What happened to the bots

[pendulummaster24]

So, I have noticed that, recently, there have been no RMT bots in NGS or base. Surely, I'm glad they're gone, but does anyone know how SEGA got rid of them?

[X2dZ]

They either disappeared due to lowering playerbase (yay make JP glorious again) or they just advertise on other channels.

Or

The what-should-have-been-there-since Day 1 TOS updated must've allowed sega to go hard on them. Surely they must have means of logging our ips. JP always emails me a code whenever my IP or machine changes. Too much in a short time and you get banned.

[Hermit]

I have noticed of late that they tend to disappear after maintenance, probably due to Sega banning a whole load of them, but they return within a few days.

[Kuro]

They're cracking harder on bots and their methods to exploit maeseta. And of course, the ban wave has a lot of people shook, so people are less likely to buy gold from them.

[Luxaeterna]

They will likely be back in a few days.

[Mute]

I bet people didn't expect to get banned for using RMT services, that and dying playerbase hits RMT really hard.

[LazerRay]

Sega has finally been banning the scam bots, not only are those things going extinct, the lag they produce is also going with them.

Now the down side to this is that at least one of the scambot owners has been attacking the official forums with spambots, and people flagging their profiles to get them banned.

[Omega24]

the fact they have fewer players to monitor might make it easier to find bots now.

[Crystal Sharrd]

Originally posted by X2dZ:

They either disappeared due to lowering playerbase (yay make JP glorious again) or they just advertise on other channels.

Or

The what-should-have-been-there-since Day 1 TOS updated must've allowed sega to go hard on them. Surely they must have means of logging our ips. JP always emails me a code whenever my IP or machine changes. Too much in a short time and you get banned.

I've heard the ToS was updated when NGS launched, they just didn't update the Website right away.

[THAT Guy]

Originally posted by pendulummaster24:

So, I have noticed that, recently, there have been no RMT bots in NGS or base. Surely, I'm glad they're gone, but does anyone know how SEGA got rid of them?

The most likely Senario is no one was buying from them or at least not enough for it to be profitable for them, With Segas Update to The ToS recently, They likely went though and banned all the accounts they were using to horde meseta on forcing them to start from scratch..

Though Considering the lack of server side lag recently it most likely the rmts finally gave up and moved on, More than sega out right getting rid of them.. as if theres one thing you can count on when it comes to rmts is, they will try to bring down your servers when you start proactively combating them

[Crystal Sharrd]

Originally posted by Skooma Dealer:

Originally posted by pendulummaster24:

So, I have noticed that, recently, there have been no RMT bots in NGS or base. Surely, I'm glad they're gone, but does anyone know how SEGA got rid of them?

The most likely Senario is no one was buying from them or at least not enough for it to be profitable for them, With Segas Update to The ToS recently, They likely went though and banned all the accounts they were using to horde meseta on forcing them to start from scratch..

Though Considering the lack of server side lag recently it most likely the rmts finally gave up and moved on, More than sega out right getting rid of them.. as if theres one thing you can count on when it comes to rmts is, they will try to bring down your servers when you start proactively combating them

Why would anyone knowingly buy from a scammer? Would be nice if the scammers got arrested for fraud and their Websites shut down.

[Corinarh]

Nothing happened to them they are stil there i just met one https://i.imgur.com/hv7b4G1.png

[PJ]

Why would people buy meseta from gold farmers anyway? If you're willing to spend money for meseta, just buy player shop access instead and then you'll be drowning in meseta. Seems dumb.

[Hermit]

Originally posted by PJ:

Why would people buy meseta from gold farmers anyway? If you're willing to spend money for meseta, just buy player shop access instead and then you'll be drowning in meseta. Seems dumb.

I would love to know how you think anybody with access to the shop can make millions of meseta a day, because that is how much people can make from bots. You can make steady meseta with access to the player shop, but you certainly won't be drowning in it.

[Corinarh]

Originally posted by PJ:

Why would people buy meseta from gold farmers anyway? If you're willing to spend money for meseta, just buy player shop access instead and then you'll be drowning in meseta. Seems dumb.

I have premium and get just 1.5-2x more money than f2p players a month just by selling stuff, 99% of stuff you drop is worthless. I wouldn't call myself drowning in meseta since i can't afford anything i'd love to buy for example Wet & long hair, MTN: Idle - Yummy Ice Cream for both i'd need to farm like 12mil n-meseta which is almost impossible with or without premium, prices are just ridiculous. Atm i have 3mil meseta it's not enough to buy anything.

[VanillaLucia]

Originally posted by Corinarh:

I have premium and get just 1.5-2x more money than f2p players a month just by selling stuff, 99% of stuff you drop is worthless. I wouldn't call myself drowning in meseta since i can't afford anything i'd love to buy for example Wet & long hair, MTN: Idle - Yummy Ice Cream for both i'd need to farm like 12mil n-meseta which is almost impossible with or without premium, prices are just ridiculous. Atm i have 3mil meseta it's not enough to buy anything.

The "only" way I can see keeping up with these prices while they are still the way they are without breaking anything in the Terms of Service or doing anything particularly questionable (at least to Sega) is to be the person who dumps money on scratches to get the most valuable items and to sell them for profit assuming you can still fight the market. I don't see this as a fun way to play the game and if this is what you have to do to keep up with the rising and growing prices (which don't happen to this extreme on the Japanese side, mind you) I cannot imagine that "opening" the Player Shop to every player would really solve any of these issues when the people who are already excessively rich are only going to be richer when they can scalp every other potential buyer by buying out the stock of desirable items.

If you at least have access to selling, anyone can Red Box farm or hoard meseta on their alt accounts to funnel together but I really don't think that it should have been necessary - or at least if it "had" to be available because Sega does not want to stop it I would rather see character-based weekly missions return so every player can at least do this three times for free on three free character slots like in the original game.