There's a misunderstanding that banning botters is to create a better community. That's completely wrong. The well-being of the community comes second, after the fact that the administration searches to have a legit community to support the in-game legit community of which most of us are part of.
I realize there's a lot of closet botters on this forum, but with every refresh of the exposed botters section they slowly get banned. They come back, we ban their IP - locking out the proxy for every other botter to use. This isn't 100% completely effective, but maintaining a stern stance on the issue is tipping the population composition balance towards the legit side.
The most QQ'ing I see, more than anything, is botters and bot supporters reassuring themselves that cheating at the game is fine, because they have
real lives. The statement in itself is a contradiction and they have no right to be angry. Legits that complain about botters have a good reason to be pissed off, and i'm not going to silence them because they're discontent. Atleast they're trying to do something about it.
Every legit or legit supporter is a moderate on the issue. It's the 10 year old kids, and the crazy ones, that cry in threads about anyone being 90 is a botter. On the other hand, I love all the claims that botters make. You know, they have real lives, but they spend 3-6+ hours a day sitting infront of their computer babysitting their bot whilst posting on this forum that they have lives.
Add to that the fact that most botters have the wit and intelligence of a hedgehog with downsyndrome. Let me give some examples:
lahka13 wrote:omg LEGITS HAVE NO LIFE HUNTING 24/7 LIVING WITH THEIR MOM. GET A Farking BOT AND GO OUTSIDE. LEGITS ARE G.AY. THEY HAVE NO LIFE AND I BET 95% OF SRF PPL BOT . NO LEVELS WITHOUT BOT. ALL THE LEGITS HAVE NO LIFE. GET A F.UCKING BOT. BYE BYE U GUYS CAN REPLY ALL U WANT I WILL BE JUST BOTTING WHILE U GUYS SPEND TIME WRITING S.HIT ON HERE AND GRINDING LOL LEGITS CAN SUCK MY B.ALLS. F.UCK ALL LEGITS GET A LIFE BlTCHES!! HAHHAHAH
^Apparently botting makes up for personal short comings.
fastforce wrote:I BOT FUCKERZ
^Coming out of the closet is a HUGE confidence boost. It helps when you're craving for attention too - notice how all of them always follow the "I'M A BOTTER, LOOK AT ME, <insults go here>!" formula.
Impulse wrote:Im using bot since 2006, i made over 20 lvl70-90 char, im also using testosterone and no-dc client
oh and i buy 300m gold every week
and i sell my chars on ebay and make money
hahaha
BANN ME
^It seems with botters there's a need for them to prove to themselves that there's justification for botting. Look at the post above: he starts with "I cheat", he follows with a justification (which is most definately for his own morality, since no one really cares about why he does it) "but it's ok because I sell my chars and make money", and ends with a "lol i'm better than you".
And of course, my personal favorite, and the ultimate example of hypocrisy and mental disability:
StuckUP wrote:I botted so what. Sue me? I'm not as stupid as to keep this act going, I botted so what. I was stupid to say no, I didn't bot. So what I ask you just ban me. SRF is not worth all this bs I got through. I don't care about justifying my reasons bc you really don't need to hear them and if I chose bot I chose to bot. BTW you Avalon freaks need to go out more there is more to life than playing 18 hours a day on a stupid game that is not worth it and after that trying to get the dirt on SRF members. And in doing so backstabbing their friends.
Like most of the, brings up that botting is not a big deal. Being the cunning person that she is, says she won't justify why she bots, but leaves with a note that legits need to go out more, and there's more to life than playing 18 hours a day (coming from a person who had 20-30 posts a day and is an adult who argued with 13 year old kids about trivial issues).
So what have we learned? For starters, most botters are insecure; instead of just saying "I bot, I choose to no longer post on this forum", they follow a "I bot because I have a life, which you don't, i'm better than you" to justify their decisions (which shows a lack of confidence). Secondly, they feel a need to throw in a buffer between them and legits. They say legits have no lives, and in reality they waste as much time as them nerding out there lives; so what do they do? They throw in a buffer, usually real life but as one of them showed, money too. And lastly, they're hypocritical. Which should be self explanatory.
This is a game. It's an MMORPG where developing your character IS the game. In games like these, especially the grindfest that is SRO, you literally have to WORK until you reach the point where you can enjoy your character. When you decide that you want to skip all that and bot, you're making a decision that ruins the game for every player that effectively WORKS through the game like it was made to be played. When you bot, you're runing the game in it's most basic form. You're being selfish and taking away the value of the time that legits have put into the game because they choose to have moral fibre and integrity. You can try to reassure yourself by saying that the reason you bot is because you have a life, but it all comes down to the point that you're sitting infront of a computer for hours a day, playing a cheap korean rip off of a game (or even worse, watching a program play it for you), posting on a gaming forum that caters mostly to preteens, and you still feel the need to pump up your ego and confidence because you feel ashamed and you care about what these kids think.
When you care enough to feel compelled to justify your decisions because you care about what the people (the nerds, the no lifers, the ones you claim to not be) think, you really have to question who's the one with no life.
And as a last note, god i'm fcking glad StuckUP got banned.
