Anti Farming Code

sjeps

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/Mo

I was green farming and appeared a warning saying that drop will decrese quality if i continued farming.
Does someone know something about that?
Ways to avoid the code or reset its value? I've heard can be done doing some quests or so..

Ermac

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Join Date: Jun 2005

Finland

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use the search button, several threads about this. ;I

around

around

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Use the (non-functional) search button?

Ventius Hozza

Ventius Hozza

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Join Date: Aug 2005

London, UK

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Yeah, I think people should really stop saying "search, search, search". It is down most of the time and the person is asking a sensible question about a suitable topic.

And, unfortunately I don't know many of the logistics about the Farm Code, so, sorry there.

munkyb

munkyb

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

the search feature is locked down for most of the day. makes it rather usless to tell people to use something that isn't actually usable.

Wyld Kard

Wyld Kard

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Cantha

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Yeah they should just completely eliminate the search button because for one most people dont use it and those who do it doesnt work 3/4ths of the time. so instead of telling someone to use the POS search button. offer them what you know about whatever their asking...

All I know about the Anti-Farming Code is that yes you can reset/up the rate by doing several things but mostly questing/missions what have you for a while then switch back into farm mode.

Wang Fu

Wang Fu

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

Mo/R

Would logging out and exiting, then coming back into the game stop this? I'm testing it out but it's kinda hard to know

2ndName

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

I remember someone saying, but don't quote me on this, that you can deactivate it by leveling up normally, doing a mission and finishing it, zoning into 3 different areas.

What I did to reset that code was doing the easiest mission I could find in Ascalon and then call it a day.

When I green farm, I kill them about 8 times before doing something else.

Ermac

Ermac

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^ and your problem is ?

yomama6969

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Join Date: Apr 2006

soldiers of heaven

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noobs that infest this place....

Ermac

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I don't know if you are one, but if you aren't ...remember that you once we're one, and how was it you learn't about gw ? ASKING thats how.

anyway, staying on topic.. if you just circulate around 4-5 farming places... you should not encounter it.

Yanman.be

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Quote:
Originally Posted by yomama6969
noobs that infest this place.... And the biggest of them all is...?

Ventius Hozza

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Quote:
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And the biggest of them all is...? Meeeeeeeeeeeeee

2ndName

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Join Date: May 2006

Seriously, people need to relax when seeing questions like this. This is a forum. People go here and post questions to learn more about the game. Not everyone have the time to browse the whole forum for that one answer that was discussed 2 months ago.

Rebirther

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Clan Dethryche

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lol turning into a flame thread, be sprised if this doesnt get closed soon.

Stovaa

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

DRAK

W/Mo

I've never encountered the warning

Do about 10 runs in one place, then go somewhere else and do 10 runs there, then go back to the first place. I rotated between Hydras and Trolls for a while.

sjeps

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by yomama6969
how about lazy noobs get off their ass and learn on their own like all the original players who answer these dumb questions had to

IF U WERE TOO STUPID TO BEGIN WITH

---when it gives u that "tip"---

theres a huge freaking explination saying STOP FARMING THIS AREA FOR A WHILE AND GO ELSE WHERE

where's the freaking complication in that? when the warning appeared i WENT ELSE WHERE and went farming another boss near another city. I killed him about 20 times and he didnt drop green (and often nothing at all).
so its not a problem of location. i have just to do something (missions or quests, i dunno, im asking this) to return to normal situation.

if u know something write it now, otherwise go into another topic and dont flame here pls

Ventius Hozza

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Quote:
Originally Posted by sjeps
if u know something write it now, otherwise go into another topic and dont flame here pls what he said

Levi Garett

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Join Date: Jun 2005

ABQ, NM

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I've never gotten the anti-farm spam, ever. I usually don't have time to do the same thing 10X over. What I always do is change what I'm doing every 3-4 runs. Or change chars and do a mission, then come back to what I was doing.

For example I was doing a bunch of FF runs in conservatory and was checking the chests there. I got like 10 purple chests in a row, and was starting to wonder what was going on. So I went and did Raishu's Palace with a group and then killed Shiro too. Then I went back to FF runs and the first chest I hit dropped rare. Not only did it drop rare, it was a Runic Axe Req 8 15/-5. Who knows maybe dumb luck? All I know is the chests started dropping ~ 50% golds for the next few runs and I was happy...

yomama6969

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Join Date: Apr 2006

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if u killed him 20 times u obviusly didnt read the warning message very clearly, and as for u were a noob once, ya we were, but i dont remember anyone around to pester becuz i had this game since the beta testing, so no i DIDNT ASK cuz no one else knew, i found out on my own, for gods sakes how many tools does one man need?

besides this complex forum, online strategies guides, the manual that came with the game unless u were a cheap jerk and downloaded it, and jsut other subjects on other forums.......GOOGLE.......

after all that, ur telling me u culd think of nothing better but ask the question here only to probably wait a few good hours for a response

