Distinct future NCWest servers are almost bot free:
1st. Problem
The players which chose not to rmt outside the NCWest servers would face an issue. Unable to sell unopened event boxes.
If in the future there the events will be with litle to no return value(except the couple lottery jackpot winners) the buying power of Ncoins will drop.
The item prices are going to remain same or even start to increase according the supply demand table(new value will be introduced - trades as adena is dead beat currency)
We are having 2 issue - lost revenue for NCWest and damaged economy for all the servers.
Solution -increase the drop for instances and field above 100lv(can be adjusted) zones (bad for bots - cause you need to equip - after each ban it would be harder to maintain the profit for a bot master)
The players would generate enough Adena to create healthy cycle to maintain the buying power of the unopened event items or already exchanged ones.
Can be moved to suggestion field: Modify Eva rune - 5% skill cool-down reduction and 50% exp gained.
The key of a healthy game is healthy economy which drives to cleaner community.
i already said that many times and i ll say again:
__the current l2 cant survive without bots and u guyz cant accept that.
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without bots the current l2 ll dry slow,
the adena ll vanish,
so ppl ll stop to buy ncoins, since the primary reason ppl have to buy ncoins is to trade it for boted adena.
ncwest wont be able to keep the high prices from l2 store as it now,
they ll start to lower the prices of l2store goods to a point they ll need to sell too many coin packs for a few bucks,
they ll have to build up new items, since all the big spenders already have it all.
In the end the amount of sales will not be enough to keep the game alive.
after all the freemium consist of this. cya!
(in order to get free of bots they ll need to revert all the bad decisions they did in the past years and the major one is KILL THE ISS CLASS, and u guyz can deal with that, draeck already said that once, he wont play without iss enchanter class and i know for sure is the same for all the new ppl)
Thus has to end anyway, ppl selling only store items and get equip mainly through the store (gl making +10 sets with just bear).
Sadly the boted adena is drying out and those same randoms are getting panicked atm, since nothing sells, nor there is any other viable way to get adena or w/e you need.
i already said that many times and i ll say again:
__the current l2 cant survive without bots and u guyz cant accept that.
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without bots the current l2 ll dry slow,
the adena ll vanish,
so ppl ll stop to buy ncoins, since the primary reason ppl have to buy ncoins is to trade it for boted adena.
ncwest wont be able to keep the high prices from l2 store as it now,
they ll start to lower the prices of l2store goods to a point they ll need to sell too many coin packs for a few bucks,
they ll have to build up new items, since all the big spenders already have it all.
In the end the amount of sales will not be enough to keep the game alive.
after all the freemium consist of this. cya!
(in order to get free of bots they ll need to revert all the bad decisions they did in the past years and the major one is KILL THE ISS CLASS, and u guyz can deal with that, draeck already said that once, he wont play without iss enchanter class and i know for sure is the same for all the new ppl)
You see if you increase the field drop issue is kinda solved BUT!
It will create any other legal means to farm - old school multi pc setup(i doubt that there is a way to notice virtual machine interference which will be abused as it is now) with afk macro doesn`t sound any different - does it?
The biggest issue is i doubt that we will receive a real human recourse to monitor the grounds from cost perspective even without it, it means 100% loss anyway.
L2 in Korea is flop - but not outside of it. Just you need to be more creative to attract returning players and the price tag of 25k for gear doesn't sound attractive at all.
i already said that many times and i ll say again:
__the current l2 cant survive without bots and u guyz cant accept that.
=======================//=======================
without bots the current l2 ll dry slow,
the adena ll vanish,
so ppl ll stop to buy ncoins, since the primary reason ppl have to buy ncoins is to trade it for boted adena.
ncwest wont be able to keep the high prices from l2 store as it now,
they ll start to lower the prices of l2store goods to a point they ll need to sell too many coin packs for a few bucks,
they ll have to build up new items, since all the big spenders already have it all.
In the end the amount of sales will not be enough to keep the game alive.
after all the freemium consist of this. cya!
