KevinQCowart Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 (edited) There are credit farming bots I reported months ago that are still farming. Heck there is even a botter guild on my server, an entire guild of bots farming Rishi, I guess they use the guild bank for storage and fencing somehow. Do you ever hang around the temple approach at Yavin IV or the [HEROIC 2+] at Ilum? Go have a look please. Why can't you have GM powers to just go through and clean sweep these areas of bots, permaban the account and any accounts they have had transfers with. You have set a precedent by allowing this to go on for so long. How can I and why should I continue to make gains manually when Bioware does nothing to people who are using automation. Let everyone use bots or put the hammer down on these scumbags. Edited April 2, 2016 by KevinQCowart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgangpiffath Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Yeah indeed, Section X, Juggs with 60 gear farming everywhere. Ilum same thing, Makeb guess what.... basically, if you see a juggernaut, its a bot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DarthEnrique Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 (edited) Yeah indeed, Section X, Juggs with 60 gear farming everywhere. Ilum same thing, Makeb guess what.... basically, if you see a juggernaut, its a bot. On Yavin 4 you get Sith Assassins/Jedi Shadows/Imp Agents/Troopers that go around in stealth mode farming credits to avoid Massasi (*** was Bioware smoking putting slicing nodes in places non-stealthers are gonna get attacked and be unable to get the node cause the Massassi are just gonna attack your companion unless you have it on passive and who's seriously gonna sit here and do that and not let their companion heal them? And these bots just swipe the node while you are being attacked.) So if you see any of these running around on Yavin 4 probably a bot. Edited April 3, 2016 by DarthEnrique Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richiesilva Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 I've quit going to the Temple Area on Yavin 4 so right now I can't tell if it's still as bad, as the Massassi camp with the Rep prisioners is as far as I go to do the Daily, but I'd bet the farm (no pun intended) The Red Eclipse was and still is the most bot-infested server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamyn Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 I put some Jedi Shadows from Yavin on my friends list and they are there all day any time of day and night, slicing nodes in stealth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenduKundalini Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 (edited) Can be players too. I took my then lvl 35 sin to Yavin and actually had fun avoiding the Massassi! It was well worth the trouble last year. Now, not so much. I found that last week with an insta 60 shadow on a new server. Really not worth it compared to what it once was or to heroics. Also, you can send your comp right next to some mobs and if you turn your back to tham and they're not on screen anymore when he's next to them, most of the time they won't "notice" your comp. Edited April 3, 2016 by BenduKundalini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newyankalt Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 (edited) I made a new agent last night and I saw 4 bounty hunters with similar names all walking in a box formation coming from the first phase, moving at the same time and stopping every few steps. Not sure what they where doing on Hutta but apparently someone's got bots galore running all at once. Edited April 3, 2016 by Newyankalt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeNaCe-NZ Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 I guess if everyone started buying credits instead of CC they would do something about it but I am guessing regardless of how cheap credits are most people will never buy them this way and the CC sales are still where BW want them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeneas_Falco Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) I made a new agent last night and I saw 4 bounty hunters with similar names all walking in a box formation coming from the first phase, moving at the same time and stopping every few steps. Not sure what they where doing on Hutta but apparently someone's got bots galore running all at once. I've seen this on Ord Mantell. There were four of them with near identical names up on a cliff where they couldn't be attacked from melee range, repeatedly killing Savrips in the Heroic area. They'd then all go into the recharge health ability at the same time and for the same duration, even when they didn't need it and took no damage. Edited April 4, 2016 by Aeneas_Falco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PulseRazor Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) Well of course botting is okay, whey do you think they buffed companions up so much in 4.0, why do you think there are instant lvl 60 tokens with full gear available to buy from the cartel market and trade on the GTN? Why do you think there are RMT spam messages in general chat every 15 seconds? why do you think every one of your characters get RMT mail directed to them everytime they change planets? Of course botting is OKAY. If it wasnt, it wouldnt happen. You know who doesnt allow botting? Arenanet. Go find RMT email or gen chat spam in GW2. You cant. Because it isnt allowed. You know who else doesent allow it? SquareEnix. There are others. Its not as hard to combat as people would lead you to think, in fact botting is really, really easy to spot. I dont mean to be offensive, but what in the world could possibly make you think that botting wasnt allowed? . Edited April 4, 2016 by PulseRazor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_mike Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Of course botting is OKAY. If it wasnt, it wouldnt happen. The irony of this is what happened with swtor unleashed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkepticShockwave Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 EAWare secretly run those credit sites. Of course nothing is going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmorrisson Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Those aren't bots those are actual stealth class players who are spending hour upon hour, day after day, week after week, farming slicing nodes. In addition to stealth class players there are actually quite a few non-stealth players who use a keybinded mount then simply outrun mobs after slicing. Yavin's bountiful node farm(s), along with very rewarding dailies/weeklies, and legacy rewards, were an enticement for purchasing the Revan expansion. The individuals who continually post these bot threads are ones who are being outgamed by farmers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeneas_Falco Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) Those aren't bots those are actual stealth class players who are spending hour upon hour, day after day, week after week, farming slicing nodes. In addition to stealth class players there are actually quite a few non-stealth players who use a keybinded mount then simply outrun mobs after slicing. Yavin's bountiful node farm(s), along with very rewarding dailies/weeklies, and legacy rewards, were an enticement for purchasing the Revan expansion. The individuals who continually post these bot threads are ones who are being outgamed by farmers. While there are legitimate players who farm slicing nodes for hours on end, there also are plenty who aren't players. It isn't uncommon to see characters disappearing beneath terrain and reappearing at slicing nodes, or three or four characters with near identical names to be grouped together, all repeating the same actions in sync, or for characters to farming the same nodes no matter what time of day or night you log in for days on end. When you inspect some of these 'players,' they also have barely any achievements. It's obvious that they're bots being run by a program rather than actual player at a keyboard. Where do you think the credit sellers are getting the credits they sell? Edited April 4, 2016 by Aeneas_Falco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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