Freaky Bots

This might sound weird, but I log on my ranger and head to LA Dist1. As soon as I arrive I get a whisper saying "want to buy UNID gold bows?" I reply, no thanks. Then about 2 mins later I get another whisper, from a different guy asking the same question. I decline again and move on. Now the next one messages me the same thing, so I use some profanity to see what would happen and heasks if i want to buy ranger tomes. Is this new? or am i just going crazy.

EDIT:I logged onto warrior and I was asked to buy UNID swords...

im guessing it is deadbow farming bot who ahve checked the mods and are selling crappy bows for more then the merch would give
-they are not bots selling

Probably gold sellers. They get Un-IDs, sell them for in-game gold, and then sell the in-game gold for cash.

And yes, we're dealing with them, daily!

Yes actually this happened to me when I was in LA d1 with my baby mesmer, one of those weird name monks come up to me and open trade and whisper me: you buy? It's annoying

can we just block china's ip?
since they're most of the bot users

it's the great firewall of china.





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I'm just kind of surprised bots are advanced enough to know my characters class...

Best way to deal with bots is troll em. Whenever they decide to screw with me I screw with them by offering them 10% of what they ask, then 1000%, then cancelling trade then starting trade all over again.

It may only be one bot, but at least I am wasting part of that corporation's time and getting a good lol.

Bots don't know your class
EVERY time i sign in i get a pm " you WTB a zodiac .... 100k+8ectos .....GREAT FOR CASTERS??" Its like i'm a warrior why would i want anything for casters?? My heroes are already pimped out with greens/golds

I don't think you read my post correctly. At first I was on a ranger and I was asked to buy bows and ranger tomes. Then I switched to warrior and was asked to buy swords. Kinda creepy if you ask me.

I dont think this comment got the respect it dederves ^^

gg

Meh its a problem, but it seems anet are out there watching trades now - that should slow some bots down....

At least these bots are nice enough to talk, bgetter than real players running up to you and offering you some bottom of the barrel green...sure my warrior needs a +33% cripple hammer, who doesnt?

tbh. the problem is, their not bots, their sweatshop workers, and they arnt realy doing anything wrong, so, realy theres not much we can do, since what their doing is legal, all their doing is playing the game, well all they do is farm for hours and hours and then sell, boring but they get paid. badly.

nice, Gaile and CO. waste the time on bots and other insignificant stuff in stead of fixing real problems like Heroes Ascent, sour ripping and rit spike.
Look scaling done more bad then the u imagine.
If u didn't nerf all means of farming possible ppl will farm and have a loot of money and the didn`t need to by gold from eBay.
keep it like this and GW players will become WoW players
gg

Somebody didnt get their morning coffee

I don't think there bots, more likely the real gold farming master of bots



And its because of all the rabbits in china....(Your gotta be an Aussie for that one.)

make it impossible to test unid items, 50% of the problem solved...

um,...if they're bots seller, what'll happen if you give them 1gp instead of 1k? Will they just accept? Cus that would be cool, I mean what're they gonna do? Report you for scaming a bot?

Just think about what you said there, if anything, a bot is far less likely than a human to be tricked.

They'd use image recognition and can tell the difference between 1 and 1000

Yeah, I never had to deal with seller bots before so I don't know how it work. Just thought it would be funny . I remember someone here posted that he did scam a seller bot, that why I asked.