(in order to get free of bots they ll need to revert all the bad decisions they did in the past years and the major one is KILL THE ISS CLASS, and u guyz can deal with that, draeck already said that once, he wont play without iss enchanter class and i know for sure is the same for all the new ppl)
They have solution for this. Remember last event? Was designed to full servers with adena. I gambled 5b adena and made them 80 not joking, and many ppl got profit as well. I was senting rewards in grocery store all time to play again and again. Opened 35-40k reward and maybe half of those adena came from grocery/ And now freya event is up and i lost most of the adena i made :p 1.700 bags = 0 freya,0 kelbim tauti, i got maybe 15% of my adena back and ofc i sell rewards to play again with the hope for my luck to be ''balanced''. 45-50b gone and that never happened :p Seems nc want to **** the f2p players :D but ofc it was my bad too, i didnt expect them to be so evil company,i should not trust the event rates xD
There are 3 topics about this I discussed recently, can't take it seriously anymore lol.
But since all items dropped in price anyway,even with bots due to l2 store sells of r gems and after the ge ,and following mega events that basicly executed the dead body of the economy droping the prices of everything, on this background bots appear to be harmless:)
On one end top gear is cheap no adena to buy,on the other the rest is cheap ty for events:)
Next thing is just start selling top gear package for 6k usd and call it a day
But ofc you know better:)
I think it's too much of me on this forum,off for another year:)
Distinct future NCWest servers are almost bot free:
I don't see to what u mean. Zaken server is full of bots (less than before but still many of them).
I've started stalking a bot party in GoG and they are there from early december till now...
If u walk through talking island/ goddard/oren/rune u can still see an army of female kamael archer doing the same path over and over again, and even from mentee search u can see lots of names like "asfasf", "okifgsfg"...
And last couple of sieges we felt the same way as it was before nc started to ban pvp scripts.
So, what do u mean by "almost bot free".
I don't see to what u mean. Zaken server is full of bots (less than before but still many of them).
I've started stalking a bot party in GoG and they are there from early december till now...
If u walk through talking island/ goddard/oren/rune u can still see an army of female kamael archer doing the same path over and over again, and even from mentee search u can see lots of names like "asfasf", "okifgsfg"...
And last couple of sieges we felt the same way as it was before nc started to ban pvp scripts.
So, what do u mean by "almost bot free".
Where do you see it written the communication about current state? ( Meant was the future)
liinu (sunshine clan) Koff (enmity) snickerdoodle (theversusII clan) olwen dalavar all botting for the 8000 quest as we speak HB been here two days and still BOTTING can someone clear the bots out. not fair I have to manually do this they get it easy
Are you sure that these people are actually botting not using macro?
Cause sometimes it is hard to notice if someone is botting or using some macros, but sometimes it is very easy to tell who is just botting and who is just using in game macro feature.
liinu (sunshine clan) Koff (enmity) snickerdoodle (theversusII clan) olwen dalavar all botting for the 8000 quest as we speak HB been here two days and still BOTTING can someone clear the bots out. not fair I have to manually do this they get it easy
News flash, those are all macro groups there, nothing wrong with what they are doing, join the club
FREEMIUM IS ABOUT RMT, NCSOFT NEED RMT TO KEEP THE CURRENT L2. THEY EVEN DESIGN BOT PLACES FOR THE BOTS.......JESUS....
google freemium, again use ur brain... u had been tricked......
adrenaline and adenabuddy working heavy on servers and ppl talking about l2 macro.
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I know how fermium works, but tell me one thing, why NCSoft would take measures NOW by decreasing the amount of bots if by keeping them it would be alot easier to feed the created RMT monster?
Btw tell me what do you find so good in the core server except drop and service pricing which pushed you to leave NCWest?
Also yes adrenaline is in full swing here in NCWest , still people are in huge denial. Btw how Core handles the script/bot situation?
I know how fermium works, but tell me one thing, why NCSoft would take measures NOW by decreasing the amount of bots if by keeping them it would be alot easier to feed the created RMT monster?
Btw tell me what do you find so good in the core server except drop and service pricing which pushed you to leave NCWest?
Also yes adrenaline is in full swing here in NCWest , still people are in huge denial. Btw how Core handles the script/bot situation?
man looks like u didnt get yet.....
ncsoft isnt doing anything, when u ban 1000 low lv farm accounts that already sent adena to the high lv bot user main account, THAT MEANS NOTHING and this is what ncwest does.
NCWEST L2 BUSINES MODEL NEED THE BOTS, THEY ARENT DOING ANYTHING AGAINST THEM, THEY JUST TRICK U AND LOOKS LIKE THEY GOT U, SINCE U REALLY THINK THEY ARE TRYING TO BAN THE BOTS, ROFLMAO!
and no bro, u dont know what freemium is, if u did, u would know that core dont use freemium model, is a hybrid model many times different than ncwest l2 when u can purchase subscription and actually play the game without ncwest ninja rates.
