absinthe.8107 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Hello Devs, Can you please wake up the team and start doing something about botting?! Its getting way out of control. Every little nook and cranny hidey hole is piled up with botters. Today I came across several groups out in the open in Timberline Falls piled on top of each other botting. They aren't even bothering to try to hide anymore!! Sandswept Isles is overun with piles upon piles of botters. Sadly its the same players day in day out no matter the time of day or night. This is YOUR fault for allowing it to continue without any consequence. If nothing happens to cheaters in the game, then why not we ALL cheat and completely ruin the game once and for all?? Some of us still to prefer to play without cheating for a sense of accomplishment, so you are lucky you still have a player base with integrity. However, it may be time to move on to other newer games. No use trying to compete with a bott. DO SOMETHING. 5 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flint Lightning.1468 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 they actually aren;t botting or breaking any rules it's called afk farming same thing people used to do in GW1. not against the tos 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) Summoning minions and setting a skill to autocast isn't botting. The real bots are identifiable as they and macro attack chains and press F to loot and will hop into your turtle or skiff if you open it up nearby, while the AFK farmers will just ignore you and keep using letting their minions kill things. The GMs did used to punish AFK farming but it seems to no longer be against the rules. Edited December 30, 2022 by Mariyuuna.6508 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayra.7405 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) I think ANet doesn't do anything against them, because they solved the problem years ago. Its called Diminishing returns, I am always only amused about these AFK-looking farmer, they don't seem to know it (as you and other getting upset about them), and are probably only to fixated to it from other games, such that they do it here as well. But to you and them: It is very likely NOT worth the electricity they put into it. They would better buy gems from the money they save in electricity. Edited December 30, 2022 by Dayra.7405 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Did you read the Dev post? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, absinthe.8107 said: Thats actually really sad if tis is the only way YOU or others like you can progress in a game. Theres plenty of other games that auto-everything for you since thats more the speed you're into. Just saying in my honest not so humble opinion. Also you might wanna refer to Policy: Unattended Gameplay. Here I'll leave the link for ya 😉 and continue to report every single spiffily named "AFK farmer" I see. (you're welcome Arenanet). Policy: Unattended Gameplay – Guild Wars 2 Support I gave a technical reply based upon observation. I've been here since near the game's release with 22.6k hours played, so I know all about how the situation has been handled over the years. Just so you know, the GMs are completely invisible and everywhere. They do whisper AFK players but the problem is those players aren't always away but are sometimes just watching a movie or something and then respond, which is completely legal because the game implements Diminishing Returns (DR) and those players don't get loot or credit towards any events after a few hours without changing maps anyway. True unattended gameplay is very rare and only really possible with actual botting which mostly happens in ranked PvP and not In PvE because its far less profitable to bot PvE due to no liquid gold rewards. The only damage these players do to the game is taking up map slots from meta events. Edited December 30, 2022 by Mariyuuna.6508 1 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 On 12/30/2022 at 5:07 PM, Flint Lightning.1468 said: it's called afk farming same thing people used to do in GW1. not against the tos Errr.... GW1 had tons of bots that moved the exact same route with a programmed routine for gold (I remember a mission in the Crystal Desert that was plagued by those). You could stand there are watch non-human behavior 24/7. The actual non-botting farmers were the people doing the Griffon Run or 55HP Monk farming and the like. That's a completely different thing than botting. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Moderator.3419 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Hi everyone, If you witness any of these acts while playing, please submit an in-game report or a ticket to our Customer Support team, so they can properly investigate the matter. Regards. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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