AFK farmer solution

[Raspy]

• Add in frequent Reapers spawns against stationary players.
• Have them have a big super obvious 10 second charge up attack that’s easily dodged.
• And if you dodge it they despawn and leave a few potions or bubble wrap or whatever. If you get hit you’re dead.

Problem solved.
/end semi-serious

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Either way though you should expect outcry if you leave it. And outcry if you do something about it. There will be plenty of necromancers and sorcs coming on the forum complaining about how you ruined their experience. And talk about how they spent weeks leveling their necromancer so they could afk farm. And then they will reply that you’re terrible and they’re quitting the game to go play “World of hue’craft” or something to that effect.

Honestly you’re screwed whatever you do for this issue. So probably just leave it and spend your time fixing issues that are more important to players joining the game. See steam reviews
Or creating a test environment for steamToS patches.
/endsatire

[VacaOverpower]

bots continue moving around

[DiMeowgio]

OP indicated in his title and post that this was for AFK farmer. (Dina Bee / DP and the like)

Sorry you may have missed that.

@OP, it’s something worth looking into for sure, for now, probably not a priority.

[yyang_umd]

Bots are also afk farmers.

[VacaOverpower]

It is about what they would do after that

[DiMeowgio]

C’mon man, you obviously understood what the OP meant.

I understand that if you nit-pick, you are right, however it’s quite obvious he meant those sorcs & necros and whatnot that can stay in one place and have their minions do the work.

It’s heavily implied… if you read.

[Latte0]

Put it in the suggestion section?

But they really need to do something about AFK farmers.

[Latte0]

Bots are already against the rule and should be banned.

Non-bot AFK farmers are currently “allowed” which should NOT be the case.

[DeliciousCroissant]

I think it’s a catch 22 and Vaca’s right. You might have a few that would stop because they’d understand it’s something that IMC didn’t want them doing. But many would just get a real bot or macro program.

Maybe you would feel less bad about bans if they were doing something that was obviously against the rules??

[yyang_umd]

Not gonna work, just a few days ago I saw bots leeching bots…That got me really annoyed.
Lets say all the autopotter and necro afkers leave bee farm. Its not gonna get any emptier, bots will just multiply and take it over completely.

I hope with warlock 2 I can lock that place down completely :V

Edit: when I pushed the bot leechees down the bee pole they crashed me lool
Wonder if theyll crash my warlock too if I invocation that place…

Point is bots are getting more and more power to manipulate whatever they want in this game. THAT is what alarms me. Not some afk autopotter.

[VacaOverpower]

the answer would be “rework”

[DiMeowgio]

I did say “it’s worth looking into, after all the other major issues have been addressed”. I still believe that at some point IMC might do something about it in between the major fixes/tweaks for the core game.

It’s nice to see people are still here, actively trying to provide feedback and quite frankly even if it’s not the best solution (if it was at all) at least people are trying?

[Raspy]

That’s correct I’m talking about the afkers. There are players that wont cross the line to bots. But are fine in the grey area of afk farming with minions.

[DiMeowgio]

It is the actual title after all…

(Granted, I understand that “bots” are technically AFK-farmers, but I knew you were referring to the more blatant and grey-area ones)

[yyang_umd]

I agree.

Just the bots’ ability to crash you or any channel any time they want reaaaaaaaally concerns me lol … To the point everything else seems pretty trivial (except lag).

Im not sure if you had any of such experiences with bots. It happens a lot to people actively trying (or have tried) to impede them (oracles, cryo, wispering, dueling, etc…)

Spawn lots of high lv mobs on the map? they crash the channel
Grim reaper spawns? crash the channel
Push them around? Go right back/ crash you
Wisper spam them? Crash you
Duel them? Accept and 1-shots you then Crash you
Keep doing it? Crash you for up to half an hour

These are REAL experiences X___X

[DiMeowgio]

I’ve seen the channel crashing happen only a couple of times in Fedimian CH1 and in Klaipeda CH1. It’s pretty disruptive, I paid no attention to it though until the over-ups accusations started going wild.

Oh I’ve had bot run-ins… 3PP users too, as well as their masters (or at least bodyguards).

[Oracle - Change] I'm not saying this is a solution, but it sure was fun!

Today I decided to dedicate the better half of my morning to killing bots. I went to Dina Bee Farm CH4 (where I found a lot of geared bots) and decided I’d do it there, and I did. I lost track of the time and it also put to light one very simple way to “spot a bot and confirm if it is one”. Just leave a non-aggressive monster in its path and it will surely come back, again and again to die from it. Give it like, say, 3~5 mins tops and you have proof that someone’s using a 3PP. No “active” player…

[Varena] Multiple bot report and the people that operate/guard them (presumably)

Server : Varena Team Name : Mylsie / pwhiudwf / pwhiusfw Location : Vilna Forest (CH 1) Approximate date / time (EDT) : 09/16/2016 - 05:00 PM GMT Onwards Evidence: Mylsie - repeatedly dying to the same mob (Panto Warrior MVP) [image] Video of: pwhiudwf & pwhiusfw Video of the “clean-up” done to help the bots (perpetrated by two Lv280 characters): Here are the people that “seemingly” operate/protect these bot(s). They cleaned up the place and proudly proclaimed their su…

[Varena] Attack Speed Hackers

Pattern seems to be A1-QS1, wearing “new character” gear and just super fast AA-ing mobs. This is ongoing and there appears to be a steady stream of similarly-named bots using attack speed hacks going through the area. Server : Varena Team Name : tmblez Location : Tenet Garden (CH1) near Piene Field area Approximate date / time (EDT) : September 20, 2016 - 1:25 AM GMT Evidence: [image] Server : Varena Team Name : vvhqwl Location : Tenet Garden (CH1) near Piene Field …

Couple more videos and screenshots that I’ve sent to IMC directly on non-public reports (tickets). I’m actually an Oracle

I’ve been at it for a very long time, I’m quite tired actually (the abusers don’t care / IMC makes me feel like they don’t have time for it) and I feel like I’ve wasted my time as well… Pretty soon, everyone will just be burned out and stop caring about taking matters into their own hands.

[DeliciousCroissant]

How exactly do you manage to get into it with so many hackers? Is this more or a problem on certain servers?

[yyang_umd]

You havent experience a character crash lockdown? must try harder lol
Maybe bots here in Klapedia are more aggressive 0_0

@DeliciousCroissant Not sure what you meant by get into it? Why im still playing maybe? Ive been playing since it started lol (when bee farm was open and not many bots were > lv 50)

Also if youre well established as I am, youll know many many ways to make silver : P

[DiMeowgio]

Not to my knowledge no. After I get disconnected from a crashed channel, I realize that it’s missing from the channel list when I log back in so that’s why I knew that it crashed.

It’s a full time commitment to bot-kill using an Oracle, normally 4~6 hours. You can’t really half-ass it. After their masters realize this, they come with their main/high level characters to sweep up the place.

It’s fun for a while until you realize that you’ve essentially wasted your time and pretty much none of theirs (the bots/abusers).

[yyang_umd]

After their masters realize this, they come with their main/high level characters to sweep up the place.

Those sound like old model bots lol. Here they just crash you then crash the channel xD

Them crashing me (channel is completely fine)

Bot leeching 2 clone bot