CORE HAS LIVE GMS, once u report a farm bot they check and if it is a bot they give 7 days ban for premium accouts followed by 30 days if the person keep botting and perma ban after that. bot trains/party without premium got perma ban from the start and they do that cos they dont need them to keep their server running. CORE ISNT BOT FREE EITHER.
core have frost that scan ur pc but even so it dont get adrenaline or adenabuddy and the major pvp clan still use ranger (i dont know how they doit)
clearly u never had a lesson about economics on ur entire life, and looks like adminstration is hard for u.
u didnt hit one right. lol!
WRONG your just Biased or an A hole he did hit points not all but some give credit where credit is do or your just a troller, ie trash talker. Be more original not a hater ..
WRONG your just Biased or an A hole he did hit points not all but some give credit where credit is do or your just a troller, ie trash talker. Be more original not a hater ..
hardknox(if u are the hardknox from chronos) go levelup that titan orc of urs, when i started on cronos in 2010 in 5 months i´d overcome ur gears and ur level, so....
p2w is good for u, u know nothing, go back to ur ignorance, theres no place for u here.
ps: talking about "IF" is easy, these players should learn to talk about now and not about a future that ll never hapen.
You better off debating someone else you know this too be true As yes This is hardknox the original and if u past me as u said. Nice work no hater nation here just more proof what more money does nothing more . Ball in your court please be factual or I will embarrass you too L2 death try me.. :eek:
hardknox(if u are the hardknox from chronos) go levelup that titan orc of urs, when i started on cronos in 2010 in 5 months i´d overcome ur gears and ur level, so....
p2w is good for u, u know nothing, go back to ur ignorance, theres no place for u here.
ps: talking about "IF" is easy, these players should learn to talk about now and not about a future that ll never hapen.
After a re-read granted I agree with ur "If" synopsis . I give credit where it's do rather wanted or not . No Hater nation !!!!!!
ncsoft isnt doing anything, when u ban 1000 low lv farm accounts that already sent adena to the high lv bot user main account, THAT MEANS NOTHING and this is what ncwest does.
NCWEST L2 BUSINES MODEL NEED THE BOTS, THEY ARENT DOING ANYTHING AGAINST THEM, THEY JUST TRICK U AND LOOKS LIKE THEY GOT U, SINCE U REALLY THINK THEY ARE TRYING TO BAN THE BOTS, ROFLMAO!
and no bro, u dont know what freemium is, if u did, u would know that core dont use freemium model, is a hybrid model many times different than ncwest l2 when u can purchase subscription and actually play the game without ncwest ninja rates.
CORE HAS LIVE GMS, once u report a farm bot they check and if it is a bot they give 7 days ban for premium accouts followed by 30 days if the person keep botting and perma ban after that. bot trains/party without premium got perma ban from the start and they do that cos they dont need them to keep their server running. CORE ISNT BOT FREE EITHER.
core have frost that scan ur pc but even so it dont get adrenaline or adenabuddy and the major pvp clan still use ranger (i dont know how they doit)
So you see basically everything goes back to the existing GM`S. The main difference from Core and NCWest is the main investment in the game. NCSoft doesnt provide any resources whatsoever for the existing game just take the revenue and pump in the future flop games.
The hybrid fremium would be massive fail ift they wouldn`t have active GM`s which would create insane inflation. BTW in Core they don`t even bother to set the currency in NCoin you basically see the advertised good in good ol $.
i personally would say both models are bad but the biggest gain is achieved during active in game Staff.
The profit of ncwest is used in other projects of ncsoft ....... omg ..... let me try again .... before u get to reply this, read everything u can on google about ncsoft business......they pay the bills/ncwest staff and move the money to other games, most of these games already got rekt by game communities,
//////ANYONE WORKING ON THIS SERVER WOULD HAVE FUN JUST TO LOG A HOUR TO SEARCH AND FIGHT SOME BOTS LIKE JUJI DID IN THE PAST, WE HAVE COUNTLESS SS FROM HIM TALKING WITH BOTTRAINS JUST TO SEE IF THEY ARE LIVE PLAYERS OR NOT AND GET RID OF TEM/////// but this isnt on ncsoft/ncwest plans anymore, korea is trying to automate this function, they dont give a crap.
