I'm being taunted by a bot farmer...

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You might not like how GMs respond since sounds like you were harassing them first.

I wasn't aware that using an emote on someone on two distant occasions could be considered harassment, but it by no means would justify borderline impersonating someone with malicious intent.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I wasn't aware that using an emote on someone on two distant occasions could be considered harassment, but it by no means would justify borderline impersonating someone with malicious intent.

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I was referring more to the stalking.

We can only ever take anything posted here at face value, regardless of the truth.

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So the guy you've been "stalking" named his retainers after you. Ok. Well we each can name our retainers whatever we want. How's that malicious on his part though?

I kind of regret even posting this because I forgot that most of the time, people end up assuming I'm the one in the wrong for whatever reason.

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Originally Posted by DeaconMoore

So the guy you've been "stalking" named his retainers after you. Ok. Well we each can name our retainers whatever we want. How's that malicious on his part though?

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The GM who PM'd me did acknowledge that it can be considered harassment depending on the intent and the names involved. In this case, he's obviously doing it to spite me now that I know that he's the face behind the bots (He specifically changed the names of his retainers after this fact and it was extremely easy to identify them just based on what his bots are farming as he has no restraint and sells several hundred aethersands simultaneously), which ultimately amounts to nothing due to the "action team" that deals with cheaters being absurdly incompetent or a myth.

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Originally Posted by DeaconMoore

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So the guy you've been "stalking" named his retainers after you. Ok. Well we each can name our retainers whatever we want. How's that malicious on his part though?

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Probably because he has a reputation on his server's free marker, so players who see something being sold there with a name similar or exactly like his will probably be more likely to buy from the bot account, not knowing that they aren't buying from Kage's character. That's what I'm guessing.

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Originally Posted by KaivaC

Probably because he has a reputation on his server's free marker, so players who see something being sold there with a name similar or exactly like his will probably be more likely to buy from the bot account, not knowing that they aren't buying from Kage's character. That's what I'm guessing.

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I still fail to see the malicious part. Granted I haven't researched it in depth myself by any means but how can you even tell who's retainer is who's on the market board? As far as I knew, you couldn't.

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Originally Posted by DeaconMoore

I still fail to see the malicious part. Granted I haven't researched it in depth myself by any means but how can you even tell who's retainer is who's on the market board? As far as I knew, you couldn't.

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Normally, you shouldn't be able to, but like I said, the bot farmers on my server have zero restraint and list several stacks of 10 to 99 aethersands simultaneously.

This player happens to be the only individual sending his bots after everdeep aethersands on my server, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to suspect his retainers are the ones listing several hundred of them, moreso when they're the ones who conveniently changed their names to match mine.

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Originally Posted by KaivaC

Probably because he has a reputation on his server's free marker, so players who see something being sold there with a name similar or exactly like his will probably be more likely to buy from the bot account, not knowing that they aren't buying from Kage's character. That's what I'm guessing.

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This.

Two people already mentioned specifically buying from him because they thought it was me. If they were just using my forename, I wouldn't have an issue, but I specifically made my surname to be unique, so it's really unlikely someone would just randomly happen to start using it.

The bottom line is that I take a lot of offense at having my name associated with one of the server's premier bot farmers. If they weren't doing something like that, I wouldn't have an issue and would just think it's cute if anything.