Please don't call me a bot!

[Hawklaser]

Only person one has to really respond to when out gathering is a GM if contacted by one.

If I was out farming mobs and got a tell from someone like that and they persisted or took it to shout chat, it would be very likely I would fill out one on harassment on them. Gathering without talking to people throwing accusations around is not against the ToS, but harassing/griefing others is. Might want to keep that in mind before trying to deal with suspected botters, as they can flip the tables on you.

I report them all the time when I see them, more often than not it is teleporting gatherers, or ones standing still killing stuff as it gets in range that are going to be the likely botters.

[AngryNixon]

This all sounds like something a bot would say.

[AlmaMalma]

This all sounds like something a bot would say.

On a public forum hosted by SE. Do you even think before you post?

[Vix_Spellweaver]

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.

I deliberately ignore pokes and tells all the time. One time I had a joker who offered 24k to do a repair while I was crafting. Just trying to get me to flinch.
People can get pretty desperate to prove a bot, and will waste hours following someone poking waving. I find it amusing and gladly string them along with their fantasy.

[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...

[darkstarpoet1]

I deliberately ignore pokes and tells all the time. One time I had a joker who offered 24k to do a repair while I was crafting. Just trying to get me to flinch.
People can get pretty desperate to prove a bot, and will waste hours following someone poking waving. I find it amusing and gladly string them along with their fantasy.

i do the same thing honestly. i'll be ignoring their tells and pokes while the whole time laughing at them in voice with my ls/fc.

[AlmaMalma]

Guys, I don't need aldgoats anymore for my ALC, so feel free to farm the hell out the ones in drybone and sandgate, pet jobs work best, CNJ or BLM would do well too to (gather together) them into a nukeable space. Feel free to farm the heck out of them and get idiots who can't farm to moan.

[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).

[Cairdeas]

I've posted this before, but this game needs a DoL to replace farming monsters...

Prospect/Triangulate show Mining/Botany locations, a new DoL would have an ability which shows various things like Docile Diremites, or Dead Aldgoats, which you can run up to and harvest Web/Horns/Skin/etc.

Do I want this to avoid the mad competition I face farming Snurble Tufts and Fleeces? Maybe.
Do I want this to avoid getting in the way of people who want to do their Hunting Log/quests/etc? Maybe.

Real reason I want this? So I no longer have to kill sheep. At all. Ever. Seriously. Killing sheep in this game makes me feel... Wrong...

I've avoided it as much as possible. :x

[Cairdeas]

I'm not going to call you a bot, but I saw something weird as fruck last night.

It was a level 30ish Gladiator in full tank gear between 23-30 running Sashtasha. He'd target one monster in a group and fight it while running in circles around it, not use any hate control abilities and we basically were relying on the second lancer in the group to play flash tank for adds. Luckily She knew what she was doing and we were ok, but it made the whole run take longer than it should. I started to wonder if it was a bot because it would stand still until we targeted something, then it would go after what ever we targeted. It was fighting a mob and when I pulled away to pick an item off the floor it followed me trying to grab the same item. Did this multiple times.

Was creepy as fruck. He even did it to the Ripples in the boss fight.