Get rid of the player bots and then there is no demand for people to buy gold. If people stop buying gold than gold bots disappear.
Two birds with one stone.
Lmao, you think all non botters have been 100% legit to not buy gold. I honestly doubt that. I know alot of people who didnt bot and still bought gold to get the expensive sox items. And im sure alot of new players who start and need a quick cash probably buy a tiny bit of gold. It might not be much, but if u add up every bit who starts off new it adds up to alot of $/gold.
Player bots might be the ones who buy gold the least amount. Seeing as they probably have there own gold bots running around.
Last nite in penons, i saw a player leveling 32 gold bots...funny thing was they were lvl <10.
Imho if they (joymax) can't stop the bots (I don't think they try as hard as they could and should) then removing the ill earned gains from those abusers would be justice served in my view (just 2 examples there could be many more)i.e:
1) A player bots for levels and comes back to find no EXP/SXP gain but loss of EXP/SXP even sets, items and gold gone
2) A player buys gold only to have it removed from their accounts. This would make most gold buying players think before buying gold. I bet most would charge back and could force prices of gold up The seller(s) mite be forced to leave this game due to the costs and or the options (being removed) to receive payment for gold
Any bot bans are good but how many new account are remade after one ? They need to stop new accounts after a ban for a time and the real players to start reporting the ones left. Weeding them out but this would mean joymax doing some work in the long run it would mean more real players = more chance to sell silk = more profits
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[To put fear in the hearts and minds of abusers that all ill earned gains will be taken from them a dream ? iSRO~joymax rise up and make it REAL]
italian_hero wrote:Are two different problems. NO one legit player can buy sun items because after years of play you cant have millions for buy som / sun. The prices are pathetic (999+++ for one weapon). 300-400 mil for one +7 weapon. NO ONE LEGIT HERE CAN BUY THAT because the economy of the game is compromised. I want to remember all, the game is called SILKROAD ONLINE AND NOT EXPROAD ONLINE. Job is the centre of the game but... I remember the first months in xian server the REAL silkroad online. Businnes and Joymax incompetence have destroyed the game.
yea you can affored expensive items without botting, i call it stalling 2/47. You dont make money when you bot, you make money when you stall.
Also, almost everyone buy gold online not just botters but non botters as well.
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italian_hero wrote:All servers are "green". This is the real numbers of players in each server. BOTS GOLD FARMERS ARE THE PROBLEM OF iSRO. Players who use the bot is another thing.
I don't support bots in anyway, but If I understanding you I agree. If you have to choose between player bots, or gold bots, who would you choose? I would most definatley choose players. Cause for one, most player bots have to pay for it, while gold bots get payed for it. 2 There are a sh1t load more gold, than players any way. 3 They usually have normal names -.-
Too bad a lot of player bots also run their own group of gold bots to farm their own gold. I suppose why buy gold when you can farm it...
I'm really liking all of these ban lists. It's amazing to see almost all servers in green status at only 6:30 PM Eastern Time. Venice is usually locked down tight 23.5/7
Missing the good times in SRO...
SRO: 1x, STR Blader (Thebes) 54, STR blader (Venice) 0x, INT wizard (Venice) 19, INT spear (Venice) 34, STR rogue/bard (Venus) 0x, STR blader (Venus) 8x, INT bard/cleric (Gaia)
I have to say that this is quite an effort they are making. Yeah, its long overdue, but having all servers green; especially Babel, which I hear from guildmates as the worst server (next to Xian, of course I've never played there though; its all just what I hear) in the entire Silkroad community in terms of how bad traffic is due to goldbots; anyways, having all the servers green is a pretty damn good sign for a small company like Joymax. Now if they can just keep it up, I would be impressed.
italian_hero wrote:Bots are back, the servers are FULL. Joymax need money. Ty Joymax for another fantastic (pathetic) massive bot ban.
It's not the massive bot bans that are a problem. The bans themselves are great. How many were banned? Tens of thousands within the last 2 or 3 bans recently?
The problem is bot prevention, not bot detection. They detect and ban bots, but they need a good process for preventing new ones entering the system in the first place. Gameguard would help. Server-side logic checks on character movement would help as well.
Missing the good times in SRO...
SRO: 1x, STR Blader (Thebes) 54, STR blader (Venice) 0x, INT wizard (Venice) 19, INT spear (Venice) 34, STR rogue/bard (Venus) 0x, STR blader (Venus) 8x, INT bard/cleric (Gaia)
Any bot bans are good but how many new account are remade after one ? They need to stop new accounts after a ban for a time and the real players to start reporting the one left. Weeeding them out but this would mean joymax doing some work in the long run it would mean more real players = more chance to sell silk = more profits
i completely agree. i think this would deffinately make the players happy, and satisfy joymax's greed
The seller(s) mite be forced to leave this game due to the costs and or the options (being removed) to receive payment for gold