(not to mention the countless ppl u can bug in game...which so many other jerks do)

heist23

Journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2005

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by yomama6969
how about lazy noobs get off their ass and learn on their own like all the original players who answer these dumb questions had to

IF U WERE TOO STUPID TO BEGIN WITH

---when it gives u that "tip"---

theres a huge freaking explination saying STOP FARMING THIS AREA FOR A WHILE AND GO ELSE WHERE

where's the freaking complication in that? as far as i know, the tip only appears once. and never to those people who get annoyed by those useless tips that they already know about, and switched them off in their Options settings. so stop being an asshole and try to be somewhat helpful. i never got that tip because i thought those tips were useless. so call me stupid, but getting advice on topics that i already know inside and out gets old really, really fast.

as far as i know, the OP was asking how many times it takes for the anti-farming code to kick in and how long it takes for it to turn off. i'd say that it requires about 5-10 times of repeated entering, and probably doesn't turn off for a pre-determined amount of time.

Francis Crawford

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

When I farm minotaurs in Elona boom-boom-boom, the QUANTITY of my drops goes down after 10 runs or so.

And if I stop playing and come back half a day later? The quantity is back up.

I wasn't doing something that testable until recently, so I don't know if it's new.

Picking up the reward for a quest I'd previously finished except for the reward was NOT enough to reset the Elona drop nerf, oddly.

Anyhow, if you have both Factions and Prophecies, there's a good chance you haven't done all of:

1. Missions
2. Bonuses/Masters level
3. Skill quests, especially for your less favored secondary professions

So there's always something to do ... Plus now there are challenge missions and competitive missions in Factions that cry out to be repeated.

yomama6969

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

soldiers of heaven

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Quote:
Originally Posted by heist23
as far as i know, the tip only appears once. and never to those people who get annoyed by those useless tips that they already know about, and switched them off in their Options settings. so stop being an asshole and try to be somewhat helpful. i never got that tip because i thought those tips were useless. so call me stupid, but getting advice on topics that i already know inside and out gets old really, really fast.

as far as i know, the OP was asking how many times it takes for the anti-farming code to kick in and how long it takes for it to turn off. i'd say that it requires about 5-10 times of repeated entering, and probably doesn't turn off for a pre-determined amount of time. ignorant idiots hard at work...

look u guys just luv making it hard for urselves, i dont see y u all bug everyone else afterwards

to finish this dumb topic off, if u waist more than 1 hour farming sumthin, stop becuz u wont get jack shit afterwards....go somewhere else....for say.... an hour if u rly have that much time on ur hands, and then return to doing wtv ur doing that takes that long in the first place

Mercenary One

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2006

CT USA

Ok, I could be wrong here but as far as I remember...

That Tool Tip that says "If you keep farming the first group" and then rezoning and repeating, then they will have less and less each time.

"First Group"

I do not see a big differance if you farm thru one or 2 zones then turn around and reverse the run.

Usually once you aknowledge one of these messages I do not remember it popping up ever again, tho I may need to re-check my tool tip settings, tho I am sure it's been turned off, because At one time i thought that that incluyded the stupid spell descriptions from the skillbar, which would be really nice if anet DIDN'T MAKE IT COVER THE PARTY WINDOW....

Doing missions is supposed to reset/change farming code, not nessarly quests, because some bosses cannot be farmed any more after finishing a quest, and some others do not show up if a certain quest is active, or untill a certain mission is compleated.

The search button is garbage period.

And who cares if someone askes a question, if you don't want to answer it then stfu and stop calling names, lazy noob? lol ummm he came here to get information, and also most of the time people won't answer a question because they think it's dumb and such a such person is a noob.....you were noob once also, i have been in cities where there have been at least 50-100 people and questions were asked by people and not a single person answered.

So if your soo dam "leet", and so tired of answering such "noobish" questions stop being a prick and don't say anything at all

GL HF GG

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ubermancer

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*looks at thread title*

Let me guess, you dont actually know how to code, do you?

Valdis

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Quote:
Originally Posted by ubermancer
*looks at thread title*

Let me guess, you dont actually know how to code, do you? Since you seem to know so much....tell us all about it.

JoeKnowMo

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Join Date: Oct 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by yomama6969
if u killed him 20 times u obviusly didnt read the warning message very clearly, and as for u were a noob once, ya we were, but i dont remember anyone around to pester becuz i had this game since the beta testing, so no i DIDNT ASK cuz no one else knew, i found out on my own, for gods sakes how many tools does one man need?

besides this complex forum, online strategies guides, the manual that came with the game unless u were a cheap jerk and downloaded it, and jsut other subjects on other forums.......GOOGLE.......

after all that, ur telling me u culd think of nothing better but ask the question here only to probably wait a few good hours for a response

(not to mention the countless ppl u can bug in game...which so many other jerks do)
And then there are those that bug others on this forum. Forum nubcakes with no etiquette, we call them.

