Just had the most fascinating conversation with a GM

[Rivxkobe]

Is Hyperion really this much of a mess that you can't enter South Shroud because there are so many bots? I find this hard to believe honestly.

I can go anywhere and rarely encounter bots on Zalera.

"What kind of game intentionally prevents the problem from being solved?"

They don't. Someone already explained this so you are just being inflammatory now since ignorance is no longer an excuse.

[ICountFrom0]

Is Hyperion really this much of a mess that you can't enter South Shroud because there are so many bots? I find this hard to believe honestly.

I can go anywhere and rarely encounter bots on Zalera.

"What kind of game intentionally prevents the problem from being solved?"

They don't. Someone already explained this so you are just being inflammatory now since ignorance is no longer an excuse.

Yes, it quite seriously is that bad. You get an error message when you try to enter the zone, unless you get lucky enough to be entering as one of the bots hits level 5 and teleports out.


And no, removing the bots "latter" on some other date, does not fix the problem of a zone too congested to enter, that isn't a solution to the trouble NOW. Just because you don't want to hear it, don't make things "solved".

[NessaWyvern]

Behemoth is more "congested" than Hyperion (husband checked if he could make a Character for days on behemoth and had to settle for Hyperion) , but there was a far greater wait time today on Hyperion than on behemoth (queue of 1500 vs 29) was it all the bots? Was there a sudden bot surge today? O_o

Edit:Not sure if it works, but Hubby says there's a certain phrase you can say that makes Chinese-based bots almost instantly leave, due to the unique firewall situation over there, so depending on where the bots are from, you might be able to get rid of some, as a sort of work around, but again I am not sure if it works.

[ICountFrom0]

Edit:Not sure if it works, but Hubby says there's a certain phrase you can say that makes Chinese-based bots almost instantly leave, due to the unique firewall situation over there, so depending on where the bots are from, you might be able to get rid of some, as a sort of work around, but again I am not sure if it works.

The great firewall of china does react badly to some things being said, but the more dedicated botfarms take precautions. Course if we discussed the forbidden knowledge here, then this entire forum could end up blocked by china for a while...

I'm a little confused... if you can't get into a zone because it's full, how do you know it's full of bots and nothing else?

Because if you try hard enough, you can, eventually, force your way in. Watching the video you can see a botstack walking itself through town, and bouncing off the exit gate as the room it's walking into is full. A new bot tries every second or so, and some of them entering time up with some of them leaving. If you wanted into central shroud, you had to get lucky and enter as a level 5 was leaving.