Disturbed wrote:It's not player bots fkking up the game, it's gold bots.
There's probably 100 gold bots for every 5 player bots on Troy.
I counted 40 of them alone in the Dead Ravine. And stop complaining about
the mastery limit, Big deal you don't like it...Neither does anyone else but they don't bitch.
Even though this sounds a bit like protecting the bots, don't take it that way. I hate bots, will always hate them and they ruin the game for me too.
I don't think you can really blame any of the bots (whether they are gold bots or player bots) for botting. Look at the simple numbers:
From looking at the messages and other whispers in the game, I saw that bot prices go something like $10-$20 for something like 200 hours (might be wrong about the number itself but my point is true). So that's about $1.5 for a day of botting. Botting supplies (maybe not all, but I suppose most do) with a full game experience while not sitting in front of your PC at all.
Against that, JoyMax offers the following: a 4-week Gold ticket which doubles your XP made in 3 hours, every day for a month. That costs 180 silk which is $18.
Now lets compare what you get on each.
3 hours per day for four weeks. That means: 84 hours of extra XP. That'll cost you $18.
On the bot, you get 200 hours of easy XP (since the gold ticket gives you XP you didn't earn, as if you killed 2x the mobs, it could be seen as the same in some form) for only $15 (average of $10-$20).
The gold botters are even more of a no-brainer, considering that they probably own the bot software - they sell 100M for $50. I bet they get those amounts in no time with the way I saw them grind at Bunwangs and have 0 costs. Why shouldn't they do it?! It's a brilliant business for them!
So generally, I blame JoyMax for not offering the same services for lower price. If JM offered gold for lower prices, people could still get their precious unfair gold (if there's a demand, there'll be a supply. nothing we can do about it) but we won't need to suffer from bots grinding it as they can generate it alone. Aside from that, they'll make some good money.
If they offered their Gold Tickets for prices that make it more worth than botting, people would most likely consider to use them instead.
Just my opinion though, don't know how much of it is just my own stupidity and what is rational.
great advise to the new srf members...