in-nova core is a l2 franchise, thats why no NCOIN there jesus.... i ll stop giving u atentation since u dont read/know at least the basics and yet u start a topic like this and u dont have a clue.........
like i said core isnt bot free, THIS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR BUSINESS MODEL! I SAID THAT 10 TIMES ALREADY! core is a good server and make profit, cos there u can subscribe and play the game without ncwest/ncsoft ninja rates, just because of that, the live gms are a bonus since i already told u that they give especial treatment to premium users. (IN-NOVA DROP RUNES DOUBLE EVERTHING! EVEN ADENA! while ncwest drop rune does nothing!)
ncwest is doomed for l2 real players, i think i can count 15 old l2 players using this forum on every day, nothing more and even so from these 15, 11 are ok with p2w, all the casuals forum warriors we had in the past are gone this is the proof that the game is failing(the casuals cant stand, EVEN THE CASUALS ARE TIRED OF THE GAME, CORRENT L2 ISNT PLAYABLE), most of the old folks already quited or move to another server because the feeling of betrail, ncwest backstabed us all. the few olds left are like dogs, they wont drop the bone and let it go.
The profit of ncwest is used in other projects of ncsoft ....... omg ..... let me try again .... before u get to reply this, read everything u can on google about ncsoft business......they pay the bills/ncwest staff and move the money to other games, most of these games already got rekt by game communities,
//////ANYONE WORKING ON THIS SERVER WOULD HAVE FUN JUST TO LOG A HOUR TO SEARCH AND FIGHT SOME BOTS LIKE JUJI DID IN THE PAST, WE HAVE COUNTLESS SS FROM HIM TALKING WITH BOTTRAINS JUST TO SEE IF THEY ARE LIVE PLAYERS OR NOT AND GET RID OF TEM/////// but this isnt on ncsoft/ncwest plans anymore, korea is trying to automate this function, they dont give a crap.
in-nova core is a l2 franchise, thats why no NCOIN there jesus.... i ll stop giving u atentation since u dont read/know at least the basics and yet u start a topic like this and u dont have a clue.........
like i said core isnt bot free, THIS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR BUSINESS MODEL! I SAID THAT 10 TIMES ALREADY! core is a good server and make profit, cos there u can subscribe and play the game without ncwest/ncsoft ninja rates, just because of that, the live gms are a bonus since i already told u that they give especial treatment to premium users. (IN-NOVA DROP RUNES DOUBLE EVERTHING! EVEN ADENA! while ncwest drop rune does nothing!)
ncwest is doomed for l2 real players, i think i can count 15 old l2 players using this forum on every day, nothing more and even so from these 15, 11 are ok with p2w, all the casuals forum warriors we had in the past are gone this is the proof that the game is failing(the casuals cant stand, EVEN THE CASUALS ARE TIRED OF THE GAME, CORRENT L2 ISNT PLAYABLE), most of the old folks already quited or move to another server because the feeling of betrail, ncwest backstabed us all. the few olds left are like dogs, they wont drop the bone and let it go.
I didnt read thru all of that, but...
- PVP is mostly free of cheating right now.
- Bots actually do get banned.
- There are still newcomers in the game (many in my clan).
- Big new update just around the corner will attract/bring back more players again.
All in all I'd say the state of the game is pretty good right now.
- PVP is mostly free of cheating right now.
- Bots actually do get banned.
- There are still newcomers in the game (many in my clan).
- Big new update just around the corner will attract/bring back more players again.
All in all I'd say the state of the game is pretty good right now.
I would say no. L2Store players are setting prices for everything, it is cheaper to buy adena from third party sites then directly from NC.
Updates are crap, there is only one little "drop" update, what we might get.
The only good thing in upcoming updates for everybody is the mob/player level difference, so you can make Baylor at 104 level in twilight gear to have a little chance for 2 elcyums.
