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Shooting fireballs at dolmens?

basketcaseNZ
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Hi everyone. I've noticed this and it has me perplexed. There's a bunch of players standing around the dolmen north of Vulkhel Guard firing fireballs at it. What are they doing?
  • Marabornwingrion
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    Bots.
  • jpeg
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    probably have autoclicker and and are afk farming for xp
  • RosieTheRadiant
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    Rubberbanding to gain XP. In short, cheating.
  • TerraDewBerry
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    Just report them and hopefully, ZOS will do something about it.
  • Shadow_Viper_vX
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    ZOS already tried to do something about the bots long long ago by adding anti-bot measures in a patch that caused alot of performance/lag issues.

    https://youtu.be/IzFS4RKA5uc?t=663

    Edited by Shadow_Viper_vX on April 16, 2017 1:34AM
  • basketcaseNZ
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    Does this effect how often the dolmen activates?
  • SydneyGrey
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    Bots. There aren't players controlling those characters. They use some sort of program to program them to do that so they can get some free XP for the character without having to be there to control it. Basically, they're depending on other players to do the anchor pinions and whatnot, and get their armor destroyed, while the bot sits there reasonably safely and leeches off other people for free XP. It's annoying as heck. If one of them dies, DON'T resurrect it!
  • Kiralyn2000
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    SydneyGrey wrote: »
    Bots. There aren't players controlling those characters. They use some sort of program to program them to do that so they can get some free XP for the character without having to be there to control it.

    Eh, "taping down your mouse key" isn't much of a program. :D
    (still silly, though. just play the game!)
  • Lylith
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    kite the mobs to them and let them die. :)
  • SydneyGrey
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    Eh, "taping down your mouse key" isn't much of a program. :D
    (still silly, though. just play the game!)
    LOL. You're right. In some cases they do use programs, though, particularly the harvesting bots. They HAVE to use a program to make a harvesting bot. The ones at the dolmens could be there via a program, or they could be there with a "rubber-banded" key. Either/or. :)

  • forwardbias83
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    I remember an archer doing this once in Alikr at one of the dolmens. Off to the side, spamming that bow AOE ability over and over again, even when there was nothing there. Likely was using a program, as to use that bow skill, you must activate the skill and then select the area you want the arrows to come raining down in. Staffs you can just hold down the attack button and you constantly do heavy attacks, but for bows, you must let go of the attack button to actually shoot. I wonder if bots are programmed to stay out of red areas, if not, might be possible to perhaps add some new AOE mechanics to dolmens, which at least would disrupt the people that have their attack button taped or weighed down with something. Anyone at the dolmen that tags it for exp credit, may have a small area (1 Meter) under their feet turn red, after x amount of seconds they get effected by a fire based DOT that takes away 20% health every second as long as they stand in the area of effect, easy to avoid if you are actually at the computer. Get killed by this ability x amount of times, and account gets auto flagged for investigation.
  • DHale
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    They are just people waiting for the ban hammer.
    Sorcerna, proud beta sorc. RIP April 2014 to May 31 2016 DArk Brotherhood. Out of retirement for negates and encases. Sorcerna will be going back into retirement to be my main crafter Fall 2018. Because an 8 k shield is f ing useless. Died because of baddies on the forum. Too much qq too little pew pew. 16 AD 2 DC. 0 EP cause they bad, CP 2300 plus 18 level 50 toons. NA, PC, Grey Host#SORCLIVESMATTER actually they don’t or they wouldn’t keep getting nerfed constantly.
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