Bye bye turbo craft bots!

[Wynn]

You actually believe that it's against TOS to play the game without looking at the screen? You're going to have to point me in the direction of where in the rules it says that as I'm a tad unconvinced to say the least.

I could be mistaken, but I thought a community rep actually made a post about it in a thread on the topic and stated that it was in fact a breach of the TOS. Don't look at me for the quote though cause I'm just going on fuzzy memory and I would have no idea. LOL.

But on a side note isn't this:

play the game without looking at the screen?

a paradox of sorts? How can you play if you aren't engaged with it. To me that's not playing. It's just pushing buttons.

[Vassteel]

what i cant just push buttans ?

pushing buttans is aginst TOS OMG

[Sayam]

You actually believe that it's against TOS to play the game without looking at the screen? You're going to have to point me in the direction of where in the rules it says that as I'm a tad unconvinced to say the least.

While I may feel it is silly, it is in the ToS. The specific portion (at least as I read it):

...during the course of an absentee play investigation, players may be requested to respond to or comply with a GMs instruction. Failure to do so is consider a violation and may result in disciplinary action being taken against the account.

[Elkwood]

Um.. I dont turbo craft.. i actually sit there and hit a button.

So wth? after x amount of spamming 1 synth to level i have to make something else? for how long do i need to make something else before i can go back to the same thing i was making before?

Yeah this needs some clarification, I farm for a week to get my mats then do 1 mass craft run, I mean does this mean I can craft 40 synths then needs to craft 4-5 on another craft or is it like Mining Botany etc where I need to wait another day to do my gathering again, Devs please comment.

[Wynn]

what i cant just push buttans ?

pushing buttans is aginst TOS OMG

Hey, I didn't say it. And actually I think what they were talking about was programming a controller to auto activate the button over and over so actually no pushing by the player at all in that case.

Also, like you, I'm of the mind this really isn't going to do anything to people that run bot programs.

[Wynn]

Yeah this needs some clarification, I farm for a week to get my mats then do 1 mass craft run, I mean does this mean I can craft 40 synths then needs to craft 4-5 on another craft or is it like Mining Botany etc where I need to wait another day to do my gathering again, Devs please comment.

Man, I hope not. That would really piss me off to say the least.

[Vassteel]

Hey, I didn't say it. And actually I think what they were talking about was programming a controller to auto activate the button over and over so actually no pushing by the player at all in that case.

Also, like you, I'm of the mind this really isn't going to do anything to people that run bot programs.

it really isnt. its going to do absolutley nothing but effect the bottom like slightly. by making the process longer. but not by much.

[Babydoll]

This is dumb. I spent a day or so when I have nothing else to do and gather as much materials as I can..(Usually all same one) then I go and craft them all out when I get the chance. Why should I have to deal with more annoyance...crafting already sucks as it is. -_- and like someone already pointed out..there probably are/will be bots that will just start crafting again.

[Jinko]

i'd prefer if they just went back to requested items instead of recipe to get rid of the turbo controller bots and have a higher limit.

The exact opposite will be happening in 2.0, every synth will require the selection of a recipe.

[CainaMalebolge]

This is stupid, there must be a better way to deal with bots. If they are going to put us up against achievements that require you to synth 3000 times then they need to set the limit somewhere around 100 at a minimum... if they really do this at all. They really need to get rid of bots, not just make it annoying for the rest of us.

When I'm grinding I just put up a movie and use a controller in the background, I'm not clear why I need to be involved/looking when I'm doing 300 r10 synths at r45-50. I'm almost 100% certain this will just piss off active players and do absolutely nothing to bots. Maybe they should focus on the bots/rmt camped out at Cedarwood (Mysidia) spamming some leve where they can gather karakul fleece.