The profit of ncwest is used in other projects of ncsoft ....... omg ..... let me try again .... before u get to reply this, read everything u can on google about ncsoft business......they pay the bills/ncwest staff and move the money to other games, most of these games already got rekt by game communities,
//////ANYONE WORKING ON THIS SERVER WOULD HAVE FUN JUST TO LOG A HOUR TO SEARCH AND FIGHT SOME BOTS LIKE JUJI DID IN THE PAST, WE HAVE COUNTLESS SS FROM HIM TALKING WITH BOTTRAINS JUST TO SEE IF THEY ARE LIVE PLAYERS OR NOT AND GET RID OF TEM/////// but this isnt on ncsoft/ncwest plans anymore, korea is trying to automate this function, they dont give a crap.
in-nova core is a l2 franchise, thats why no NCOIN there jesus.... i ll stop giving u atentation since u dont read/know at least the basics and yet u start a topic like this and u dont have a clue.........
like i said core isnt bot free, THIS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR BUSINESS MODEL! I SAID THAT 10 TIMES ALREADY! core is a good server and make profit, cos there u can subscribe and play the game without ncwest/ncsoft ninja rates, just because of that, the live gms are a bonus since i already told u that they give especial treatment to premium users. (IN-NOVA DROP RUNES DOUBLE EVERTHING! EVEN ADENA! while ncwest drop rune does nothing!)
ncwest is doomed for l2 real players, i think i can count 15 old l2 players using this forum on every day, nothing more and even so from these 15, 11 are ok with p2w, all the casuals forum warriors we had in the past are gone this is the proof that the game is failing(the casuals cant stand, EVEN THE CASUALS ARE TIRED OF THE GAME, CORRENT L2 ISNT PLAYABLE), most of the old folks already quited or move to another server because the feeling of betrail, ncwest backstabed us all. the few olds left are like dogs, they wont drop the bone and let it go.
Here you didn't said anything which wasn't known before. L2 NCWest platform is being used since ages to cross finance other projects.
What you fail to understand the players who can pay 15 bucks a months were absolutely not intended - the current model is for the people who are able to spend 50-100k a year...
The biggest problem what you might face with your decision to chose Core might be, that Innova has extremely little impact on NCSoft as Innova pays only ROYALTY and when NCKorea developers will kill thier own game(L2 in NCKorea is a massive FLOP!) there will be nothing left.
But you`re right and give props on 1 point - in current situation L2 is not player friendly as is unplayable.
Btw what you need to understand if L2 NCWest will fall first you will get all the script masters which will destroy your will to play in Core
mate u just repeat what i said with another words.
and no bro, IT IS U THAT DONT GET YET SINCE U DIDNT EVEN TOOK THE TIME TO LEARN ABOUT FREEMIUM BUSINESS MODEL ON GOOGLE.
i decide to RETURN to core cos there i CAN STILL PLAY SOMETHING AROUND 70% OF TRUE L2 JUST WITH MY SUBSCRIPTION!
and for last, dont get start on bots and/or script, since u never used one and never saw one working live.
NCWEST LL NEVER CHANGED BACK TO SUBSCRIPTION METHOD AGAIN, THEY LL NEVER END THE FREEMIUM AND BRACE URSELFS COS THEY STILL CAN ADD DLC TO THEIR BUSINESS MODEL.
well its true, you never see pvp scripts now. how do i know? i currently fight the best people in lineage 2 at dim siege.
it doesnt look like they are scripting, and ive fought against scripts for a long time in the past. its too much risk for ban, when you char is worth so much $.
well its true, you never see pvp scripts now. how do i know? i currently fight the best people in lineage 2 at dim siege.
it doesnt look like they are scripting, and ive fought against scripts for a long time in the past. its too much risk for ban, when you char is worth so much $.
so any complaint about that is LOL
You're on drugs if you think there are no pvp scripts
mate u just repeat what i said with another words.
and no bro, IT IS U THAT DONT GET YET SINCE U DIDNT EVEN TOOK THE TIME TO LEARN ABOUT FREEMIUM BUSINESS MODEL ON GOOGLE.
i decide to RETURN to core cos there i CAN STILL PLAY SOMETHING AROUND 70% OF TRUE L2 JUST WITH MY SUBSCRIPTION!
and for last, dont get start on bots and/or script, since u never used one and never saw one working live.
NCWEST LL NEVER CHANGED BACK TO SUBSCRIPTION METHOD AGAIN, THEY LL NEVER END THE FREEMIUM AND BRACE URSELFS COS THEY STILL CAN ADD DLC TO THEIR BUSINESS MODEL.
bye i had enough.
You`re one angry **** :D Who in their right mind would think the subscription model is the way to go with non existing online count? Subscription+freemium is the way to go with an active GM and full drop.
