3rd Party Program Bot farmers everywhere!!

[ToffeeCoffee]

why should said person reply to any whips or request of trade ??????

Mei

If someone opened trade after you pulled a mob, would you break the trade or just stand there targeting other mobs in a cycle and die?

[Ravno]

why should said person reply to any whips or request of trade ??????

Mei

Why not ? Yeah, rule state you should only reply to a GM.
But if you are behind the screen doing manual control, i don't see why ignore the wisp and let other player think you are a bot. It's just being polite.
As for trade windows, i usually leave 1 gold piece and ask politly to find a job

[Symbiant]

they have the /busy thingy and have been there for like....1-3days at the same spot.

This is exactly what we talked about yesterday. People use the /busy for avoiding rmt tells. I do it my self, /busy does not mean it's an rmt. Just because they are there for days does not mean it's an rmt. Maybe the same time you play they play and they just happen to be on every time you go into that area. This asinine witch hunt has gotten a little out of hand.

Like one of the above posters listed bots are pretty easy to hunt down if they are bots. /busy does not mean its a bot. Being in one area for a long time does not mean bot. Most bots follow specific paths and do specific things too tip you off. Quite frankly I don't give a crud about them as long as they are not trying to send me tells to buy there bs.

You don't get rid of the sellers by banning bots you get rid of them buy banning the people that buy the gil. No customers no merchants.

[Symbiant]

lol, oxymoron imho.

Nothing in the ToS states you can not multibox.

[Ravno]

This is exactly what we talked about yesterday. People use the /busy for avoiding rmt tells. I do it my self, /busy does not mean it's an rmt. Just because they are there for days does not mean it's an rmt.

He probably mean afk, not busy. Like this :

I could be wrong, but i don't think you can normaly keep the afk tag while moving arround.

[Symbiant]

I pretty much deleted everything I was going to say. Put it this way, if you open trade with a bot and it tab targets every single mob nearby in an endless cycle without any further reaction then you pretty much know what you're dealing with.

This is 100% correct. This is one of the many ways to detect a bot.

[Symbiant]

why should said person reply to any whips or request of trade ??????

Mei

They don't need to accept the trade but, a bot will just sit in one spot and since they are targeted you can see what they target. So if you have them in a trade and the targets keep rapidly switching that is a bot. As long as that trade window is up that bot will not go any place. As soon as you close the trade window that bot will continue is selected tasks.

[Sadana]

Farming wind sprites behind the windmills? Yep, got one on my server too. There for days. The busy symbol stops /tells and /trades and means the bot program can't be interfered with. :/

[LunarCain]

thats why /afk is useless so better use /busy so u cant stop the bot from moving about

[Symbiant]

He probably mean afk, not busy. Like this :

I could be wrong, but i don't think you can normaly keep the afk tag while moving arround.

Yea you can't keep afk up while moving around.