Bots and Botting

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trust me

No.
I regret entering this thread. Is there a refund somewhere?

Stuff that costed 1 alch/fuse a week ago now costs a chaos.

It's really not difficult to make a bot to farm The Ledge on Merciless and that makes me sad. :*(

Is there some way to get e.g. chriss to make a statement like:

"I can assure you we are already taking aggresive steps towards botting."

I don´t need to know how - i just need to be reassured.



Makes your gaming experience/feeling even better ! (and your sleep at night)



P.S

I was beginning to think (after d3) that i would never play a ARPG with same joy as d2.

fortunately i was mistaken!

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BullHorn7 wrote:

Stuff that costed 1 alch/fuse a week ago now costs a chaos.

It's really not difficult to make a bot to farm The Ledge on Merciless and that makes me sad. :*(

That could be botting, but a much more logical explanation is that as more people play and progress, they acquire more currency. There should be a reverse effect to counter this in that as more items drop they become less valuable (if you have 10 unique gloves, odds are you ask far less for 1 than if it your only unique you have).

Things are still very much in flux at the moment.

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deteego wrote:

Of course there are item bots in D3, they are just really shit compared to the gold farming bots, and there is a reason why this is (its due to how the D3 game is designed). Real people (like Kripp) actually farm the high end gear much better than bots do

Wow gold sells because it has gold. PoE has no gold, it has no universal currency. All trading is done by bartering, unless the buyer is offering an item that the seller finds useful, they won't get a trade.

Also as people have been saying, learn some god damn english

Joshu1 was right, too. I've got multiple bots farming Inferno Act 3 MP3 very comfortably on 0 deaths per day. They pick up every yellow/legendary item, ID them, vendor the crap ones, and stash the good ones. Also, my bots are so well coded, they react faster and play better than I do. And this is using the most common bot out there, no special setting up required. You, my friend, have NO idea how good bots are these days. And as well as collecting items, they're averaging about 600k gold per hour each :)

Also, people sell orbs daily, just look at playerauctions.

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Alienchild wrote:

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BullHorn7 wrote:

Stuff that costed 1 alch/fuse a week ago now costs a chaos.

It's really not difficult to make a bot to farm The Ledge on Merciless and that makes me sad. :*(

That could be botting, but a much more logical explanation is that as more people play and progress, they acquire more currency. There should be a reverse effect to counter this in that as more items drop they become less valuable (if you have 10 unique gloves, odds are you ask far less for 1 than if it your only unique you have).

Things are still very much in flux at the moment.

Pretty sure there are already some bots. When you start seeing general chat spammers selling orbs, then there are bots somewhere.

What the guy you quoted said is correct; you could easily have a guy farming ledge in any difficulty easy as pie. It could even kill itself after a run or 2 to make sure it never levels up, and therefore never suffers penalties to it's drop rate.

If anything, the way currency is found, it kind of promotes botting. Botters may not always bot maps (however after seeing my buddy's witch plow maps like butter, I beg to differ on the difficulty), but they can damn sure bot farm areas for orbs, which is far easier to trade/sell then rares are.

It is just how it is. The more popular PoE is, the more botting there will be. Not only that, there are things in place that would make orb farming super easy (places like Ledge and being able to kill yourself and stay at a certain level), not to mention after seeing some builds in action in late game hard maps, wouldn't be a stretch to see some ranged characters destroying maps, too.

I feel like in-game bots won't be much of an issue because it's very hard to accumulate in-game wealth. It takes thousands of wisdom scrolls to even purchase one chaos orb.

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Stuff that costed 1 alch/fuse a week ago now costs a chaos.

That's probably just because the open beta economy is entirely unstable right now, there are no set prices for anything other than currencies relative to each other.

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Pretty sure there are already some bots. When you start seeing general chat spammers selling orbs, then there are bots somewhere.

Not for certain. It could also be people playing the middleman: buying orbs cheap online, then selling them at inflated rates to those who are willing to spend more.

fill areas of heavy botting with alchemists RESULTS: dead bots everywhere

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dust7 wrote:

had a maphack which is impossible in POE

Oh man that's a good one, I'm in tears right now

I stopped reading when you paid homage to krip. All that idiot does is state the blatantly obvious, while bigger idiots try to convince people that they learned something. Krip-"you see, you want life on your armor. But you want resist too. Not everyone can afford both so sometimes you have to get just one of them" followed by some random monkey saying "damn dude, krip just cracked a crazy egg of knowledge. I would never have known that the earth wasn't flat without krip saying it really slow". That, and his head looks like a milk jug. I can't look at him without laughing and wanting to pour him on cereal.