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Another Felldspar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2006

Alchemy Incorporated

Mo/E

22 Aug 2007 at 14:02 - 1

I went to Kamadan this morning in search of lockpicks and saw oozes and rats and was told that the recent earthquake activity had brought them to the surface. Then I went to Altrumm Ruins and there were no bots there.

None. I thought it odd so I decided to check a few other places...

Chebek Village -- no bots
Granite Citadel -- no bots
Elona's Reach -- no bots
Marketplace -- no bots

There is strong argument in my guildhalls about what has happened to all of them. Our leader seems to think that the Asuran engineers (with their exceptional intelligence) have found a way to create a gate to send them through and we'll see them all in the depths. But me, I'm holding to the opinion that the earthquakes have swallowed them all.

What do you think? Any theories?

Aye

Stolen Souls

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

22 Aug 2007 at 14:08 - 2

The Oozes absorbed them all. :O

Just went to Altrumm out of curiosity. It's disturbingly empty. There are still a few bots running in International, but nowhere NEAR what it used to be. /ponder

Issac

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Earthrealm

W/A

22 Aug 2007 at 14:13 - 3

Now their going to transform into Ninja Turtles lol.

TheRaven

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Virginia

Spirit of Elisha

W/

22 Aug 2007 at 14:14 - 4

They all went to a giant bot convention in Lion's Arch. I popped in for a few minutes this morning before work and got 3 pm's directing me to a gold selling site. As well as the usual assortment of "wts gold unids 7=5k" spam.

Painbringer

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2006

Minnesota

Black Widows of Death

W/Mo

22 Aug 2007 at 14:42 - 5

My guess they all got disconnected for the new download and since we can not auto reconnect the poor $#^%$%&#& botters have to reconnect manually. Can’t wait to see the change later today

Prof Of Black

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

@ Sensation Black

Death is Energy [DIE] ~ Raining fame alliance

22 Aug 2007 at 16:11 - 6

I hope so

~Prof.

Lord Feathers

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

ROAR - Rangers of Ascalon Return

R/P

22 Aug 2007 at 16:25 - 7

This would be a nice thing if they put a large dent in the botters if not get rid of them all togeather but that would be asking for just way too much I think.

* Crosses fingers and hopes *

Vamis Threen

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

E/Mo

22 Aug 2007 at 16:31 - 8

Last night there were none in Altrumm nor Bergen when I looked in Int and EC-1. I thought this was due to the Bots getting caught in the duper-purge and they were a thing of the past.

Hoever, today I counted about 20 in the few mins my Sin was merching his loot after doing Arborstone. Some things never change......

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

22 Aug 2007 at 16:48 - 9

ANet pulled out all their bots since the community found out "the truth"

/sarcasm

bizarre_status

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

Toronto

The Mirror of Reason [SNOW]

R/

22 Aug 2007 at 17:56 - 10

wait hold on, there were bots in Marketplace? been farming jades for a while and haven't seen a single one of them.

Funk ee Monk ee

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

Legendary Adventurers Guild [LAG]

22 Aug 2007 at 18:01 - 11

The bots have been gone from Altrumm for about two weeks. I was looking back in the update notes and there was something about 'fixed a bug that allowed an account to be created without a valid CD key'.

Oh, and the Chebek bots disappeared when the reward was changed so you could not create, get gold, delete and reroll. Gold given at a later quest was increased.

semantic

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2005

22 Aug 2007 at 18:18 - 12

Quote:

Originally Posted by MMSDome

ANet pulled out all their bots since the community found out "the truth"

/sarcasm

But how will ANet create mass amounts of gold now?

/sarcasm/sarcasm

Roshi_ikkyu

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

Mo/W

22 Aug 2007 at 18:59 - 13

ZOMG anet does ban bots, who would have thunk it!

R!ghteous Ind!gnation

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

N/

22 Aug 2007 at 19:17 - 14

Probably a recent mass ban in preparation for GWEN. Make gold valuable for the people who have farmed as of late... perhaps....

Molock

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Qu??bec

Legacy of Angels [Halo]

E/

22 Aug 2007 at 19:28 - 15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roshi_ikkyu

ZOMG anet does ban bots, who would have thunk it!

Anet has been banning large ammounts of bots for a very long time now.. and in the past 2-3 weeks I have noticed that there are a lot less bots rampaging. I am VERY happy, hopefully ANET can keep fighting those stupid bots like this to make the game more enjoyable.

