Crafter=Botter (90%)

[Pulseczar]

@LateReg Every post I see from you in every forum you're bragging or linking your ffxivpro page!

Nothing wrong with being proud of your accomplishments.

[Victor]

Never said there was (p'.')p

[DoubleEcho]

FFXIV in windowed mode + dual monitor + Netflix = easy crafting. Gather mats, spam Standard and catch up your favorite shows.

[alexi14]

SE will address the botters i'm sure once people have to start paying. They made a anti Gil buyer task force for ffxi after all!

[Winterclaw]

How to solve botter crafters: have one of those text capture images come up every time you want to start an item.

(Please don't, I'm not being serious)


Realistically, anything that it mind numbingly boring and the chinese don't force the prisoners to do it, a bot probably will. And I thought this game was made for the casual person in mind...

[darkstarpoet1]

How to solve botter crafters: have one of those text capture images come up every time you want to start an item.

(Please don't, I'm not being serious)


Realistically, anything that it mind numbingly boring and the chinese don't force the prisoners to do it, a bot probably will. And I thought this game was made for the casual person in mind...

it does not matter how easy or hard or boring something is. if it has levels to gain people that are botting now will bot regardless of how fun it is. they bot to get ahead or to keep from having to go farm their own materials or to have items to sell. levels and gil are the reason for botting and either way the bot program will outdo someone doing it themselves. there is no way a person can keep up with a bot running round the clock. it never sleeps and is always churning away.

the ideas of making things harder for people to bot are actually asking for a slow tedious time consuming process to become even more so. anything they could put in place to stop the bots will make the legit players experience even less enjoyable.

if you don't think that's the case check out the gathering hidden fatigue and tell me that anti-rmt method doesn't make gathering less fun when you start breaking item after item.

[Winterclaw]

Well, you could do away with levels and money altogether and let your equipment be based on things you've achieved in the game and story completion rather than grinding away... but I guess that's crazy talk.

[Ilean]

it does not matter how easy or hard or boring something is. if it has levels to gain people that are botting now will bot regardless of how fun it is. they bot to get ahead or to keep from having to go farm their own materials or to have items to sell. levels and gil are the reason for botting and either way the bot program will outdo someone doing it themselves. there is no way a person can keep up with a bot running round the clock. it never sleeps and is always churning away.

yaya, we heard you the first time.

I still believe that if SE found a way to make crafting some sort of FUN minigame instead of a menu-choice fest people would bot less.

It's not about making it more complex so programming bots gets harder, but about making people want to do it.

Think all those silly iphone 3-bucks games, steal the gameplay of 30 or so and adapt them into crafting. Yes it's a lot of work but at least crafting would equal playing.

[indira]

alot of people bot regardless of what they tell you. come on people had lv50 crafts a week into the games launch . i wouldent be suprised if theirs people with all crafts at lv50.

only thing i can see theses people are married and you spouse is bringing in the money, you have no life/job, retired, RMT, botting.

[TheVedis]

alot of people bot regardless of what they tell you. come on people had lv50 crafts a week into the games launch . i wouldent be suprised if theirs people with all crafts at lv50.

only thing i can see theses people are married and you spouse is bringing in the money, you have no life/job, retired, RMT, botting.

it wasnt that fast they had them, it took about a month before people hit them in crafts, and it was specific ones with sorta bugged recipes that got nerfed