Quote Originally Posted by Simaril View Post
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A well scripted bot is far from mindless, but even simple ones can do everything we can do. Botters also use cheats that most of us will not.

A friend who scripts wrote a fishbot for FFXI 6 - 8 years ago. It could isolate certain fish only catching those, when full walk into town, sell them, and walk back to fish again. If its precise spot was occupied it would find another (this he said was the hardest part), and hold a 5 minuet conversation with a GM.

Here we have mining and botany bots that remain underground and either tele between nodes or speed run between them. They can easily gather any particular item and use GPs appropriately.

As to conversation, Eliza, a program from when computers were just out of the vacuum tube era could do that.