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Stop closing channels and start closing bots

  • Server : Orsha

  • Team Name : Too many to count, names to weird and senseless to type

  • Location : West Siaulai woods

  • Approximate date / time (EDT) : All day long

  • Evidence: Screenshots

Seriously… I´ve been meaning to farm the extremelly rare Boater that drops after 100k infrorocktor for a week now and decided to wait for server maintenance so I can start the Drop-per-kills shenaningans fresh, however as soon as I enter the map, 5 archer bots. How I know? With names like ghuaxmc qweyjnmc its impossible to be wrong. Need more proof? their behavior is erratic, they go hi-wire against blue-orb summoned monsters, they attack the first thing that comes into their sight, they dont respond to messages, they dont pick dropped items and silver, their levels are too high for the mob they are killing… seriously, I can keep on going and going.

What drives me more nuts is the fact that Orsha keeps getting its channels cut. Last week we had 3 channels on west siaulai woods, now there´s only two. I know Orsha is one of the smallest servers right now but if you throw in the bot issue, then it is infuriating.

New players enter the game and the first thing they will see are dozens of bots stealing their mobs, mobs that they need either to grind or to complete quests. Old players like me get extremelly impatient when they want to farm an item and they see their chances stacked against them by these friggin bots. Wanna know why battle bracelet is 10 million silver in the market? because not only is the mob that throws it rare (3 mobs per channel) but the few channels that there are are clogged with bots!!

IMC, this issue is getting out of hand, like reaaaaaally out of hand! Prices are getting affected, new players are getting affected, old players are getting affected, everyone is getting screwed by these people!

Now… please do something and please, stop removing channels. As I said before, I want to farm a boater, that super rare hat that drops from infrorocktors and has been semi-proved that drops after 90k of them or so, however, how am I supposed to invest 16 hours of my week farming these if I know I have a huuuuge chance one of these damned bots either screwing my counting or worse yet, getting the hat in front of my very eyes? You see how infuriating this issue is?

If we had more channels it would be easier for people to simply change, stick to the one with the very least ammount of people and camp that channel, but with only 2, 3 channels per map, it is impossible.

So, please, I ask this on the more polite manner I can. Please dont hurt your true players more. Please think of a way to trully filter these damned bots that only hurt you as a company and us as players and, in the grand scheme of things, end up hurting this great game. I´ve had a blast with ToS ever since it began but, really, this problem is becoming way too big and way too bad. Please do something substantial to fix this… and please add more channels to the maps, at least to the early level maps like west siaulai and tenet church… these maps are the worst offenders when it comes to bots.

I annex photos as evidence of my claims but, honestly, these bots are only a small handful of the sheer number of bots I´ve seen in this map. They dont even try to hide the fact they are bots. As a new user I cant post several photos on the same post, so I am sorry I´ll doble-post several times to post the remaining photos.

Thanks for hearing me out. Hope we can get Orsha back to its former glory soon enough.

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It just keeps getting worse

I agree with the title…

@STAFF_Max Closing channels just shove bots down our throats and prevent actual players from escaping to other channels…

one thing is not wanting to have 20 empty channels, but is equally suicidal to have 2 :unamused:

@GM_Francis

Hi @ochoajp, thank you for forwading this to us, we will look into these players as soon as possible.

Im more than glad to help purging these bots tho I really hope some kind of better filter is applied at some time in the future. Simply banning them by hand is not good enough. It is slow, tedious and, honestly, both us players and you GMs have better thing to do than reporting and banning these parasites.