Stop making events or stuff that rewards AFKing in-game.
We already have player shops and now mentoring that has people AFKing all day to take adventage of, both of which we can work around. We don't need events to top it off.
Heavy servers + Getting the shards is time based ---> AFK ---> Full servers all the time.
Designing events around that is easy. For example you could have had the fairies cast a "spoil" type spell on mobs that gives you a chance of looting the event items when you kill a monster. Fairy idea kept + loot acquiered + access to servers = event completed and happy community
A solution to everything is ban ban ban people. And not that 7 day ban, perma ip ban. The 7 day ban is like telling to the botter u can go bot freely till (if ever) i catch u once at least. People that are on the nice statues in all the towns would be a nice start... before it was a stigma to bot.. now u get a statue :) We have bots for every occasion... event bots, exp bots, pickup bots, trade shout bots, farm bots... how about start banning some for a change if they ban all bots the server will be light in 5 seconds and if these ppl really want to play L2 they can start using their hands like the rest of us do.
Better yet, stop cheating. That's the real "answer to everything".
It never ceases to amaze me how everyone is complaining about bot farmers/adena sellers yet there exists a pretty huge share of players that directly support the aforementioned farmers by buying adena from them. Do you think the farmers are there just for the fun of it? Get real. Perhaps right now, while you make another post on the same issue (while NCsoft simply doesn't give a heck) some of your in-game buddies are filling their orders to the adena sellers, again and again.
Since there is demand, there will always be supply, not the other way around.
Stop making events or stuff that rewards AFKing in-game.
We already have player shops and now mentoring that has people AFKing all day to take adventage of, both of which we can work around. We don't need events to top it off.
Heavy servers + Getting the shards is time based ---> AFK ---> Full servers all the time.
Designing events around that is easy. For example you could have had the fairies cast a "spoil" type spell on mobs that gives you a chance of looting the event items when you kill a monster. Fairy idea kept + loot acquiered + access to servers = event completed and happy community