botting.

[DeathSaint]

Ive been seeing alot of this latley.. How do you guys feel about it...is it the grind thats causing people to do this? I think that it ruins the game in my opionion, but belive it or not ALOT of people are doing it, there are tons of free botting prgams for this game, kind of sad

[Defmetal]

I see an insane amount of botting on Istory for sure. One of the "top" linkshells appears to have gotten a lot of their 50s that way. It's super apparent when you see someone crafting for 10+ hours in a row without moving or saying a word to anyone, even their own friends who try to talk to them.

I don't see as much leveling bots as I did back in November 2010 but the crafting bots are crazy, I'd almost be willing to say most of the level 50 crafters probably botted, or at least the people who were 50 before March.

It's really sad.

[Jinko]

The reason you don't see as many leveling bots is because leveling is pretty enjoyable now, crafting and gathering on the other hand.. not so much.

[Vawn]

Right at this moment I am crafting. Really, I am just hitting the 'A' button on my 360 pad, the game isn't even up on my screen (this website is). The sound is muted and I'm watching tv. If someone is talking to me, I guess I'm ignoring them. Am I botting? I don't think so, but I probably look like it.

I'm sorry, but this is what crafting is at the current time. I wish they would require me to devote more attention/interest in what I'm doing to level up, but until then, this seems to be the best method for the grind.

[DeathSaint]

all of you guys make valid points, and yes, but its kinda cheap...but what can yah do right? I myself havnt botted nor intend to do it, but seeing everyone else do it makes me kind of wanna, because the grind os so fuckign slow and boring, maybe they need to change the leves, or make the exp more.

[jones6]

Once the old recipes are removed and the process is simplified I don't think there will be as many, but there will always some form of afk players.

[Edgecrusher]

I was crafting stopped to take a shower and got called a bot once....people just wanna press that panic button the minute they see a guy kneeling in craft mode at times.

[Antonn]

Crafting - Who cares, you just spam enter now.

Gathering/Leveling - Perma ban.

[Vawn]

Crafting - Who cares, you just spam enter now.

Gathering/Leveling - Perma ban.

Don't get me wrong with what I said earlier. Yeah, I'm not paying attention to the game, but I am still manually pressing the button. I'm just playing the game blind. Any actual bots should be dealt with (banned or otherwise) and this includes turbo-controlling and going afk.

[Deminia]

Right at this moment I am crafting. Really, I am just hitting the 'A' button on my 360 pad, the game isn't even up on my screen (this website is). The sound is muted and I'm watching tv. If someone is talking to me, I guess I'm ignoring them. Am I botting? I don't think so, but I probably look like it.

I'm sorry, but this is what crafting is at the current time. I wish they would require me to devote more attention/interest in what I'm doing to level up, but until then, this seems to be the best method for the grind.

I do the same - I craft a ton of the same item over and over and don't really pay attention to things around me until I am done with that series of synths. I am often reading Lodestone or something else online, actually. I usually craft in the same place, often logging in and out right in front of my retainers in the wards. I craft there because there is no spam so I can actually read just my ls chat when I care to glance at the screen.

I have often wondered if people assume I am botting - I am definitely not. Crafting is tedious at times and I highly doubt that nearly as many people are truly botting as are suspected of doing so.