Possible bot in RA

As first I thought it's just some random 55 afker in random arena that leaves. But now I'm starting to think this is a new faction farming bot.

This is the behavior of the bot:
- It joins a RA game. Ok, that's ez AI.
- It sits in game for about 2 minutes and then leave. And usually in RA by the 2 minute mark, there's already 1 or 2 kills happen with or without the bot. And so the bot walks away with 20 factions in 3 minutes, 20 * 20 * 8 = 3200 factions or more a night.

This is a new issue to be addressed...

/report it to A.net support then.

No point telling us all here, we can't do anything about it.

Then again maybe it was a real player who simply was AFK then left after a bit, or did you keep seeing them over and over again?

it's over and over again, on my team twice, and once on my enemy's team

and i thought a.net's support is here and they read these forum everyday and "every post"

Then that clearly is a bot

They check the forum, I don't think the have the time to read every single post ^^ Afterall this is a fan forum site

Check this page for the offical support:

http://www.guildwars.com/support/

Best to log up a ticket there so it can be passed directly to them.

ive seen this to yesterday when I was at RA, happened a few times to me and the opposition. Quite annoying when you have 3 active members and 1 doing nothing.....

Technically, they're not bots. In RA someone is manning them. In Elona Reach, maybe not... They often leave before the match is even over. Once I called one out and typed "55 monk" in team chat and the monk left immediately.

Okay, that's the what, now for the why...

Obviously gaining faction is of no use to a farmbot whose purpose is to grind gold for sale. If they were there to gain faction, they'd at least try to win. So why go to RA and ruin everyone's fun? (if "fun" and "RA" can really be synonymous )

But consider Anet's policy- they ban users for repeated "bot-like" behavior, no? Well, going into Elona Reach and killing the same Minotaurs 300 straight times without taking a break is pretty bot-like, no? BUT, warping into Random Arena and "doing a little PVP" every so often would theoretically make you look less like a bot and more like a human, wouldn't it?

Let's consider these "gold for cash" operations. They're obviously big-time money makers, and banned accounts come out of their profits. So they have to think of clever ways not to get accounts banned. It really wouldn't be hard to schedule breaks in farming, where a live person takes the Mo/W to RA for a little while and "participates" in some PVP battles in order to break the monotony of "bot-like" behavior.

Nothing said here is proof of botting. Doing 300 farm sessions on a row will possibly just mean that; either the farmer has no life or is taking turns with family members.
Afk'rs in RA are a normal occurance. There should be added a program to kick them. Since that highly unlikely will happen, you just have to cope with them.
Bot programmers are known for their flexibility and their programs for their simplicity. It is almost impossible to deal efficiently with them.

sounds like an immature school kid to me..bots have one purpose and thats to make money

Bots can be scripted to enter RA as well. Bot programs are easily found and almost anyone can modify the script to do almost anything. There's a good number sitting in Aspenwood as well. Not all are bots of course, but many are.

so when they going to close this thread already. So tired of seeing bot threads for no reason like something is goin to get done. Just post this crap to Guild wars support.

wow i never seen that before..

I've seen RA bots, who casts mending on themselves and that's all they do, sometimes these bots will auto follow a player, and that's it.. it's as annoying as AFKers.

To sum up:

There have already been lots of bot threads. We can't do anything about it but tell you to report it to Anet Support. See the link RTS posted.

Closed.