Botters and cheats of late.

heavenlee

FIRST THIS IS NOT A THREAD TO POINT FINGERS OR NAME NAMES. NOR TO FLAME GM'S THIS IS WHAT I AM OBSERVING OF LATE


Hello all. I have enjoy this FTP game more than any I have ever played. Only 1 other FTP had good service on it I played before but they changed it to much but I digress.
Of late I have noticed not only a rash of botters but players using hacks in pvp. I have been playing this game since Dec 2008 and Other then a few I saw in the snowmen area, I have seen no botters. But for the last month I have noticed players botting. I do not mean same actions or questing. I mean botting. Ksing you if you attack the monster closest to you, trying to loot the items though they can not stalling and most sitting down after the fight. I know a botter, I played a few games, I will not say there names, and reported close to 100 to 1000 botters a day at times.

The cheaters. On my server the only cheaters I have noticed have been in 1 guild. They are a Pking guild and yes I am on a open PK server. I do not care if I get pked, get multi attacked or die. I do care that some have to cheat, even if they are higher lvl or not. The cheat/**** they are using is letting them hit you more then once, very hard to see this action unless they are casters. They will fight you normal when they die or come close to losing they go to town log out and log back in. When they come back if they hit you for 500 damage before the damage will double even though they are still in same gear. The casters I have seen ( and yes I need to get fraps) cast the same spells 2 times. Case in point, black ice dragon. The wizard will cast it once and with in a second, cast it again. Now I know what you will say Spark potions. True spark points will give you a spark again and it does require 2 sparks for the spell. But the thing is what happen to the 30 second cool down timer? All of the 2 spark skills for every class have a long reuse timer. Some how these few ( and yes only a few using it that I know of) not only have no cool down timer for spells but are able to use multiple apothecary items and also avoid the cool down timer.

Now I will be downloading fraps and I will be putting low lvl characters around the different area's that wraith events happen. And I will be looking for this group to fraps and get banned. I will also be frapping the bots and turning them in from now on.

Now only thing to say about the game and reporting abuse, botters or hackers is the * so and so is using a ***** when you right click them. It would be nice if you could have a drop down to say better what you are reporting.

If the powers that be wish this locked then lock it. If you want to flame it flame it. But I never understood why people have to cheat at a online game. If you want to cheat get a game shark and play PS3 or Nintendo.

Peace.

Tearvalerin - Sanctuary

lol QQme, harshlands, same old song and dance.

for some reason bots were like non existant a few months ago, and now the new servers open and everyone does anything they can to be on top. its kind of pathetic and sad

Bowlinbob - Lost City

if you drop items from a known bot to a boss, most of them pick them up and walk right into the boss. kinda funny to watch imo

Alaprozam - Dreamweaver

As the casting with no apparent cooldown, I know there is a spell wiz's get that allows instant cast for like 10 seconds. All spells have no cooldown or prep timer. The sparks Im not sure about.

Zephyrx - Lost City

Alaprozam - Dreamweaver wrote: »

As the casting with no apparent cooldown, I know there is a spell wiz's get that allows instant cast for like 10 seconds. All spells have no cooldown or prep timer. The sparks Im not sure about.

Lol.... instant cast = ****?

Alaprozam - Dreamweaver

Umm I believe its a buff. If I knew where to look on the site I'd quote the freaking spell for you dork.

Mysticlifex - Heavens Tear

6 seconds bro

Alaprozam - Dreamweaver

Essential Sutra. Says for a short time afterward all spells require no channeling. Its learned at level 59. It also refills a bit of mana.

Alphae - Lost City

Essential Sutra (instant channeling skill) also costs sparks, 2 sparks to be exact. That's a lot of spark potting in very little time when apoth items have a 30 sec cooldown.

And I don't know, as I've never rolled a wiz far enough to get sutra, but I don't think it takes away cooldowns, just makes channel instant.

It really is sad that people find the need to cheat at an online game. Winning/being the best/being one of the best is important to everyone but I personally feel no reward if I cheat to get what I want. b:surrender

Solandri - Heavens Tear

Actually, I wonder if there's a double-cast bug. Sometimes when I summon my mount, it'll finish and I'm riding my mount, but it'll immediately start summoning it again even though the hotkey is now greyed out.

Asterelle - Sanctuary_1381265973

There are 3 times important to casting spells.


1) Channel time - the time between starting the spell and when the hit is delivered
2) Cast time - the time after a hit is delivered until you are able to start a different spell
3) Cooldown time - the time after a hit is delivered when you can start channeling the spell again

Of these the wizard skill and apothecary items can only reduce #1. It does not make things instant cast nor remove cooldown.