Down time

[Kaisersose]

Fraps is a recording program that records what ever is on your screen! so to fraps a botter is to capture footage of their perfectly timed our crafting for long periods of time.

[Taichi]

Well playing Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and now Homefront. If you are really trying to burn time play Shogun or Civ 5.

[Vix]

Fraps is a recording program that records what ever is on your screen! so to fraps a botter is to capture footage of their perfectly timed our crafting for long periods of time.

Yeah, but who is really that petty? I mean sitting there for 10-15 min to record 3-4 full cycles. I don't feel like wasting my game time doing that, I got other stuff to do in my 12+ hours of game time every day, because I intend to hit the top 100 of our server in-spite of them.

And that only finds folks using a mouse clicker. Doesn't nail some of the better bots out there, those that will actually pick and choose the perfect action for the immediate situation, your going to have most synths done at completely different intervals.

[Kaisersose]

i am just explaining what it is hahah

[MHB3000]

Im basically trying to think of a.. to use the term loosely.. "Battle Regiment" to what I want to do the moment the game goes live again.. in the meantime.. im just posting on Lodestone blogs they are the best

[Vix]

I know
But honestly, for the few who really would stoop to that level...cmon...why so serious?
And there would have to be an UNCUT video of it all, otherwise no dice. And I aint watching a 10-15min video of someone "botting". Besides, I doubt it would hurt anyones feelings. People buy gil, people use cheat codes, people use strategy guides and god mode...heck, folks often play a game on "easy" just so they can "see the story" pfft...whatever. Hypocrisy at its highest IMO. Honestly, I left that kind of stuff back in 7th grade when everyone was making fun of masturbation....while being guilty of it themselves.

P.S.
If I want to see someone botting, Ill just sit in uldah, tis a lot more rampant than most folks think. PS3 users are completely F'd ^_^

[Xor]

ooh man a good bot fix.

design an in-game player based, applied for task force. these players would be granted a couple new abilities:
*Teleport to the reported bot location.
*Arrest (the bot) - actully just teleports the bot to an in-game jail house, say the gladiator arena in Uldah.

key elements of this program:
*Bot cops cannot perform these duties on their home server/world.
*Bot cops remain completely anonymous.
*In order to remain in the program a player must register a minimum of 14 hrs per week "on duty"
*Incentive to partake in this volunteer program, the selected players will gain an exp bonus equal to the amount of time "on duty"
*Bot cops get to ride around on a black/white chocobo.

*Judges (GM's) will be the issuing authority for an arrest warrant, and the oversight for this program.
*Arrested bots sent to jail must petition to a Judge (GM) to be released within 1 hour of arrest or that players account becomes suspended for a duration determined by SE.
*If a player is found guilty that character will be publicly executed with a world wide message stating their name their crime and punishment.
*The world wide message will be a new feature that will display in the upper center of the screen.
*Players misreporting bots will be warned the first offense, arrested and sent to jail second offense, progressive suspensions thereafter .

*Employing this program will strongly discourage botting, and gil selling.
*This program will not only be the first of it's kind in any MMO, it will be a fun and rewarding experience for the players that participate.

[Xor]

I'm just tossing up an idea here, but i think it would be a blast to ride around on a black/white cop chocobo busting f'n cheaters
Not to mention how much time i would likely waste at those public executions >=D

[Vix]

And you open a floodgate for abuse of privileges. The one cool thing is: only the truly lame will get off on going to another server just to play bot porter, therefore freeing up my server of thier pettyness. On the flip side, then Ill have to deal with nitwits coming to my server going on a BS witch hunt, burning everyone at the stake w/out %100 proof. In time SE will deal with it im sure. But I doubt it will come anytime soon. They have other things that are more important.

And I dont think gil selling is really much of a problem in this game. I spent well over 20mil getting my LW to 48, and still have millions in reserve. They flooded the markets to begin with, there's no shortage of gil in this game. I dont see how anyone but a few elites w/big wallets IRL really would take the time to buy gil.

[Xor]

It's just an idea, other then the crafting bots i really havent paid too much attention to someone running in circles killing stuff, generally the randomly spawning rk40 mobs makes grinding a painful experience at times. I still like the public execution bit though