Do some housekeeping

I'd like to suggest that you do some housekeeping on Bartz and kick some of the bots off key XP areas please.

If you didn't realise it yet, the server is loaded at the moment and already legitimate players are competing for XP spots.

We cannot afford to have XP spots taken up days on end with bots - the vast majority of which are characters created as mentees for awakened characters who are botting them to 86 simply for coins and then are just deleting them (or maybe selling the account for real life cash) afterwards.

You really need to address this and I'd recommend banning all accounts on the same I.P whenever you ban a bot with mentor buffs. If you're not able to actively do what is necessary then at the very least make some examples with token bans.

There are already dozens of posts asking the same thing but you will not see anything done because NC is not interested in dealing with the bots.

Search the other topics about bots and you will see just how much the staff listens and replies to bot reports; been this way for years.

Well, it is not specifically about bots, its about players abusing the mentee system and having half their slots filled with mentees on accounts that they have created and are botting them in order to gain items in game.

I have learnt to live with bots but there's so much exploiting going on that it really is pointless for players to play legitimately now - even on a server 2 months old.

It is a bit frustrating seeing maps swarming with bots but to be honest I couldn't care less if these bots were in crap spots just grinding away but some players are being really selfish and putting their bots (with perma mentee buffs) in some of the best XP spots available - and those spots should be for live players to use. Also, daily quest spots seem to have few mobs in them as it is (take wall of argos quest for example) and it really is a piss take when you go to do your quest and there is a couple of automated players taking all the mobs in pretty much every little spot or nook that you can manage to find.

Cherry on the cake was another mentee bot put right slap bang in the middle of one of the best (and my fav atm) nuking spots for my level. After I had whispered the bot several times in a hope that the owner hadn't left it completely unattended and that he would be reasonable and move it to another spot I had no alternative than to PK it with one of my alts who will now sit at that spot until I have outlevelled it should anyone else place a bot there. This seems like the only real solution at the moment as I have no faith in NCWest resolving these problems for me.

I know the feeling, but like the bots NCWest will do nothing about it because they can't, NCEast (Korea) pulls all the strings in the game. If the Korean playerbase does not think anything wrong with it then it will never be changed, what we want or like means nothing to NCEast.