It seems very poor to see towns and leveling areas flooded with orc mystics and all sorts of other bots, especially on a server only a few months old... I seem to have a ton of ideas to get rid of em but ofc im no l2 gm :/ haha. Well like hopefully we can get some really good ideas going and maybe we can see it come to life soon!
1. decrease penalty for same level pk? if you see a bot just take him out and you won't have to sweat your character being marked forever, or perhaps we can make karma cleansing a lot more easier. Either way people see a bot but we choose not to kill it, seems the best way to fight bots is with the players.
2. Maybe recruit a handful of trusted members to be a sort of guardian of the gatekeepers, idk if gm knows but bots look very recognizable, especially when 4 of em come together (random names) at once or during times when noones really on. a simple click of their specially given skill can send them to jail to be on trial. enough jails can result in ban and etc etc, definitely stopping most bots in the long run i believe.
Were coming real close to 2016 and its really hard to believe botting is outsmarting highly paid (surely) ncsoft programmers lol. or just maybe their benefiting off it too.
I guess us good players will just have to ignore the fact that if you're not botting or paying you'll never be close to them, unless ofc you play till the end. I overheard someone justify botting for their team cause the enemy is >_> thats what kind of mind a majority of players have if your not botting yet youre not playing yet, but im sure a p2p > f2p is just means letting it do its thing with whoever's willing to work on it still, just milk the rest of old Betsy till she falls over
PS: zaken isnt the only server like this obviously, i started on chronos b4 realizing a new server will open. and im sure the gm's arent too worried about whats happening under awakening classes, seems like theirs more bots than players, a new generation every hour