You know why they just kill them now instead of petitioning them. Because nothing happens. In the year and 2 months I have played this game I have learned to spot the "cheaters" right away. I have petitioned "cheaters" many many many times. Only to come back later or the next day or a week later to see the same "cheaters" there in the same place doing the same thing.
Lets see I believe this might be true, I reported over 6 bots on Talking Island before, and nothing was done for at least 1 week, or more... Maybe the bots knew I had reported them, and they made a new character, or maybe they were banned.
The reason we are not told the bots names is very simple, because what if that bot is Banned, and then another player takes that name, Example. Dark Angel, Lucifer, are one of the most common names used that I can think of, and if some new player takes that name, then people will think they are the same person who was cheating before...
However most people just kill bots, because they drop items, so people like to pk bots, so that they can get the good items they may drop, or if they are wearing B grade armor, they will pk them, untill they drop some of it, thats why they do it, and rather not report it to a GM, because the GM's will ban the person, if thats what they do, and all the items would be lost, so people would rather pk the bots, and take their items...
#1 NC soft owns this game, and they control everything...
#2 We actually take a part in owning this game too, because we all pay, and If we did not play this game, there would be no LineAge 2, What I mean by this statement, is we are the ones who set the Prices, not the GM's, we Set the prices on the stuff we sell, and we also decide should we report this bot? The answer is, you shouldn't have to get a reward to report a bot, because if you let them play, you are helping cheaters, that can afford all the best in game gear, and have an Unfair advantage over a lot of things, possibly help raise prices on items sold, and screw up the ecnomics a bit...
#3 Why get a reward for reporting bots? Bots are our problem, we are the ones who play this game, NC soft doesn't play this game for fun...
#4 NC soft owns this game, but...
#1 We set our own prices on the economy, GM's dont do it for us...
#2 Bot Reporting is not just NC's resposibillity...
#3 Reporting cheaters helps improve the game, and this is our job too...
#4 If you do not have the time to report a cheater please do not complain about cheaters/botters, because when I do a gm call, I just move the box out of my way, and continue to play, no big deal, Now if you got to go to work, or something, that is a different story....
Why should we be rewarded for catching bots? This is our game too, even tho NC soft owns it, I report bots for free, If anyone doesnt want to report bots, you do not have to, but It is just runing our part of the game, that we are borrowing from nc soft...
Yeah Rewards would be nice, But NC soft arent the ones who made the bots, Bots are players just like us who decide to cheat, Not NC soft, so It isn't NC softs fault that players decided to **** up their game, they own this game, but cannot stop all the cheaters, It is just as much our responsibillity to report them, as it is their's to ban them...
Even if you are behind a firewall,and antivirus not 100% of the virusus, and hackers will be stopped from screwing up your pc, the same thing with bots...
If a bot is banned, Bots most likely use routers, and IP spoof, so they will not stay banned forever, they will just make a new account, buy a new Cd, and come back, and will bot again another day...