Suggestion to avoid botting houses! 3 attempts per day system!

[ICountFrom0]

*laugh* no, you sweet summer child, no.
limit to X attempts just means there would be more bots, so that after every X attempts a new bot can show up and work on it.

[Jojoya]

*laugh* no, you sweet summer child, no.
limit to X attempts just means there would be more bots, so that after every X attempts a new bot can show up and work on it.

And how many paid accounts with land purchase privileges do you think any sane person is going to buy to get a single house?

Do a little math and get back to us.

[Wrestlefire769]

And how many paid accounts with land purchase privileges do you think any sane person is going to buy to get a single house?

Do a little math and get back to us.

The same number who are spamming RMT tells and getting killed every time -- infinite.

[Themarvin]

The same number who are spamming RMT tells and getting killed every time -- infinite.

You still need to pass the requirements to buy a house plot as well, it is not something you just get because am a subscriber.... if rmt bots does this.. you may end in a higher flow of houses becoming available all the time due to terminated accounts.

[Themarvin]

*laugh* no, you sweet summer child, no.
limit to X attempts just means there would be more bots, so that after every X attempts a new bot can show up and work on it.

You forget, the land plot could become available, 10 minutes after used last daily attempt on mentioned plot, likewise, if you are going to bot this constantly, you would need several subscribed accounts to be able to bot it effective, maybe you can afford to pay 1500 dollars per month for 100 accounts, to be any near efficient and then only still maybe as a potential bot.

[ICountFrom0]

They take the bots to 60 anyway, to get all the GIL they can from the quests, and sell it as well. Having to do one or two more quests won't slow them down and will only make more gil along the way.

The number of bots able to be thrown at the problem is infinity.

[Baxcel]

Why not a simple caption box like most webpages do? Before you can click buy enter the text in the box... I know it's old school and this isn't some F2P Korean mmo but still you gotta admit it would be effective to limit bot activity in a lot of places..

Wanna do a shout enter the caption or be muted for x amount of time.. passing the caption removes the prompt for an hour or so..

Updating prices on a retainer.. enter the caption or you can't sell anything for a day or so.. would prevent the mass crashing of new items..

Something with crafting, gathering and maybe even combat..

Captions boxes work on most bots from what I've seen.. sure real players hate them but they are effective at controlling bots

[Jojoya]

Why not a simple caption box like most webpages do? Before you can click buy enter the text in the box... I know it's old school and this isn't some F2P Korean mmo but still you gotta admit it would be effective to limit bot activity in a lot of places..

Wanna do a shout enter the caption or be muted for x amount of time.. passing the caption removes the prompt for an hour or so..

Updating prices on a retainer.. enter the caption or you can't sell anything for a day or so.. would prevent the mass crashing of new items..

Something with crafting, gathering and maybe even combat..

Captions boxes work on most bots from what I've seen.. sure real players hate them but they are effective at controlling bots

If they were a great solution, they would have been getting used by games years ago. It's not like it's new technology.

A caption box is effective against a bot only if the bot's programmer didn't have enough incentive to bother breaking the code then programming the bot to solve it.

Add them to a game and the bot programmers will happily figure out the code then program their bots to solve them, just as they've figured out how to get the bot to solve all the other parts of game play. Nothing gained except annoying the real players who will probably end up quitting over the frequent disruptions to their game play.

If you want to be rid of bots, then you need to get rid of the cheaters who use them and/or their services. Once the bots no longer have customers, they will disappear from the game. As long as there customers for them, they aren't going anywhere.

[Themarvin]

Why not a simple caption box like most webpages do? Before you can click buy enter the text in the box... I know it's old school and this isn't some F2P Korean mmo but still you gotta admit it would be effective to limit bot activity in a lot of places..

Wanna do a shout enter the caption or be muted for x amount of time.. passing the caption removes the prompt for an hour or so..

Updating prices on a retainer.. enter the caption or you can't sell anything for a day or so.. would prevent the mass crashing of new items..

Something with crafting, gathering and maybe even combat..

Captions boxes work on most bots from what I've seen.. sure real players hate them but they are effective at controlling bots

It wont work to well with a caption box, people has suggested a rafle, but but bots then from outside of the playerbase will join that rafle, knowing that, they can get people to pay massive amounts of gil for a house when it become a shortage, limitations to how many times you can click PER plot per day, flushes out people camping, using 3rd party tools and botting tools to keep on clicking the plot, and yes people are definately using them.

This makes it fair for all, time your daily clicks well, if you lose one plot, go to the next one, eventually would be the first one to hit it spot on and be getting a house plot for use, no ones gain any advantages using a system like this, and it puts all in the same box, but in a manner where all interested will be getting a fair chance.

[jakers127]

They really need to make it so their isn't a targeting button for the placard...I can probably make a macro on my mouse to run that 0040 button combo to click a placard for me for hours if I wanted (which i do not!)

I am sure it would be easy though, any one with mouse software could make a combo 0040 on their keypad to auto click the sign....just remove the targeting button from being able to target placards...done. Make it need to be a physical click.