botting.

[Destain]

I'm almost to my first fifty craft. Crafting is borIng. I do get sense of accomplishment from ranking up and I do feel good when I can help out my LS mates.

There is a huge bottin problem. You can't identify a bot as a player with 100% accuracy, but when I catch players crafting and unresponsive in instanced events or someone doing the same on a random far off point in the map, there is no greater evidence of someone trying to hide their shame. I would really like to be able to call a GM and have them investigate the player. I know there would be a lot of false reports, but people who do it the right way feel wronged otherwise. I am one of those people.

You other achievements in the game dont mean squat if your using gear you made from a botted craft. Shame on you, you WILL get urs.


Happy gamin'

[Zeref]

when I catch players crafting and unresponsive in instanced events or someone doing the same on a random far off point in the map, there is no greater evidence of someone trying to hide their shame.'

Yeah, how about no, I might not spend much time on my weaver, but when I do, I usually tuck away at one of the corners in the black shroud or in an instanced area where i can keep the lag to a minimum, and I'm sure i'm not the only player that avoids area with traffic, just because you made up some small set of rules for yourself doesn't mean the rest of us are included in it.

[Hachiko]

I'm almost to my first fifty craft. Crafting is borIng. I do get sense of accomplishment from ranking up and I do feel good when I can help out my LS mates.

There is a huge bottin problem. You can't identify a bot as a player with 100% accuracy, but when I catch players crafting and unresponsive in instanced events or someone doing the same on a random far off point in the map, there is no greater evidence of someone trying to hide their shame. I would really like to be able to call a GM and have them investigate the player. I know there would be a lot of false reports, but people who do it the right way feel wronged otherwise. I am one of those people.

You other achievements in the game dont mean squat if your using gear you made from a botted craft. Shame on you, you WILL get urs.


Happy gamin'

Some people like to not craft in main cities because it cuts down a lot of the latency both server side (ui lag) as well as improving performance in general. I always prefer to craft in secluded / instanced areas because not only does it go faster for me because the ui is more responsive, but i have less issues with huge lag spikes.

It's cool that you think because you have a 50 you're fit to judge people on this issue, but you need to be better at thinking critically before actually passing judgment.

Once the game makes it more rewarding to actually craft, rather than minimize the game and mash on a single button on a controller, then they can start worrying about botting. But as it is, when the most effective way to exp a DoH job is to do something that mimics the most simple automation (pressing enter, or a button, over and over), there is little room to punish people for doing that and not being responsive.

[MANTASTIC]

I'm almost to my first fifty craft. Crafting is borIng. I do get sense of accomplishment from ranking up and I do feel good when I can help out my LS mates.

There is a huge bottin problem. You can't identify a bot as a player with 100% accuracy, but when I catch players crafting and unresponsive in instanced events or someone doing the same on a random far off point in the map, there is no greater evidence of someone trying to hide their shame. I would really like to be able to call a GM and have them investigate the player. I know there would be a lot of false reports, but people who do it the right way feel wronged otherwise. I am one of those people.

You other achievements in the game dont mean squat if your using gear you made from a botted craft. Shame on you, you WILL get urs.


Happy gamin'

You should probably take a step back and read what you wrote.

Your argument is essentially "I put up with this shitty system so others should have to as well! /angryface!!!!11"

[Mirh]

I suppose in Destain's logic, crafting in Merchant Ward to escape the grating, by now absolutely repulsive Halloween music in Ul'dah so you don't grit your teeth to the root while repetitively pressing enter is grounds for a ban. (No, why mute the music when the game has GOOD music elsewhere?)

Everything happens because the design encourages it. If some of your crafters aren't strewn out in the middle of the walkway like some kind of crazy crack den with people you have to step over, but instead, are off secluded and against the norm, maybe it's a combination of efficiency and perhaps that people just don't like contributing to the thoughtlessness of other crafters (how many have us accidentally kneeled on another crafter only to jerk back up and feel horrible for blocking their vision once they load)

Nope, botters. Filthy dirty botters not crafting around an NPC!