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

22 Aug 2007 at 20:34 - 16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roshi_ikkyu

ZOMG anet does ban bots, who would have thunk it!

no they put the bots there and then ban them to make themselves look good. Dont you people know anything at all! Look into the truth damnit!!!

Andisa Kalorn

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

[PMS]

22 Aug 2007 at 20:43 - 17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Funk ee Monk ee

The bots have been gone from Altrumm for about two weeks. I was looking back in the update notes and there was something about 'fixed a bug that allowed an account to be created without a valid CD key'.

I noticed that too. I was farming Kurzick faction in arborstone while that update occurred, and at first I thought they just hadn't updated, but they didn't reappear in the following days. It seems there are still a few but it's a fraction of what was there before. Same thing for other places popular with bots. It's also possible that some of those bot-like people remaining are actually real people. Most of them had real names and not random ones when I checked.

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

22 Aug 2007 at 22:04 - 18

Like I said in Q&A thread their computers crashed or Anet hacked them.

Angelica

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Aussie land

Me/E

22 Aug 2007 at 22:56 - 19

Well there are bots in Bergen Hot Springs, I was there with my new warrior and I saw them just yesterday.

Saraphim

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Hand of Omega [WHO]

E/

22 Aug 2007 at 23:15 - 20

I felt lonely in Altrumm Ruins earlier.

Risa

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

The Nights Watch [Crow]

Mo/

23 Aug 2007 at 01:18 - 21

Quick, someone go to the Granite Citadel and see if the old school bots are still there! O.O

Tahlia Tane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2006

W/

23 Aug 2007 at 01:49 - 22

I just love it when justice is served. I mean, damn. Whoever clicked the 'ban' button on all those bots must be feeling preeeeeeeeeeeetty good right about now.

Brianna

Insane & Inhumane

Join Date: Feb 2006

23 Aug 2007 at 05:16 - 23

Maybe.. they rounded up tons of names over time, and then slammed the ban hammer on all of them at once. Perhaps thats why we always saw the ''same ones'' running around for awhile.

Who knows..

bart

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

23 Aug 2007 at 05:34 - 24

maybe with GW2 not far away they felt that they have enough gold in reserve to last them to GW2 so they packed up and moved on to another game?

Another Felldspar

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2006

Alchemy Incorporated

Mo/E

23 Aug 2007 at 13:59 - 25

Regardless of where they've gone or what happened to them I would like to say thanks. GG A-Net!

Aye

Patrick Smit

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2006

NiTe

23 Aug 2007 at 14:12 - 26

SO much people so worried about bots!

Sorry they wouldnt be there if buyers of in game gold would be punished severely. Then u wouldnt need to ban bots, just the gold buyers. Any transfer of gold to accounts (from accounts that are flagged as goldsellers) would be subject to ban. I bet no one would buy anymore.

Painbringer

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2006

Minnesota

Black Widows of Death

W/Mo

23 Aug 2007 at 14:43 - 27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

Maybe.. they rounded up tons of names over time, and then slammed the ban hammer on all of them at once. Perhaps thats why we always saw the ''same ones'' running around for awhile.

Who knows..

This would be awesome giving the botter no time to react. Shutting down all of them all at once (would have loved to hit execute on the command)

milias

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Defected back to America

Me/E

23 Aug 2007 at 17:25 - 28

Whatever it is, I'm glad the bots are gone from those places. Most likely, I think ANet did something about it.

rancidgoat

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

[XoO] [AX]

N/Me

23 Aug 2007 at 18:14 - 29

i did some recon and found that on some of the gold selling sites, they state that they are "upgrading their system" and they will be back soon with more cheaper gold.what "upgrading" means i dont know, maybe they got accounts banned and are looking for accounts to steal or there was a strike at the sweat shop and they are looking for more people to force into slavery.

either way dont worry they will be back soon enough you can count on that.

max gladius

Yep, really is me...

Join Date: Aug 2005

My House

L33t

23 Aug 2007 at 18:25 - 30

no, the bots been gone for about a week or so.... use to be around 100 non stop circling necros in the fist area / mission in nightfall....

i origionaly zoned around about a week ago, looking for where to get unidents from... i try to buy from the source, rather then towns, u get better stuff.... that was when i noticed the huge amount there use to be everywhere gone.... my final stop was the first mission city, so im thinking anet did yet another mass ban on them..... give it a week, they will all be back