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

[KaivaC]

o.0

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?

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.

[DeaconMoore]

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.

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.

[Cakekizyy]

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.

It's not a guarantee, but if retainer sells a lot of gear with same crafter tag, that's probably who belongs too.

[KageTokage]

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.

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.

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.

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.