Monk Protest: Drok's International 1

You monks protest too much. >.>

I find it ironic that these monks are protesting farming when I see more monks exiting Droknar's Forge than warriors to farm trolls. Or, I'm missing the point of the OP.

Yes you missed the point, we are talking about BOT farming... people using a BOT

Whether or not a person is botting can only be accurately discovered by looking through logs, and even that isn't entirely reliable; Better bots often use variable timers to mix up actions to make a person's actions seem 'more human', and the static spawns in the game don't help.

The economy in a video game world, where the currency has little to no concrete backing, and high-end equipment can be gotten easily at fixed prices, means little to me as well.
However, I would hardly protest the ban of bots, regardless of the state of the economy.

What I will say is that I miss the days when you could hold conversations in the local chat and meet new people. Trade spam in the local channel is not unique to sellers, or spam bots, nor to any specifici region; However, as one of the rallying cries of people in Droknar's Forge was about taking back the local channel, that much I completely support.

The trade channel is labelled 'trade' for a reason. Whether it's Lion's Arch, Droknar's Forge, or Augury Rock, in American, European, Int, or any other region, there is no reason trade offers should be spammed so prevalently the way they are now across the local channel.

So if nothing else, I would love the idea of Anet taking action to give back the local channel to us.

Not again. I wonder how long this one will take before it degenerates into another example of why people shouldn't be left to their own devices. ANet needs to get out the riot gear and go crack some skulls.

Anet is coing out with a market or something like that . they may have tarvens too.

Oh. Well, the OP could have been more specific. He only uses "BOT" in the edited portion of the post.

It's ambiguous and vague. Who's "those farmers?"
I haven't been on. I don't know what's happening in Tyria. Please, add more next time and educate those who only have GWGuru to inform them. Too busy to play.

Sadly just a few minutes ago i was bored enough to mess with the farmers. I invited every one of them to my party. Surprisingly alot of them accepted and when we got outside they just said "?" said some mumbo jumbo then went back in. I thought more of them would be bots. I did catch a few that were bots. You can follow them around and pick up drops. Its hilarious.

That original screenie shows a really short line :|

*click*

What I dont understand is if these farmbots are so obvious to us players, why couldn't Anet identify and terminate them accordingly?

I find it highly ironic how everyone complains about the bots, but the first time they good a good drop, they're buying the perfect mod from a bot for a better resale of that item. Complain all you want, but remember that every transaction you make with one quantifies their existence.

Even more ironic is how many guru forumers hang out in LA1 and do nothing but spam All Chat with WTS messages.

"Hello Pot, this is Kettle. You are so black."

I lol'd, which is annoying seeing that I'm at work at the moment.

Nah they're not ruining the economy. They're advertising their goodies for low prices, surely, but who the heck understands them? I sure don't. Unless someone has a degree in Chinese or Korean I doubt they can sell much to the English playerbase simply because no one knows what they're saying.

so true
so very true

Well, i myself have to say its ridiculous.

I moved from EU server to US server just to be with guildies, and i was suprised to find that there are alot of chinese players (Or bots) on the US server, far far more than there are on the EU server.

So methinks these players are targeting you US guys and gals as victims for quick cash. But... the stupid thing is, the chinese that goes around the chat channels isn't even correct,

A) They have crap grammar
B) The sentences don't make any bit of sense due to the bot probably making a mess of the chat.
C) And who the hell is going to understand it even if it did make sense, with the exception of myself and a minority of others who can speak chinese..

I can't see the point of it, the US server is being invaded.

That by itself will not make trading spam magically disappear. Anet needs to write up and enforce clear penalties for anyone not using the designated trading mechanisms for trade, once they have their trading system 2.0 in place.

Of course, this assumes that Anet cares about trading spam in the local chat channel. I am not convinced that they see it as a high priority.

Actually you can body block in town though it's much harder than you might think. You have to manipulate the wandering dwarves into the right positions, since they can body block players, and then you have to keep them there by bodyblocking them.

Let's see...I have never bought anything in town, EVER. I get my items either from honest drops to me or trades within my Guild.

Stop trying to tar every player with the same brush. Just because you want to cheat doesn't mean everyone else does.

Their selling things...and buying.

Hoping that was sarcasm, because it is virtually impossible to manipulate the NPC dwarves, although they will body block.