Quote:
Originally Posted by yomama6969
ignorant idiots hard at work...

look u guys just luv making it hard for urselves, i dont see y u all bug everyone else afterwards

to finish this dumb topic off, if u waist more than 1 hour farming sumthin, stop becuz u wont get jack shit afterwards....go somewhere else....for say.... an hour if u rly have that much time on ur hands, and then return to doing wtv ur doing that takes that long in the first place Way off! Which is par for the course for know-nothings with elitist attitudes and short tempers.

The code seems to trigger based on the number of times you zone. You can farm half an area, leave your character in there for a couple of hours and then finish off the other half and still get good drops.

To the OP: As others have said, get about 3 farming spots. Do 3-4 runs in one, then switch to spot # 2, then to spot # 3. Rinse, repeat.

From what I've seen this code triggers about the 7 - 10th time you repeat an area. Can't say how long it lasts, so it's best not to trigger it if you can help it.

derrtyboy69

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Join Date: Jun 2005

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I dont know how you people stay farming one spot that long. Unless im watching TV at the same time, i cant stay farming for more than 30 mins. Mabye i just gots the ADD.

And yomoma6969, are u some 11 year old prick that thinks hes hard hiding behind ur keyboard flaming people on the internet? Cause u are making yourself out to be an asshole.

Ascalon Chariot

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Join Date: Dec 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by derrtyboy69
are u some 11 year old prick that thinks hes hard hiding behind ur keyboard flaming people on the internet? aye fink sow




Translation: I think so.

:P

yomama6969

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

soldiers of heaven

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yes im an 11 with a temper behind a keyboard, and i guess ur all geezers with nothin better to do than to answer a question thats been answered 10 times over?....look i aint sayin nothin but this thread is way old, and ur "insults" on the internet mean oh so much more to me....ur calling me 11, and then adding, "NO UR STUPDI!>!" ..... -point in case-

Bloodied Blade

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Join Date: Jan 2006

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^^
Thankfully someone banned him.

We don't need people who have nothing better to do than flame.

As for the anti-farming code, I think it triggers on ~10th time that you enter the zone or so...I just go do something else for a while. If you're not having any luck, go do something else.

@ubermancer, If you're going to give the man some information he can use, please do so.

To the OP: If you still can't find what you want to know, google has a 1 in a million chance of working...

2ndName

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2006

I see, so to clarify, the anti farming code kicks in when you enter the zone and not when you kill the same thing in that same zone?

Madical

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2006

Death's Will [DW]

W/Mo

i know this post is old, and i did use the search button :P
tonight ive been farming in elona reach for 2-3 hours (thats over a hundred runs) before i got the warning... still made 20k tho
as it says in the hint, play normally in maps (do missions, quests, help noobs) and it will eventually reset the anti-farming

Hyprodimus Prime

Hyprodimus Prime

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Join Date: Jul 2006

Vancouver BC

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I got the message once while testing farm builds. However it did not affect drops. Then I go in after the last nerf and elonas is dry, i didnt go in at all in about 2 months. So I dont know whats up either. If I dont see cash drops in elona the first round, I leave and do green farm. Prior to the nerf I used to switch between mursaat and souther shiver stuff. Most peopel dont farm there so it was good money.

I think all you need to do, like a lot of other people said is rotate farm spots. With the template system, the weapon sets and map-tele system, its easy to do green famrming in factions, get to the trolls in proph, then get to NF once ur bored.

aZn invaZn

aZn invaZn

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Join Date: Aug 2006

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hi guys...nice thread...nice flamer

ive found that if you travel between the worlds (tyria,cantha,elona) and do something that would usually remove the code, it only removes it for THAT world.

over the past few months between all the stuff i do in elona and cantha, i sometimes come back for a few rockshot runs in thirsty river. however, the anti farm code has never dissapeared and now every time ive gotten carapaces and coins coz i havent been doing anything else in tyria.

well this is just wat ive discovered, which i find quite annoying since if i want to farm all three continents i have to do three times as much anti-farm-code-ridding as usual

Poison Ivy

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If you want to get rid of the code, run the Northern Great Wall mission, and don't forget to actually finish it.

Arangja

Arangja

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Join Date: May 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by sjeps
when the warning appeared i WENT ELSE WHERE and went farming another boss near another city. I killed him about 20 times and he didnt drop green (and often nothing at all).
so its not a problem of location. i have just to do something (missions or quests, i dunno, im asking this) to return to normal situation.

if u know something write it now, otherwise go into another topic and dont flame here pls K the anti-farming code do net get resetted if u just go and farm a different location. There is several aspects that I have read are linked to this. The best way to cancel or reset the anti-farm is to do high-end missions / quest with real ppl if possible. That just shows youre not a bot and then the counters get resetted. I hardly ever get that message because I go and help guildies a lot so I'll farm 1 green do 1-2 missions/quests then do some more mission etc.

hope this helps a bit