All I've gotta say is if you can't beat a bot that doesn't pre guardian, runs 4 in tactics, doesn't change weapon sets, runs a sub-par build to begin with, doesn't prioritize condition/hex removals and occasionally fails to follow your team.. then the bot isn't providing an unfair advantage to their team.. you are providing a disadvantage to your team.
I expect this bot to die out fast since the current released version has rather large flaws and from a z-key perspective you are better off running bots in JQ.
Also @ the OP I wouldn't be surprised if he was a botter himself.. the explanation he gave for why he figured out it was a bot was kinda hard for me to believe, I too would heal an ally that life saced himself at the beginning of the match if nothing more than to amuse myself in an arena filled with boring copies of the same sin or ranger build.
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Originally Posted by Martin Alvito
True, but starting in late 2005 they were aggressively banning farmbots left and right. Widespread bans would slow the tide for a day or two at best, but apparently there were enough hacked accounts to go around.
The last ten years of MMO history should be convincing proof that enforcement does not resolve these issues. The hackers simply have greater (collective) resources. Plug one vulnerability, and cheaters find another.
You solve the problem by redesign that removes the incentives to bot. Notice that increases in botting efficacy and prevalence came after the addition of Zaishen Keys. At the end of the day, we like ZKeys and they seem like a good idea, but their existence drives destructive behaviors.
Long story short, transferable in-game rewards are bad. Money is also transferable, and you will always have people willing to exchange one for the other. The only way to block that process is to make it impossible.
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True but removing tradeable money and items from the game removes the incentive for many players to actually play the game. Most players would not play an MMO where items of value could not be traded. Also simply removing transferable in game rewards would not really stop botting, botters would instead just bot titles. There are plenty available for nearly any title available in game.
To be completly honest not banning botters is actually probably working well for Anet, more people are buying more accounts to bot on and Anet can focus their priorities on other things such as new content and GW2. I hope Anet doesn't ban the botters (except the PvP interupt ones) and uses their time instead to work on ADDING TA BACK!!
but still these bots are better than no monk or bad players, i found it fun playing mesmer just backfire them and put cover hexes on so they cant remove it and watch um die.
