Im not sure if this has been discovered yet...

uh....forgive my ignorance, but how exactly do the bots work? From the sounds of it, they can barely get out of town, how can they possibly farm?

OMG BOTZ IN GUILDWARZ? OMGZORZ.

I never knew bots ever existed in guildwars. This is so new to me. My god. Oh the humanity!

/end sarcasm

bots are basically players with macro, which means that there is a side computer program running behind guildwars which copies your key movements to be played over and over again for farming.

thats kinda lame, and ineffective, what with all the variables, ie different spawns, battles might play out differently, you wont get the exact same drops as when it recorded your movements.

So much for A.net banning botters. They just keep coming back

They just keep coming back and A.net gets more money by selling new accounts to them

Anet's solution...hmm bots run out portals?

Next day, all portals are nerfed, if you want to leave town you must talk to an NPC and retype a code he gives you.


OMG I was only being silly but by gosh, I think I solved it!

P.S I like waffles.

Does anyone actually buy those things? I have the sinking feeling that they do... against all reason. Ugh...

Then they would just hire a guy who types in the codes for the bots 1 by 1....

With more character slots to fill, botting has become much easier now. When a player uses a different bot every hour, they become almost impossible to detect.

so do I!
bots are kind of ghosts repeating the same thing, even with different spawns, there's going to be at least one bot that gets the setting the waypoints are made for
if I'm sure a person is a bot, I'm tempted to flame at them....

Yeah some just buy them in the hope of getting lucky with runes, others buy them to get speedy wisdom titles.

Sadly, this sounds better than my current job. Do you know where to send my resume?

I am afraid that all the bot owner has to do is farm once. The program will remember the moves, and repeat them all over again. Once outside the bot owner casts the enchantments, moves to a spot with the monsters it will farm and goes in defence mode.
The program will remember it all and simply repeat it all over again.

Trivial, I Could write code to mimic Copying and pasting the code in 2 or 3 mins


Congradulations, you've found a "solution" that does nothing but annoy honest players



and no, i dont write farming bots

A bot is a script running a pre-set sequence of events. It is completely unintelligent. In pseudo-code:

1. Target sign.
2. Start run to sign
3. (timer X seconds, to give the bot time to run to sign from wherever it is in Granite citadel, will on average be a bit too long meaning the bot stands still at the sign for a few seconds)
4. Start sidestep right
5. (timer Y seconds, to give bot time to go from sign to where it will hit the exit when running forward)
6. Run forward

Once outside it'll basically do the same thing to get to some place where a known group of enemies are, activate its skills in a pre-set order to kill them, target drops and pick them up, then map to town, target mule, transfer all drops, then GOTO 1 to do the whole thing over again. It's really very simplistic, anyone could make a bot like this using freeware on the net (no, I'm not going to help anyone do it).

Meanwhile there's a human minder somewhere in china or india, overseeing perhaps a dozen computers, each running _at least_ one instance of guildwars with one of these bots active in each one. He's paid to restart the bot when it glitches, and to respond to whispers (as they might be from an in-game moderator). He's also responsible for sorting the loot in mule #1, ie selling off the trash and moving interesting stuff to storage or mule #2 for later sale.

Elona bots have started to make a come back..

That would acually work, if it's a random code like the ones you get when your signing up for something on a wesite. That's how websites stop bots, and it works.

As well as the lvl 20 Mo/Ws there are lvl 2 ones there? o_O

They come in large groups too.......probibly for plvling to prep them for the botting itself -_-

There is another path the bots will sometimes take.

Seems they cater for WHEREVER the spawnpoint is =p

lol! Touché

Let me guess, they won`t do anything to those accounts, instead they`ll nerf those spawns either by making them impossible to kill solo or by nerfing the drops, affecting us all. Repeat every time the bald farmers find another hotspot. GG