Love How Road To 70 Gives RMT Bots Yet Another Boost

[DumdogsWorld]

Yes, because every player who wants to utilize exp buffs is a bot.

Yes, because every player who wants to level up wants to use skip potions.

Yes, because giving players on underpopulated worlds exp boosts has no practical uses at all outside of fueling bots.


Sarcasm aside, the question is not how to prevent bots, because prevention is not possible. At least, it's not possible without ruining the game. I suppose you could potentially eliminate the more traditional farming bots by completely removing all tradable currencies and items from the game, only to then keep the RMT where people log into your account and clear stuff on your behalf.

Really, what we need is more enforcement. See all those city guard NPCs? Make each and every one of them an avatar for a GM. Ban RMT advertisers on sight immediately. Do the same thing in the wilderness. If people are phasing through the ground and flying around, instantly ban them. Their avatars are deleted right there and then, and so are all their items and gil. Got a marketboard bot that automatically lowers prices programatically? Send real people to investigate it ASAP.

These bots are backed by manpower, and the best way to fight manpower is with manpower.

[Pintsized]

Yes, because every player who wants to utilize exp buffs is a bot.

Road to 70 is intended to help bolster low-pop servers .. so why does the buff persist when visiting other worlds?

THAT is the 'exploit' the bots are using and it should be stopped .. 'legit' players also have no reasonable expectation for this buff to be game-wide so if they're affected then, tough.

[DumdogsWorld]

Road to 70 is intended to help bolster low-pop servers .. so why does the buff persist when visiting other worlds?

The buff only affects EXP gains. If a bot needs to be high level for whatever reason, they can stay on their home world until they reach the desired level, and then immediately hop to another world to do farming and whatever else that bots do when they're not leveling.

THAT is the 'exploit' the bots are using and it should be stopped ..

Everything in this game can be used as an exploit if you try hard enough and have the automated software and compromised accounts to do it. Again, the answer is enforcement.