Yes Core has the right model to successfully run the business which NCSoft failed to address in NCWest.
well its true, you never see pvp scripts now. how do i know? i currently fight the best people in lineage 2 at dim siege.
it doesnt look like they are scripting, and ive fought against scripts for a long time in the past. its too much risk for ban, when you char is worth so much $.
so any complaint about that is LOL
You don`t even understand what you write: people were running scripts with Trilion in gear since ages - as the fear to lose the edge is a lot bigger then to get caught (no perma bans except for script kiddies or the people who over abused the system)
Anyone that ever ran scripts/bots is a downie, there is no excuse for that. It's almost as bad as the pay2win randoms. These two types are the biggest problems of L2, although they never were good L2 players anyway.
- PVP is mostly free of cheating right now.
- Bots actually do get banned.
- There are still newcomers in the game (many in my clan).
- Big new update just around the corner will attract/bring back more players again.
All in all I'd say the state of the game is pretty good right now.
To say that it`s good it`s an overstatement. Current model is a failure - bots+scripts still in this game.
Anyone that ever ran scripts/bots is a downie, there is no excuse for that. It's almost as bad as the pay2win randoms. These two types are the biggest problems of L2, although they never were good L2 players anyway.
Weak people will do anything to get an edge even by selling their own dignity.
You're on drugs if you think there are no pvp scripts
You don`t even understand what you write: people were running scripts with Trilion in gear since ages - as the fear to lose the edge is a lot bigger then to get caught (no perma bans except for script kiddies or the people who over abused the system)
OK, how about some names? you can just tell by something as simple as watching an archer target in pvp, it was incredibly easy to spot as it targets like a robot. its inhuman, and very easy to spot.
i never see this kind of thing on zaken anymore and nothing about dim sieges is painfully obvious script wise. All i do is pvp and its super easy to spot scripts vs no scripts. But look at me now going on with all this evidence.
So again, how about some names? Ill be sure to find them next siege and test.:cool:
Started reading but with some ********, might missed a few posts so I might repeat someone's else ideas that were stated here.
Ok let's start with economics 101. First of all adena doesn't have fixed value as it's FIAT as almost any other ingame or RL currency. Therefore its value is based upon its ratio with desirable items that are not sold at NPC shops. If NPC shop had +10 R99 Dark gear, prices would stabilize at about ~90% of shop price and wouldn't differ no matter how much adena was/is/will be boted, though the items that are not available in shop would differ time from time due to their supply (for example Twilight gear could end up being more expensive than dark in some scenarios if the price for R99 mastery runes would be too high for daily use).
So ceteris paribus if adena amount slows its growth (due to items from l2 store increasing in number faster than adena gathered without bots participating) the prices for items will go down (remember the ratio, if one declines, other groves, the first becomes more valuable) and economy becomes more comfortable for new players (especialy the f2p ones). The price decrease is highly doubtable but at least there should be less of price increase so prices would be more or less stable.
But there is no ceteris paribus neither ingame, neither in RL. If there are no bots, some players will quit as they don't have enough RL cash (or are not inclined to spend it for a game/hobby) to compete with the help of L2store so in case they didn't farm enough adena, the game experience won't be satisfying for them anymore and they will quit and that will result in decline of L2store merchandise demand (we all know that there are plenty L2store resellers who benefit from adena boting players). Less buyers => lower NCoin price compared to adena. As you don't bot for Immortal gear, means they will also decrease competition in top tier, which will result on less stress for other players as they will have to compete with middle tier due to the lack (decrease) of top tier enemys which will result in further decline of L2store item value as you don't need neither Valiant, neither Dandy to kill Seraph while being full dark.
But if there are no adena available on RMT the probability of adena RMT buyers switching to L2store rises a bit (they need gear, but think L2store events are too risky, so they just buy adena and spend it for gear). I doubt they will start opening event boxes but reselling event boxes is more profitable than adena buying (some shops offer 8k Ncoins for 80$ and nova4life.net members offer adena for 8$ - 1bi, from which we have current 1 milion = 1-1.2 Ncoin ratio). So money spent on Adena RMT could be gained by NCsoft from L2store.
But if the mentioned adena botters decide to cash out and put their items/adena on market all at once, you will have short-mid term financial crysis ingame, as IMHO there is more adena than items (considering the ratio) available for sale which will result in significant price increase for more desirable items.
Now we are getting close to solution regarding "the death of bots".
So two main topics to bear in mind:
1. Adena RMT clients should be interested in purchasing NCoins as they have no other option to compete (and their will to spend money means that it is more about gaining advantage than refusing to spend money directly at ingame store) and selling event items is a more rational choise than buying adena.
