Log at shilen dude and go to pod and ban the 30 ratory bots that camped the place. 5 min business. And if you are feeling generous the same family of bots with ratory names have camped Sos at the cabrio spot 24/7 you cant miss them ... Ppl are having hard time doing their q :(
yO juji or vali i get the feeling that you are ignoring me :/ Anyway as far as Shilen is concerned things are worse than ever. We might have let it slide for the time but the 1 party that was in pod the past week is now like 5 or 6 bot parties in Pod, its frustrating to even go there any more and even more if you are low level. You claim that you are still banning bots and rmtraders but if you did, the number of bots would decrease or stay the same as more and more are coming every day. It's obvious that you are not doing anything. Go and log in and go at GF any time of the day, at every spot is a bot party. There must be at least 30 parties there 24/7. And its not GF that bothers me so much as most open fields are abandonded as active grind is dead at shilen, its pod that all the server is having hard time to doing it. I suggest other people posting places overrunned with bots and keep the situation updated.
Sry for the length of the post :|
*Edit I know people were always boting in l2 for the past years but since then the population has risen so much with ftp that someone has to take action.
I think the bots have a union, and because they pay their dues; the are getting the farmer discount:
1) Cannot get ban due to people reporting them the famers reflect prevents that (+ 99.9 % reflect banning, - 45% scripts malfunction, and 50% flamming passive resistance)
2) Cannot be relocated due to the Quick Reaction Babysit Force (QRBF) their response time is 30 sec's when bot crew gets distributed ( See Appendix C)
3) Cannot be reported due to the vast amounts of adena being produce by the 7 farm guards.
I think their PR is pretty good too, their motto is " you too lazy, so we do it 4 U"
Man GM's dont care about the real peeps anymore. They just wait till a critical point in the game and throw a bone our way and like good little money monkeys, we gobble it up thinking we are getting somewhere.
Bots in POD is just our GM's way of showing thier actual care for the game, since they been there for some time now.
Again, since F2P, if ur not spending money then the GM's will get thier backsides to work. They only have to actually log into the game on a NON-NC GM ACCOUNT and look around! U would have to be a sightless/clueless player to not see all the bots on all the servers.
Again as said before no use complaining since the GM's really dont care as long as all you clearly visa enchanted players keep spending money. This game was never about integrity or how the gaming community looked at L2, this has always been about money.
You all should have given up a long time ago about all the bots. GM's are to busy researching things that have no real impact in the game, or trying to decide how to explain the next "IRL money event" to us.
300% vit what a joke. Shucks, since it burns off even quicker i would what, oh i dont know, buy some vit pots from NCsoft to keep it?
At some point u all do realize we will have to buy NCoin to use a teleporter, or pay dwarfs with it instead of adena. Mark my words its gonna happen and certain clans on specific servers are gonna make even more than they are now.
perhaps they are actually going to go check shilen pod now; lol I know but one can hope...
if you have problem with bots, if you see they aoe at all, flag and get them to flag, then kill bots; or:
if bots don't flag, bring summoner to grief with marks till all party at 1hp and let them die to mobs;
altho, I did recently encounter a bot in pod that went red; I discovered the party was actually programmed to attack players; so then you just have to get a stronger party to take them all down before they kill you ++
anyway one can get a lot of satisfaction from just killing bots;
however, it's a pretty serious problem if ppl can't get quests done due to too many trains in 1 place...
perhaps they are actually going to go check shilen pod now; lol I know but one can hope...
if you have problem with bots, if you see they aoe at all, flag and get them to flag, then kill bots; or:
if bots don't flag, bring summoner to grief with marks till all party at 1hp and let them die to mobs;
altho, I did recently encounter a bot in pod that went red; I discovered the party was actually programmed to attack players; so then you just have to get a stronger party to take them all down before they kill you ++
anyway one can get a lot of satisfaction from just killing bots;
however, it's a pretty serious problem if ppl can't get quests done due to too many trains in 1 place...