The March of the Bots

OK it was pretty bad before. Bad enough that AN is making changes that affect all of us because of these knuckledraggers. But the bots are marching. It's hilarious. Someone should FRAPS a little loop of it when they find a high-density bot spot. For instance a great place to spectate tonight was Seeker's Passage. There's a couple wreckages they can loot with no combat and zone back.

Anyway, there's 30~ish of them right now, in one zone. I have never seen it this bad. It's just a continual, endless stream of people flooding out the portal 4 across... The same names, following the same path... endlessly. The interesting thing I noticed is all the names and tags were either gobbledeegook, romanized chinese or bold-ass taunts like Iamno Abbot, ???? Is Not Here, etc.

Regardless of the outcome, the stream of lemmings is something to behold...

Ooooh, I want to see them!
Seeker's Passage you say? I'll have to go have a look!

shhh, some of us swing by that wreckage for a quick money boost, now you ruined it!

j/k

eliminate the bots, not the wreckage... since bots can simply find another spot and following the cycle to it's logical extreme the only way you'll get 5 gold in the end will be to kill a boss monster...

no... kill the bots, leave the farm

Bots are bad. They should be killed and their users permabanned. To stop the bots is very easy.

No when you sign up for something free online how they make you type in whatever is in the picture? Well have a popup appear whenever you zone out of town that does this. THe bot cant enter the Pic therefor no more bots.

Overkill much? Do you have any idea how much of a pain in the patooty that would be for everyone else?

How does a person tell what a bot looks or act like?

I'm sure that Anet is continuing to get rid of bots and permabanning those accounts. What I don't understand is why would you risk that for a game? Then you'll just have to drop another $50 and start all over again. Doesn't seem worth it to me.

Repetition of the exact same action over and over again.

The only way to spot a bot is to observe the same person doing the same thing over and over. When I say same, I mean exactly the same, it will be a carbon copy every single time. This is very hard in GW because of the instances, you cant see what they are doing out on their own.

haha awesome

I often used to go in and out of the same town because i used to only hunt certain types of monsters. You would have been able to tell me apart because sometimes i would die and sometimes i would take longer....depending on what strategies i was testing.

Now, i just float around the forums, play a little underworld and hope that PvE gets a boost sometime soon in the same way that plans are moving for PvP.

As for the bots...my guild leader said the same thing a few nights ago "Omg, come to seekers and look at all these bots!"

To which i replied, "Try trading them or talking to them"

He said "I have, they don't respond".

heh, try bodyblocking the exits

You can clip through people while in town, so that's a no go.

I'm there right now in district 1, if you want to come watch with me.

after standing there for half an hour, I can honestly say i'm sick to my stomach. It really is a constant river of bots and they just keep doing it....

I hope Anet bans the hell out of them. I made 600k fair and square with my own blood sweat and tears, and now I feel stupid for it because people like this have made it almost worthless.

lol what an idiots i mean serious even with the warning when you open GW on downloading software that does stuff for you is going to bring youreself at risk and besides whats fun in botting its like ok if i come back in half an hour i will have made XXX money hurrah -.-

Botters are not motivated by fun.

That is, in game fun. It is considered fun by some to make real world money from fake online money.

From my previous experiences, game companies do not ban farmers nearly enough to make what they do unprofitable. At least, I'm making this presumption because they have not disappeared from online gaming yet.

This is sort of sad. I'm seeing someone do the 'continuous running outside' thing that was doing this two or three weeks ago already.

They are still going at it huh. Was there yesterday and seen them left and cam back about 6 hours later and they were still going. Someone said they have been doing it for 48 hrs at that time wonder how long it is now.