Hitch a ride on a (tax)iMonk today

Introducing the TaxiMonk. An iMonk, who through flawed bot technology, invites you into their group, and SHARES THEIR LOOT!

Mod edit: I removed the pic's as they contained player's names. Please edit the pics to display no player names. Thank you.

Story:
This monkbot accidentally invited me into her group. I knew she was a bot because she didn't talk... at all. Probability of bot: High.

So anyway, I'm in her group, then she goes outside. I'm like "Sweet, I can watch what she does to learn for my iMonk" (who I was on at the time.)
So we're running around, I die. She kills everything and maps back to Augury. I get res'd, run back to death spot and grab the loot!

Heh... try it for yourself. Just stand around on the stairs near the portal out of Augury. You might get lucky.

EDIT: Wondering if I should take out the name or not.

ROFL

Classic.

Posting in game names of individuals is a no-no without their express permission.

Okay, wasn't sure. I'll edit the pics.

What do you mean you cant put in the bots name because its not a real person its a program and wont object in any way possible.

Consdering that the account is owned by a human being, that's completely wrong.

I've seen (or at least thought I've seen) bots in first person shooter games before, but never here in Guild Wars. Does anyone know how a Guild Wars bot even works? For some reason, my brain has a difficult time grasping how bots can play your guy.

Please don't detail how to exploit/cheat...

FPS bot aims for you using colored pixels on the enemey team models and sending the mouse point directly to that specific color pixel without you doing anything

In GW, the bot simply repeats a simple routine, such as "walk here, activate these skills, pickup loot, zone back, repeat" although its in code so its more complicated.

^^^xen, i think thats what he wanted.

Haha, expoiting a bot that's exploiting the game. Funny.

Yeah, I wasn't interested in finding a bot to use, I was just confused/curious how they were able to target enemy and pick up drops and chests etc.

Thats a complex bot right there...

might be a bot, but maybe he's been programmed to object to his name being used.

Ever thought that they couldnt speak a word of english..?

a fleshbot :-)

GW bots can be much simpler than other bots because it doesn't have to target any items. All it has to do is cover X ground using the <;> key to select items.

Bots ? An iMonk is pretty easy to run, but it isnt that easy. It would take a pretty complicated bot/macro to accomplish a farming run. It just doesnt make sense. Until I see hard proof of the existence of iMonk bots I'm going to assume these people just arent very talkative.

i used to think that...now go to a random district in augury...follow a couple of the monks going outside on their path...notice they all follow the SAME path

this is because they take turns perfectly because its the most efficient way of getting to the exit, stand at the turn before the stairs and watch them all, you can tell which are people and which arent.

So did you send them an invite and they accepted?
or did they randomly invite you?

the mind boggles

Sister Spice

I've sent invite to some monks and they accepted. When we get outside some will go "?" and map back. Others will tell me to "go" as in go die. Others let me follow them, (very few), and pick up loot lol. I eventually stopped this because I was feeling guilty and I made my own 55 so I didnt need to follow them anyway.