Banning bots isn't the solution

[Asriah]

The only way to fight RMT is by giving players the ability to control the market and compete with them. TP to silver conversion is one way, and we have it with tokens and whatever may be allowed to be traded from the cash shop eventually. In order for this to kick into our favor we need the price for tokens to normalize to compete with RMT rates. We also need the trading post delays lifted as well.

IMC needs to learn that any limitations set to hinder RMT also serve to inconvenience legit players as well.

[superb]

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[nizidr]

I cannot remember a single game which ever achieved this.I know the problem with cheats, bots and 3pps from Ragnarok P-Servers and every admin told me so far there is no way to fully block bots and processes in general from programs written in C or something like that. Note that some of these servers nowadays have a very high evolved cheat protection.

I was referring to RuRO (Russian official ragnarok online server, currently shut down permanently). Since Renewal they implemented Innova System’s Frost that prevented bots and many macro programs from running. Another game protected by same tool is Lineage 2 - no bots as well. Maybe more but i’m not their customer for quite a long time already. But Frost itself was a huge compromise of system privacy and security.

[superb]

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[nizidr]

This exe in renewal had a new paket encryption and there are bots for btw. But it was not so popular because many didnt care renewal and sticked with pre. Actualy the pre-renewal comunity was alot bigger for long. Not sure how its now.

That encryption was cracked as soon as it got released. I wasnt talking about that.

[superb]

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[Wooooooooow]

Also, gold traders should be observed and the gold buyers should be banned instead.

This is literally the only solution to botspam and as such, ban anyone who buys gold/items with real money, if you don’t enforce this on day 1, you’re going to end up in a situation where you later on can’t ban these people because most of your community will start buying gold.

NA Maplestory made the mistake of not punishing people buying gold early on and you can bet your bottoms that banning goldbuyers today there would get rid of 75% of the current remaining community, because people saw literally no reason not to buy gold.

[zicma_h]

Lock the growth with the adventure points.

• Map require adventure points to access.
• Level require adventure points to over limit.
• Item require adventure points for equip.
• Limit item selling 100ea per time and not allow duplicate on materials.
  etc.

[Luven]

i have not seen one. i saw the one in the loading screen though xD

[yoyoamigoyo]

the future is here. Robots are here.
Dont beat the game. Be the game.
Robots farm. Not bots.

But come to think of it, a simple gadget will suffice. its just pushing buttons.

[gnarlyburns]

Recap:

*Ban both parties involved with RMT
*IMC needs to sell TP to players
*Players can buy/sell TP to others in-game for silver through the market
*Cash shop items cannot be traded, only gifted after being bought with TP(suggestion)
*They can keep the premium tokens(which should only be bought in cash shop) and most of the restrictions.

It sounds like the closest thing to a solution as I can think of after considering how free market works, if anyone else can expand on it or change it for the better, great. I haven’t played much lately but that’s due to the latency issues.

The game has potential but at this point it’s all up to them. I’m not a forum-goer, just had to offer the idea, I won’t be responding much.

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