
MLGProPlayer wrote: »If people need mats, they will buy them, regardless of the price.
SeaGtGruff wrote: »
Maybe some people will, but not me. If I feel like I absolutely need something now and can't farm or grind for it myself, I won't buy it "regardless of the price"; instead, I'll shop around until I find the lowest price. And if I consider the lowest price right now to be wildly inflated beyond reason, there's nothing so urgent about this game that I can't decide to just put off buying whatever it was I was looking for until such time as I can find it for what I consider to be a more reasonable price.
2 of the 3 places you mentioned are DLCs. Bots don't pay for DLCs. They are mostly in starting island zones with the exception of the leather farmers.Surveys are a much better source of mats. But I didn't have any problems with bots back when I did farm. I had few routes in Abah's Landing, Stonefalls and Orsinium and met maybe one and the same bot in the latter.
Sadly a company cant do much, every mmo has them from wow to ffxiv. As long as ppl buy from yhem they will contine. If they ban one 2 more stolen accounts appear in its place. Bots are like hydra
Dusk_Coven wrote: »
How do you even know when you are buying from a botter? Some people legitimately have a lot of mats. Some people might even have enough gold to buy up a lot of mats and relist for the margin.
The only way to be sure you are boycotting botting is to gather all mats yourself.
MLGProPlayer wrote: »
Bots can usually be identified by having:
1. Exceptionally high inventory (like thousands of gold tempers) that they are able to replenish quickly and sell to you again
2. A willingness to sell their wares at deep discounts since many of them are not in trading guilds (harder to track this way) and want to clear Inventory ASAP in case the account gets banned
SeaGtGruff wrote: »I guess the people who are saying "I stopped farming because of bots" were only farming so they could sell what they farmed? Is that correct? I suppose that's why bots have had zero impact on my farming, because I keep what I farm-- or, if I need the inventory space more than the materials I've farmed, I just sell it to some NPC merchant, or destroy it, or give it away to someone in zone chat or guild chat, or maybe deposit it in a guild bank for other guild members to use.
Canned_Apples wrote: »There are three sorc pet bots farming nodes around the clock in Stors M'Kai (PC-NA.) They're pretty hard to miss, but they're also really slow- you can sprint to the node and "steal" it from them- then watch them stand there for seconds before the move on.
SeaGtGruff wrote: »
My NA PC/Mac petsorc main farms in Stros M'Kai every so often, and he always runs around at normal speed, so he sort of resembles your remark. But he doesn't have a bottish name, so hopefully no one would ever confuse him for a bot!