Anyways to cut to it, we crunched numbers (at least for bartz) and decided that about 40% of accounts logged in are bots, as of this post there are 2857 players online, of maximum 6000 on bartz about 1100 are bots they make up for approx $17,600.00 USD a month (about a quarter of a million a year) of your income on bartz alone, banning all bots will bot exactly make the companies bottom line look good for its L2 division in NA.
BUT
With server transfers now live, it would be nice to see at least 50% of those accounts get banned IF a server looks like its approaching the 6000 player cap. Or you could increacse the cap but that means you might have to buy new server hardware and that takes time and money so i am not sure you want to go that route.
I just want to make sure that all the REAL players that transfer to whatever server they like actually can get IN to that server and not have bots/farmers take there place.
Yeah, GMs should now pay attention. Not only removing automated friends would free up some space for xfers, but also keep in mind conditions ytou transfer: only what is equipped. Which means many xferers with subs may want to replace equipment quickly, very quickly. Third market blooms.
But I don't give any hope, they failed and Franz's launch miserably, why would this be different?
Anyways to cut to it, we crunched numbers (at least for bartz) and decided that about 40% of accounts logged in are bots, as of this post there are 2857 players online, of maximum 6000 on bartz about 1100 are bots they make up for approx $17,600.00 USD a month (about a quarter of a million a year) of your income on bartz alone, banning all bots will bot exactly make the companies bottom line look good for its L2 division in NA.
BUT
With server transfers now live, it would be nice to see at least 50% of those accounts get banned IF a server looks like its approaching the 6000 player cap. Or you could increacse the cap but that means you might have to buy new server hardware and that takes time and money so i am not sure you want to go that route.
I just want to make sure that all the REAL players that transfer to whatever server they like actually can get IN to that server and not have bots/farmers take there place.
TY Spam.
Perhaps you can share those numbers so that we might have a look at your math? ;)
Not to say you are wrong but I'm always a bit hesitant to accept such claims as 40 percent of such claims are made up.
I am 100% going to be late to work though.. got to go! :eek:
i think to help this when people like me who actually do report bots they should beam down to actually look at the bots and then tell me their not a bot instead of leaving them their until they get around to it.. majority of bots got smart and now have a user at the keys or the auto response set up so unless u actually see it ud never even no. Out of curiosity i actually looked at this walker program (plenty of screenshots on the web ><).. they have auto response to GM's set up and a crap load more. the reason its so hard to catch by third party.. because the program itself acts as a keyboard... Stupid people always havta make cheats for everything right...
I support GM spawning on their butts and watching them or you could always talk to them.. ask them odd questions that wouldnt be in auto response.. ei.. favorite color, animal, ect... for now.. i'll just keep reporting and get that auto response and the suto response to my email with no real effect.. since they never leave the hunting spot so i no their not banned.... lol /pk all bots
Auto response is a easy way to be banned, staying in one location forever is easy way to be banned. You see a bot that stays in same place forever or gives you auto response, go to the web site and email to support the names. If you use ingame support, dont complain that they dont get banned, they never get banned thru /gm, you would be surprised that if they follow your explaination of how often they get banned
Perhaps you can share those numbers so that we might have a look at your math? ;)
Not to say you are wrong but I'm always a bit hesitant to accept such claims as 40 percent of such claims are made up.
I am 100% going to be late to work though.. got to go! :eek:
Well, if you play on bartz and think about it. Hes pretty close. Far as bots go.
DarkElf Cata are packed. Branded and Worship are half bots. Witches is half bots. DN is half bots as well. FP, saints, and martyrs are pretty botted up too.
Then there 4-10 trains in ToI, 2 trains in DVC, 2 trains in Giants cave. 1-3 trains in Hotsprings.(Don't last long usually) Wall of automation has 5-10 trains. Ketra has 5-10 trains. Silenos has 5-10 trains. FoG has 2-4 trains. MoS 2-5 trains. Dino island has about three trains on it, and the new island has 4 trains in Chromatic highlands.
Thats alot of 9mans. The only places I can think of that don't have bots in them 90% of the time is IT(1 train up top at best) and Pagans.(They gave up on anterooms)
Add is the random seed farmers and lowbie bots. I say its pretty close to breaking 1000 on bartz. All you need is stealth and some time to go find them all.
Perhaps you can share those numbers so that we might have a look at your math? ;)
Not to say you are wrong but I'm always a bit hesitant to accept such claims as 40 percent of such claims are made up.
I am 100% going to be late to work though.. got to go! :eek:
Well, if you play on bartz and think about it. Hes pretty close. Far as bots go.
DarkElf Cata are packed. Branded and Worship are half bots. Witches is half bots. DN is half bots as well. FP, saints, and martyrs are pretty botted up too.
Then there 4-10 trains in ToI, 2 trains in DVC, 2 trains in Giants cave. 1-3 trains in Hotsprings.(Don't last long usually) Wall of automation has 5-10 trains. Ketra has 5-10 trains. Silenos has 5-10 trains. FoG has 2-4 trains. MoS 2-5 trains. Dino island has about three trains on it, and the new island has 4 trains in Chromatic highlands.
Thats alot of 9mans. The only places I can think of that don't have bots in them 90% of the time is IT(1 train up top at best) and Pagans.(They gave up on anterooms)
Add is the random seed farmers and lowbie bots. I say its pretty close to breaking 1000 on bartz. All you need is stealth and some time to go find them all.
Given that there are several thousand on Bartz at any given time (should we go by that recently found link to the server pops, which updates regularly) that still doesn't account for those numbers.
At the moment there are about 2600 people on Bartz. 40% is 1040.
Even with those areas filled up like you say it seem hard to imagine 1040 accounts to do it. But if others can support that then ok, I'll bite.
Anyways to cut to it, we pulled some bullcrud out of our arses and called them facts(at least for bartz) and decided that about 40% of accounts logged in are bots, as of this post there are 2857 players online, of maximum 6000 on bartz about 1100 are bots they make up for approx $17,600.00 USD a month (about a quarter of a million a year) of your income on bartz alone, banning all bots will bot exactly make the companies bottom line look good for its L2 division in NA.
there, i fixed it for you.
and also, wasn't 923 that yakuza number or something?
Anyways to cut to it, we crunched numbers (at least for bartz) and decided that about 40% of accounts logged in are bots, as of this post there are 2857 players online, of maximum 6000 on bartz about 1100 are bots they make up for approx $17,600.00 USD a month (about a quarter of a million a year) of your income on bartz alone, banning all bots will bot exactly make the companies bottom line look good for its L2 division in NA.
BUT
With server transfers now live, it would be nice to see at least 50% of those accounts get banned IF a server looks like its approaching the 6000 player cap. Or you could increacse the cap but that means you might have to buy new server hardware and that takes time and money so i am not sure you want to go that route.
I just want to make sure that all the REAL players that transfer to whatever server they like actually can get IN to that server and not have bots/farmers take there place.
TY Spam.
Your a smart one,
Because you ask them to, ncsoft america is gonna cut what, $200,000 a year from their servers, not to mention potential server transfers when the accounts get into other peoples hands?