Please don't call me a bot!

[AlmaMalma]

Ok so I was leveling ALC, and needed some aldgoat horns. So I went out as SMN with Garuda and started blowing up lots of goats, tagging them with Ruin 2 and farming loads. Within an hour I was accused of being a bot. I didn't answer the accuser a couple of tells, then he got all I GOT YOU in tell and I blisted him.

Later, still leveling ALC, blue landtrap leaves farming, back on SMN and blowing up the Kedtraps (whilst as a sideline helping miners doing leves round there, it's infested with agro traps)... within an hour I was accused of being a bot. Just because I was better at farming with Ruin 2 and Garuda than he was on a level 25 meleer (sigh).

Blimey stop assuming because someone is *farming* they're a bot!

[Slambo]

Ok so I was leveling ALC, and needed some aldgoat horns. So I went out as SMN with Garuda and started blowing up lots of goats, tagging them with Ruin 2 and farming loads. Within an hour I was accused of being a bot. I didn't answer the accuser a couple of tells, then he got all I GOT YOU in tell and I blisted him.

Later, still leveling ALC, blue landtrap leaves farming, back on SMN and blowing up the Kedtraps (whilst as a sideline helping miners doing leves round there, it's infested with agro traps)... within an hour I was accused of being a bot. Just because I was better at farming with Ruin 2 and Garuda than he was on a level 25 meleer (sigh).

Blimey stop assuming because someone is *farming* they're a bot!

Maybe you haven't seen all the other bots zipping around but people ARE indeed botting.

[Altheras]

I got the same thing, ironically I was also farming aldgoats for my LWing. I found a nice spot where they respawn quickly, so I was running in a circle mindlessly killing them in mass amounts. I figured I was doing the zone a favor by sticking to one spot since there are lots more aldgoats outside of my little circle that people could still easily use for their own farming or questing needs. Within one hour someone was shouting to zone that I was a bot. -_-

[RyuujinZERO]

I got the same thing, ironically I was also farming aldgoats for my LWing. I found a nice spot where they respawn quickly, so I was running in a circle mindlessly killing them in mass amounts. I figured I was doing the zone a favor by sticking to one spot since there are lots more aldgoats outside of my little circle that people could still easily use for their own farming or questing needs. Within one hour someone was shouting to zone that I was a bot. -_-

I've seen a similar thing. Nobody accused me of being a bot but they did get angry at me "stealing all the mobs". As i pointed out to them, there were far far more aldgoat spawn points than i could possibly cover by myself and directed them to where they might find some that were beyond my farming route.

But, folks can be very quick to judge instead of properly studying the layout of the map first...

[Calyanare]

I've seen a similar thing. Nobody accused me of being a bot but they did get angry at me "stealing all the mobs". ...

But, folks can be very quick to judge instead of properly studying the layout of the map first...

Lots of people don't realize that, unlike many other MMOs, you don't have to tag the mob yourself to get quest credit, xp, and even quest-related drops from it. You just have to do some damage (around 1/3 to 1/2 of the mob's health, from what I've seen).

[Valcutio]

You could have just responded to the guy ingame and not posted this at all.

[Khalus]

Probably being accused because someone was trying to kill mobs for a quest and you were tagging/killing them before he could get credit. I had that issue crop up a few times before, and regardless of my being polite in asking them to leave a few for my quest, yeah they got really pissed off, dunno why!

Never said anything regarding being a bot, "just don't tag everything for a round" so I can finish the quest.

[AlmaMalma]

The guy who spammed me at aldgoats threatened me with a bot report. I'm responding with this thread. Why should I have to justify my actions to someone in game who is being outfarmed?

[rabbitzero]

The guy who spammed me at aldgoats threatened me with a bot report. I'm responding with this thread. Why should I have to justify my actions to someone in game who is being outfarmed?

He assumed you were a bot, doubly so when you didn't respond, because that's what you expect bots to do. Maybe your behavior looked like a bot, heck, i'd probably have reported you too if you didn't respond in a tell. I was fishing today, near someone else, and their behavior was "off" from what i saw watching him. A few minutes latter i get an invite to a fishing linkshell, and it turned out he was chatting with people in it, not a bot but explained why he was acting like that.

If you don't want to be thought of as a bot, respond to people. Even though bots can send tells back too, otherwise, take the risk of being thought a bot and reported. Maybe you were botting and are now worried you got reported and will be banned, if that's the case, oh well.

[AlmaMalma]

their behavior was "off"

What's the definition of 'off' behaviour? The second time I farmed I actually started using different mounts, cheering at miners, what the heck are you expected to do? WHY should you have to justify your farming to someone who's cheesed off that you're doing it faster than them?