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Farmers/Botters (w/e they are) selling x99 stacks DESTROYING economy
noyouwont
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I multiboxed for 6 hours today and the largest stack I accrued was x64. This is with 2 characters, mind you. Whatever these guys tanking the economy are doing is so far removed from any circumstance where it could be considered legitimate gameplay, that I really can't understand why they are letting it happen.
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To make it worse, they are undercutting the bottom line of all of the other auctions instead of just letting it bid and sell for whatever, furthermore lowering the entire cost of the market as a whole because they are so anxious to get rid of their ill-gotten loot as fast as possible.
Can't beat 'em? Join 'em?
/sarcasm OFF
How Cryptic would go about selecting trustworthy candidates and training them and/or paying them,if not volunteers I don't know.
What I do know is that active DM/GMs tasked with administering to exploiters,bots/multibox and RMT are the best frontline fighters and a major deterent.
Also,having player characters executed (suspended) in full view of legit players endears a good portion of the player base to the developer.Like in Guild Wars 1.
I agree that in game monitors (DM/GMs) would go a long way to curbing the issue for the more obvious bots; however, the problem with that is, either Cryptic has to pay employees to monitor the game 24/7 or find reliable volunteers over the internet that are willing to do the same and are sincere (good luck on determining the last but, they seem to find decent community monitors). You would think that some dev, somewhere, has figured out how to at least flag the nonsense bot names (hijk, qwerty, etc.). Some of the others would be a little trickier (like IAMABOT, yes, I've seen that one {not on PWE}. Offered me $20 in credits if I gave him(her) my login and password. Even with a normal name that would have sent alarms ringing.)
So, the easy way would be to check the names against a dictionary but since this is an international game, you would have to included possibilities from all the locales the game covers. Also, my handle "clannamuir" is three words run together and they are from a lesser known/used language. The language is in the locales covered by this game but I doubt it would be considered for inclusion into a dictionary.
Why do they need GMs/DMs when we have so many people playing this game? All of us can see that there is something fishy going on the AH, they should allow us to report them or flag them at least. If certain accounts are being flagged like crazy, like the one even obviously named for them trying to sell in game currency (WTS Gold, really bros?), and someone gets like 200 reports about them, maybe that could warrant 2 minutes of someone's time to look at the AH, and say "Hey look, a cheater." and then forever erase the account (this 7 day ban <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> is BS). ERASURE.
Just the cost that these people are making on data storage and bandwidth to the company (not to mention undercutting their Zen market) should probably be enough to warrant action. It's their money and they are watching it vanish.
These people are fundamentally ripping off everything about the game, from fair play to the actual business of the game. It delegitimizes the entire concept of the game and makes everyone's hard work essentially turned into absolute trash.
In other words, it almost feels like I'm wasting my **** time because I'm not cheating.
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I don't know about that. Just cause someone has something that seems unrealistic to us. Doesn't mean they didn't get it threw legit methods.
I mean I did farm 85 rank 4 savage enchants during the event. not to mention the other rank 6's I made before that. To bad they don't work but I did farm them.
So could come from multiple people maybe from a guild bank. I don't think its not legit though until someone proves it to me.
Has you also thought about the possibility that....there's simply less demand?
I had over 300 enchantments during the event and opened at least as many Bag of Bones. Of course, I have insomnia and was up over 24 hours. That might put it in some perspective compared to the bots.
I farmed 8 Rank 7's during the event, as well as 9 Blue dogs.
THAT...would be awesome.
Hear Ye, Hear Ye, let all hear these words. On this day, Lord Neverember declares that botter/exploiter X, Y and Z will be executed in front of the fountain in the Main Square.
I would pay to see that.
That would be sweet.
BUt so what its F2P all they have to do is make another account and start over. They will never deal with the bots in game whats the point. Its not like they loose thier subscription. Ip address can be faked also so banning the ip wont help. Well ip ban would help alittle for people that suck at computers.
You can put in place anti cheat/bot precautions that make it very difficult to use a 3rd party program to interface with it. You can also put in place a detection system that would be able to detect use of most 3rd party programs and either discontinue the client or notify an administrator to investigate. There are a TON of things that could be done to make it insanely difficult (never impossible) to bot.