Botting his way to mining

[Grey_Cain]

This player was mining with the Miner's L55 main and off hand equipment and the rest was just in bikini. I sent him a tell in the morning but he didn't reply. Sent him another telling him I would report him if he did not reply. Not surprised that he didn't.

But, really, how does one expect not to be noticed with a bikini and a botting 24/7?

What's wrong with gathering in a bikini? I have a Sexy Miner gear set that I equip whenever I go crystal farming. It's not like there's a reason to wear your good gear to a crystal hunt. Bikinis are not a sign of botting.

You follow always the same path even if there are no nodes on the way and there is one right behind you? Yes, you are a botter… or really dumb.

Yeah, no. The most efficient method for gathering is to focus on the three nodes that are easiest to get to or have the bonuses you want and completely ignore the fourth. Right up to level 50 there is never a time when all four nodes are equally valuable to just getting the bonuses you want more often. And the nodes don't have much variance. There aren't a whole lot of times when you need to go out of your way for more than one of the nodes, which makes it really easy to take the same path many times.

In the group of 8 clones that I reported on Ultros (and were subsequently removed a week later along with a teleport-hack bot), after one particular node they would occasionally run toward the next node, then directly away from the node, and then head directly back to the node. I'd hazard a guess that it's because they couldn't target the node on the other side of a big rock and had to angle themselves until it caught on. And while this is a sign of botting, even players can do something similar once in a while as they think they see a node on the minimap in one place but it ends up being a bit off because it's really hard to see yellow icons on the yellow minimap.

When you report someone for botting, actually watch them for a while first to make sure that they're always doing the same things over and over again. Just five minutes and you should be able to give a detailed report on all of their pathing patterns and odd behaviors. Or just report everyone you see gathering everywhere. Because that'll get SE moving. Yeah, just like in that story about a wolf. Or was it about the crying boy?