2. Some of the botters will definetely cash out and make some mess with economy.
Now NCsoft should analyze who is the real buyer of their event items. If all the freya bags / carrot pouches / capsules are opened only by botters (or the absolute majority of them) as only they have enough ingame cash to take the risk, NCwest servers are doomed. But stating that all event items are opened only by botters is ridiculous. Yet still if botters make a large part of the real buyers, NCsoft should reconsider the reward ratio for events so they become desirable by non botting players.
If NCsoft wants higher purchases (or at least maintain them at same level) they must ensure that players are willing to sell the rewards that don't suit them (for example I won't sell kelbim xbows if botters are cashing out adena and xbow price increases every hour/day as I will wait for prices to stabilize) otherwise players will be stuck with loads of items due to hyperinflation and won't have enough cash (cause they didn't resell anything) to buy L2store products from other players (who won't open boxes) which will result in those "non gamblers" not buying the same amount of L2store items as before which will add more speed to hyperinflation (adena amount in market increases and the goods decline). So in order to prevent hyperinflation bot accounts must be banned before they decide to cash out.
Removing bots and their accumulated adena is a possible solution. But due to unclear amount of possible adena input to ingame economy there might be both deflation and inflation. In our case deflation is better as it will stabilize the current inflation rate but if the number of botting players is sky-high, well either stock up items either start the banfiesta.
And regarding event rewards themselves you must consider: events are the main source for current gear upgrades (yes, you can't make +10 with BEARs but you can change them to adena and buy one) as adena drop is enough only for spirit stones maybe (I believe I gathered about 1kk in an hour in AF with full group, and the group used cakes/roses etc there). So if every event has high reward ratio the you will both increase inflation for non event item prices (no dark gear +10 in boxes as far as I know) but will drop the price for mystic soul crystals, bear, gear, ear, etc. Therefore there must be breaks among high rewards (or rewards must be highly variated for them to lay down in economy without splashing high waves).
And if you return drop from mobs you will face two problems:
if bots are not eliminated and they start farming tell goodbye to economy again.
if bots are removed and rates are "normal" ncsoft can kiss high part of their l2store sales goodbye (why buy event box with twilight reward if I can get 1 set in two day instance run) which will decrease the popularity of carrot type event while not increase (or increasing only slightly) the demand for brooch type events.
Then again the game cannot be based solely on p2w model. If you do that, you have exbots ("clean" for a year lets say) spending their adena on l2store items bought by new/mid tier players to maintain advantage (this will be especially seen now with brooch event as more and more players are getting +10 sets and dark weapon so brooch and epic jewels will be more or less the main difference now) which will decline the will of midtier to play the game as they are non competetive and in order to beat top tier they will have to work RL solely for NCsoft items (depends on country, salary, etc but you got the idea).
Adding some drop to higher lvl zones which are normaly not infested with bots might be a good idea (assuming rates won't be increased only formally which won't have any effect or won't be increased drastically which will lead to hyperinflation of top tier items) as it will provide more reward for ingame effort and will have not the highest impact on item sales (you don't open carrots/capsules with hope to get twilight gear). But then again - high lvl zones, not high effort zones. If you add twilight drop to AF it will look more like an insult as you have to have good (at least not the worst) gear just to finish the instance.
So the drop should be increased in zones like Istina, Tauti, Ekimus, etc. You don't see much bots there, it needs some effort to do those and increased drop might change the view of the game being just purely p2w.
TL;DR: remove bots completely, ban their accounts, add some drops to specific instances and attract new players.
P.S. drop increase shouldn't be focused on open field bosses as those are farmed and the main category of players who need boost are those who cannot compete over those bosses.
Basically NC needs to be prepared to fight the RMT if they want to keep the game healthy of course. To combat RMT is very easy but it will require an active GM. Modified model needs to be applied Subscription which lets to open field drop and Events which will provide better return rate compared if the event items would be sold on thier own with a - .
For each NCSoft-NCWest decision(aka the country blockage) - the players are suffering so the company needs to start thinking a lot more in advance except they don`t really care about the generated income from Lineage 2 Ncwest.
Years where nothing was done are already over-it`s time to wake up! If this will continue the L2 NCWest franchise wont be killed by the incompetence of the company but by the fed up middle tier who are actually responsible for the biggest share in the sales.