Are There Really PWI Bots?

Yes, not rampant like PWCN but there is some. If you see a bot, just submit a ticket.

You can also lure them to an untimely death with little trails of coins. One of the more fun ways to tell if they are really botting or not. Just make sure you send in a ticket on em when you confirm it.

Yeah; seen one up in sandsong sometimes - sitting there with a herc on defend. But what gives away that it's a bot, not afk, is the Heal-pet (30 s) heal pet (30s) heal pet.. (transfuse, natures grace) heal pet...

There's no way to do a macro sequence like that using the in-game macro system and they're incredibly consistent.

What's really sad is that someone is risking a lvl90 characer with herc, just for a few minutes worth of pet xp.

Laphroaig - Raging Tide wrote: »

It's also pretty easy to tell who is a bot there and who isn't.

No, it's not.

ahhh the good old Bots...I miss the old PWI where GM's dont even care, hell i bet they still dont even care bots running in PWI >_> I mean they are harmless they dont do sht besides farming the same mobs all day hrs long unlike Raiderz where GMs are 100% useless to even go in the game to kill the bot spammers so i rather have these Bots in PWI than the one in Raiderz

karmelia wrote: »

Don't bother to report bots. PWI don't ban them.

At best they will be banned for a few days, at worst they will get nothing.

I once reported a bot that was on the shieldbeared giants. A few days after my reports he was not there. (either he was banned, or more likely not playing at the time). A few days later he was back. Reported him again a few times and he was still there every day 2 weeks long.

Later I met the same bot now grinding on the basilisks in the desert area. Reported him like 10 times over a one month period. After a month he was still there.

Now I don't bother to report them, it's a waste of time. PWI do nothing against them. They find it easier to punish the legit players by reducing the sale value of items to 1 piece.

Were you using the report player function, by chance?
If so, it is one of the most useless features that pwi has. It requires a gm to be on in game and actively paying attention to those reports, it's very easy for them to go unheard.
Better to send tickets if you want to go through that mess.

If you were sending tickets too well then there's nothing else you can do.

I think I saw one in NW. It was a sin flying in the air doing nothing. If you attacked it, it would use pots/apoth to heal itself but wouldn't attack back.

burningsweetfire wrote: »

So I went to dreamweaver in RT, and there two sins attacking Seaspray Bladewolves.

Description:
Randomly sparks.
Attack mobs that I would attack and say nothing.
I teased them by stealing their kills and no reply.
Use town teleport skill when they only 50m from dreamweaver.
They come back after town teleport.
They seem to lack of clothing.

OMG i just realized... im a bot QQ

SpiritDivine - Sanctuary wrote: »

Ive seen 2-3 people talk about their bots running currently in squad chat and faction chats. Sent in tickets about it with a screenshoot but pwi doesnt do anything about those players. So i think it is safe to assume that running bots are legal if you want to try it.

Most PWI players are full of **** and BS about everything. You can't really take something they say as evidence.

oVenusArmanio wrote: »

Yes, not rampant like PWCN but there is some. If you see a bot, just submit a ticket.

Fuzzy can't put enough emphasis on this.

IF YOU SEE ONE REPORT IT!!

First time an in-game GM spoke to me was back in late 2008 or early 2009. I was trying out a young character (archer) and was grinding away on some mobs around Plume (like level 6 mobs or something) when I got a random pm saying "Hi there" with the GM initials in front of the message. It took me completely by surprise, and I had no idea why they were talking to me. It wasn't until a month later or so that I learned what bots were and finally came to realize why that GM had "poked" me.....to see if I was a bot. Too bad that sort of in-game monitoring no longer happens b:surrender

Oh, and the reason why I was grinding away at that time was because I was having fun experimenting with claws. I bet I was one of the first and only archers to use claws in the game at that time. I wish I could say that it was because of amazing predicting abilities to see the potential of claws when everyone else thought they were a joke, but the reality was, I had no idea what I was doing back then and just liked how I could make both my hands glow different colours at the same time while using them b:chuckle

Gm`s (if they even exist) should check Sanctuary, seen at least 2 of them in heaven (Lothranis) People have even submitted tickets but PWI is PWI, nuff said!

It could be worse. Look at PWE's newest game and read their forums. Mass duping, note, speed hacks, gold sellers, etc. People are leaving it in droves at least until something is actually done. We have it easy.

sleetmute wrote: »

Good thing the drops are DQ81+, at least I make a llittle money stealing and selling their drops.

*HEADSLAP*

Guessing DQ drop prices for DQ81+ will be the next range reset to 1 gold.

the amount of bots ingame are worse than i first imagined.